Max Postyn's Blog Unit 2 Pre Production and Planning

In the music video "Skip To The Good Bit" the two products placed for a fee were Beats Headphones and Mini Coopers. 1) The purpose of the music video was to showcase the song of the band OK Go as well as to serve as Chevrolet's Half time commercial during Superbowl XLVI. 2) The video was sponsored by Chevrolet and showcases their Sonic car model 3) 4) OK Go has had brand partnerships with Range Rover, Yahoo, Samsung, Jose Cuervo, Chevrolet and Cisco 5) Chevrolet paid between $500,000 and $1,000,00.  Chevy's contributions included providing 2 Sonics, including the modifications to add extender bars and pneumatics, warehouse space for the band and an acoustic engineer to work out what would make suitable instruments and how they could be played by the car over the course of two months, and sending the driver of the car  to a three-day stunt driving school to avoid having to use stunt doubles during filming. 6) The sponsorship bought the company publicity 7) T he...

In England the number of low budget films with budgets between 500,000 and 30 million GBP has fell from 77 to 60 from 2014 to 2015 which, according to the BFI, is the lowest since 2006. In Hollywood, however, the majority of large studios have been investing billions of dollars into films with very little risk of losing money at the box office which are mainly superhero and franchise movies. The reason behind this is because it has been estimated that these types of large budget films account for 90% of the US box office with lower budget films accounting for 9%.    Studios such as Netflix (that produce both TV shows and movies) have directed their focus to TV shows which can be shown through the statistics in which scripted TV shows have doubled since 2010. As well as this, investment from US companies such as Hulu, Netflix and HBO into TV shows has almost doubled in 2013 reaching a total of $500 million.   Despite the amount of films being made, the BFI insists that t...

Low budget film making: tips and advice Resource film making= using pre existing resources to make a movie Would base entire script and budget around which resources are available Budget  Work out how much money is available then list possible locations to film Look for locations that are free or easy to gain access to Actors that would be willing to work for free/cheap In the list you should probably use friends and family that actually have interest in acting or those who can act. Also list possible experience List of equipment: own camera, free camera to use, lights available List of props that will be available/pre existing possibly interesting/unique objects that can be used for the script Any local events such as gun shows or parades can be used to increase production value of the movie. Wouldn't be too hard to gain access to these aforementioned venues Writing the script use 4/5 main locations for the feature films. Short film would require 1/2. Minimise the d...

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