26 • Who Would Produce your film? Part 3

• When it comes to distribution, I believe that I would pitch to Lionsgate that our film, is released to the online streaming services. Lionsgate have already experimented with this form of distribution, with their film,

• There are several streaming services to approach, e.g. Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video and YouTube.

• Also Lionsgate have several online channels in which to distribute the film. 

• Being in a new digital media age, we need to look to new platforms in which to share the content we make. And by using these new online services we can get our film scene by millions of people and make great returns on our investment, for example, the Netflix original 'Beasts of no nation' was made for $6,000,000 but has already been seen 9,000,000 times on Netflix alone. So there are huge un-taped audiences that our film needs to penetrate. 

• Although Lionsgate may not specialise in a particular genre of film, I personally believe that thrillers are there strong point. They seem to Really successfully portray the dark and tense themes that we see throughout thrillers. And this is the sort of direction we want to take our film.

• Another great thing about Lionsgate is that there hardcore audience is female, quite surprisingly. There two biggest franchise being, 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' both of these have a majority audience being female. This is the demographic our film is aimed at. Showing that women can have power over men. The main character in 'Hunger Games' Is female and she is a strong female role model. That women can look up to. This is the same in our thriller. Which is why the Lionsgate audience is great for us, we have a demographic that already can believe that a woman can be powerful and the hero of a movie.

25 • Who Would Produce your film? Part 2

Other Thrillers By Lionsgate,

• These thrillers show that Lionsgate have great experience in creating amazing thrillers, with one even getting best picture. But what is amazing about these films is that not all of them had massive budgets in fact 'You're Next' was produced for just $1,000,000. A tiny budget compared to some holly wood blockbusters.

• I think that our thriller really works well with the whole Lionsgate production style, We only need a small budget in order to pull off our thriller.

• Also the whole premise around our film is the idea of breaking the stereotype that women cant fight back against men. This is the experimental and subverting attitude that Lionsgate are known for and so I feel our piece should really fit into the current Lionsgate family.


                  

Lionsgate, have always supported Independent films. One look on their website ( https://www.lionsgate.com/ ).

24 • Who Would Produce your film? Part 1

                  


Lionsgate Films is a Canadian-American film production/distribution studio. It is the largest and most successful mini-major film studio in North America. It focuses on foreign and independent films and has distributed various commercially successful film series, including The Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games, The Divergent Series, Saw and The Expendables.

Lionsgate have always been seen to support small independent film makers, Although they now have made several commercial successes growing well over 400 Million dollars for each of the hunger games movies. They still produce films that small indie directors and foreign film makers want to do. And this is why I think our thriller would benefit greatly from Lionsgate production.

Bellow I have included some of Lionsgates most successful films.

The thing that attracts me to use Lionsgate is the fact that Its first major box office success was American Psycho in 2000, which began a trend of producing and distributing films too controversial for the major American studios.

And before Lionsgate became 'Lionsgate' they were, Cinépix Film, founded in 1962 by John Dunning. CFP was a leading Canadian independent motion picture company, releasing both English- and French-language films and making ten to 12 modestly budgeted titles annually and distributed art-house films like grunge rock documentary 'Hype'.

23 • Our Story Board

22 • What Are Story Boards

Once you have written the script or outline of a short film or movie, the next step is to make a storyboard. A storyboard visually tells the story of an film panel by panel, kind of like a comic book.

Your storyboard will should convey some of the following information:
What charaters are in the frame, and how are they moving?
What are the characters saying to each other, if anything?
How much time has passed between the last frame of the storyboard and the current one?
Where the "camera" is in the scene? Close or far away? Is the camera moving?

Why make a storyboard?

Creating a storyboard will help you plan your animation / film out shot by shot. You can make changes to your storyboard before you start filming, instead of changing your mind later. You will also be able to talk about your film and show your storyboard to other people to get feedback on your ideas.

Storyboard Language
( that might be useful to include in story boards )

CLOSE-UP SHOT: A close range of distance between the camera and the subject.
DISSOVLE: A transition between two shots, where one shot fades away and simultaneously another shot fades in.
FADE - A transition from a shot to black where the image gradually becomes darker is a Fade Out; or from black where the image gradually becomes brighter is a Fade In.
HIGH CAMERA ANGLE: A camera angle which looks down on its subject making it look small, weak or unimportant.
JUMP CUT: A rapid, jerky transition from one frame to the next, either disrupting the flow of time or movement within a scene or making an abrupt transition from one scene to another.
LEVEL CAMERA ANGLE: A camera angle which is even with the subject; it may be used as a neutral shot.
LONG SHOT: A long range of distance between the camera and the subject, often providing a broader range of the setting.
LOW CAMERA ANGLE: A camera angle which looks up at its subject; it makes the subject seem important and powerful.
PAN: A steady, sweeping movement from one point in a scene to another.
POV (point of view shot): A shot which is understood to be seen from the point of view of a character within the scene.
REACTION SHOT- 1.: A shot of someone looking off screen. 2.: A reaction shot can also be a shot of someone in a conversation where they are not given a line of dialogue but are just listening to the other person speak.
TILT: Using a camera on a tripod, the camera moves up or down to follow the action.
ZOOM: Use of the camera lens to move closely towards the subject.

Different Examples of Story Boards...

21 • Our Pitch Feedback

We pitched our idea and received some useful feedback that we will develop on for when we film. Our main piece of feedback was about location. In our pitch we had proposed a few different locations. Our feedback loved the location of the shipping yard accept it would be too hard to film there.  Our feedback was also that our group could film in the school dining room at night this would make the setting very creepy and it will have high suspense. Our feedback did not like the idea of the woods at night just because of lighting issues as well as it being very cliche so if we were going to film it here we would have to do it during the day. So the dining room at school is our main location idea, the sensor lights in the kitchen will also make it creepy. The props around the kitchen as well could look the fight scene look more realistic. Our feedback was also to establish the characters of the bad guys for example what costumes will they be wearing as well as what they are doing there. The feedback was that they could be baddies disguised as cleaners.

We were worried that by dressing our main actress in the clothes usually you would find in a workplace that this would imply the idea that the woman is a professional. When in fact this is the complete wrong connotation that we are pursuing. We need innocence and pure. Although this costume bellow may have fit in better with the environment and setting of the film. The piece is based of contrasts and subverting what people would expect. It is why we have decided to go against the usual work place attire.

Another issue we had while choosing our costume was the fact that Crerar needs to be able to move in her costume, she performs stunts and does a lot of big and dramatic movements. So her costume had to be aesthetically pleasing but also practically useful. This was an essential balance that we had to get right, And so i did some research into films that require this sort of movement and studied the costumes that they wear.

20 • Our Film Pitch