Working title are a film production company that was formed in 1983 by Sarah Radclyffe and Tim Bevan but Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are now co-owners of the company. The headquaters for Working Titles is located in London. Working Title have produced films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Hot Fuzz.
Universal Studios agreed a deal with Working Title in 1999 that was worth a reported $600 million and that would see Universal own 67% of Working Title and this deal runs through until 2015. The remaining shares are owned by the company's founders, private investers and BBC Films. This deal still gave Bevan and Fellner creative control of Working Title because if a film is going to cost up to £35 million then Bevan and Fellner can say yes or no to the idea. many of Working title's recent films are co-produced by StudioCanal.
Thursday 22 November 2012
Conventions of the thriller/horror genre
When a stranger calls
Mise-en-scene
- Body bags
- Dark Lighting, builds up tension for the audience
- Fair Light/Rides
- Red Balloons - Adds danger to the audience
- Silohette
Sound
- Screams
- Children Laughing in the fair
- Phone Ringing
- Sirens, Asynchronus, adds danger to the audience
- Eerie music - builds up tension for the audience
Characters:
- Stranger/Killer
- Policemen,more dominant than other characters, stereotypical for them
Editing:
- Flashes into each shot
- Uses a lot of fades to black
- Fast Paced during extract
- Someone being killed at the start
- Stalked by a mysterious person
- Victim feels uncomfortable
- Handheld camera, steady camera adds to the tension and suspense
- Camera is jumpy throughout extract
- Close-Up on policemen when girl had been killed, shows his disgust, shock
1408
Mise-en-Scene
- dark night
- Heavy rain
- Haunted Hotel, stereotypical and adds to the theme of horror
- Thunder/Wind/Rain
- eerie music at the start
- Melodic music during the day
- Siren in the background when he is in the car
- Close up on cigarette, shows that it will be important later in the film
- Establishing shot on hotel, links with the forest, emphasises the genre of the film
- White American male, middle aged, stereotypical of the genre
- 2 old aged people that own the hotel that look creepy,weird
- Man being lost, haunted theme
Editing
- Man has a flashback
- Cross fade between shots
- Eclipses when he is in the bedroom
Blair Witch Project
Narrative:
Narrative:
- teenagers go off into the woods to try and find out if the "Blair Witch" is real
- While out in the woods they get kidnapped and killed
- Dark wood/stereotypical for horror films
- Dark Night - adds tension and emphasises the genre
- Located in woods - stereotypical for horror films and builds tension
- Wind
- Trees rustling in the backgroud - build tension and suspense for the audience
Red used on cover - emphasises danger/blood
Located in woods - stereotypical as this is where most people get killed in horror and thriller film.
Wednesday 21 November 2012
Production Company Logo Analysis
Used the word "Paramount because because it means superior and better than everything else. It also emphasis that they want to be better than all the other production companies.
It is on top of a mountain to show that they are the best and at the top of the of the production companies
They have stars around the logo to show that they have well known actors and celebrities in their films.
This is the DreamWorks logo. They have used the boy sitting on the moon because it shows that they are important and that they are high up compared to the other production companies. The logo also shows that they produce family,fantasy and children's films. It also shows that they want children to have their own ideas about the films. There is a child sitting on the moon and this also emphasises that the company mainly produce children's films. The child is sitting on the moon and this shows that Dreamworks are always fishing for ideas for new films. The name "Dream works also tells the audience that their films are for families and children
This is the universal logo. it is based in front of a picture of the world because they are made out to be the best production company and it makes them look more powerful than other production companies. 
The logo above is the Pixar logo. It is very simple logo that children will remeber and only uses the colours black, blue and white. Pixar are a production company that produce children's animation films. They have chose to use the colour blue because it relates to the sky and dreams for young children. They have also used serif font that is easy to understand for small children and also they have the flicks on the end of the letters that may hint that most of their films are aimed at young children and families. They have also put the lamp where the I would be and they have made the lamp look at the camera and this makes the audience think that the film is aimed directly at them.
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This is the film 4 logo. The only colours that have been used are red and white. This conotes that the films that they produce are quite violent and have a lot of action in them and may not be suitable for younger audiences. This may also connote that their films are targeted at male audiences that like action films. It is a very simple logo in which the 4 is made out of straight lines. This might suggest that their films contain a simple plot that are made with a low budget.
Thursday 15 November 2012
Preliminary Task
We had to complete a premliminary task in which we had to fil and edit a piece of footage and we also had to include a range of shot types and use our filming and editing skills. Within the film we had to include good continuity, shot reverse shot, match on action and the 180 degree rule. From my feedback once it had been marked we got told that ours had good continuity and the conversation between Ryan and Jack was clear and everyone could understand it. The things I could include was that I could have made my editing a bit tighter so that the film ran more smoothly and also when Jack went to open the door we could have changed that because there was a bit of a gap from when his hand grabbed the handle to when he actually opened the door.
The Number 23 Opening Sequence
The Number 23 Opening Sequence
0-4 seconds - Black screen
4 seconds - Fades from black into the openeing
6 Seconds - Black writing comes up in bottom right corner, "New Line Cinema presents"
6-9 seconds - Writing stays on screen in corner
11 seconds - Contrafilms/Firm Films production
16 seconds - directors name comes up in bottom right corner, black font. "Joel Schumacher"
19 seconds - Actors names start coming onto screen, in bottom corner again "Jim Carrey"
20 seconds - "Jim Carry" name moves up the screen and turns into numbers - this shows that numbers are going to be important in the film
23-26 seconds - number 23 appears all over the screen. This shows that this number is going to be important,specific in the film.
26 seconds - the title turns into a dark red font, then slowely turns into blood
26 - 29 seconds - the title turns into a dark red font, then slowely turns into blood then the blood covers up the title.
29 seconds - The screen fills with the number 23 and equations that add up to 23
34 seconds - more actors names come onto the screen, appear in the centre of the screen
50 seconds - More writing appears about the number 23"the witches sabbath is June 23rd" This emphasis the importance of the number 23 in the film. All facts that have the number 23 in them are important.
65 seconds - more blood appears all over the screen and starts to fill up the screen.
Friday 9 November 2012
Se7en Film Opening Notes
Se7en Opening Notes
Information: Casting Names
Music By
Co-Produced by
Produced By
New Line Cinema Presents
Actors Names
Images: Extreme close up of what he's doing with all the pictures and notes
It shows that what he is doing is in great detail
Shows that he is making a scrapbook and the images in the scrapbook fill the screen
Shows that he is crossing out words (God,Intercourse)
Shows that he is turning pages in a book to look for things (Pictures/Words)
Close up of the razor blade. Emphasis that the film is about violence
Close up of the needle while he is stroking it along his finger
Sound: There is a strong beat and the beats are low and slow. Adds tension to the film
The music is rythmic, sounds like a heart beat
Dark sounds overpowing the music
Dischordant music doesn't fit with the other sounds
Beat increases during the opening title and the pace gets quicker.
Font: The fonts are shaking around the screen, adds to the theme of horror
Font is handwritten and messy, shows he is a bit of a psycho
Black on white. These are contrasting colours
Font is dark because it emphasis the theme of horror
Font is in a random layout. This shows the film is going to be random
Editing: Very quick cuts, adds to the pace of the film
Fade to black
Very Blurred. This confuses the audience.
Fast paced Editing. Gives the audience a sublimal message
Sound wasn't cut to the images. Makes it disjointed and scary
Shaking the font. Tries to make the audience scared.
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