Pre-Production
Film Pre-Production
Purposes of media product:
1. Inform
2. Entertain
3. Educate
4. Promote
5. Advertise
The Guardian article notes:
- Small productions struggle to hit the big screen due to fashion for mega-budget TV dramas and risk-averse US studios focusing on superhero blockbusters
- The UK is a sombre case study for the mid-to-low-budget film industry. The number of domestic UK films costing from £500,000 to about £30m to make
- In the US the number of scripted shows being made annually has more than doubled since 2010 to more than 500 this year
- the spent on the uk domestic films dropped t0 £198m in 2015, the lowest level since 2007.
- Netflix has made more original films then Sky.
- not much difference between series and films.
- domestic uk films
- small to mid sized co productions
- hollywood studios
- bid budget dramas - Netflix/sky/bbc
- uk film production companies to"glossy dramas"
- film production in 2017 (BFI)
- Draw of TV?
- where are things heading?
- shot by shot list
- gathering actors/actresses (casting)
- scenes locations
- script writing
- props
- costume
- find camera man
- find director
- find make up and hair artist
- find editor
Purposes of media product:
1. Inform
2. Entertain
3. Educate
4. Promote
5. Advertise
The Guardian article notes:
- Small productions struggle to hit the big screen due to fashion for mega-budget TV dramas and risk-averse US studios focusing on superhero blockbusters
- The UK is a sombre case study for the mid-to-low-budget film industry. The number of domestic UK films costing from £500,000 to about £30m to make
- In the US the number of scripted shows being made annually has more than doubled since 2010 to more than 500 this year
- the spent on the uk domestic films dropped t0 £198m in 2015, the lowest level since 2007.
- Netflix has made more original films then Sky.
- not much difference between series and films.
- domestic uk films
- small to mid sized co productions
- hollywood studios
- bid budget dramas - Netflix/sky/bbc
- uk film production companies to"glossy dramas"
- film production in 2017 (BFI)
- Draw of TV?
- where are things heading?



Lots of content within this blog post - good stuff.
ReplyDeleteWith regards to The Guardian article, having read over Sonny's they're incredibly similar. Did you both work together?
Miss Crader
Yes, me and sonny worked together on the same article.
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