group members

 

The individuals that will participate in this film opening will be my group members: Destiny, Shyla, Elijah, and me.

Funding, production, distribution

Production

The big six

• Universal , Warner Bros Picture, 20th century fox, Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney, and Columbia pictures
• These are the six major companies that own 90% of box office taking and are part of vast conglomerates that are both horizontally/vertically integrated.
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final project blog intro (stage 1)

 Finding the genre

We chose to choose the genres crime/thriller on the day of January 26,2022. We had been brainstorming for a little while and even had to change out whole idea to get the right one. The first genre we chose didn't have as much enthusiasm as the one we chose now (January 21,2022). So, the decision to change the story and genre was a good idea.

The Opening

My group and I are aiming to create a film opening that portrays the reality of a two girls and false accusations in a crime. We thought this idea was a good fit, because this happens alot in real life and it would add some spice to our opening. Plus this would be fun, because we really get to test our acting abilities and bring a film pitch to reality.

What we think about the project

We think that this assignment will be enjoyable, because of the interest we all have in the topic. As soon as we finalized what out opening will be about, we instantly hopped on dissecting it. The filming part will probably be the best part, because we can be creative and try out things we never did before, while filming of course. Now that our group of 4 is complete, we could now split things evenly and get it done quicker, from everyone multitasking.

My movie genre

                                                      Crime/Thriller 

Even though this genre is two different names, they both are merged into one sub-genre. Crime-thriller usually revolves around a villain or killer that gives off the feeling of tension and suspense .

Conventions of crime/thriller:

The many conventions that make up this genre include a lot of feelings involving tone and mood. They have a lot of action aspects like fighting, weapons, killing. These types of movies are usually made to make your heart race a little and give you a bit of an adrenaline rush. Many movies of this film have investigations and situations that need resolving, to really lock in the "thriller" effect. For the actual filming portion, directors and film crew use various types of lighting and angles. The types of lighting used are low and high-key lighting, to show different characters' power and involvement, and loads of shadowing to show us secrecy. Also, these films films are made to give us the "bad" type of vibe, so they use things that are a not so good influence to others.

Themes of this genre:

The themes of crime/thriller are mainly conspiracies, love murder(s) and murder in general, terrorisms, etc. Of course there is going to be a lot of kidnapping and ransoms, heists, people seeking vengeance and hunting down others. All of these make up the concept of crime and thriller put together, while being spread evenly throughout each movie, showing as there can be more than one in each. These are sure to produce emotions in the audience, which is what creators want.

Setting of crime/thriller films: 

Most movies in this genre are filmed in similar places, some spaces confined and some not.  Some common locations are banks, police stations, museums, homes, streets, and alleys. 

Script

                                               My script

Writing this script built us a foundation for how our production we be produced. The dialogue shown is exactly what we used to film the exact clips on out opening scene. We were having trouble figuring out how much shots we had and what we should film to put together a video that portrays the exact message we had in mind.

SIMILAR FILMS

Case study

                               WIDOWS 

History/target audience

The director , Steve Mcqueen, and Gillian Flynn created a movie to portray the genre of crime/thriller to the audience of older individuals(R rating). Its biased on a British television series and was released in 2018. This movie is basically was made to bring may different types of people into one mission. 

Production

This film was produced by one of the big six: 20th Century Fox. The audio aspects were done by Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital, and Dolby surround 1.7. Some mini  majors that were involved were regency enterprises, see-saw films, film 4 productions.

Distribution

Widows came out in theaters on November 16, 2018 and has been put on multiple streaming services after that. These include paramount plus, amazon video, youtube, vudu, amc on demand, and apple itunes. Also, it is avaliable to rent and purchase at redboxes everywhere.

Marketing

Since this movie was distributed amongst many services and places, they mad w a certain amount of money off of spreading around. However, they came out the advertisement beforehand to give everybody a peak of what the film was gonna be like. So, from DVD sales , they received $2,738,115. From home streaming (from buying and renting only) they received: $5,485,523. In theaters, they made $75,984,700 worldwide.

Cross-media convergence and synergy

When the CDs were sold, the soundtrack got some income from it. This is because it is attached to the movie, so when streaming the movie, it will be played.