Week 8 EOC: The producer's most important role

The producer’s most important role in a film is the paperwork. The producer has to make sure that everything is clear and everything is ok with contracts, release forms, and everything else paper wise. The film producer is the one who looks over everything and makes sure that everything is going up to scale and that everything is on the up and up, sort of like government “big brother is watching you”. The producer oversees the project, not from a creative perspective, but from a time/worker management point of view. A producer will have jobs like: setting up schedules, making sure everyone shows up on time, making sure the production runs smoothly and efficiently. Now a film producer’s job can vary from production to production, because what a producer does on a low budget film may very well be different from what a producer does on a multi-million dollar feature film. A producer on a low budget may be the one doing everything from taking care of all the paper work and also delegating what people do on the set, basically telling everybody what to do. To where as what a producer on a multi-million dollar feature film will handle JUST the paper work and may not even set foot a set. So it basically all depends on what type of movie set that the producer is working on. But the sole purpose of the movie producer is to overlook everything on a movie set and make sure that everyone is doing their job and the paper work is just another part of it.

Week 7 Weekly Photo Challenge

I choose this script because it is one of the scripts that I have worked on and plan to make into a short film, maybe even a feature film, but I know that if I go for the feature film route then the story would get changed around a lot and I wouldnt want any major changes done to my script because I think that my script is fine the way that it is, but in all honesty, the directors changes to my script might turn better than the script that is already written. I have other scripts that I have written in the past, but I choose this one for the simple fact because I think that it would be the easiest one to make into a short film or maybe even a feature film. This is a horror film about a serial killer and an innocent man is having visions of his killings and he cant figure out why. I am not very good at writing stories, let alone scripts, but when I have an idea in my head and want to make that into a film, I try my very best to tell it in a way that anybody and everybody would understand, but telling a story, or writing it for that matter, is a difficult task. When writing a script, the most important parts are to have a beginning, a middle and an end, but the hook on this script of Darkness Awaits is that the plot starts a little before the middle and after the beginning, so this story builds up the suspense in the beginning, then as the story evolves it hits the audience with a twist and that is what I think that is going to keep the audience intrigued.

Week 7 EOC Keeping It Real

When using this building we would be conducting business for our up and coming films. Making a room for a studio for our actors, writers and various other positions for video production. In this building we would have an area for a receptionist, this is where people would come in and set appointments and come in for appointments, the receptionist area would basically be the front of our business. Another area of this building would be part of the actual studio where there would be lighting, a three point lighting system or possibly more, and half of the room would be painted green for a green screen area. This studio would have to be big enough for audition purposes so that way when we find specific actors, we can see exactly how our actors would be for the part of the film that we are producing. Another area of this building would be a meeting room. This room would be specifically designed for our corperate heads to hold meetings with our investors and/or actors to discuss business on wages and various other business aspects. Basically this building would be set for a front of Hello Productions, so that Hello Productions could conduct business in a nice clean and comfortable enviorment, because Hello Productions is not able to conduct business on the field on the actual set of a film.

Week 7 Weekly Photo Challenge

I choose this image simply for the fact that I have never made a website before and seeing as how I had used three separate programs to make this website, which consisted of Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects. I basically took a Jpeg image from my After Effects animation that I made, brought it into Photoshop, fixed it up a little bit and then brought it into Dreamweaver. It is something that I am proud of that I made because I have never made a website before and this is great for me to network myself. Now this website of mine is only a template, but it can and will be fixed up as soon as I get my real demo reel together (which I am in the process of getting together) and it will be put up on my website. For this website what I did was that I took the After Effects file that I made into a Jpeg and brought it into Photoshop. In Photoshop I did a little bit of color correction and tweaked and peaked the image a little bit, after I got done with that I then brought the Photoshop image into Dreamweaver. In Dreamweaver I basically put text onto the image of the tabs that I wanted to be made. In those tabs I made videos, took photos and made a bio of myself. Now since this is only a template and made this website last year, I have a lot more stuff to put into it, so with that said I have a lot of updating to do to my website.

Week 6: How do I see my role starting in the industry?

I see my role starting in the industry with the website my partner and me are working on. Although it is website, but it is also a show about Electronic Dance Music. I see myself starting in the film industry here because my title for this website is “Director of Videography” which means that I am going to be the one in charge of all the video and the video editing. I feel that this is something that will get me noticed by other production companies. On this website we will be covering various clubs and underground events, meaning we will be getting video footage of the DJ, the crowd and everything else that goes on in a club. Not only are we going to be covering the event at the club, but we are also going to be doing interviews with the DJ’s, even the promoters and everyone else that is involved in the Electronic Dance Music community. So needlessly to say, this website will have a lot of video footage and like my title says, I am the Director of Videography so I will be in charge of all the video content.

Week 6 Photo Challenge

In this Photoshop picture, you see me sitting in a director’s chair directing as if I am on a movie set. I had someone take a picture of me, put it in Photoshop and basically erased everything around me and “cut” me out. I then found a picture of a director’s chair, erased everything around it as well and put the picture of the director’s chair behind the picture of me and adjusted it to where it looks like I was sitting in an actual director’s chair. I could not decide on what type of background I wanted, so I basically just went out on a limb and decided to pick a theatre stage and then put that picture behind the other two pictures. The theatre stage picture and director’s chair picture I found both on the internet. I just googled them both. I don’t think the picture turned out great simply for the fact that I do not know Photoshop that well, I know the basics of it, so I just put the picture together the best of my ability, course I should have done the altering of the picture in After Effects. I look at this picture and the only thing I can say is, this is totally not me. I don’t think that I could direct actors and what not because I have tried it before and it is something that is not my forte. My place in the video production world is, I think, behind the computer editing video footage. After making this picture and putting me in the director’s chair, I defiantly do not see me as a director.

Week 5 EOC Progress towards my 4 professional contacts and progress networking.

Due to the fact that I do not have a car anymore, it is very difficult for me to go out to various events and meet contacts for networking, let alone getting business cards. Not that I have not tried. Every time I would like to go to an event, I ask a “friend” or someone with a vehicle and %90 of them give me the cold shoulder, basically tell me in a nice way that they cannot take me. The other %10 just straight up tell me no. Losing my car in that accident last year really hurt me because now its damn near impossible to go anywhere. I am in the process of saving up for a car, but it is kind of hard to with the way my credit is right now, the people I financed my last car through are still saying I owe them $11,000, my insurance only paid for the cash value of the car, the people I financed through are adding the interest and everything else, I refuse to pay for a car that I am no longer driving, so with all this happening it is difficult for me to save for a new car. But once I get my new car, I will be able to go to various film events, meet contacts, network myself and get business cards. But until then, I am at the mercy of my mother for transportation, because it is obvious for me that I cannot rely on other people or my “friends”. So to put it bluntly, my progress is not going so good and I am doing what I can to make this happen.

Darkness Awaits

I choose this picture because this picture represents the poster of a script that I have written. The film is called Darkness Awaits originally the film was going to be called From Behind but when we were making the trailer for my script the other people in the production crew thought that the title would give people the wrong impression so we just changed the name. The film is a suspense horror about a serial killer who kills his victims from behind them. As he waits and lurks in the shadows, he waits for the perfect opportunity to kill his victim from behind them but the real twist in the story is that the killer is only part of the plot. The mainly focuses on another person who going through a very hard stage of insomnia, every time he tries to go to sleep he always gets these visions in his head of a person that is going to die. The problem for him is that he only see’s the back of the victims head so he cant really identify who the person is that has died or is going to die. It has gotten so bad for him that he is starting to see these visions even when he is awake, so he ends up seeing a psychiatrist about his problem. As it turns out he finds that what he is seeing is everything through the killers eyes right before the killer claims his next victim. I don’t think that I should say anything else about this story due to the fact that I do not want anyone to steal it.

Week 4 EOC

In this Executive Summary I give the concept of making a film from the videogame Fallout 3. After playing this game I can think of nothing else to do this game and make it better by making a major motion picture. Now there have been a lot of films made in the past from prior videogames and a majority of them have not necessarily failed, but did not reach the goal of what they have intended. But with my concept and my ideas to make this film a real hit would be the fact that there are not a lot of films out there that are post-apocalyptic and this videogame which I plan to make into a motion picture is post-apocalyptic. The analysis of the market I plan to go after is mostly the demographic that this film will draw in. In just the title alone will bring in the gamer demographic in to see this film. The strategy of the making of this film is that it will have effects that only the people who have played the game know of. Of course this film will have competitors and what would the challenge of making a film be without having some competition and I feel that the competition of this film, would be any film to honest, but mostly I think this films competition would have to be whatever film would be showing at the box office the same day. After this film is made and depending on how well it does, I would like to make other videogame based films. There are plenty of videogames out there that I have played and would love to see them made into a motion picture. 

Commercial

For this commercial I have chosen a Wrigley’s gum commercial. In this commercial a woman goes up to a vending machine, puts money in and tries to get some gum from it. The machine takes her money and she proceeds to walk away. One of her fellow co-workers stops her and tells her that she cant settle for that, she needs to fight the vending machine and get her gum. After she tries to get the gum out of the vending machine, the man tells her that she is not doing it hard enough and that she needs to show that vending machine who is boss. As she starts getting more and more violent with the vending machine, she keeps hitting and hitting it with the man at her side screaming at her and “pumping” her up. When she finally has gotten pumped up enough, she get so violent with the vending machine that she breaks the glass and has knocked over the vending machine. She now has a smile on her face because after she has knocked over and broke the vending machine, she now has her gum. As she take a piece of gum out of the pack, she puts it in her mouth and chews and walks off camera. This is a commercial that I wrote for my Commercial Script Writing class awhile back. I first decided to write this commercial when my money was taken from me when I tried to buy something from a vending machine, it wasn’t gum but I had to pick a product at the time so I picked Wrigley’s gum. I haven’t done anything with the idea of this commercial yet, besides having the script and everything else, the only thing I have left to do is shoot it, but I think it would be kind of difficult to find a vending machine that I could destroy.