Film Industry Lesson 1

Film Industry 

Film making is the process of making a film. Film making involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through script writing, casting, shooting, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition. 

Film making takes place in many places around the world in a range of economic, social, and political contexts, and using a variety of technologies and cinematic techniques.

Film production involves several major stages:

• Development — The first stage in which the ideas for the film are created, rights to books/plays are bought and the screenplay is written. Financing for the project has to be sought and green lit.
• Pre-production—Preparations are made for the shoot, in which cast and film crew are hired, locations are selected, and sets are built.
• Production—The raw elements for the film are recorded during the film shoot.
• Post-Production—The images, sound, and visual effects of the recorded film are edited. .
• Distribution—The finished film is distributed (the film is taken to a festival) and screened in cinemas and/or released on Home entertainment.For example  adverts on youtube,tv,posters or on newspaper front pages the latest movies out ,convincing people to watch the film .

In production, the video production/film is created and shot. More crew will be recruited at this stage, such as the property master, script supervisor,assistant directors, stills photographer, picture editor, and sound editors. These are just the most common roles in film making; the production office will be free to create any unique blend of roles to suit the various responsibilities possible during the production of a film.

A typical day's shooting begins with the crew arriving on the set/location by their call time. Actors usually have their own separate call times. Since set construction, dressing and lighting can take many hours or even days, they are often set up in advance.

Distribution

Films get from the edit houses to the audience by selling the film to companies ready for exhibition.Films get from the edit houses to the audience through legal DVD's that can be bought in shops ,cinemas and illegally through the internet and pirate DVD copies.

Distributors decide to go for a release on one weekend as opposed to another because perhaps they think of weekends when there are no other releases and weekends when there is a holiday so more people can visit the cinema and when there are no important day in the country .

Marketing

marketing involves sharing and promoting the produce/product to the audience by :

• Trailers
  
• Bus ads
• Happy meals
• Newspapers/magazines
• Posters underground
• Social networking sites 
• Premiers before the film is out
• Chat shows

The use of bright colours ,bold writing and large images all persuades the audience to watch these movies,which benefits the producers as more money is being paid to watch the movie at the cinema,which increases the popularity in its marketing.

Exhibition 

Usually feature films open first ‘theatrically’. A cinema release has long been, and still remains, the most effective way to bestow stature on a film and create demand to see it.But the cinema is just one link in the value chain.After the big screen run, films are released in flexible timescales in a growing range of other formats so consumers may choose how, when and where to watch.

Cinema's are good for entertainment and enjoyment. It is good because you get to watch movies in peace with other people who are watching the same movie aswell and snacks are available to buy  behind the box office,such as drinks and pop corn which helps cinemas to keep going - that's actually where the Movies make all of their money at.However some people may choose the option of staying in at home watching a movie on digital media  such as Blu Ray ,Dvd and free available online as its cheaper,more comfortable ,less noisy and more peaceful.