Production companies

Introduction to production

To make a general movie, it comes with the challenges and the details to put it out. In the making of a movie you need to figure out how the movie will be financed and produced. The finance would go into hiring, casting, shooting, renting, working, planning and all cost that will be needed to make the movie.

There are many steps that goes into the production of a film and how the film is produced.

1) Development: That is the first step into film production, in this first step includes all the process that goes into the film, the ideas, the research, script, thinking, and all the development that will go into the film.

2) Pre-Production: After developing your ideas for the film you will go into the second step of production, pre-production. The planning of your film shoot start there, all your crews, and member that will be needed for the film will be established in this step of the production.

3) Production: The production of the film is where everything starts, this is where you start shooting and put everything you had planned in the previous steps into action.

4) Post-production: In the post-production is where you will will do any edits and add, remove any details that were needed for you film. In this step is when the audio and visual materials are cut together to create a film.

5) Distribution: This is the final step in the production, that is when the film has been edited, and it's ready to be distributed into the world. You would need to find a way to advertise your movie and find a company that would produce it, after these are done you would have your movie out and people would be able to see it, it would be in theaters, DVDs, and all kind of digital platforms. 

There are different companies that would produce it depending on the genre of your film.

 The Big 6 

This is 6 major company that commands about 90% production.

• Paramount pictures
• Universal
• 20th century box
• Warner bros. pictures
• Walt Disney
• Columbia pictures

The Indies

These are 3 independent major studio system that produces film.

• Summit Entertainment
• Film 4 production
• Icon production

The mini-major

3 leading independent majors that are coming up and getting more out there.

• Dreamworks
• The weinstein company
• Lions Gate entertainment

 My group members and I will be making a romantic-comedy film and so we have to learn and make research about film productions in romantic comedies.

Production of romantic-comedy

There are a lot of production companies and they usually specialize in the production of one film genre and with my research I've looked to find the production companies that specify in romantic comedies. The companies that specialize in romantic-comedies are Warner Bros, SK Global, Starlight Culture Entertainment, Color Force, Rom-coms pictures and Ivanhoe Pictures with, the one that would be more ideal for producing my film is Warner Bros pictures.

If I had to produce my film I would plan to produce it to a large studio and more preferbly one of the big 6 in the production company and it would be Warner Bros pictures because it is a huge production company who has experiences with romantic comedy and I think they would be the more ideal company to have my filmproduced by. 

The production company that produces my film would affect the kind of audience who see's it and how they engage with it, with Warner Bros. pictures it has grown rapidely and fast in the last centeries, it is a very popular production that most people know about, using it would influence audiences based on the way it represent it's beliefs opinions, stereotypes, and attitudes that would grab a audience attention and give them something to think about while watching the film. The production company also has to do with how the movie looks and all the things that would attract an audience to come and engage with that specific film.

With creating a film, you have to figure out a way to put your film out there and convince other companies that your film is worth financing, in other words, find a way to sell your film and make evryone's money back. To do so your film as to meet some requirements that would need to be met: The ideas, development finance, script development, packaging, financing, pre-production, production, post production, sales, marketing, expedition, and other windows. These will determine whether or not your film is worth financing with a production company and the answers to each of thee requirement will differ based on the production company that would would choose to work with. To sell the film productions will need to find ways to give it clout and high level attention to let other's know and be interested in the film and with the trailer of the film is how most of the marketing takes place because the trailer draw a lot of attention to other's and targeted audiences.

There are many type of distribution companies and some of the distribution companies that specialize in my genre are 20th century fox, Universal, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Paramount pictures, and Walt disney. These are some of the top distribution companies that specialize in romantic-comedy films and for my romantic comedy film 20th century fox, and Warner Bros would be a good match for my film. With the idea of my film, the story, planning and production they would be the good distributors to have my film distributed by.

Films can be exhibited in numerous ways and they are theatrical and nontheatrical modes of exhibiton and some films are put out there like directly to the public through a movie theater or TV, from personal home viewings such as DVDs, downloads, video-on-demand, Televison programs, broadcasts or movie theater. These are only some of the ways that films can be exhibited and through movie theater is the most popular way that films are exhibited and shown to the audience. For romantic-comedies they are usually exhibitted theatrically and some nontheatrically but for the most part they're exhibitted through a movie theater.

These are forms and some things that goes when thinking of the production of a film.

Sources

MasterClass. “Understanding Filmmaking: The 5 Stages of Film Production - 2022.” MasterClass, MasterClass, 8 Nov. 2020, https://www.masterclass.com/articles/understanding-the-stages-of-film-production#the-5-stages-of-film-production.

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About Romantic-Comedies

 Romantic-Comedies

Romantic comedies have their way of revealing their movies title where it is representable to them and the viewers. They do this by the type of style, size, font, color, décor, edit etc. They include different kind of information's that could tell you about the movie, how it would play out, and what the overall movie would be about and for my genre the titles usually looks like similar with a pattern going on for each different genre.

Titles

The titles are all rom different kind of romantic-comedy movies. Their titles are all different and looks different, by reading the title of the movie you can already tell some things that are going to happen or happens in the movie, it give you a little bit of  detail about what to expect in the movie. Each of the movies have a different style, color, font, and size here's more detail about each of the movie titles:

The kissing booth: The title is in all bold capitalized letters in pink with the letter "OO's" for booth in hot pink with lips as the "OO's" The color they used for this specific title clearly signifies something that can be predicted about the movie.

Clueless: Black background with white colored text in different sized shapes and font is how the title clueless looks like. The way the title looks goes with the definition of the of the word, it looks out of place and very confused/clueless just like the word. This just shows how the title might give away some details about the movie.

27 dresses: A title with the colors pink and thin font but clearly showing that it is the tille of the movie. 

Opening scenes

I will be making a shot by shot analysis about the opening scene of a romantic comedy movie "Tall girl" 

Shot 1

The opening scene starts with a close up shot of the back of an open book which fills the screen.

Shot 2 

Close up shot of a character's face showing her emotion with light colors and the color scheme of a blue background and shirt.

Shot 3 

Close up shot of character looking out of the frame with an eye level camera giving the audience a sense of realism

Shot 4 

Close up shot of character reading a book

Shot 5

Close up shot where character is in the frame and reading a book

Shot 6

Close up shot of character's face showing her face emotions and her looking out of the frame

Shot 7

Close up shot of characters face reading a book and showing facial emotions.

Shot 8

Close up shot of character looking out of the frame with camera at an eye level

Shot 9

Close up shot of half of the character's face with writings in the middle of the frame naming who will be presenting the movie. 

 

Shot 10

Close up shot of half the other character's face showing half of his emotion and writing of small fonts showing the production of the movie.

Shot 11

Close up shot of the main character's half face in half of the frame and writings in the middle of the frame with the title of the movie.

Shot 12

Long shot showing both of the characters each on different sides of the frame with dark light lighting letting viewers know they are a little far away from each other but not to far and telling us the setting of the movie which is in a library.

Shot 13

Back to a close up shot with camera angle at an eye level with character in the middle of the frame.

Shot 14

Close up shot of characters face in the middle of the frame

Shot 15

Close up shot of other characters face in the middle of the frame with emotions showing on his face.

Shot 16

Close up shot of main characters face in the middle

Shot 17

Medium close up and over the shoulder shot with main character in the shadow and other character in the middle of the frame

Shot 18

Long shot of the two characters in the library and away from each other.

Shot 19

Medium shot of character's side in half of the frame

Shot 20

This is a medium shot of a character in the side of the frame ith the other half of the frame empty and looking at the setting.

Shot 21

Close up shot of character's face with the library in the background

Shot 22

Main character ina close up shot which keeps switiching from her and the other character

Shot 23

A switch from the main character to the other character with a close up shot of him in the frame

Shot 24

Another switch to the main character with a close up shot 

Shot 25

Close up shot and camera at an eye view angle

Shot 26

Camera positioned over the shoulder with other character in the right corner and main character in the rest of the frame with a medium shot

Shot 27

Medium shot of other character in the middle of the frame

Shot 28

Long shot of both character on opposite of the frame from each other with setting of a library and eye level angle

Shot 29

Medium shot of main character on the side of the frame and looking up making the viewer sense that we are about to get an point of view shot

Shot 30

Camera over the shoulder a little bit and tilting up looking at the main character's point of view shot 

Shot 31

Over the shoulder shot at an eye level showing the main character standing face to face with the other character

Shot 32

Medium shot and eye view with the main chharacter having an over the shoulder

Shot 33

Medium shot and low angle with main character in most of the rame and the other character on the side as a shadow on the frame

Shot 34

Over the shoulder with eye view and medium shot of main character as a shadow and other character looking at her in the rest of the frame

Shot 35

Long shot of the setting with the two characters standing in the frame looking at each other and eye level view

Shot 36

Medium shot of main character in the side o the frame looking down but only because of emotions and at an eye level view

Shot 37

The setting o a library with the other character in the middle facing the book of the camera

Shot 38

Close up shot of the main character's face filled with emotion and camera at an eye level view.

Shot 39

Main character looking at the other character as he moves away camera at eye level view

Shot 40

Close up of main character's face in half of the frame and the setting filling the rest of the frame as a background

Shot 51

Long shot of main character just standing in the middle of the frame with the setting surrounding her and camera at a eye view level.

My Movie

This new quarter, I will begin to work toward my portfolio project with my group members and get ready for the final project that comes with being in this class.

My group

In this project, I've had to pick my group members since we will be working in groups, and to pick my group members I came up with 10 questions to interview some of my classmates. 

* What is your favorite movie Genre?

* What makes you really mad?

* What motivates you to do you work?

* How is your attendance?

* Are you up to work after school?

* Would you stay up to complete an assignment?

* Are you a team leader or a player?

* Do you like working by yourself or in groups?

* Are you reliable? 

* Are you good with cooperating?

After interviewing 5 of my classmates, based on the answers from the questions I selected 3 members to be part of my group. Therefore the members that will be in my group are Brianna Scott, Gissela Pinto, and David Stephens. 

The beginning

Now that I have my group members I can start thinking and talking about the project and all that will come to complete it. The movie that I will be making with my group is a romantic comedy about 2 childhood bestfriends who grows in love until one has to move away, ending the relationship, later on one moves back and we wait and see how it plays out. 

Since our movie will be a romantic-comedy we did a lot of research about that specific genre like their basic genre conventions, their setting and location of other films in that same genre, when and where they are shot, their intended audience, habits, how they are normally represented, and stereotype. There's very much more research to be done in this genre and so far I've learned a lot about it. 

Romantic comedy contains light heated humor and the idea that true love can overcome any obstacle. It usually happens with two characters finding love in an unusual place who goes through a difficult obstacle to gain each others trust and love by a comical side plot.

The settings of romantic-comedies always differ based on the plot or the story that is being transferred. It also changes based on who the intended audience of the film is, they might be portraying the audience to be all kind of different people which is who will determine the setting or location. Here's some of the audiences and where their settings/location might be.

• Woman and Girls: London, Paris, and New York. In these locations is where most romantic-comedies are filmed since these places are known for the city of love or the place where love blooms.

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• Teens: Schools, Malls, and Parties. Films are filmed in these locations to help the audience relate to the characters as to where their story might develop. 

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Romantic comedies have their on intended audiences such as, woman and girls, teens, and mature audience here's why.

Woman and Girls

• Gets in touch with a woman's emotions.
• Relates to the story as they see their on image or feelings in the film.
• Woman enjoys seeing or having the feeling of a happy family/marriage/relationship which is always found in romantic-comedies.

Teens

• Storyline targets younger generations of teenagers 12-20 years old.
• Actress and Actors are usually young which makes the audience feels like they can relate to the film.
• Made as an American teenagers life story or love life.

Mature Audiences

• Contains bad languages, sexual references, and sex scenes for mature audiences.
• Complex story line that is more relatable to middle class woman.
• Actors similar in age making audience a target.

In every movie/film they is an usual pattern which always happen and for romantic comedies it goes like this:

• They meet accidentally
• Fall in love
• Overcome obstacles that keeps them apart
• Defy the odds
• Live Happily ever after

During this week and the last week, I've done more research about romantic-comedies and analyzed, studied about it. My researches were successful and these are the new things I've learned about romantic-comedies.

Sources

https://penandthepad.com/characteristics-romantic-comedy-8671414.html

https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/exploring-movie-construction-and-production/chapter/2-what-is-genre-and-how-is-it-determined/

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/29/17769168/romantic-comedies-crazy-rich-asians-all-the-boys-set-it-up

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-a-romantic-comedy-screenplay-plus-15-classic-rom-coms-to-watch-for-screenwriting-inspiration#what-is-romantic-comedy