Intertextuality

What is intertextuality?

• It is an idea that any text has been influenced and shaped by objects that have came before it.
• Therefore no film exists on its own – meaning they have borrowed ideas from different film.

Who is intertextuality important to?

• writers
• directors
• advertisers

Why does intertextuality exist?

• It does not always exist in film
• Limited to creativity

What influences intertextuality within a film?

• Every media text is inspired by the world around them
• Sometimes people to not realize they have used intertextuality

Green screen plan

The use of the green screen in our film.We aim to use a green screen in our film to create the effect of a news report, focusing on the theme of bullying, this helps with the realism of the film and will create a strong effect and help the audience relate on a more personal levels.

How Does a Green Screen Work?

It does not have to be green. The technique can be done using any color, even colors which are outside of the spectrum of human vision (as long as you develop a camera that can pick it up). Green is used often because it's easiest for most modern cameras to pick up, giving the editor the cleanest possible image.

What is a Green screen.

Green screen refers to a technique used to make people look like they are somewhere they aren't. The primary subject is filmed against a plain background, which is normally either green or blue. The background is later replaced with the background of whichever place the subject needs to look like they have gone to.

Distribution

Film Distribution describes everything that happens in between production, during the making of the film. It involves all the deals done to get the film shown including it's promotion.

Other things that Distribution involves are:

Allowing legal rights for a film to be shown,

Releasing and Sustaining a film in the market place,

Marketing and releasing the film,

Making and distributing film prints/files to cinemas,

Making and distribution of DVD/Blue-ray to stores



The overall key concepts of film distributors are the big companies who control most of their industry, the distribution of their own products and of others.

Major US studios generally have their own distribution offices in all the major territories. However an Independent producer has to sell their films to different distributors in each territory. This is what we would have to do with our film 'Verses' because we are an Independent film production company.

Advantages of British films going to America and across the world are that America is a lot bigger than the UK, Americans and a number of countries around the world speak English and size of the audience for a film is mainly huge.



What are the issues for smaller distribution companies

There are lots of disadvantages and issues which smaller distribution companies have. Firstly they have to compete with much bigger distributors for bigger films. Being in the digital age, using new processing equipment and technology, bigger distributors can afford to produce more prints off the reel than smaller distributors, this is because they have a bigger budget. A small company producing a less commercial product cannot afford many prints so people that want to see the film often have to wait until their local independent cinema has a print.

 

Funding BFI

The BFI use Lottery funds to nurture and invest in a diverse mix of first-class filmmakers UK-wide; to discover and develop new talent; and to support the production of a wide range of films that will enrich British film culture and define Britain and its storytellers in the 21st century, for the benefit of audiences at home and abroad.

They support UK distributors to help ensure that the best British and specialised films connect with a wide range of audiences across a range of platforms throughout the UK.

They support sales companies who are premiering new UK films at key international film festivals and markets.

Investing skills across the film sector and support inward investment and film exports, helping the industry to remain competitive, especially on the global stage.

Film Production Cycle

Creating The Film Poster

Created using Photoshop

Once we had taken the photograph ourselves, we edited the photo to create a poster using Photoshop. Although it may seem un-relateable to our film, we wanted to give nothing away through the poster as we feel many films do. But with bright lights it gives a almost utopian image, as well as the denotational description of it being taken from a car at night. Both relate to our film and name of the film.

Change/lower the Saturation of the image to straight away create more of a film poster and retro effect.

 Then, using the desaturate tool go around the image, changing the flow throughout to create a build up, not just doing the same thing to the entire image.

 Using the burn tool made the bottom of the image darker making it more effective to a dark theme within the film, also allowing for parts of the poster to be placed here.

I typed out the name of the poster using the "Text tool", then changing the motion blur so that it was almost unreadable the first time. I then typed it out another 8 times, each time reducing the Pixel Distance so it became clearer and clearer, giving it a blurring final effect.

I continued to flatten the image and save throughout the process.

I then added our release date, tagline, company logo, the actors and small information about the film.

The final part of the procedure was to add film critic ratings and the BBFC rating.

film poster analysis