Script writing

 In this blog I will be discussing  the process me and my group went through to create our current script. The script had a certain format. locations, character dialogue, transitions, and more... 

Process

What me and my group did to create our final script was look back at previous film scripts that other horror movies created. We really looked at the ways they introduced their dialogue and settings. The script was supposed to be based on our opening sequence. So we added a lot of things to our script. The picture shown is the script: 

My Stripboard and Production Calendar

 My Stripboard and Production calendar

The stripboard was the first part in this weeks assignment. Me and my group picked out the scenes that took less time and chose to do those first. For my group ours was a scene showing the school. The stripboard was split up into 5 days. The first day was showing around the parts we were going to be shooting. The second day we will be filming in the library same as day 3 day 4 and day 5 we will be in the hallways.

The production calendar's was the same as the stripboard. We had to input the shots for each day we were going to shot them.

Case study

 

The usual age for the target audience of a horror film is 15- 25. The most common reason for this is that young adults and teenagers enjoy thrills. These thrills are more likely to excite a younger audience rather than an older one.

The production there's a few things needed. They are finding the idea, writing the script, pitching it to a studio, setting a budget, casting stars and employing a crew, filming, and editing. The Quiet place is a production of Platinum Dunes produced on a budget of $17 million. Krasinski wrote the screenplay with Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Beck and Woods grew up together in Iowa and had watched numerous silent films in college, and they began working on the story that led to the film. They used their experience growing up close to farmland as the setting, including a grain silo as a place considered dangerous in their upbringing. The concept of parents protecting their children appealed to Krasinski, especially as his second child with actress Emily Blunt had just been born. By March 2017, Paramount had bought Beck and Woods's script, and they hired Krasinski to rewrite the script and direct the film, which was his third directorial credit and his first for a major studio. Blunt did not want to be cast in the film, but she read the script on a plane flight and told her husband that, that was something she needed to do. They were both cast in the starring roles.

                                                                 

Paramount Pictures released the first trailer for A Quiet Place in November 2017. It aired a 30-second commercial for the film during the US football championship Super Bowl on February 4, 2018. Of the seven trailers that aired during the playoff, A Quiet Place and Red Sparrow were shown during the pregame and had the lowest views and social conversations. A Quiet Place had 149,000 views on YouTube, 275,000 views on Facebook, and 2,900 social conversations. On February 12, 2018, Krasinski appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to present the full trailer for A Quiet Place. The studio spent an estimated $86 million on prints and advertisements for the film.

                                               

Paramount Pictures released the film in 3,508 theaters in the United States and Canada on April 6, 2018, alongside Blockers, Chappaquiddick, and The Miracle Season. The film made $18.9 million on its first day, increasing weekend projections to $47 million. Unlike most horror films, which are front-loaded on Friday and suffer drops the rest of the weekend, A Quiet Place made $19.1 million on Saturday. It went on to debut to $50.2 million, topping the box office and marking the biggest opening for a Paramount film since Star Trek Beyond in July 2016. Through its first two weeks of international release, the film had made $51.7 million, with its top markets being the United Kingdom $9.2 million, Mexico $5.1 million, Australia $4.6 million, Brazil $3.9 million, Indonesia $3.4 million, the Philippines $2.7 million and Taiwan $1.9 million. It also debuted to $2.2 million in Russia, the biggest-ever opening for a Paramount horror film in the country. In its third weekend overseas, it dipped only 37% for a total of $15 million from 57 markets. In its fourth weekend in international markets, it grossed $6.6 million. As of May 20, 2018, the film's largest markets were United Kingdom $16.3 million, Australia $9.3 million, Mexico $7.5 million and Brazil $6.9 million. The film was released in China on May 18 and made $17.7 million from 8,731 screens in its opening weekend.

 

Production, distributions, exhibition

                                    Production, distributions, exhibition 

Production

Film production involves a huge amount of people power, as well as creativity and time. For a film to make it all the way to the eyes of viewers, it must go through several stages. From development to distribution, there are a few phases that shape films and make movie-going possible.

Distributions:

Film distribution is the process of making a movie available for viewing by an audience. This is normally the task of a professional film distributor, who would determine the marketing strategy for the film, the media by which a film is to be exhibited or made available for viewing, and who may set the release date and other matters.

Exhibition:

Film exhibition refers to public screening of a film and involves the ownership, management, and running of movie theaters. Exhibition is the retail branch of the film industry. It involves not the production or the distribution of motion pictures, but their public screening, usually for paying customers in a site devoted to such screenings, the movie theater. What the exhibitor sells is the experience of a film. Because exhibitors to some extent control how films are programmed, promoted, and presented to the public, they have considerable influence over the box-office success and, more importantly, the reception of films.