amit shamir unit 2

Media Homework  Spectre Budget - $300 - $350million - £24m ($36.7m): Cost of the Aston Martin cars which crashed and were blown up during the filming of Spectre. - $39m (£25.4m): Salary Daniel Craig is expected to earn from Spectre making him the highest-paid Bond in history. the casting of Andrew Scott, known for BBC miniseries "Sherlock," reportedly saved $1 million in costs. They were planning on casting Oscar-nominated Chiwetel Ejiofor instead. The shooting period of spectre costed $50 million more than sky fall. 4 different locations (Rome, Austria, Mexico, London) Over 1,500 extras Flying the craft is American stunt helicopter pilot Chuck Aaron, 66, one of only three pilots in the world licensed to perform aerobatics in a helicopter.  Rain on first night of filming in rome costed them around $1million an hour Cast x 11 Mexico City cast x 6 London cast  x 5 Rome cast x 18 Tokyo cast x 11 Austria cast x 14 Morocco cast  x 11 ...

In this blog post, i was tasked with creating a mind map, with the centre 'types of media', i then had to come up with several types of medias such as film and newspapers and i had to list the purpose of the the type of media along with several requirements of what needs to be done to make a product as such. From this i was able to learn several new forms of media products as well as what is required of them and what their purpose is. I will be able to put this mind map to use in my future revision for my up and coming exam when revising different types of media and their backgrounds.

In this post, i will be briefly summarising the contents of the following article titled ‘Hollywood and TV put the squeeze on UK's low-budget film-makers’. I will be summarising the information in bullet points of the main points from each paragraph. The numb er of domestic UK films costing from £500,000 to about £30m to make, fell from 77 to 60 between 2014 and 2015 which is the lowest number since 2006. According to the annual figures published by British Film Institute(BFI). The number of small to mid-sized budget co-productions such The liberated fell from 37 to 30 which hasn't been seen 2008.  Hollywood blockbusters made in the UK, such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and Alien: Covenant, which account for the lion’s share of the £1.6bn feature film market, remain rocksteady, with just under 20 films produced in 2015 Films from major studios take more than 90% £8.5bn of the US box office mechanics leaving only about 650 films to chase the 9% left of the box office. ...

Pre-Production  In this post i will be speaking about what pre-production is and what is included in it. What is pre-production? Pre-Production is  work done on a product, especially a film or or tv program, before the production process can begin. There are plenty of steps that must be taken in the pre-production process for the product to be produced properly and even legally.  For Film/TV -  - Release form for external performers that are not in the original group. - Parental Permission for actors under the age of 18. - Written consent prior to filming if done on private property. - Risk assessment and health and safety documentations. - Call Sheet The task i was given was to give the definition of pre production, as well as to  list several steps that get taken in the pre-production stage for the production process to go on properly and legeally. From this task i was able to gain a better understanding of what the definition of pre-produ...