Low-budget film

Essay Prompt #2 Most people don’t realize how hard it is to make any type of film. From low budget short films and music videos to feature films. There are millions of things that can go wrong and will go wrong. It feels like something going wrong is more likely to happen than one single thing going right. That is the beauty and suffering of filmmaking. I have made music videos since I was in the ninth grade and have never had one turn out exactly how I planned. An artist came to me with a concept

Digital Technology and Filmmaking Since the first movies were first made, they have been shot using film of various sizes, such as 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm. Within the past few years, technology has brought digital cameras to the film industry, and now they are being used in independent and Hollywood films. The recent low budget film The Blair Witch Project was primarily filmed using a Sony VX1000 digital camera, and the movie The Celebration was totally filmed using this camera and the Canon XL-1

terror comes from the shadows, sounds, and ancient lore. Despite the film’s extremely low-budget, it still manages to effectively create a frightening and eerie atmosphere, and like most film noirs is able to use everyday settings and turn them into places of mystery, fear, and death. At its core Cat People is a more a psychological horror film that plays on fears and superstition. The opening text that starts the film reminds us that evil is only sleeping and waiting to be set free to cause havoc. The

The film business generally follows a rule that attempts to maximize profits for each production. Art cinema drastically shifts focus away from box office success into the desire of critical success. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell 1960) fills a niche that wants a thrilling movie that is guaranteed to push the boundaries of typical cinema, while offering commentary on current ideas. New editing techniques blended with suggestive material result in the new age of art films, and Peeping Tom successfully

Paul Haggis’ Crash is a drama set in the Los Angels area, the main concept of the film is racial and social tensions in L.A., Paul Haggis claims that it’s a “passion piece” due to it being inspired by a real life incident wherein his car was stolen outside a store in 1991 as he clearly states on the Crash commentary track. Now my reaction to this film was at first shocked and in awe of the brutality of the first 30 minutes. Such as Anthony and Peter’s discussion in the first few minutes about

plot-reinforcing setting motif advantageously simplifies the film, the use of black and white is ineffective to simplifying the film. Whedon shot in black and white due to the low budget, therefore the choice lacks meaning and leaves the audience searching for the significance. Also, it causes characters to fall back flatly into the background. The grayscale would work better if the tones of people were more separate from the tones of the backgrounds; the film looks bleached-out and overexposed without the contrast

most crucial aspects for a film to generate its success and also how the advertising of the movie created its success. Math is used to calculate how profit can be made or lost which is essential for films as it allows production managers to use formulas to manage money as efficient as possible. Of course production managers attempt to find ways to create the most profit; and math is highly involved with this process. As for advertising it creates a higher possibility for films to obtain a higher revenue

industry is supply and demand—too many people willing to work for low wages in an industry in which there is too little demand in comparison to what is produced. Certainly, the indie doc economy has been impacted by oversupply, due in part by lower barriers to entry created by myriad of technological changes, and an ever-changing media landscape. But given that we

Restriction of expression in the film industry is in the form of censorship, which in the UK was set up in 1912 as the British Board of Film Censorship (BBFC) by the film industry as a self-regulatory body charging the film industry for the service. The local councils in the UK usually accepted these classifications. This is a view of the censorship laws and in particular the era of the ‘video nasty’ and how it slipped through the film censorship net. Looking back to the 1930’s, an early example

idea in mind and a tight budget, Beane begins to take a new path of baseball by joining forces with Peter Brand, an economics major, and accepting baseball players with disabilities. This new version of the Oakland A’s is what drives not only Beane to hoping for a victory, but what brings the movie to engaging the audience. As a film as a whole, the movie had many moments of suspense, excitement, and humor. Also, the