Low Budget vs High Budet Films

High Budget films 

1. Avatar - $237 million 
2. Hobbit Trilogy - $248.3 million each ($745 million total for all 3)
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead mans chest - $250 million
4. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - $250 million 
5. The Amazing Spider-man 2 -$255 million
6. Spider-man 3 - $258 million 
7. Tangled - $260 million
8. John Carter - $306.6 million
9. Avengers age of Ultron - $330.6 million
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: On stranger tides -$410.6 million

Low Budget Films 

1. Napoleon Dynamite - Budget = $400,000 Worldwide Gross =$46,140,956 Return = 5,668%
2. Once - Budget = $150,000 Worldwide Gross = $18,997,174 Return = 6,232%
3. Clerks - Budget = $27,000 Worldwide Gross =$3,894,240 Return =7,112%
4. Halloween - Budget = $325,000 Worldwide Gross = $70,000,000 Return = 10,669%
5. American Graffiti - Budget = $770,000 Worldwide Gross = $ 140,000,000 Return =8,909%
6. Night of the Living Dead - Budget = $114,000 Worldwide Gross =$ 30,000,000 Return = 13,058%
7. El Mariachi - Budget = $7,000 Worldwide Gross = $2,041,928 Return = 14,485%
8. The Blair Witch Project - Budget = 600,000 Worldwide Gross = $248,300,000 Return = 20,592%
9. Mad Max - Budget = $200,000 Worldwide Gross =$ 99,750,000 Return = 24,838%
10. Paranormal Activity - Budget = $15,000 Worldwide Gross = $196,681,656 Return = 655,506%

Film Pitch

For our recent task we had to create a presentation/film pitch for a film idea. We worked in allocated groups and were given a random genre as well as a random target audience. The challenge was to come up with a story line, along with actors, make a film poster as well as stating the influences behind the film and describe how the firts scene would start.

Our genre was a horror for everyone aged 16-21 (unisex) and was called "God's Will". The plot in short follows our priest Samuel as he thinks he becomes god whilst trying to save his kidnapped daughter from the local gang. 

Production Logo/Intro

For our film research we had to create a film production logo. This is an example


This film production logo is intriguing as it includes contrasting key themes. The dangerous and violent side of the gun, and the relaxing and calm side of the tea. It is also short and sweet so the audience isn't board watching an over dramatic, elongated intro. 




My production logo/intro 

I decided to use the dark moving smokey background as it keeps you engaged with whats happening on screen, to help this i paired it with dramatic music which ends as the explosion happens at the end.
I used adobe Photoshop to make the logo and text as i wanted a to create the effect of an 3d object having a strange liquid oozing from it, the logo suffered some visual damage, and lost some of it 3d effect when getting it out of Photoshop as adobe Premiere wasn't allowing the high quality files.
I took inspiration for my logo and Production name for the flux capacitor in "Back to the Future" but gave it my own twist and made the 'flux' a dark purple liquid. 

Audience

Uses and Gratifications theory
Focuses on Not what the media does to people but what people do with the media


This includes media in

•  Information
•  Education
•  Entertainment
•  Social Interaction
•  Escapism

Film Industry Questions
"What do we mean when we use the word film?"
A sequence of images of moving objects photographed by a camera and providing a moving set of images when projected onto a screen.

"Do you think it means the same as the word movie?"

No as 'film' is a physical reel of images being projected onto a screen where as a movie can be accessed online or by DVD

"And what about the word 'cinema'."

A cinema is where you would go to watch film be projected onto a big screen (either digitally or using physical film reel) to enhance your viewing experience



TOP 10 FILMS:

1. Scott Pilgrim vs The World
2. Deadpool
3. Back to the Future Part II
4. Hot Fuzz
5. Shaun of the Dead
6. Superbad
7. Role Models
8. Inglourious Basterds
9. Zombieland
10. Step Brothers

Evaluation:

In conclusion I enjoy films that are heavily comedic based like Superbad, but I also enjoy action packed movies like Deadpool. There are just my top ten, I enjoy other genres apart from action and comedy it is just comedy and actions film are more memorable to me than heavy plot based films.