1) UK release date?
6th of December 2) Institutions behind the film's production and Distribution?
Production:
Killer Films
Benaroya Pictures
Outpost Studios
Distribution:
Future Film (2013) (Finland)
Lumière (2013) (Netherlands)
Sony Pictures Classics (USA)
Sony Pictures Releasing (Australia)
Works UK Distribution, (UK)
Paris Filmes (Brazil)
3) What's the film's production budget?
N/A 4) Nationality of the film?
American 5) What kind of production is it?
Low Budget indie Film 6) Any connection with other films?
No 7) Who's the director?
John Krokidas
8) Any star names in the cast?
Daniel Radcliffe- Allen Ginsberg
Dane DeHaan - Lucien Carr
Michael C. Hall- David Kammerer 9) What's the film about?
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
10) Who will this film appeal to?
It is a drama/ romantic/ mystery genre. Therefore anyone interested in this genre or anyone interested in the 1940's and beat poets.
1) UK release date? 13th December 2013 2) Institutions behind the film's production and Distribution? Producers
·MGM
·New Line Cinema
·WingNut Films
Distributors
·Warner Bros
·Cocinsa
·Forum Hungary
3) What's the film's production budget? $250,000,000 by MGM and New Line Cinema. 4) Nationality of the film? American 5) What kind of production is it? Big budget Hollywood film. 6) Any connection with other films? -It is a sequel to the other Hobbit film: An unexpected journey, the second film to the three part series. -It is also a prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy 7) Who's the director? Peter Jackson 8) Any star names in the cast? Benedict Cumberbatch - Smaug/ The Necromancer
Evangeline Lilly - Tauriel
Richard Armitage - Thorin
Orlando Bloom - Legolas
Hugo Weaving - Elrond
Ian MacKellen - Gandalf
Martin Freeman - Bilbo
9) What's the film about? The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring 10) Who will this film appeal to? -People who have previously followed the Lord of the Rings trilogy and are fans of films of this style, and have either already watched the first part of the Hobbit or who now intend to. -People that are interested in adventure and fantasy films, and enjoy fiction stories.
When Marcus Markou came in to talk about his film a lot was brought to my attention.
The whole of Marcus' talk really emphasised the success his film endured, although it was an independent film. This really emphasised that the independency of a film only needs a little more determination, effort and persistence that a normal film in order for it to be successful.
A lot of the methods Markus described that he used to get the film to where it is really opened my eyes to how active, persistent you have to be to make a film of a lower budget successful. This required working first hand:
-Marcus gave out leaflets for his film in cinemas directly promoting his film to the public. -He developed a large support group through social media, Tweeting chip shops and Greek churches to tell them his film was coming out. -He managed to get Greek Priests to announce that his film was being released at the end of the service. -He worked hard to get the actors he wanted with the budget he as working with, this even included posting scripts through their doors to avoid their agencies. -He used his own money from his own business to give himself a direct loan for the film. -He pinpointed every Greek church in London and finding a nearby cinema for it to be in, as "where there were Greek churches, there were Greek families."
Marcus had it all planned out, he knew what audience he wanted to aim for which was in this case the Greeks. By pinpointed greek churches, and making sure this audience knew about his film he managed to make his film more successful that big budget films. Not only did he plan out his marketing well, but he planned out how to deliver the film that would make the Greek community want their friends and family to also see it. Managing his money well to an extent that he could still create the film he had first pictured is very inspiring to other people that you don't need to spend millions of pounds to create a good film that can be successful and appreciated.
We worked in a group of four to swede a familiar movie, we chose paranormal activity.
This post includes our marketing links for the sweded film we created including a trailer, twitter and Facebook acount, and the paranormal activity sweded film we created itself.
I really enjoyed making this film, especially considering never doing something like this before. I learnt a lot about making a sweded film and the rules involved, as well as having a good time while doing it.
What is a sweded film?
Sweded Films are recreations of famous films using limited resources and technology. The films are typically much shorter in length approximately lasting up to 4 minutes.
Films that were erased and recreated are referred to as having been sweded
A film that involves sweded films is be kind, rewind. Where does the name sweded come from?
Be Kind Rewind is a VHS rental store and is due to be demolished to make way for high-end development as the owner leaves.
After Jerry (Jack Black) attempts to sabotage a nearby electrical substation, it leaves him magnetised. As he enters the store the next day, he inadvertently erases all the VHS tapes in the store.
Mike (Mos Def), quickly discovers the disaster and becomes under pressure as customers begin to come into rent films
Mike comes up with an idea: , he proposes to recreate the film using himself and Jerry as the actors and cheap special effects hoping to fool them.
As more requests for movies unfold, Mike, Jerry, and Alma quickly pass off these movies they are creating to meet the demands as being "sweded", insisting the films came from Sweden and thus able to demand long wait times and higher costs for the rental.
Sweding Film ideas
Films I came across that were really effective:
This sweded film is actually from be kind re-wind.
I think personally for a film idea Ghostbusters of Forrest Gump would work well. Ghostbusters could be effective, especially when creating the ghosts part to it. Forrest Gump has a lot of key effects like 'run forrest run' which could be played around with.
I have found two sweded versions of forrest Gump which I both think have good features about them.
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