Unit 2 Trainspotting notes and budgeting

Financial constraints 
Case study: Trainspotting


Make notes on the clip: 
  • Resource film making- Making films by using the resources available to you. 
  • Locations - Where do you have access to?
  • Rely on friends on family if you don't have the budget to pay for actual actors.
  • Make sure they're interested in acting. 
  • Equipment- Can you get cameras from a friend? Props, objects, will you need to hire or buy equipment. 
  • Writing the script- keep locations to a minimum (Because of travel distance), minimise characters.
  • Write to your actors strengths.
  • Avoid scenes with extras.
  • Avoid exterior night scenes - can be very light intensive. 
  • Avoid writing a lot of CGI and special effects in the film because they are very time consuming. 
  • Pre-production- Location planning, verify availability of your actors and equipment.
  • Production- Simplify workflow, e.g. don’t use cranes etc. Use Magic hour, just after sunrise and just before sunset.
  • Post-production - Don’t use copyrighted music, will cost you a lot of money.
  • Low budget films are often: Sci-fi, Horror, Comedy. 
Trainspotting: 

Released in 1996
Budget: £3.5 million
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Andrew MacDonald
Producer: John Hodge. 

Synopsis:
This is a film of Irvine Welshs cult Scottish novel Trainspotting, a series of interlinked stories concentrating on heroin-hooked anti-hero Mark Renton and his attempts to kick the habit, despite a lack of co operation from his similarly-inclined friends. 

The rights to the screenplay:

If you're planning to translate a novel into movie form, the most important thing, obviously is to snap up the screen rights. 

However, while John Hodge starts to bash out the first draft of Trainspotting’s screenplay, producer Andrew MacDonald and director Danny Boyle are caught up in what will prove to be the only crisis of the entire project- Securing the rights to Welsh’s book. 

Finance:
The filmmaking threesome are being badgered by Hollywood mogul Scott Rudin (Producer Sabrina and The Firm), who offers them $250,000 to film whatever project they desire. 

The rights are still problematic, even more so when Channel 4, which is financing the film )The first time is has covered the while cost of a project) refuses to put up a penny until the mess is sorted. 

Pre-production.
“This is what’s known as the run-up period to the film”. Boyle explains. 
“It lasts for four to seven weeks depending on your budget (Trainspotting is seven) and takes in casting, location scouting, working with the art department on the look of the film - for something as simple as colour, or the way something looks when its shot - costumes. Right now, all the different departments are coming onboard.”

First and foremost, however, is the casting. Ewan McGregor, who played Alex in Shallow Grave. 

 Recce: 
While a recce, to the outsider, appears to be little more than a load of people, standing around looking at their surroundings, the technicalities go a lot deeper. You can use a location recce to decide on where you will film, what time you will meet, when you will have breaks, what you need on the day and what time you will finish. 

Set Design:

“You read the script, discuss what you think about certain aspects, talk about certain aspects, talk about the general look of the film”. A set designer could be hired to decide what props are best for that scene. 

Comments

  1. JCoSS Media Dept17 September 2017 at 10:52

    Good job Sam! Consider using a Web 2.0 tool/embedding pictures so that your notes are more interactive.

    Miss C

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  2. JCoSS Media Dept26 October 2017 at 10:11

    Make sure you've got all the relevant notes associated with pre-production to help as a revision tool.

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  3. Sam Bromley999 November 2017 at 07:20

    Im going to be adding all notes associated with pre production in order to complete this task

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  4. JCoSS Media Dept15 November 2017 at 16:31

    This still needs completing! Please complete by 20th November. Mrs E

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  5. Sam Bromley9920 November 2017 at 08:58

    Ive added notes about recess and set design as its part of pre-production but really struggling to know what else needs to be added.

    ReplyDelete

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