Evaluation Activity 3

Script for the Director's Commentary

A production company is directly responsible for the funding of films, and are responsible for the development and production of new media products. The production company we are part of is called GFM Productions. We decided to have this name because it fits in with our names, so that people know who created the film. A distributor is what helps with the marketing of films, and we could use cinemas to help with the distribution, as well as what a distributor will do, a.k.a, spreading posters and billboards about etc. This has been used for many films in the past, but also word of mouth could be used.

Our film Legacy belongs to the horror/thriller genre, and the funding for such a film as ours would have to come from us, as we are a small independent company. We could get help from other production companies, and maybe from a small group of viewers typical of our target audience. We might have help from them, because free tickets could be given out to this small group of people, possibly free refreshments for after and then we could ask them for criticisms about our film. What they liked about it, what they feel could be changed, and what they didn’t like about it. As well as this, we could get help from the national lottery, if we want our film to be globalised.

The names of various people are in our film because we used them as part of our cast. We carefully chose them because they have had experience of acting before, and it gives us the result for our film. As well as this, some of the various people had allocated jobs given. I was the director, and Faraz was the editor. The next stage of the pre-credit sequence shows the order of the allocated jobs for filming. The director comes first, then the camera person, which was Marian, and then the editor. This relates to many films in any genre, because the given order is what’s usually seen in any Hollywood film.

Our film is similar to the Jason films like Friday the 13th, who is a typical horror character in movies, and as you can see in our film. The antagonist is wearing a mask like Jason, and blue overalls to help hide his identity. This traditional hockey mask is also seen in the Halloween movies, consisting of the character Michael Myers. The opening of our film is unlike other opening sequences in the horror/thriller genre, because of the amount of deaths that you see. Thriller programmes do not have this many deaths in the opening either, especially in Silent Witness, which is also a crime drama.

A typical distributor for our film could be Vue or IMax cinemas, as we feel these could well suit the opening. Our typical target audience is that of 15’s and above because of the context of the film. This is how we can get a fair range of people to watch this type of film, as they would understand it more than those younger.