Case Study: Trainspotting

Financial Constraints:
  • Domestic Violence
  • Small to mid-sized co-productions
  • Hollywood Studios
  • Big budgets dramas --> Netflix/Sky/BBC
  • UK film productions companies to glossy dramas
Low Budget film making tips and advice:
  • Budget - Know your budget
  • List of actors
  • List of Equipment
  • Interesting items - Unique items to use on set and shots
  • Local events
  • No more than 3-4 main locations 
  • No more than 3-4 characters --> Easier to manage
  • Use your actors strengths
  • Managing extras in scenes
  • Try not to use special effects
  • Scout your locations 
  • Availability of equipment and actors - Plan in advance
  • Select camera movements 
  • Magic hour - Before and after sunrise

Budget: $3.5 Million
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Andrew MacDonald 
Producer: John Hodge, Noel Gay
Main Character: Evan McGregor

Synopsis - Base off a novel
They needed permission to make the novel into a film. There was an issue securing the rights to Welsh's Book. Red Dwarf snatched the film rights as they saw that money was going to be made which complicated things.

Finance: 
Hollywood mogul offered $250.000 to film whatever project they desired

Pre-Production:
  • Lasted 7 weeks
  • Location Scouting
  • Costume Department
  • Art Department
Before all the pre-production the producer and his team have a meeting and create an Audit.

Props:
Deciding whether to use locations or build sets, and whether the locations are good enough. Then six weeks in they bought good props. Instead of making costumes they went to charities to find the appropriate clothing. Also North Face lent some climbing gear for certain scene in the film. They did this to save money as it was cheaper to purchase things and it also went to the greater good.
The Shoot:
The shoot lasts for 35 days, span five days a week, give or take the odd Saturday morning  and includes a week of dreaded night shoots. There were issues with night shoots at this of year in Scotland because they are very short. 

Comments

  1. JCoSS Media Dept26 October 2017 at 10:51

    You've made some good notes on the case study itself, but you really needed to be looking for the information relating to parts and stages of post-production and write some detailed notes.

    When you come to revise, make sure you got back to the Trainspotting Prezi and find the pre-production elements as well as looking at this blog.

    Miss C

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  2. JCoSS Media Dept15 November 2017 at 15:20

    Please complete this task by Monday 20th Nov, you have had almost a month to revise this topic so this should have been improved by now. Thanks, Mrs E.

    ReplyDelete

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