Production and Distribution Of "Red Road'

I have also looked into the way in which the film 'Red Road' was produced and distributed.
The Production of the film 'Red Road:
The  film Red Road is part of a unique, three-film concept called Advance Party 

produced by Sigma Films in Glasgow and Zentropa in Denmark. The idea behind Advance Party is that the same group of characters would be given to three different directors who would each have to develop a film around those characters. All the films would shoot for the same length of time in the same city, Glasgow.  Sigma and Zentropa had decided to use first time directors paired with first time producers. 

The distribution of 'Red Road':

The film Red Road was distributed by Tartan Films. Tartan Films is a US and UK film distribution company, founded by US-based Palisades Media Group to take over the film library of Tartan Films after it folded in Summer 2008.

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Production and Distribution For 'One Hour Photo'

Now that we have finished constructing our two minute film opening we have looked into how psychological films such as 'One Hour Photo' are produced and distributed. 

The production of 'One Hour Photo':
The writer and director 'Mark Romanek' said his inspiration for 'One Hour Photo' emerged out of "a desire to make a contemporary film in the style of the 'lonely-man' films of the '70s." His influences were drawn from films like "The Conversation," "The Tenant," "Taxi Driver" and "The Passenger."

After completing the script, Romanek sent it to producers 'Christine Vachon' and 'Pamela Koffler' who instantly liked the story. Producer 'Stan Wlodkowski' joined the filmmaking team after learning of the project through a colleague. 

The team instantly set about the task of finding the right actor to fill Sy Parrish's shoes. Koffler says we needed someone with that kind of charisma willing to play a character probably unlike anything they'd ever played before." Whilst researching the production I discovered some interesting facts about the film such as: several of Sy's narrative monologues were removed, and several scenes were re-shot with fewer lines. The original version also has older musical scores that were not used in the final product. Also in accordance with photography being the theme of the movie, many of the characters in the movie take their names from photographers. Robin Williams prepared for the role by actually training for two and-a-half days in a Southern California photo development lab. 

The Distribution of 'One Hour Photo':

The film 'One Hour Photo' is an American psychological thriller that was distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures in the United States. The film's limited release began on August 21, 2002 in seven theaters, opening to a $321,515 weekend, with an average of $45,930 per theater. The film made just over $8 million that weekend, and went on to gross $31,597,131 in the US, with an additional $20,626,175 in overseas territories, for an international total of $52,223,306 , this was a moderate box office success, as the budget was around $12 million.

Problem that occured whilst uploading to 'Youtube'

This print screen above shows the problem that we encountered when trying to upload to 'Youtube'. Whilst trying to publish to 'Youtube an error occured that informed us that the connection has timed out and that our video did not completely upload to 'Youtube'.

The image above shows the pop up box that appeared when we were trying to upload our video. To solve this problem we thought that we could burn our film opening to a disc and then upload the footage from the disc to 'Youtube' and then to our blogs. To do this we will need to convert our video to an IDVD file. This will allow us to upload the footage to our blogs.

Publishing to 'Youtube'

Once we finished out two minute film opening, we attempted to upload it to 'Youtube'. We selected 'Share' on Imovie and chosen share to Youtube'. A pop up box came up and informed us that our movie was exporting and publishing to 'Youtube'.

Voiceover

We always knew that as a group we wanted to add a Voiceover, to our footage to add an autobiographical effect. We thought that by adding a Voiceover it would create a unique first person effect and give the viewers a chance to really understand our male character through his Voiceover. However whilst editing our footage and adding a soundtrack we decided that it was best not to have a Voiceover as it would be over powered by the music even if we lowered the volume in certain parts of our video. So as a group we have decided to just have a soundtrack on our movie rather than adding an autobiographical Voiceover.

Editing Soundtrack on Garageband

We researched and found a piece of music that we thought would go well with our footage. We imported it into a programme called 'Gargage Band', we edited the piece of music by fading it out and manipulating the volume in certain areas to create a great effect. We knew that our footage was only 1 minute 56 seconds long so we knew that we had to fade out the soundtrack before the end of the filming, so that the music doesn't just cut off.

Creating A Logo

LOGO DECISION

As you can see from the image above I have created a Logo for JMP Productions. We were going to add this to our footage so that it appears when the Production name is displayed at the beginning of our film.  However when we tried to add the fonts previously we encountered  problems when trying to add a still image to our moving footage. So as a group we decided against the idea of adding the Logo.