Firstly, we received a speech from the Action intern team. Action intern is a salaried year long scheme in which 3 individuals are chosen to comprise the aspects of development, production and runners room. The development intern, Charlotte, has the job of seeing an idea or process through until the first draft of the script is completed. Currently, she is managing 70 projects at one individual time helping with both creative and commercial aspects of film. After this is completed, the scripts will be past to the production executive where the budget will be set and a search will begin for the availability of cast and location. The production intern, Tilly, has the job of 'building an office'. She organises the preparation. This includes the distribution of scripts and effectively bringing all the departments together through linguistics. Finally, Tristen has the participation of assistant director. The AD works on set with the cast, being the efficiency aid of the team. Here, the voice communicates what is happening, noting especially the importance of time on the entire process. The overall job of the runners is to help across the entire building through every separate department.
Our trip to Working Title Film as specific to the film Anna Karenina. The majority of this film was set in a theatre. This idea was thought up by the director, Joe Wright. Initially, the film was going to be made in Russia, engaging the authenticity of the original book. Although, difficulties occurred due to the expense of this. Also with Russia acting as a 'third world' when considering the film industry and many of these locations have been used previously. Here, the realisation was dull and therefore, Joe Wright used his theatrical background to influence the idea of setting the film within a theatre 48 hours later. Although the majority was set in the theatre, one scene was shot in Russia just off the mainland of St. Petersburg on Kizhi island. Though, this encountered technical difficulties for the crew and cast due to the extreme temperatures. Camera lens froze and performance issues occurred due to freezing body parts of the cast.
Anna Karenina was only a short term development, taking only 8 weeks for the first draft of the script. This idea came from the original book although, this was copyrighted due to the author having been dead for 70 years. The book of Anna Karenina was an economical large text and so, the best scenes had to be selected to represent a love story due to the adaptation being focused on love. The director for this film was Tom Stoppard, when finally being reached through his manager Anthony Jones. The shooting for this film took 12 weeks and cost $36.7 million.
The person behind production puts together the initial schedules and budget. The expected budget for a film is usually £750,000 - £1,000,000 a week. Period films are always more expensive than contemporary films, costing £3000 per shot for visual effects. Although, when shooting for Anna Karenina, a dior shocking was placed over the lens. Currently, a crash in the visual effects world has been witnessed. This has noticed a famine in overheads and companies such as Fox and Universal have been funded to carry on. This has resulted in down scaling and unemployment, moving many houses to Montreal due to their 45% tax break. A script board is later put together using the software application Movie Magic. This allows the number of shooting weeks to be established.
When looking at the position of Film Development, this is where the break through ideas are seen. This are usually gathered from reading magazines and books. This team meet with the directors and cast the film after 10-12 drafts of the script. The team, later puts together the first cut and assembles the first screening of the film. The first screening for Les Misérables was 4.5 hours long.
Finally, we spoke to the head of Working title about three dimensional filming. 3D uses 48 screens per second in comparison to the ordinary 24 screens per second. Though 3D extends the usual home experience, the increased number of frames per second drives up the cost of production. Therefore, when considering whether to produce a film in 3D this has to be determined by the budget value. In the eyes of bosses in Working Title, 3D convergenes are seen to be a waste of time.
Notes
- 'Lock picture' is when the screening witnesses no more changes
- Films used to be held on 3.5mm projectors until 3-4 years ago. These used to cost £2000 to deliver and were liable to damage.
- Films now, are held on a 500GB server and cost only £30 to deliver also being much more secure.
- The scale of film is fixed to the scale of audience
- A larger film allows a larger scale of interupptions
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