Film Production Company Research

Hammer Film Productions is a british production company who specialize in gothic 'Hammer Horror' films but also produce sci-fi, thrillers, film noir and comedies but also some TV series'. they were founded in 1934 and were financially beneficial in their most successful years when they dominated the horror film market between the mid 1950's until the 1970's. their logo is as shown.

20th century fox is a U.S production company which was founded in 1935 their most successful productions were the Star wars saga, the Chronicles of Narnia and Avatar they are claimed to be one of the 6 best production companies as of 2011 they also produced TV Series' such as the Simpsons and Family guy their logo is shown to the right

Fox Searchlight Pictures are a low budget production company who were established in 1998 and specialised in independent or indie and british films one of their most famous films were Napoleon Dynamite which was a low budget film it used around $400,000 to film and produce

Beth's AS Media: Preliminary Task - Our Interrogation Scene Video

Beth's AS Media: Preliminary Task - Our Interrogation Scene Video: This is our version of an interrogation scene from a film called '6 Ways To Kill Your Husband (Or Wife)'. We used all of our planning and research as a guide for filming this scene, including types of shots, angles of shots it was then edited and turned out to be extremely successful. this is our preliminary task re-blogged from beth's blog

Interrogation script

Film Noir Lighting Tips Research

i researched how to light the scene when casting a film noir thriller and these are the notes i made on it

Thriller Mood Board

i used pictures that represent a thriller and even some examples to create sort of a brainstorm of that a  thriller could contain.

Se7en Title Sequence

to get a feel of how to edit we have placed pictures and clips into final cut and experimented with effects to give off the same atmosphere as what Se7en does.

Match on Action research

the continuity shows that the clip shows the same picture in each frame whilst an action is taking place.
basically match on action is when something happens in a scene but then cuts the next scene is also showing the same action but from a different angle or perspective this helps the audience to understand what is happening in the scene. Above is an example of match on action.

for research on shot reverse/shot see 'Becky Gordon's' blog.
also for research on the 180 degree rule see 'Beth Funnell's' blog.