Reasons Producers should research

Reasons Producers should research

This blog post is to highlight the reasons to research as a producer in the film industry.

Target Market (Market Research/Audience Research)

The reason producers should research 'Target Markets' is simply because they need to be aware of the fan base of this certain genre of film, this is put simply to find which age group the film would sell to the best; better target market=better box office sales.

Historical and Factual information and data

(Audience Research/Production Research)

Producers must know exactly what they are basing their own film on. For example, if a producer wanted to create a film set in World War 2, the setting must accurately reflect the era they had chosen, for example they could not send the soldiers into battle with modern day technology and weaponry. 

Demand (Audience Research/Production Research)

For a film to create a high rating in the box office, it must sell a large amount of tickets. in order to achieve this they must find the demand for that genre of film, in today market, there has been an influx of super hero films, these films are the most effective because of there simple and arguably bland story line but they sell very high in cinemas because of the high demand from a younger target market who have the largest demand for that genre of film.

Budget and Costs(Production Research)

a Producer and a director must know that they have limited funding. they cannot spend more than there budget given, so sometimes you have to improvise as a producer. To keep on track of your budget you must know how much props, crew members and also settings and flights cost, if you make less than you spend in a film, this film is deemed a failure.

Old Animations

Old Animations

Animators have achieved a hell of a lot in the past 100 years, from still images moving in a spinning wheel to fully moving motion capture in films today.

This animation is called 'Le Voyage Dans la Lun' this roughly translates to 'A trip to the moon'
This animation was created in 1902 by a french film maker by the name   
of Georges Méliès. 

A Trip to the Moon
Title card
Directed by	Georges Méliès
Produced by	Georges Méliès
Written by	Georges Méliès
Based on	From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon by Jules Verne (see alsoInspirations section below)
Starring	Georges Méliès Bleuette Bernon François Lallement Henri Delannoy
Cinematography	Théophile Michault Lucien Tainguy
Production company	Star Film Company
Release dates	1 September 1902(France)[1]
Running time	260 meters/845 feet[2] 18 minutes (12 frame/s)[3] 16 minutes (14 frame/s)[3] 9 minutes (24 frame/s)[3]
Country	France
Language	Silent
Budget	₣10,000

This is the final films statistics and cast. taken from Wikipedia.

Old Animation Tools and Techniques

Old Animation Tools and Techniques

Phenakistoscope (1831)

This is a Phenakistoscope.

The Phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 by a Belgian man by the name of 'Joseph Plateau' and Austrian man 'Simon von Stampfer.' It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the centre of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the centre. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope spins, a viewer looks through the slots at the reflection of the drawings, are momentarily visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.

Zoetrope (1834)

The zoetrope concept was suggested in 1834 by William George Horner, and from the 1860s marketed as the zoetrope. It operates on the same principle as the phenakistoscope. It was a cylindrical spinning device with several frames of animation printed on a paper strip placed around the interior circumference. The observer looks through vertical slits around the sides to view the moving images on the opposite side as the cylinder spins. 
As it spins, the material between the viewing slits moves in the opposite direction of the images on the other side and in doing so serves as a rudimentary shutter. The zoetrope had several advantages over the basic phenakistoscope. It did not require the use of a mirror to view the illusion, and because of its cylindrical shape it could be viewed by several people at once.

In ancient China, people used a device that one 20th century historian categorized as "a variety of zoetrope."It had a series of translucent paper or mica panels and was operated by being hung over a lamp so that vanes at the top would cause it to rotate as heated air rose from the lamp. It has been claimed that this rotation, if it reached the ideal speed, caused the same illusion of animation as the later zoetrope, but because there was no shutter (the slits in a zoetrope) or other provision for intermittence, the effect was in fact simply a series of horizontally drifting figures, with no true animation

Persistence of Vision

What is Persistence of Vision?

Persistence of vision is when a sequence of still images each with very slight successive changes is played back, the brain tends to fill in the gaps between each image, and sees the sequence as a continuous movement rather than as a series of still images. This is the method used in animation and video to give the illusion of movement. Persistence of Vision works with images between 8 images or frames per second through to 30 images or frames per second.

Photography

This Blog post is just simply a compilation of all my pictures i've accumulated.

Iceland Trip (2016)
Pictures from areas like Reykjavik the capital and the barren icy planes

Majorca Holiday 2016

I lost a lot of the photos from this holiday and i spent most of my time out the sun because of the 30 odd degree heat but the pictures i managed to get were worth it.

Back home in Guisbrough

This is the collection of pictures from my home town Guisbrough, we live right next door to a lush forest and walkway which leads to Guisbrough's main natural land mark or Roseberry Topping. Other photos will include: Pinchinthorpe woods, Eston Hills, Eston Nab, Guisbrough Town Center, Guisbrough Priory, Middlesbrough Town Center and the surrounding areas.