Working Title Visit

On thursday 28th February Reepham college media  students had the opportunity to visit Working Title and have a talk from some of the people who worked in  different departments of the industry.

Charlotte, Tristan and Tilly- Internship
Tilly was on the program Action! which is a one year program for people trying to get into the industry. They choose three people, one goes to developing, runner and production. They also talked about their own personal roles in working title. Tristan had worked on the production of Skyfall and went to another country to film the beggining sequence of the train scene. He also spent 5 months on the set of Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.
Development
In development it is the whole procees from the original idea to the screening. The development process varies depending on the film. With Anna Karenina it took a short time compared with Les Miserables. Marketing has its own department next to development. Marketing and development have to have many convosations and meetings between collegues in order to solve difficulties with in the departments.
Amelia Granger is in film development. To come up with ideas for a film you use many resoures suchas books, novels, plays. Then thinking processes and meetings with writer and directors.
Assistant Director
The assistant director is there for production on set and the communication between each individual group is handled by them. They get to see everything onset. Things will mostly go wrong so contigency plans are needed and you need to be able to improvise inmany different situations.
Adaption
Adaption takes a long time if you are creating a film from a book with out the play in the middle. In the case of Anna Karenina there was a playthat could be used before hand anyway so the used that as a guideline for the film. Tom Stoppard is the screen writer who did Shakespeare in love, War Horse and worked on Anna Karenina.
Production and Anna Karenina
Production focuses on schedule and budget. For Anna Karenina Universal gave a certain amount of money for the entire process of making the film. The amount of money given was not enough meaning the orginal ideas had to be scrapped. Then the idea of the theatre was created and saved a lot of money. They filmed part of the movie in Kizzy, it was -40 degrees and many of the crew got frostbite and equiptment got broken. During the process offices are given scripts to breakdown and analyse in order to work out the budget of the film.
Audience for Anna Karenina
The target audience was aimed at those in the upmarket class with a literature background. The audience similar to Pride and Prejudice and Atonement.
Investors
Investors have little input in the making process. They are sent a casting list, concept designs and given a brief over view of what the director wants to create. Some productions like Working Title compromise and it is generally a satisfying process with very little disagreements.
Special Effects
Visula effects crashed and businesses are shutting down or reducing their employee numbers- famine or feast situation. It took off around the time of avatar being released when everyone wanted to see a special effects film. Now not many people are interested by special effects so the numbers have dropped and many businesses are having to shut down. The business is incredibly competitive.
Editing
The editor puts in a rough cut with every scene and everyone watches a screening of it. After they talk about it and the visual effects come ina and decision would be made. Once the directors cut is viewed nothing else is done.