High concept film

Pirates of the Carribean

Pirates of the Caribbean is a multi-million franchise films and a series of adventure directed by Gore Verbinski. It is based on Walt Disney theme park ride of the same name, as it was very popular in the early 1950s as a walk-through wax museum at Disneyland. Therefore it could even attract people in the early 1950s who liked the wax museum and the range of audience is very wide. It had grossed over $2.79 billion worldwide and it was amazing for the audience since the first day. In 2003, the first release of pirates of the Caribbean: the curse of black pearl had an unexpected success. People had expected to watch it as the advertising campaign had been putting huge amount of money to attract the audience. Some fans of pirates of the Caribbean helped to bring people’s notice on the film and they printed the posters on T-shirts to show their passion, even some people dressed like the main character in the film, the Captain Jack Sparrow. In 2007, the second release of Dead man’s chest again gained a high review although some of the audience said that it becomes boring. However, the majority of people, especially the age between 15 to 25 could be so much into the stars and the Disney storyline.
This high concept film is identified as pirates of the Caribbean had an extremely successful saturation campaign advertising which designs to make people see the film and make money for the institution. Johnny Depp, who is the main character in the film, is absolutely a bankable movie star as many people would go to see Johnny Depp in the film instead of watching the film. Some audience perhaps are not interested in the storyline or advertising campaign and they are more focused on watching what their film stars looks like in the film. It is also a classical 3 part storyline with a beginning, middle and end.
In conclusion, pirates of the Caribbean is one of a very high concept film which I like the most. In 2011, the fourth release is going to come out and it would attract so many people to come to support.

The editing process and difficulties encountered

We started editing by picking numbers of shot up that are needed for the film, there were lots of irrelevant shots but we had to go through every single second because we need to choose the best shot for the film. Finally, we had hundreds of shot that may be put into the final film.

Firstly, we chose some shower shots for the beginning to show the actor in close up, mid shot and close up with the handle. There are actually numbers of repetition of shots which are the victim in the shower, but sometimes it needs to be repeated before or after the killer walks along the corridor in terms of linking their relationship. However, we picked lots of useful shots and we always discussed what to put next before we do it to avoid any disagreement. We spent a long time on deciding the time when the killer is going to kill the guy in shower, we all had different opinions on which should be the first, what kind of sound do we need here, fortunately we figured it out in the end that when Chloe goes into bathroom, there is a close up on her face and then the mid shot to show her top, then the knife comes out to show her true purpose.
Also, the stabbing shots are one of the difficulties that we had to try lots of way to see which one is the best. Although this costs a huge amount of time, we believe that we should get the best shots for the film.
After editing, we began choosing any sound or music. We then agreed to put some really strong sound effect while she is looking at the knife and stabbing to the victim.

Change of our film idea

Cast :
The actor: from Tom Leader to Joshua Jackson
Initially we wanted Tom Leader to be our actor in the film but afterwards we recognised that Joshua is more suitable for time on shooting day.

Location
From Cornhill House to Hurtwood House (the main building)
As Cornhill House has the best facilities among all these houses, and we all wanted the background to be nice and bright, we changed our idea due to the fact that none of us in our group have been to Cornhill House and check whether the location of bathroom and hallway is available or not. We figured out that Hurtwood House could be a better location as everyone has been there and it is closer to hang around than Cornhill House, which if we want better shot, we have to get back to Cornhill House that is so far away from the school than Hurtwood House. In brief, Hurtwood House is much better and more convenient to film.

The painting that we considered to put on the wall is given up because Hurtwood House’s corridor does not really allow to hang a painting on the wall, and we thought that it would be a waste of time if we keep thinking how to make the background look nice instead of thinking the shots and production.