Thursday, 30 March 2017

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

This is a question filmmakers and production companies ask themselves frequently. How good was our last film and how can we make the next one even better?

This desire to produce bigger and better films is a driving force in the movie industry. It creates sequels (Indiana Jones, Lethal weapon, Fast & Furious), franchises, (James Bond, Star Wars, Toy Story, Jason Bourne, Harry Potter) and whole new dimensions (Marvel Universe).

Often Hollywood and the film industry will pick up a story that has been told before in an attempt to revamp, reinvigorate and reinvent a popular narrative. Below are four different stories this has been done to. There are many more.

IT - 2017

IT - 1990


Get Carter - 1971

Get Carter - 2000


The Italian Job  - 1969

The Italian Job - 2003


Ghostbusters - 1984

Ghostbusters - 2015


Looking at these trailers/films can help us to identify the key factors that we have improved and built on from our own work, from our Preliminary Task to our Foundation or Advanced Productions.

We improve by looking at what we have done, breaking it down in to key areas and seeing how we can improve our practice.

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