The UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

This law gives the creators of;

-Dramatic (plays and dance)

-Literary (song lyrics, manuscripts, manuals, computer programs, leaflets etc)

-Musical (recordings and score)

-Artistic works (photography, painting, sculptures, architecture, technical drawings/diagrams, maps, logos)

-Broadcasts

-Sound recordings(may be recordings of other copyright works, e.g. musical and literary.)

-Films (broadcasts and cable programmes.)

Typographical (printing)arrangement of published editions (magazines, periodicals, etc)

-Video Games [newly established]

... rights to control the ways in which their material may be used. These rights cover; broadcast and public performance, copying, adapting, issuing, renting and lending copies to the public.

Copyright Occurs;

It is an offence to perform any of the following acts without the consent of the owner:

Copy the work.

Rent, lend or issue copies of the work to the public.

Perform, broadcast or show the work in public.

Adapt the work.

The author of a work, or a director of a film may also have certain moral rights:

The right to be identified as the author.

Right to object to derogatory treatment.

Although there are special exceptions when the copyright law is concerned;

Fair dealing is a term used to describe acts which are permitted to a certain degree without infringing the work, these acts are:

• Private and research study purposes.
• Performance, copies or lending for educational purposes.
• Criticism and news reporting.
• Incidental inclusion.
• Copies and lending by librarians.
• Acts for the purposes of royal commissions, statutory enquiries, judicial proceedings and parliamentary purposes.
• Recording of broadcasts for the purposes of listening to or viewing at a more convenient time, this is known as time shifting.
• Producing a back up copy for personal use of a computer program.
• Playing sound recording for a non profit making organisation, club or society.
  (Profit making organisations and individuals should obtain a license from PRS for Music.)
  
  
  
  
  We decided to research into the copyright, designs and patents act because we wanted to know exactly what copyright meant so that we didn't do anything to disrupt the law. Also we thought that it would be a good piece of knowledge to know for when we were constructing our products and for the future, if we choose to make anything else like this because it guides us through what is essential to know and what isn't so important. We have also recently looked for some music for our trailer so we wanted to make sure that we were making the right decision when finalising the music choice.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Storyboard- 1st Draft

This storyboard illustrates the main features that we hope will happen in our movie trailer. This is only a rough outline at the moment, but we will try to keep to the main concepts.

Final Film Company & Film Name

Here is the final film company logo with it's actual animation. We chose this design as we thought that it all fitted together really well. The way the heart monitor line desended into a flatline and how the term 'flatline' fits in with our chosen genre for our film ( the medical aspect) is perfect.

 

After conducting a survey we found that the text style above was the most popular so we decided to go with the audience's opinion as they are the people we are targeting and also the font itself fits in well with our genre as it looks dramatic and the skull on the 'i' also fits in with the medical aspect.

Name of film & production company design ideas

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These are the different logos that we created for the name of the film company. They all incorporate heart monitor images that then flatten out into a 'flatline' as this is the name of our film company and also it made it easier to position the text.
In the end we chose number 5 as it appeared the most professional and generally looked the best. We thought that the use of the serif font looked the most medical as well which is what we needed.

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We wanted the name of the film to be interesting to look and appeal to our target audience so we chose five different ways of making the text and tried to decide which one worked the best. As our genre is psychological drama we wanted the text to look sketchy and clearly illustrate what the genre was that is why some of the text looks a little smudged/scratched as these are sometimes associated with this genre. We cleverly played on the words of 'Life Drop' with font number one as we made it look the the 'drop' was actually falling. This didn't work too well on its own but we may be able to use this technique when creating the film poster/ magazine.

Overall the design that we decided to choose was number five. This is because it was the most popular design when we carried out our survey and also we both felt that it looked the most effective and linked in with our 'medical' sort of theme with the skull placed on top of the 'i'.

Which logo/font style do you prefer?

This is a quick survey that we created to decide on which logo to use for our film company and the name of the film. We carried out this survey as we wanted to see which ones would come out as the most popular and determine which ones would be the most appealing to the audience as it would encourage them to see the actual film.

Name of Film Company & Film



Name of film;

The name of our film is going to be 'Life drop'. This is because we thought that it fits in with the genre really well because by using the word 'drop' it indicates that some psychological effects on the characters may take place, and it can suggest action. Also it fits in well with the storyline as it is about a boy who's life deteriorates after the death of his parents. Out of all of the possible names that we thought of we decided that it stood out the most and that also when creating the poster for the film, it gave us more to work on, with the font etc.

Name of Production Company; 

When choosing the name of our production company we decided to look at different medical terms in the psychological field as we thought that it could give it that link to the name of the film. This is why we chose the name 'Flatline Media', as it uses a medical term and is adaptable to other sorts of films too. We thought that it was a good idea to put 'media' after flatline because when looking at other media companies like 'Bauer Media' they did the same. When choosing this name it instantly gave us ideas about how we could make the logo, and how to make it look unique and striking.

Plan

Storyline –

1)      Young guy (early 20’s) sat in bedroom alone  - silent

2)      Zoom in on face and into eye – heart beat starts

3)      1^st flashback – young kids playing  football scores goal wins cup

4)      Back to eye blinking

5)      2^nd flashback – parents killed  in car accident – toy cars

6)      Blink – heart beat gets faster

7)      3^rd flashback turns to drugs and alcohol – chucked out of bar

8)      Blink again – even faster heart beat

9)      Shot – drugs in hand debating whether to take them – heartbeat slows down

10)   Institutional information – in cinemas soon

Actors –

·         13 year old – Amber's brother and friends

·         17 year old – beard man 

Props-

·         Football

·         Trophy

·         Remote control cars

·         empty bottles and cans

·         pills

·         chalk for road

·         newspaper article

·         family portrait – my mum and dad

Location-

·         c of e field for football match

·         Amber's road for remote control cars

·         guy’s bedroom 

Costume-

·         13 year old – football kit – mud on face and hat

·         17 year old – beard , jeans , t-shirt , checkered shirt

Special effects-

·         Sound of crash with darkness

·         Sirens

·         Heartbeat

·         Newspaper article

·         Title and institutional information

Name of the film-

·         Life drop

·         Going under

·         Rehab

·         The decision

·         Life or death

Camera equipment-

·         Camera

·         Boom pole

·         Mic

·         Tripod

·         Camera – still

·         Batteries

·         Tapes

·         Wires