Audience profiling

Age: 12-25 (12+)
Background: Middle class
Occupation: Student
Gender: Both
Likes: psychological Horror + Thriller Films.
Dislikes: None
Musical Prefrences: High tension music (mainly instrumental)
Heros/Rolemodels: None (Able to see stalker presented in bad light)
Media Habbits: Watching Horror/Thriller Films, TV Dramas.

Ident inspriation

This is an advertisment for sky horror. we like the idea of having a tv flickering on with the 'fuzzy' screen. we will do it this way having a television flickering on and the title of our production: 'helm pruductions' flickering on teh screen. This creates an eerie feelings and gives the impression that our films may be scary or mysterious.

Location For Film

This is the house we have decided to film at, it is old fashioned and traditional therefore it creates a good setting for our pyschopath stalker to live in as the house is far away and secluded.





This is where we intend the stalker to cut his photographs and keep his picture of teh school girl that hes stalking. this antique style desk/table keeps in with the old fashioned and dark theme of the setting to relfect the personality of the stalker.




This is the cellar where our stalker hides his many photos of the girl hes stalking and where his red room is for editing the photos and pinning them on the wall. The cellar is dark with no windows and is discreet and almost hidden in the house.











These are the two possible rooms for the school girl thats being stalked.i prefer to use the bed with the brighter bed cover as she would contrast wit the stalkers dark personaility with bright colours.

Final thumbnails

These are our thumbnails for our film





These are our other storyboards and thumbnails that we created whilst first establishing the plot of our film.

Polaroid draft

Mock up

The making of the soloist

The soloist

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaelwalford/entry/working_title_history/

A few movies that were early Oscar contenders may be dropping out of the race.

Paramount Pictures, facing a crunch in its advertising budget, has decided to move "The Soloist" - a drama starring Jamie Foxx as a homeless musician and Robert Downey Jr. as the journalist who befriends him - to next March. Paramount has also pulled "The Soloist" from its opening-night spot at the AFI Film Festival, slated to start Oct. 30.

"The Soloist" may have represented Downey's best shot at an Oscar nomination, since it's unlikely that he would get a nod either for "Iron Man" or his supporting role in "Tropic Thunder."

Paramount is also moving "Defiance," a Holocaust drama starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber, to 2009 - though it will get a platform release in December to qualify for the Oscars.

Rumors are swirling, according to Entertainment Weekly's Dave Karger, that the Weinstein Company will move "The Road," the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer-winning and Oprah-endorsed novel about a man (Viggo Mortensen) and a boy in post-apocalyptic America, to a 2009 release. UPDATE: Weinstein has confirmed it is moving "The Road" to 2009.

And, according to Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere, Weinstein is also pushing "Hurricane Season" - an inspirational drama about a Louisiana basketball team (coached by Forest Whitaker) that played without a home court after Katrina - back to March '09.
This text is from: http://blogs.sltrib.com/movies/2008/10/oscar-watch-09-thinning-herd.htm

The soloist

Actors- Jamie Fox, Robert downey junior
Website Budget- £60 million
Licensing- 12A, categoryE-American film with small british input.
Director- Joe wright (Atonement)
Software- Shots in 35mm film (expensive)
Box Office- £31 million
Audience Appeal- Basedoon a true story and real people.
DSN?
Exhibition(where?) - 25th Sept 2009 in the USA, Origanal date was May 2009 because advert budget was cut, therefore it wasn't nominated.
Distribution- Universal, dreamworks- working title film. (conglomerate) This allows vertical intergration.