Phone Booth (2002) A thriller directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker and Kiefer Sutherland. The film involves a young publicist put in danger when a mystery sniper who calls him in a phone booth. The film's reviews are generally positive, and it was a box office hit, with a worldwide gross of $97 million (against a $13 production budget). Taken...
We had a short list of possible names for our thriller: Avalanche Seige Pravda We ended up choosing Pravda because of the double meaning. In Russian it means 'truth', but it's also a communist newspaper in Russia. Considering our sequence is set in Siberia, we decided to go with it. We wanted a simple font that was different to the standard font that...
After realising we had to re-record the sound, we couldn't edit anything until we had recorded more sounds. We're doing the dialogue and some sounds next Tuesday, and after that we can get on with the editing. Today we went into the studio with the Shotgun Mic to record the sounds of the bed and the cupboard. Once finished, we went up to...
This week we went back into the editing suite to look back at our footage and start to edit a rough copy. Matt reminded us of how to use the Adobe Premier Pro editing software, and how to find our rushes and label which ones we liked. We found the cut we liked the best, and because it's all one shot, we only...
1. What kind of institution might distribute your media product and why? To begin with I looked into some films that had similar storylines or styles to our thriller. Taken (2008) Our whole film idea is similar to Taken, where a girl is kidnapped from under a bed by Albanian abductors. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox, one of the 'big 6' distributors,...
