Pre production definition
Pre production is the term given to the process of planning that comes before producing a media product. Using the production of a movie as an example, a pre production would be things like story boarding, scouting shoot locations, interviewing and selecting actors to play the characters, deciding who is doing to be a director and planning a shooting scheduled are all examples of tasks that are carried out in pre production.
Pre production
January and February 2013
Jurassic world was first announced in January 2013 by the studio, Universal, stating that it would be released the following year on the 13th of June 2014. However, one month later in February 2013 the primary producer Kathleen Kennedy left the protected and moved on to work on Star Wars The Force Awakens. Frank Marshall then took over as primary producer.
March 2013
Shortly after Universal announced Trevorrow as director on the 14th of March 2013. After reading Jaffa and Silver's draft, Trevorrow insisted on completely rewriting the script with writing partner Derek Connolly, who had never seen any of the Jurassic Park films prior to that point. Trevorrow had told the filmmakers, "if I direct this screenplay, it's going to be a bad movie. I'm gonna do a bad job, because I just don't get it.Trevorrow and Connolly wrote their own draft of the script over a couple of weeks.
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April and May 2013
April was mostly uneventful however Jack Horner, a palaeontologist that was brought on stated that a never before seen dinosaur would take the spotlight in the up coming movie. It was a this point that
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June and July 2013
June and July were even more uneventful with the only notable public announcement was the release date being officially postponed to sometimes in 2015 and the announcement that the movie would revolve around a functioning park in present day.
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August 2013
In august legendary pictures considered joining universal pictures by co-funding the movie.
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September 2013
In September universal released a more finalised release date saying that Jurassic world would be released on June 12th 2015. Following this Trevorrow decided to move away from the name "Jurassic park 4" to "Jurassic world" both as a way to differentiate this new movie from the original trilogy and because in universe calling the successor to the great disaster Jurassic park, Jurassic park wouldn't encourage visitors to come.
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2014
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February
By mid February Legendary pictures agreed to help finance Jurassic world and ended up contributing roughly 20% of the total budget.
London to Brighton
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London to Brighton was written and co directed by Ken Marshall and Paul Andrew Williams and produced by their company Steel Mill Pictures. London to Brighton was originally not going to be created at all because Paul Andrew Williams wanted to produce a different movie but could not get the budget that he required. He only had £80,000 and in order to produce The Cottage he required roughly 2 million pounds. it was produced on such a low budget because during its creation the director made use of guerrilla film making in order to keep costs low and maximise profit. London to Brighton was distributed by a company called Vertigo, which is a British independent TV and film company. Vertigo not only distributes films but also produces them, however they did not produce London to Brighton.
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London to Brighton was also heavaly praised for its gritty and realistic depiction of the horrors it portraied and did not romantasise anything. This was a move that got it a lot of recignition from both fans and critics alike.
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Shifty
Shifty is an urban crime thriller written and produced by the company "Between the eyes" but has since changed its name to 42. 42 sent on Rory Aitken and Ben Pugh to produce it. Finally the film was distributed by a company called Metrodome distribution
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Shifty is a story that depicts the main character Shifty and his life as a drug dealer. It shows shifty's day to day life as well as having a cohesive overall narrative that, similarly to London to Brighton, did nothing to romanticise drugs and the life it promotes.
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Shifty was also funded using the microwave scheme, which was a scheme that focused on creating British films in partnership with the BBC which ran from 2006 to 2012, which had very little shooting time and funding. In the case of shifty filming was streatched across just 18 days and had a budget of less than £100,000.