BFI Study Day (Part Two) #35

BFI Study Day (Part Two)

Post #35



Pete Fraser talking to Simon Frame

Shortly afterwards our break, we had Peter Fraser talk to Simon Frame about how he got into the filming industry.  Firstly he spoke about various projects he has worked on. For example he showed us the opening sequence to ''Da Vinci's Demons'' which he worked on with other colleagues. One of the main factor Simon spoke about was how he got the slow motion effect within the title itself; he also talked through other factors about how the birds in the opening title sequence were trained and the filming itself took a lot of time to edit.

Different frames from Da Vinci's Demons



                         

Pete Frazer's Discussion with Jake Hume about 'Sixteen'

On the AS Media BFI trip, there was a discussion between Pete Frazer and Jake Humes. Jake showed us a screening of his film 'Sixteen' which was about a 16 year old child soldier who had just recently moved to Britain for a better life, whilst watching the extract from Sixteen I was engaged to the video, the short screening Jake showed us made me really want to see the whole film. He also spoke about the budgeting of the film and how he did a fund raise in order to shoot the film, he got some funding from a university, some of the film itself took place in a school which at first they school were contemplating it due to to the fact this film was low budget and Jake himself could not give the school money to film in the premises, after few paperwork and an agreement the school were happy for Jake to film on the school premises.

After listening to Jake, I have realised how hard it can be to film a low budget film, because you are not established yet it can be difficult to gain permission from the place you want to film. Below is a 'behind the scenes' video of 'Sixteen'.

                     

Below is also a funding chart for 'Sixteen', as you can see they have met their budget target.