The Movies Preview

Once you take care of this step of the process, you will move to the scriptwriting phase. This is probably the most important aspect of your movie making process because the story determines how great it actually is. Once you finish your script, your crew and actors will assume their roles and begin the filming of your movie. Once that is finished, it’s time for post production. This is the phase in which you completely customize the audio and text presentation of your movie. With this, you have the option of adding audio text captions or adding your own audio creations. To make things easier on your end, your actors’ mouths will actually be voice synched automatically with the script that you create for them. Now if you happen to spend too little time working on your script, have big name actors and expensive sets, chances are your money won’t be returned to you. But if you have a very good script, decent actors and nicely presented sets, your money should come in after opening week. Once people begin seeing your movie and spread the word about how good it is, the dough will begin rolling your direction. (no pun intended)

Other factors will also influence the popularity of your end product. The overall use of the genre that you produce for is a big one. If you create only action movies, people will eventually grow tired of your stuff, no matter how good it may be, and maybe go elsewhere for something fresh. But if you go with a healthy diversification of movie production, you should be just fine. Actual world events can also affect how many people view your movie. In a great example stated by IGN, once man (supposedly) lands on the moon, there will be a huge demand for sci-fi type movies. To make things more interesting, even personal issues you have with people can influence your studio’s reputation. For example, a local kingpin can request that you give one of his kids a lead role in one of your movies. If you go along with that, you will not have to pay any taxes for a while but your credibility may suffer in the public’s eyes. Sure what they don’t know won’t hurt them, but risking getting yourself caught almost isn’t worth the price you might pay.

To make things even more interesting for the final build of the game, Lionhead Studios is really pushing their online concept for The Movies. To showcase previews of your movie, you won’t be required to utilize mpeg trailers to hype up your stuff. You will simply use “mini-movies” that you can make yourself that will be showcased to the public and online. Then once you actually finish the movie, you can upload the entire movie to their servers for the online community to view and critique. This only happens on the PC version, but it is definitely a nice perk. Lionhead has also promised small file sizes so downloading them won’t be a pain to the general online community. Then people can view and review your creations, which can then in turn help you become eligible for online awards. This can net you some exclusive props, scenes, sets, costumes and other such goodies, so that’s something to definitely look forward to.

So for those of you that may have aspirations about entering the movie industry, this game may very well help you get started. You have to maintain your studio, your actors and your own job as you progress through the century that which is The Movies. So will you be the next Lucas, Spielberg or Tarantino? Or will you be the next industry flop? Depending on what you do and how you do it, the movie going public may or may not welcome you with open arms. Sure this may be a fantasy-driven title, but that doesn’t mean the true ruthlessness of the movie industry isn’t encompassed in it.

So when it comes to actually being the director of your movies, you need to get the actors which will provide your “talent”. When you find the people that you wish to hire for your movies, you will gain control of them right then and there. With them in you grasp, you can make such orders as hiring, firing, sending to wardrobe and various others. Now unfortunately you won’t have access to all the big name celebrity actors right at the beginning. But that’s where the option of being able to create your own comes in. You can change the appearance and name of your actors as you see fit. You will actually follow these people throughout their entire careers, both great and bad roles. You will have to figure out what genres of movies to pit them in based on their current strengths and age. You don’t want to have your best actors in lower budget endeavors. But you also won’t want to have your best comedy actor in an action movie.

The best of the best that you can recruit are also recognized in different ways. One method of determination is the funnel of money that happens to be above their head. You’ll definitely want to keep these people active as often as possible, because that money will consistently fly away from the funnel. You don’t want your money to be wasted, so keep them busy. You can also tell who the real actors are by the type of people who may be following them. Whether these people may be trainers, assistants, therapist or even the fans, they can all help identify top notch actors. You will also want to make sure these people keep your actors happy, or you will end up worrying about taking care of that yourself. Sometimes your situation may become so sensitive with some of your actors that you’ll need to hire security to keep the cameras away.