Thursday 31 January 2019

Industry Presentation Notes

Who Produced the Drama?
21 Laps Entertainment  sounded by Shawn Levy
Above the line is gross profit and amount of money they will need for marketing eg. trailers, posters etc
Below the Line is free things like twitter, memes, word and mouth etc.
Andrew Stanton wrote some episodes, he has also written Toy Story 1, 2 and 3, Finding Nemo, Monsters inc. etc.

Where did the idea come from?
There were rumours of secret government work in Montauk (a real place in USA), The Demogorgon was supposedly inspiredly the 'Montauk Monster'.

The drama was filmed in Atlanta, Stockbridge etc.
Season 1 took 3 months to film.
Filming per episode took 11 days.
Editing took 3 days to edit
Kevin Ross and Dean Zimmerman were the lead editors for Stranger Things.
A film grain was added over the whole production to make it look more like the 80's.

Stranger Things Distribution:
Netflix distributed it, Laps Entertainment initially produced it.
Stranger Things was a Netflix original released on July 2016, Season 1 episodes were all released at once so it allowed the audience to binge watch it.
The drama was released in 130 countries in the world.

Circulation:
Received 104 nominations Teen Choice Awards 2017, Best Supporting Actor in Drama series.
Age Group: 18-29 and 30-34
Made Beyond Stranger Things
Penguin Random House partnered with Netflix to release a series of books related to Stranger Things starting in late 2018.
Dark horse Comics announced a partnership with Netflix
Merchandise: Stranger Things Cookbook
Sony Interactive Entertainment releasing a Play Station 4 exclusive game

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