In the first part of the clip, when the police turn up, their is an upbeat fast music playing in the background to emphasize the power of the police, also their are many low angle shots of the policeman whereas the irishman gets a midshot, to show the power the english police have. the Irish man expresses how his father couldnt get a real job due to the racism in the country. Irish man looks rough, dirty clothes and a beaten up face (probabty by the police) showing the ethnic injustice of the situation. the Irish man also refers to how he can't get his own business and that all the english allow people of his community to do is labour or the 'jobs the english don't want to do' and makes reference to 'shovelling shit' to emphasize this point. In the next part analysed, one of the main policemen stops an asian man who is walking accross the road with a t.v. under the assumption that he had stolen it based on the colour of his skin. also, the main p[olicemen makes a reference to the sari that the asian woman is wearing 'a bit parky to be out in just a nighty', i believe this is a general misunderstanding as he believes they aren't equal to the english and therefore doesnt understand the different societal norms within the different cultures. In the bar, the music played is very soft and mellow making the pub a peaceful environment when they are celebrating, to suggest a calm accomplished feel. there is a black man who is possibly from the carribean due to his strong accent, and has dreadlocks showing the stereotypical element of their culture through an english point of view, also as another racial comment about the irish, the main policeman says 'the pub is the safest place from the IRA because they're not gunna bomb their own'.
Non diegetic sound, a sort of jazz music, at the start of clip with opening of 20th century fox and voiceover telling the plot of the film.
Voiceover consistent throughout the trailer.
Diegetic sound where alarm clock goes off and Jesse (Ashton Cutcher) wakes up and when he runs out of the room and hits the opposite door. Non diegetic sound is in the background but still fading away, a sort of jazz music, same as the first part.
Diegetic sound as there is Dialogue between Jesse (Ashton Cutcher) and Chester (Seann William Scott) about where Jesse's car is also the sound of birds singing in the trees is heard. no Non diegetic sound at this point.
Non diegetic sound changes to a more rocky tune of electric guitars as the clip flashes from the Diegetic sound of Jesse and Chester talking to Christie Boner (Kristy Swanson) to a strip club as they are trying to revisit what they did the previous night as the Non Diegetic consistent voiceover inform us
Diegetic Sound,Emphasis on the sound of the policeman hitting the dummy human
The Soloist is a 2009 drama film which was directed by Joe Wright, and starred Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. The screenplay was made by Susannah Grant and is based on the book, The Soloist by Steve Lopez. The film is based on the true story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who develops schizophrenia and becomes homeless.
Jamie Foxx plays Nathaniel Ayers, who is a cello prodigy, and Robert Downey Jr plays the part of Steve Lopez, a Los Angeles Times columnist who discovers Ayers and writes about him in the newspaper. The film was released in theatres on 24 April 2009 and on DVD and Blu-Ray on August 5.
Plot
The Soloist is based on the true story of Nathaniel Ayers who is a musical prodigy that develops schizophrenia during his second year at Juilliard School. Ayers becomes homeless and plays a two-stringed violin in downtown Los Angeles. One day Steve Lopez an LA Times Columnist meets Nathanial and decides to write a newspaper column for the Los Angeles Times about him and his homelessness. An old woman takes sympathy and sends Steve a cello for Nathaniel to play. In attempting to help Ayers, Lopez is forced to grapple personally with the complex issues and frustrations surrounding the thousands of mentally ill who are homeless on the streets of L.A.
Cast
Jamie Foxx as Nathaniel Ayers Robert Downey Jr. as Steve Lopez Catherine Keener as Mary Weston (formerly Mary Lopez) Tom Hollander as Graham Claydon Lisa Gay Hamilton as Jennifer Rachael Harris as Lopez's co-worker Jena Malone as a lab technician. Diana Gomes as a Psychologist Stephen Root as Curt Reynolds Marcus Carl Franklin as Young Nathaniel Ayers Lorraine Toussaint as Flo Ayers
Production
The Soloist, who is directed by Joe Wright, was written by Susannah Grant, based on a series of columns written by Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez, who wrote about the plight of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician with schizophrenia, and eventually was chronicled in Lopez' book, The Soloist. Grant drew elements of the story from a book written by Lopez, which got published in the spring of 2008. The film was budgeted at $60 million, twice the budget amount of Atonement. Production began in January 2008 and was filmed mostly in Los Angeles, with some scenes shot in Cleveland.
Box office
On its opening weekend, the film opened #4 behind Fighting, 17 Again, and Obsessed, grossing $9,715,000 in 2,024 theaters with a $4,800 average per theater. The film went on to only recover about half of its total budget bringing in $31,720,158. This was blamed on the film's initial release date being postponed, as well as the film's release coming one week before the 2009 summer movie season.
This music video starts with Hayley sleeping next to a man on a sofa, suggesting a loving happy atmosphere of harmony. when hayley wakes up, using a jump cut from a closeup of them on a sofa to an establishing shot as she gets up off the sofa and slowly zooms back in on hayley, which then uses a jump cut to a low angle close up of Hayley writing a letter, which could portray power to the audience which then uses a jump cut again to the 'Im Sorry' written on the letter which cross cuts so when the camera is back to Hayley, she's walking out of the room.
as she is about to leave the room she stops and the camera uses the cutaway technique to show us she is looking at the man still asleep on the sofa before turning away and exiting the room, suddenly the camera cuts to the other room with her father in, which jump cuts to a flashback of her hugging her Father, and when their embrace ends it jump cuts again to Hayley looking at a picture, which then jump cuts to an establishing shot of the room with her standing looking at the photo and her father sitting at the table looking at her as she sits down. there are a few jump cuts of Hayley and her Father talking until she embraces him with a hug again, which jump cuts again to show the whole room as Hayley leaves her dad to walk through the second door, which directly leads to her bedroom, jump cutting to her putting the picture she was looking at on her mirror, which jump cuts again to a zoomed in shot of the picture on the mirror of her mother and father with the focus blurring in and out of the picture and hayleys reflection in the mirror.
Digital distribution (also known as digital delivery or electronic software distribution) is the practice of providing content in a purely digital format, which is downloaded via the internet straight to a consumer's home. Digital distribution bypasses conventional physical distribution media, such as paper or DVDs. The term digital distribution is typically applied to freestanding products; digital add-ons for other products are more commonly known as downloadable content. Digitally distributed content may be streamed or downloaded. Streaming involves downloading and using content "on-demand" as it is needed. Meanwhile, fully downloading the content to a hard drive or other form of storage media allows for quick access in the future.
D.S.N Digital Screen Network
The average Hollywood blockbuster opens on 300-plus screens across the UK; most independent films, restored classics, documentaries and foreign language films still struggle to reach over ten per cent of those screens. Digital screening cuts the cost of releasing films (a digital copy costs around one tenth of a 35mm print). That's why UK Film Council and the Arts Council England have created the Digital Screen Network – a £12 million investment to equip 240 screens in 210 cinemas across the UK with digital projection technology to give UK audiences much greater choice. Cinemas in the network have already screened non-mainstream films including Control, This is England, Good Night and Good Luck and the Oscar®-winning The Lives of Others, as well as classics like ‘meet me in St Louis’, ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ‘Casablanca’. Digital Screen Network cinemas hosted the UK Film Council and BBC Two's Summer of British Films season - a sell out tour running from July to September 2007 featuring British classics such as ‘Goldfinger’, ‘Brief Encounter’, ‘Billy Liar’, ‘Henry V’, ‘The Wicker Man’ and The ‘Dam Busters’
This category includes the FULL SHOT showing the entire human body, with the head near the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom. While the focus is on characters, plenty of background detail still emerges: we can tell the coffins on the right are in a Western-style setting, for instance.
medium shot Contains a figure from the knees/waist up and is normally used for dialogue scenes, or to show some detail of action. Variations on this include the TWO SHOT (containing two figures from the waist up) and the THREE SHOT (contains 3 figures...). NB. Any more than three figures and the shot tends to become a long shot. Background detail is minimal, probably because location has been established earlier in the scene - the audience already know where they are and now want to focus on dialogue and character interation. Another variation in this category is the OVER-THE-SHOULDER-SHOT, which positions the camera behind one figure, revealing the other figure, and part of the first figure's back, head and shoulder.
close up This shows very little background, and concentrates on either a face, or a specific detail of mise en scène. Everything else is just a blur in the background. This shot magnifies the object (think of how big it looks on a cinema screen) and shows the importance of things, be it words written on paper, or the expression on someone's face. The close-up takes us into the mind of a character. In reality, we only let people that we really trust get THAT close to our face - mothers, children and lovers, usually - so a close up of a face is a very intimate shot. A film-maker may use this to make us feel extra comfortable or extremely uncomfortable about a character, and usually uses a zoom lens in order to get the required framing.
shot reverse shot Shot reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking "back" at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.
high angle shots In film, a high angle shot is usually when the camera is located high. With this type of angle, the camera looks down on the subject and the point of focus often get "swallowed up" by the setting. High angle shots also make the figure or object seem vulnerable or powerless.
low angle shots In cinematography, a low-angle shot, is a shot from a camera positioned low on the vertical axis, often at knee height, looking up.
tracking shot a tracking shot (also known as a dolly shot or trucking shot) is a segment in which the camera is mounted on a wheeled platform that is pushed on rails while the picture is being taken. One may dolly in on a stationary subject for emphasis, or dolly out, or dolly beside a moving subject (an action known as "dollying with"). pan A movement which scans a scene horizontally. The camera is placed on a tripod, which operates as a stationary axis point as the camera is turned, often to follow a moving object which is kept in the middle of the frame.
tilt A movement which scans a scene vertically, otherwise similar to a pan.
Editing
continuity is the predominant style of editing in narrative cinema and television. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots.
montage In motion picture terminology, a montage (from the French for "putting together" or "assembly") is a film editing technique. There are at least three senses of the term: 1. In French film practice, "montage" has its literal French meaning and simply identifies editing. 2. In Soviet filmmaking of the 1920s, "montage" was a method of juxtaposing shots to derive new meaning that did not exist in either shot alone. 3. In classical Hollywood cinema, a "montage sequence" is a short segment in a film in which narrative information is presented in a condensed fashion. This is the most common meaning among laymen.
montage Hollywood a short segment in a film in which narrative information is presented in a condensed fashion.
transitions Transitions are authoring tools a video editor can insert between two video clips or still images to create an artistic, professional effect. There are a multitude of transitional effects available, the two most common being the crossfade and dissolve.
cross cutting/parallel editing The most common transition — an instant change from one shot to the next. The raw footage from your camera contains cuts between shots where you stop and start recording (unless of course you use built-in camera transitions). In film and television production, the vast majority of transitions are cuts.
dissolve In film editing, a dissolve is a gradual transition from one image to another. In film, this effect is created by controlled double exposure from frame to frame; transiting from the end of one clip to the beginning of another.
wipes In film editing, a wipe is a gradual spatial transition from one image to another. One image is replaced by another with a distinct edge that forms a shape. A simple edge, an expanding circle, or the turning of a page are all examples.
Film Clip ' Saving Private Ryan'
the use of camera shots in the clip I have chosen to analyse (Saving Private Ryan) are extremely effective, for starters, the clip uses a tilt technique to take in the full effect of the skies and sea to set the scene, which then cross cuts into a tracking shot of the boats with soldiers on them heading for the shore, which is setting the time and place as this is meant to be an old war film, this emphasises the equipment and vehicles the soldiers use in war also the camera moves very freehand, to give the audience the feel that they are on a boat in the vicious sea much like the soldiers, drawing the audience in to connect with the film so they believe they are part of the storyline, the camera then cross cuts to a close up of a hand shaking making the audience feel the fear and tension that is among these soldiers, and as the camera again uses the tilt technique to follow the soldiers hand up to show him take a drink, this connects the audience to one of the main characters introducing him to the scene, with a close up of the face to emphasize who the character is and to show the look of fear in his face, slowly panning out to show the boats full inhabitance of soldiers, waiting nervously for the battle much like the calm before the storm this is shown by the stern faces of soldiers and how some vomit out of pure fear. The camera changes to a low angled mid shot of the soldier driving the oat, emphasizing his position of power as he commands the other soldiers what to do, with a close up of the main character giving orders to the other soldiers, which also emphasizes the position of power to the audience, then cross cuts to another soldier giving commands, with a freehand camera with a low angle shot to show he is a position of power, whilst also keeping the realism aspect to the film to connect the audience. The camera then moves freehand along the boat looking all of the soldiers in the face connecting the audience to the whole unit, and also cross cutting to the most important characters in the film. The silence used is to portray the ‘calm before the storm’ effect that Steven Spielberg has used to emphasise the following battle scene. A close up of the man lowering the bridge is used to show that the wait is over and the battle is going to begin, cross cutting to the first soldier in a low angle shot getting shot dead, then cross cutting to a high angle shot showing the loss of power as the soldiers are mown down by gunfire, the freehand camera emphasises the tragedy as it puts the audience again in the shoes of the soldiers. This cross cuts to another low angle shot which is freehand showing the soldiers getting shot dead, cross cutting again to an over the shoulder freehand shot of an enemy soldier firing the machine gun at the soldiers on the boat, and as the clip is ending, we see a high angle shot to the main character giving commands again, and then a tracking shot that is free hand showing the cameraman who the audience are now connected to as a soldier, jumps in the sea with the rest of the soldiers.
New Technologies iPhone Blu-ray Game Consoles Streaming Blogs Mobiles Podcasts Plasma TV Blackberry Websites Email Camera HD Youtube iTunes iPod IM Social Networking Downloads Netbook Laptop Sky+HD Online Shopping RSS Feeds
How have new technologies allowed film institutions to target audiences? Consider:- Production, Marketing, Exhibition & Distribution
Production New technologies can affect the production in a variety of ways, from the more realistic special effects that can be used to the very simple 'Green Screen' which helps to dramatically improve the films, also the use of High Definition benefits the production quality of the film so that the cinema/film experience can be enhanced for the audience.
Marketing New technologies also have effected the way films can be marketed, as old films would use things such as billboards and bus sides to help advertise their films, by the use of new technologies and social networking, the very cheap in comparison adverts on social networks appeal to a larger audience for less money, saving the film producer more money to spend on the film and less is needed to advertise it effectively.
Exhibition New technologies effect the audiences experience due to the use of better quality HD filming and more technology to improve the special effects in the film in comparison to the older films which use worse quality filming and less realistic special effects, making the audience not able to relate to the film as much as modern day films, making it more realistic and therefore improving the audiences overall experience.
Distribution New technologies have enabled film producers to use digital distribution in comparison to the old method of using 35mm prints that cost £1000 each, sometimes more, they can just send files and use files on computers to distribute their films faster and cheaper to a larger target area of the world.
How have the new technologies affected the position of the consumer? the new technologies have affected the position of the consumer dramatically, allowing the consumer to take control of how much the advertisements can influence their decision to watch the films as they can choose not to click links that are advertisements on websites, however the new technologies can also give the producers a position of power while the audience is watching the films as they can use special effects and better quality production to make people feel certain feelings according to what the producers whant them to feel.
To evaluate New technologies such as HD and advances in camera technology have allowed the film industry to film in more detail than ever before as they can shoot all Films in High Definition to make the cinema experience more realistic than ever for example, A Serious Man and Avatar has advertisements in high definition which can help convey the quality of the film to give the audience a snippet of how good the film truly is. thanks to the advances in technology, many films can be digitally distributed which can save companies thousands of pounds as it can be sent via the internet and easily copied, making the expense of distribution obsolete as companies won’t have to buy expensive 35mm prints so that the film budget can be used more on the film and less on advertising improving the film as the spare money can be used to improve the quality of the film.
Here is the ‘A Serious Man’ & ‘Avatar’ trailer in HD showing just how advanced technology can affect the quality of filming
Is one way that films promote themselves through selling commercial products in collaboration with the film such as toys, books, posters etc.
Viral Marketing Use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as product sales) through self-replicating viral processes. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet.
Synergy Marketing Is a type of marketing that uses the success of existing companies to promote theirs for example James Bond film and Sony’s marketing collaboration.
Product placement Product placement is a form of advertisement, where branded goods or services are placed in movies, the story line of television shows, or news programs to promote their products for example the Aston Martin and Rolex that James Bond Wears/Uses in the films.
Bridget Jones’ Diary
This film used synergy marketing from The Body Shop, MSN.com, Virgin Megastore and Virgin Atlantic to help promote the film, it also released t-shirts and DVD's to promote the product. some product placement was used to help promote their partners that promote them such as virgin and the body shop.
The Boat That Rocked The film used product placement to promote itself such as Typhoo Tea, which was one of many things used in the film along with a 60 song soundtrack to promote itself before it was released, as the film was based on old music and the music that was on the soundtrack, that was promoted through playing music from the soundtrack during trailers.
How are the characters of Steve, Fiona, Lip and Ian represented in episode one of Shameless?
The character Steve is at first perceived to be heroic at the start as he tries to stop the man who has stolen Fiona’s handbag, and hits the clubs bouncer when he disrespects Fiona and Veronica rich because he buys the family a new washing machine and drives flashy cars which gives the impression he has plenty of money. Later in the episode we find out that Steve in fact is a criminal, who dresses as a waiter at a restaurant to fool rich people into giving him their car keys and then stealing the cars for his own personal use and when he’s done, he sells the cars on to make some money.
Fiona is viewed as a slightly stereotypical northern girl, but her friend veronica is the typical stereotype and they contrast sometimes, where Fiona likes to go clubbing and get drunk like veronica, veronica has aspects such as her crudity and roughness that Fiona lacks to fit the stereotype portrayed at the start of the episode in the club and talking to the bouncer. Fiona also later that night has sex with Steve on the kitchen floor portraying a very crude and slaggy side to her, although when her Frank comes back, she turns into a mother figure in the household that looks out for the children and looks after Frank.
Lip is shown to be extremely clever as at the start of the episode, we see him going to help a girl do their homework for money, however he is also shown to be a typical teenage boy as when the girl offers a blowjob because she has no money to pay for his help, he accepts. Lip also is conveyed as a loving brother, as when he finds out Ian is gay, he is upset because Ian never told him and devises a test to see if an is gay, he gets the girl he helps with homework to give him a blowjob, to see if he enjoys it, and when Lip finds out that his brother is having an affair with an older married man, he is worried for his brother as the married man could just be using him for presents whilst Ian loves him.
Ian is a homosexual boy who is the brother of Lip and who works in a shop with his gay lover, who is also a married man. Ian is seen as a average boy apart from his homosexuality, he likes football, works for his money and is happy with being gay. When his brother finds out, he seems ashamed of himself whilst Lip gives him “tough love” to try help him, Ian doesn’t want to hear it as he is blinded by love for his workmate, he also seems very uncomfortable with getting a blowjob from a girl which shows that he is very certain about his homosexuality.
Above the line advertising uses media to promote the films in many ways such as TV, cinema, radio, print, banners and search engines to promote brands. Major uses include television and radio advertising and also internet banners and Ads.
Below The Line Advertising
Below the line advertising, uses different brand-building strategies to promote the film, such as direct mail and printed media that usually involve no motion graphics.
2012
Sony Pictures are going to run a television campaign to promote 2012 that will receive an audience four times larger than the Super Bowl. The plan is to air a two minute scene from 2012 on nearly every major TV and Cable network in North America. By doing this, the studio expects to reach 110 million viewers. by knowing this we can establish that 2012 used many above the line advertising conventions to market the film throughout the world, as it has a huge budget of $200 million.
A Serious Man
used a below the line promotion scheme as they premiered their film in an independant cinema and therefore shows that this film was not a wide scale venture like 2012 and had a substantially lower budget.
Bunny & The Bull
Bunny & The Bull has the lowest budget out of the three films, resulting in their promotional advertising techniques being below the line, using only their website and trailers in non mainstream cinema's to premote their film, but also uses the above the line technique starring British comedian and esablished actor Noel Fielding, cast as one of the main characters, attracting fans of his previous work to watching the film.
Four Weddings & A Funeral
produced in 1994, this film could not have some of the marketing scemes used today due to the advance in technology but, some of the old techniques used to promote this film are still being used, they have just become more established.in 1994 posters, trailers and merchandise were the key techniques used to promote a new film before it was released, and also still used today, is starring a famous actor to attract the attention of fans of the actors previous works, for example in "Four Weddings" Hugh Grant played the lead role of Charles which attracted a very large audience due to his incredible acting status. since the 90's advertising campaigns have gained many advantages through usage of technology for example, nearly every film imaginable will have some sort of website or page on a social networking site helping to advertise it, using the internet as a key tool to promote films 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
This video clip from the film superbad, conveys a stereotypical view of 'The Male Gaze' showing how men percieve women in films and adverts, these conventions are used by the film producer to attract a male audience to make their films a hit, much like adverts use this technique to sell their products.
Starring/ celebrities in film Paddy Considine Toby Kebbell Gary Stretch
Directors Aim the Directors were trying to create a horror movie, filled with revenge at a reasonable budget.
Hot Fuzz
Budget £8 million
Starring/ celebrities in film Simon Pegg Nick Frost Jim Broadbent Timothy Dalton Paddy Considine Edward Woodward Billie Whitelaw
Directors Aim The directors were trying to create an action/comedy that used conventional british stereotyping to make an impressive statement, creating a first for making a traditional english cop film like other countries in the world already have
This is England
Budget £1,500,000
Starring/ celebrities in film Thomas Turgoose Joe Gilgun Andrew Shim Vicky McClure Stephen Graham Rosamund Hanson
Directors aim the Directors were trying to convey a sense of the harsh reality amongst working class british people.
Working Title and Warp Films Institution and Audiences
AOs Production Practices to appeal to audiences Distribution and Marketing strategies to raise audience awareness New technologies to help target specific audiences Audience and how they challenge institutions
1. Who are Working Title? Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London, England. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1982. It produces feature films and some television productions. Eric Fellner and Bevan are the co-owners of the company now.
2. Who are Warp Films? Warp Films, a sister company of Warp Records, was set up in 1999 with funding from NESTA. It is based in Sheffield, England with a further office in London and has 14 full-time staff.
3. Are they independent or part of a conglomerate? Working Title is a conglomerate company meaning it is part of other film company’s e.g. universal studios, whilst Warp Films are an independent film company.
4. How does the ownership of the company affect the budgets for film? The ownership of the company effects the budgets for a film because larger more successful film companies would have more money to spend and therefore higher budgets for their films than smaller film companies.
5. Create a list of films that both institutions have produced. Working Title Films About a Boy (film) Ali G Indahouse Atonement (film) User:Nayrouz Aly/Atonement Barton Fink Bean (film) The Big Lebowski Billy Elliot The Boat That Rocked Bob Roberts The Borrowers (1997 film) Bridget Jones's Diary (film) Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (film) Burn After Reading The Calcium Kid Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film) Catch a Fire (film) Chicago Joe and the Showgirl Chihuanhas Dead Man Walking (film) Definitely, Maybe Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur Drop Dead Fred Edward II (film) Elizabeth (film) Elizabeth: The Golden Age Fargo (film) For Queen and Country 40 Days and 40 Nights Four Weddings and a Funeral French Kiss (film) Frost/Nixon (film) Green Zone (film) The Guru (2002 film) The Hi-Lo Country Hippie Hippie Shake Hot Fuzz The Hudsucker Proxy Inside I'm Dancing The Interpreter Johnny English Land and Freedom Loch Ness (film) London Kills Me Long Time Dead Love Actually The Man Who Cried The Man Who Wasn't There Map of the Human Heart Mickybo and Me Moonlight and Valentino Mr. Bean's Holiday My Beautiful Laundrette My Little Eye Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang Nanny McPhee Ned Kelly (2003 film) Notting Hill (film) O Brother, Where Art Thou? Panther (film) Paperhouse (film) Paul (film) Plunkett & Macleane Posse (1993 film) Pride & Prejudice (2005 film) The Return of the Borrowers Robin Hood (1991 film) Romeo Is Bleeding Rubin and Ed Sammy and Rosie Get Laid A Serious Man Shaun of the Dead Smokin' Aces The Soloist State of Play (film) Tales of the City (TV miniseries) The Tall Guy The Comic Strip Thunderbirds (film) United 93 (film) Wild Child (2008 film) Wimbledon (film) Wish You Were Here (1987 film) A World Apart (film) The Young Americans (film)
Warp Films My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117 (Dir: Chris Morris - 2003) Dead Man's Shoes (Dir: Shane Meadows - 2004) Rubber Johnny (Dir: Chris Cunningham - 2005) Scummy Man (Arctic Monkeys short film/music video) This Is England (Dir: Shane Meadows - 2006) "Grow Your Own"(Dir: Richard Laxton - 2007) Dog Altogether (Dir: Paddy Considine - 2007) All Tomorrow's Parties (Dir: Jonathan Caouette & All Tomorrow's People]] - 2009)
6. Choose one from each list and compare the budgets for these films and how much they made.
Warp Films-"Grow Your Own" Budget £2.5 million
Working Title Films-State of Play (film) - Budget $60 million Gross revenue $88,336,552
7. Now choose a Hollywood Blockbuster and research the budget. The Dark Knight- Budget $185 million Gross revenue $1,001,921,825
8. Where do Working Title and Warp Films get their funding from? Warp Films - NESTA provided early-stage funding to Warp Films. Their debut project won a BAFTA and they have gone on to create a niche brand of short films. Since their NESTA award, the company has been awarded £4.5 million from the UK Film Council, FilmFour and regional funding bodies to introduce the next wave of cutting-edge British filmmakers. Working Title - Working Title began as an Independent, then had a term deal with Polygram (1992-1998) and currently has an ongoing financing and distribution arrangement with Universal Pictures and Canal Plus.
9. In the case of Warp Films, how does the budget affect the genre they use? In Warp Films, the budget affects the genre they use because a lower budget film limits the amount of genre’s that can be produced as some films e.g. action will need expensive special effects and more realistic props which low budget films simply can’t afford.
10. What is the main appeal of this genre? Give examples. The main appeal of this genre is that it is set in real places which make the films more realistic and believable to viewers as it is made in places that exist.
11. Who are the target audience for Working Title and Warp Films? The target audience for Working Title Films are – a ‘four quadrant’ movie. appeals to all people. The target audience for Warp Films are – smaller audience, sticking to the genre of the film
12. What is the main genre of the films Working Title produce? The main genre of the films Working Title produce are mainly comedy films as they appeal to a wide array of audiences.
talked about four quadrant movies, which are big hollywood blockbuster movies that appeal to a wide audience, and tent pole films, which are films that have a zero risk at loss as they are remakes of things such as comics, that have been popular before e.g. superman, to make a film companys money back for any losses incurred from other more risky films.
Lord Puttnam talked about how films nowadays are more about "who's in it, not what's in it" showing that a modern day audience doesnt care much for the storyline if it has a famous actor they like in it, thats why they'll see the film. the problem with this is, the actors can not only be incredibly expensive and take a lot of the money that is spent on the film, but also they can be incompatible with the script and so they have to change the film to fit the charecter not the other way around.
Sandra Hebron says how directors need to take more risks in creating films that make people think more and have a political message. she also says that actors who 'coventure' help with the film producton greatly as they lower their fee to help with the movie and get a cut of the profits.
Shane Meadows said that he believes relationships with the actors are important cutting costs such as using room lighting and bying cars from ebay can maake the film have less risk for making profit uses scenes that already exist for realism in films
Directed by Wes Anderson, “The Royal Tenenbaums” follows the lives of three extremely smart children, Chas, Margot and Richie who are the main characters of this film that introduces them as a ‘family of geniuses’. The character I shall be analysing is Chas The character I shall be analysing is Chas, a very successful and serious child as, being much like a little business man, who takes most of his meals in his room on the second floor of the house at his desk to ‘save time’, this shows the business like essence that Chas has as he is not prepared to waste time while in the middle of some very business related projects, such as in the sixth grade, he went into business breeding Dalmatian, mice which he ‘sold to a pet shop in little Tokyo’ showing again his ingenuity as a child genius, who was also a successful business man making money from a very young age. For a child, Chas shows his mature nature as he started buying real estate in his early teens, and also negotiated the purchase of his fathers summer house on eagles island, which shows again how intellectual this young boy really is, understanding when to buy and sell real estate and negotiating the summer houses purchase, where whilst shooting, his father shot a bb between two knuckles in his left hand which was stuck for the rest of his life. Unlike his brother and sister, he was not as close to them as they were together as he seems to be a rather loner of a character that was only interested in the money, although he participated in Margo’s first play, on her tenth birthday party, which their father (Royal Tenenbaum) drenched their spirits by saying that the play was unrealistic. However, Chas seemed very distant from his father, who seemed to favour his other son Richie, possibly because of his incredible sporting skills. One last point I would like to get across is the fact of how Chas has been a financial success from an incredibly young age, being a business man of sorts, even drinking coffee which is something that not many ordinary children would do.
