Gytis's blockbuster

Champion,

  He was only average fighter in boxing ring, which would win and lose some of the games, however his carrer will have some huge impact one day... Which is now.. He manages to qualify for world boxing champion competition.

Its easy to spot the main character in the movie which is Chris, he is loyal and true fighter which will never give up till last hit in the boxing ring. Magnum a trainer of Chris which helps him to recover after tragetic lost in the final and wants him to come back with a huge explosions in people's heads

The special effects such as broken bones and blood all over the place makes the movie look really realistic and gives the audience the taste of the boxing ring fighting.

Champion will have toys

Case study 1: Iron Man (Favreau, 2008) - Is it a blockbuster?

Paragraph 1 - Story line:

• How is it accesible to global audiences?
• What is it trying to tell the audience?
• How does it engage the audience?
• How much has the film maker spent on the film making?
• What make the story line simple? 

 Jon Favreau had $186 million of production budget for Iron Man. Iron Man gigantic budget is equal to The Dark Knight in 2008. When Iron Man was released it was accessible to global audience by social networks, posters and etc, this gave huge success to Iron Man on the date of release. In this movie story line shows us how Tony Stark who is Iron Man is trying to stop materialistic dictator which has a secret weapon made to fight present evil and for future battles. This movie engages audiences by showing how advanced warfare technology can give superiority to protect people also fight the presented evil in the movie. After release the worldwide gross of Iron Man was $582 million. It is easy to understand what story line is telling the audience, because it easy to spot what is the main character in the movie is trying to achieve, however its not too obvious and it really sucks you into it.

Paragraph 2 - Characters:

• How does the film create its characters so they're easy to understand? And why?
• What kind of characters does it include?

  The main and most characters in Iron Man is easy to spot just by their appearence, and their actions.
Obadiah Stane is easy to tell that he is vilain because of his looks and the way he reacts to statements made in the movie and it becomes even more clear during the movie. Jeff Bridges character is shown as

Paragraph 3 - Value:

• How is the film marketed/valued by the look? What do they include for the special/original effect?
• What makes them expensive?
• How does it excite the audience?

  From audience point of view this movie looks like it really high value just from its look, because of the place the movie was set. Also the costumes look really expensive and the special effects makes it look so reallistic. The technology showned in the movie is breathtaking such as hollograms and etc.
Paragraph 4 - Marketing:

• Is the film you have chosen became a brand? CD/DVD video sales.
• Is it meronandising? How?
• Does it bring any rewards? (for example oscars, etc)
• What kind of things are out there associated with the movie?

  Iron man was nominated for oscar, because of thei best achievement sound editing also in best achievement in visual effects. Moreover "BAFTA" Film award nomited Iron Man for best special visual effects.

  

Mainstream Hollywood, UK/US Collaboration, and Independent Film (task 5)

Task 5:)

A. What are film production values? Refer to examples.
Production value, this is combination of lighting, sound, scenery and how these were executed. It is a challenge to create high production value on low budgets.

B. Explain why these are important to both producers and audience.
Producers always want to spend least money as possible and they want everything to be executed perfectly.
Audience is the viewers which will rate the movie.. everything has to be executed perfectly in order to get film a high audience interest and positive praise to the movie.

C. Is there a difference between British film production values and American film production values? Explain.

In Britain there has been a change in movies, in the 1980s and 1999s amogst filmmakers to embrace the idea of worldwide audience.  To occupy a global audience's imagination would be a clear benefit for the British film industry by bringing money into Britain and allowing to make other films.

Appreciating American audiences, or using an American star, means that American distributors would be more interested in part-financing a British firm. There are very few investors in business that do not want to see their money returned.

Film production companies

What is a film production company? Mind map with examples.

A)

B)

An independent production company is a organisation that works  without any help/collaboration from companies such as 20th Century Fox or Working title films. Also it is a way of professional film production which results feature film, which is mostly produced outside of major  film studio system.

C)

Mainstream Hollywood, UK/US Collaboration, and Independent Film

Snakes on the plane:

Mainstream Hollywood

A) 

• Action, thriller also in the way it's scary, survival.

B)

• Dramatic phrases ("Deadliest creatures on earth ", "They attack without warning" or "They just got unleashed"), also it has famous actors such as "Samuel Jackson".

C)

• It is dangerous, life threatening - these points are really typical in Hollywood movies.

Full Monty:

UK/US collaboration

A)

• Comedy, Music, Drama

B)

• The actors are British,  regional actors, there is american voice over the story.

C)

• Easy to watch, makes laugh, makes their day.. gives them really good mood.

With-nail & I:

Independent Film

A)

• Comedy, Drama

B)

• I was shot mainly in UK country side also it has British actors/accents,

C)

• Its kind of weird at the same time funny, it let's them see the real weather of Britain and style of living of hippies. This is really clear that the movie is British and made by British movie industry

Revolution of technology in films

3D films: the next film revolution?: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/
gadgets-and-tech/features/3d-films-the-next-film-revolution-1059197.html

The technological secrets of James Cameron's new film Avatar: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/aug/20/3d-film-avatar
-james-cameron-technology

https://mrsblacksmedia2.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/primewire-article.pdf

http://www.imdb.com/apps/ios/  


The evolution of music players: http://www.newstatesman.com/2012/12/sponsored-advertorial-evolution-music-players

The evolution of television: http://www.thedrum.com/knowledge-bank/2014/08/19/evolution-television-next-generation-multiple-platform-media-campaigns

The Dark Knight Rises

Discuss how the film viewing experience has changed with reference to Warner Bros and "The Dark Knight Rises". What may the future hold? (Make reference to finance, organisation, production, distribution, marketing and exhibition)

  The Dark Knight Rises movie by Christopher Nolan had the budget of  $250,000,000 / £153,262,345 estimated. The office box after movie was released reached $1.08 billion / £662,093,319, an estimated profit worldwide was $804343943 / £493,102,547. Moreover this was "The Dark Knight Rises" the largest budget of all time Batman movies and it was in top 3 movie list with biggest budget ever. 

  The production of the movie took place in "Pine-wood Studios" which was located near London, and it was prime place of production, however various filming took place worldwide scale.

Some bits of the movie was filmed in Hong Kong around various places and buildings. Helicopters and air-planes "C-130" was hired to shoot a scene. Moreover too shoot some scenes they used IMAX cameras which really challenged and lead to many problems filmmakers, because it was very heavy and way larger than normal cameras...

  The Dark Knight Rises had many different ways of maketing... They used "Mountain Due" as marketing technique in hoping that it would promote the soon to be released film. Also they used posters from the movie in real life subways, bus stations and in all general places where people visit all the time. They had many different posters of the movie in one place. The promo was mainly used to let people taste film and the main character of the movie. These was found on buses, megazines and in newspapers. Billboards was another way of marketing, it was exclusive marketing product that passers by could glance at whilst on their travels. Besides everything they had unique idea, they posted a map in over 1000s of different locations "where die hard batman" and comic fans could reach it in this map. It provided clues on where to go to receive a 6 minute prologue. Afterall they had tops, phones cases, mugs, pyjamas, toys and such more as a part of marketing and advertising the movie.

  The exhibition of the "The Dark Knight Rises" occured in Sydney, Amercia on 02nd of July, 2012.

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What is synergy?

What is synergy?

Synergy is a state when two or more things(in this case - two or more movie companies) work together in a particular fruitful way that produces an effect greater the sum of their individual effects. Also synergy comes from Greek and if you translate it into English it means "working together".

Christopher Nolan and "The Dark Knight Rises" interview.

Christopher Nolan - Trilogy of Batman, Inception

Christopher Nolan worked in "The Dark Knight Rises" movie with talented actors such as:

• Christian Bale - Christopher Nolan worked in 4 movies with Bale.
• Tom Hardy - He worked with him in movies "The Dark Night rises" and "Inception".
• Micheal Caine - Nolan worked with him in 5 movies.
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt - He was part of Nolan's plan in "The Dark Knight Rises" also in "Inception" He chose these actors because they were really good and suitable for the movie. Especially he choose Tom Hardy because he had that look and voice that Christopher imagined in movie. (Click here too hear and too see him)
  
  The film introduces Cat-women as Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), a sly, morally ambiguous cat burglar. Anne Hathaway and Christopher Nolan have never had anything in common. It was his first movie working with Anne. Nolan choose Anne because he wanted to bring something new into batman therefore he picked her.. and he knew she was the right one for the movie

The Dark Knight Rises - Case Study

Discuss how the film viewing experience has changed with reference to Warner Bros and "The Dark Knight Rises". What may the future hold? (Make reference to finance, organisation, production, distribution, marketing and exhibition)

Finance

• The budget of the movie: $250,000,000 / £153,262,345 estimated.
• The office box after movie release was $1.08 billion / £662,093,319
• The estimated profit from the movie worldwide was: $804343943 / £493,102,547
  "The Dark Knight Rises" had largest budget of all time Batman movies. Also it is in top 3 movie list with biggest budget. Click here to see it!

Production

• The production of movie took place in "Pinewood studio" which is located near London, and it was prime place. However various filming took place worldwide scale.
• Batman was also filmed in Hong Kong around various places and buildings. Helicopters and airplanes C-130 (press here to see!) was hired to shoot a scene.
• Also they used IMAX (press here to see!) cameras which really challenged and lead to many problems filmmakers because it was heavy and way larger than normal cameras...

Marketing

• Batman the Dark Knight rises used Mountain Due as a Marketing technique in hoping that Mountain Due would promote the soon to be released film.
• Posters from the movie in real life subways, bus stations and in all general places where people visit.
                                                        The look of the poster

• Also they had many different posters of the movie in one place. The promo was mainly used to let people taste film and the main character. These was found on buses, magazines also in newspapers.. Click here to see it!
• The Billboard sign at the side of the road was an exclusive marketing product that passers by could glance at whilst on their travels.
• Also the posted a map in over 1000s of different locations were die hard batman and comic fans could reach it in this map it provided clues on where to go to receive a 6 minute prologue of the film that hadn't been seen by the human eye before. Click here to see it!
• Moreover they made so much money from tops, phone cases, mugs, pajamas, toys and such more. This was part of marketing and advertising of the movie.
  
  

Exhibition

The Dark Knight Rises exhibition video

• Exhibition occurred at The Galleries in Sydney, America on 02 Jul 2012-31 Jul 2012, also it was free so people who attended to exhibition didn't have to pay for the entry.