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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