Fast Five.

http://prezi.com/2o7yqin099fz/present/?auth_key=9d59ixj&follow=vishalrules@hotmail.co.uk

My prezi Fast Five presentation.

Spider Man 2.

Before: The Deals= $30million.
Script and Development= $10million. Only 5% of the total budget goes towards the script. The writed David Koepp got an eight figured cheque that day Some unpaid script doctors were brought in to rewrite certain scenes.
Licensing= $20million. Marvel owns the spider man character but then sony brought right to in in 1999. There has been ongoing fueds since and this made the price go higher. Stan Lee is the co-creater of spider man but acts as a executive producer for spider man 2. Marvel pay him $1million which is £540,000.


During: The Shoot= $100million.
The big money is given to the stars. A traditional weekly wage is given to the director and producer; this money is known 'above the line' costs and have to be paid even before cameras can role.
Producers= $15million. Big movies may have many producers. Spider man 2 had- two producers, one co-producer and three executive producers.
Director= $10million, Director is now usually chosen after casting. If the director diasgrees with a scene then changes it and can ask a large amount of money for doing their job. The Columbia Pictures chairman was suprised that Sam Raimi was hired as the director because he was not that famous.
Cast= $30million. Heath Ledger passed the role and then was given to Toby Maguire. For spider man he was paid $4million and for the sequel was offered $17million! Kirstin Dunst was paid $5-$6million and the new baddie, Alfred Molina $1million. The rest of the cast picked up £3million and the actors, agents and managers left with 10-15% of the clients' pay day,
Below the line= $45million. These are physical production expenses, including crew fees. Also: hiring and operating new equipment, occupying and leaving location and above all getting thousands of crew members. April 12th 2003 in New York, Spider Man 2 started to shoot and they spent 3weeks shooting in different locations.


After: The Edit= $70million.
Special effects= $65million. Alot of money is spent on editing, along with the 'above the line' costs this is another major part.
Music= $5million. Only 2% from budget spent on this. Danny Elfman did it for spider man for $2million. Sony made soundtrack which included songs by Jet and Train. Came number 4 on US charts and sold more than 2million copies worldwide.
Prints & Advertising= $75million. This is not included in budget, more is spent on it other than the $200million already spent.  

Final Box Figures: $821million worldwide.

People and Cinema.

During today's lesson, we surveyed many people in the class and asked them about whether they went to cinema in the past week or not. We took down their names and asked them about the cinema, where it was based and what they brought.
The first result we recieved was from Purdey. She went to VUE cinema as it was the closest to her and brought a ticket for £1.25 as it was Kids AM. The films she watched was Mr.Poppers Penguins and the cinema was packed out with little children. She brought popcorn along side the film ticket for something to go with the film which cost £5.
Secondly, Luke went to a cinema up north which had only 2 screens and has 3 people running it. He watched Johnny English Reloaded. He didn't like it and fell asleep through it. He went around 12pm in the day and it has a video and game buying area.
Another person is Katie who watched The Lion King 3D in Rugby Cineworld as it was close to her. She brought a Fanta Freeze which cost £2.80 and she liked the movie. She went about 5pm with Luke. The cinema was half full and the 3D was only average, the glasses cost a quid.
Lauren is going to watch Paranormal Activity 3 today with her friends at VUE cinema. She is going there with her friends and going there because it's close to her. She will buy nachos from there which cost about £4 and i believe this film will have many more people watching it, including me because it is made for us as a target audience and because it is a sequel it will be more interesting.

Overall, people spend about £10 on average in the cinema- which most of it will go towards the cinema ticket. The cinema only makes 10% of the ticket price as most of it goes to the film. Our age usually enjoys romcoms, scary movies and disney films. Many people always buy some food to compliment them at the cinema to eat whilst watching it.

HollyWood- The Film Industry.

Major Studios are Vertically, Horizontally and Laterally integrated.
Pre-Production --> Production- sound, equipment, studios, publicity --> Distribution --> Cinema. 'Oligopoly, BIG SIX.'
-High Concept- Special effect and Stars.
-Films are often sequels, prequels and remakes of sucessful books, games. Minimised risk + increase profit.
Distribution Window.
-Know when to release film.

Congolomerates (vertically, horizontally and lateral) will try use Synergy.
Synergy marketing- marketing multiple products from the film. 'Spin Off' product, publicies more and get more money.

Below the line- More money spent upon marketing and advertising. 
-Press Junkets to generate press interest. 

Exhibition- HollyWood Majors.
-Simultaneous release, try and crush the other films and meet demand. 
-Multiplexes- large screens under are roof. Respond demand more flexibly by showing a popular on several screens.

Independant- show films that Odeon and VUE will not show. New Films show at Film festivals to intend get more viewers and profit. They can get good reviews in this way. 

ABOVE THE LINE- Type of advertising through media such as: Television, Cinema, Radio, Web Banners, Search engines. These are used to try to promote it. They are types of communication is covential in nature and is considered impersonal to cutomers.
BELOW THE LINE- Is efficient and cost effective for targeting a limited and specific group. Can take the form of tie in's with other products and companies. 

BIG SIX:
DISNEY.
MGM.
PARAMOUNT PICTURES.
SONY.
UNIVERSAL.
20TH CENTURY FOX.
(DREAMWORKS- counts as another).

DreamWorks.

DreamWorks is a colossal film studio which has produced and distributed many major films which all have bagged over $100million each. Some of these films are hugely popular, for example: Shrek, Saving Private Ryan, War of the Worlds, Meet the Fockers and many more.
Currently they are owned by Reliance ADA Group which overtook the business back in 2008 but before this Viacom owned them from 2006-2008. The first ever owner was Independant which founded the business back in 1994 but then gave it up in 2006 to Viacom.

Top 10 Grossing Films:
1. Shrek 2
2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
3. Shrek the Third
4. Transformers
5. Kung Fu Panda 2
6. Kung Fu Panda
7. Shrek Forever After
8. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
9.How to train your Dragon
10. Shrek.

MOON.

Duncan Jones is the director of a British low budget film called MOON. He is the son of the famous singer David Bowie which comes as a big advantage because this can easily get him into the film area he wants to go in. The script was co-written by Jones himself and Nathan Parker. Nathan Parker is a writer and (also does screen play) has won a BAFTA for his best screenplay for MOON and was also nominated for British Independent Film Award. Another famous person who had something to do with the making of the film is the producer Trudie Snyder. She has produced films such as Snatch and Lock Stock.  

The original idea came from when Jones and Sam Rockwell (the main character in the film) met when Jones wanted Sam to do a film for him. As they started talking, they discussed things about themselves which eventually lead on to them talking about films to do about space and how there was a gap within the space film industry; this made Duncan Jones think about it and write out the script for MOON to have Sam Rockwell to star in this film and make it great.

 The film was filmed in a short amount of time which was only 33 days! The setting they used was 85-90 feet (26-27m) in length and 70 feet (21m) wide. This was included in the tight budget they had of $5million, which is low for normal films they managed to fit everything within the price- which includes the small on screen cast of just Sam Rockwell. As the budget was small, Kevin Spacey waited for the film to be done before he put his voice on the mechanical robot ‘Gerty’.

It was produced at Shepperton Studios which is based in Surrey, England but now is part of Pinewood Studios Group which have branches all over the globe.

Distribution and Exhibition

Sony pictures worldwide acquisition group got the rights to sell the film in English and made the decision to not show it on cinema but to take it to a straight video release. It then premiered 2009 Sundance Film Festival which then made them decide to take it to cinema where it was first shown in LA and New York. They then had a English premiere in June and then was further released in UK and Australia.  

British Film Industry.

LO: To identify who does what within the Britsh Film Industry (producers).
        To evaluate how the britsh film industry competes globally (audience) and retains         profitability.

• BBFC- Independant, non-government body which classifies and censors film, cideo as well as computer games released in UK.
• British Academy of Film and Television Arts- Promotes understanding and appreciation of British rich film and television heritage and culture.
• BFI-Aims to support, develop and promote the art forms of the moving image.
• UK Film Council- Government backed lead agency for film in the UK ensuring the economic, cultural and eductation aspects of the film are effectively to represent at home or abroad.
• British Council- The official UK agency for interantional cultural relations. Its film department promotes new British film (features and shorts) internationally principally through festivals and showcases.

Main British Production Companies.
Film 4= Inbetweeners, Finding Eric, Four Lions. Has its own channel.
Working Title= Hot Fuzz, Shawn of the dead.
Momentum Pictures= Longest Yard.
PATHE!= Wallace&Gromit, Chicken Run. Jeepers Creepers.
BBC Film Network= Damned United.

English Actors and their roles with in film (genre).
KIERA KNIGHTLY: action, drama
EWAN McGREGOR: action, drama and romance
COLIN FIRTH: romcom, Oscar.
JUDE LAW: drama
HUGH GRANT: romcom.


Top 10 list as of 2009 (in order of bankable value).
1. WILL SMITH
2. JOHNNY DEPP
3. BRAD PITT
4. TOM HANKS
5.GEORGE CLOONEY
6. WILL FERRAL
7. REESE WITHERSPOON
8.NICOLAS CAGE.
9. LEONARDO di CAPRIO
10. RUSSEL CROWE

Class and Status by Me and George.

This link will direct you to a presentation done by me and George Price on how Class and Status is represented in media. There are many descriptions about how they are related and also examples of british drama's that use them.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/67583810

12th Spetember 2011.

Narrative- how the story /plot is constructed. .

• LINEA- told in order in which it happens. E.g. beginning, middle and a end.
• NON-LINEA- narrative is manipulated/order changed. E.g. Flashbacks.

Todorov-

• Equilibrium: State of Normaltiy.
• Disruption: Disrupts the stage of normality.
• New Equilibrium: New state of normality due to the disruption.

Vladmir Prop-

1. THE VILLAIN: Struggles against the hero.
2. THE DONOR: Prepares the hero or gives hero a magical object.
3. THE (MAGICAL) HELPER: Helps the hero in the quest.
4. THE PRINCESS & FATHER: Gives task to hero. Identify false hero and then Princess marries hero which is often sought for during the narrative. The cannot be distinguished.
5. THE DISPATCHER: Makes lack known and sneds off hero.
6. THE HERO OR VICTIM/SEAKER HERO: Reacts to the donor and marries the princess.
7. FALSE HERO: Pretends he did good and tries to marry the princess.

We were then sent off to apply these roles to a movie that we have watched, i did it to FAST AND FURIOUS 5 (FAST FIVE) and these were the results i got:

1. HERO: Domonic Toretto and Brian O'Connor.
2. VILLAIN: Reyes.
3. PRINCESS: Mia Toretto.
4. FALSE HERO: Agent L Hobbs.
5. MAGICAL HELPER(s): The team he chooses to rob Reyes.
6. THE DISPATCHER: Vince Toretto.
7. couldn't really think of any donor's in the film, sorry.

Barthes-
-We understand narratives through understanding and decoding signals and codes.

1. ENIGMA CODES: text or mystery that the viewer has to work out. E.g. Who is the killer? Crime/Drama. Who is the father? Soap opra's. Will they fall in love?Romcoms.
2. ACTION CODES: Prepare the audience for something that is about to happen. E.g. picking keys up= Leaving or letter through the mail box= something important has arrived.

Notes for Audience- 26th September 2011.

Exam Speak: The issues raised in the targeting of national and local audiences (specifically british) by international or global institutions.
- The ways in whcih the candidates' own experiences of media consumption illustrate wide patterns and trends of audience behaivour.

Blumers 4 stages: 1.Audience come from everywhere, all occupations will be there in the cinema watching the same movie.
2. People who watch the movie are completely anonymous, meaning that you will be on your own throughout the whole movie, from start to finish, when leaving and coming to the cinema!
3. Once watched the same film as someone else, there will be communication with them about the movie whatsoever.
4. It is all a coinsidence of who is in the cinema and what movie you are watching.
These ofcourse are all false sayings about media and things are way different to Blumer's theory.

Uses and Gratifications=
a) the need for information about our geographical and social world news and drama.
b)the need for identity, by using characters and personalities to define our sense of self and social behaivour film celebrities.
c)Social interation through experiencing the relationships and interaction of others.
d)the need for diversion by using the media for purposes of play and entertainment.

Media-Task 1.

1. I think that different kinds of people will have different interests and therefore watch movies that they can relate to or enjoy that type of film genre. For example, the Inbetweeners movie will be mostly tagerted teenagers as there is a higher population of this audience who watch the series and makes them the real target audience for this film.

2. On my own i will just watch programmes on the TV or different movies at home or in my room. In addition, i would listen to music by myself but only music i enjoy and usually do this in my room whilst doing work or cleaning up or anything along them lines. When i am with other people, there may be plans to go to cinema to watch a new film or they will show me some new songs they like and want to show me. When i am with others, we will talk about all types of media more than i would do by myself (even though i don't talk to myself about media).

3. I mostly listen to a lot of music when i am by myself like when i do work and stuff. When i have nothing to do i would just watch TV for about 2 hours at home in the living room.

4. After watching a good movie, listening to a good song or watch a drama series that is good- i would sometimes tell my friends what time and channel the movie is coming on. Additionally, i may tell them about a good song by texting them or showing them when i see him/her. I could send them a link to the youtube page via msn or by text to again show them the song or any clip that occurs to us on youtube.

Shynola!

http://prezi.com/mqodfhyv4tcs/shynola/
This is the link for my groups prezi presentation, we have described many things about a animation group called 'Shynola'. Shynola are a group of 3 men (which used to be four, as can be seen in the presentation) who make animations for many bands, artists and even movies. They are well known around the globe and we talked about their past, present and achivements they have made. There are also videos on the presentation to give a better understand of their work. Take a look and get to know Shynola.

We learnt about some of the biggest movie directors and producers of our generation. There work has inspired many people to copy or create new styles of their work. Some of the directors and producers have got major awards in many catogories.

The first producers is a very famous producer, especially for his action scenes this is Michael Bay. He has produced many movies including Armageddon and the spectacular, award-winning Transformers. He had inputted many action scenes and one of his most famous was in Bad Boys (with Will Smith and Martin Lawernce) were he cashed out a major $25,000 for an explosion scene.
This is an example of his work......

How age is represented in 'Eastenders'

It's Darrens stag night as he is planning on getting married to Jodie, however things don't go as planned when a drunken Darren cheats on her a night before with a close friend of Jodie's. Unfortunately, Jodie finds out and the wedding is called off.
These two clips show how teenagers and young adults are represented through media. They are shown to be having wild parties and drinking their way through them. In addition to this, some sexual comments are made which then lead to two characters sleeping with each other. This represents that most teens and young adults are mostly about the alcohol and having sex with other people. Some aspects of love are shown in the rest of the clip with Jodie and Darren because they are about to get married, but with the rest of the characters on there it is just loud music, booze and getting with people. 
They have in been dressed in clothing that will be seen on many teenagers now days which makes it quite realistic and also seem to be stylish to our modern generation; the hairstyles add to this genre also.