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Ted
The Inbetweeners Movie
Avatar
Goal!
Quantum of solace

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Hollyoaks
Match of the day
Hollyoaks Later
Celebrity juice
Mark Wrights Hollywood nights

Football programs
Match of the day
Soccer am
The football league show
Ford super sunday
Good Morning sports fans

Magazines/Newspapers
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Fourfourtwo
The Sun
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Match of the day

Artsists
Rihanna
Ne-Yo
Rizzle Kicks
Will.I.Am
Rita Ora

The business - understanding film making

Scene 1

The idea – All films start with a moment of inspiration, something that people think will make a good film. Inspiration can come from anywhere such as a coffee shop or a football game, it is all around us.
Many films are based on real life events; these can be from newspapers, magazines or even past experiences.
Remakes of existing films are becoming increasingly popular; these films are may be more secure as there is already an audience for the film.
Adaptations of books are another piece of inspiration for film makers such as Harry Potter.
Original ideas are the most valuable ideas from film makers, these films come from a moment of inspiration that can come from anywhere. The best ideas can be worth millions.
Producer – a producer will have an eye for a good idea, they see many films so they know what the audience wants.
Director – A director can visualise a script and make it into reality, they know how to put a story onto the screen.
Writer – the writer defines and clarifies the idea, they turn it into something tangible.
Treatment – the writer will write a one page description of the story and main characters.
Pitch – The producer needs to use all the information to sell the idea to financiers to commission a script

Scene 2

Pitching the project – the producer uses her powers of persuasion, the treatment and the pitch.
Production Companies – The producer goes round approaching film companies for development money, but the companies have projects of their own.
Sales, Distribution, Broadcast – The producer can then offer future sales and broadcast rights to the film in return for money to develop the script.
Public Investment – The producer can also apply to a public funding body for a development grant.
Private Finance – The producer can also pitch their ideas to a private investor in the hope that they will support the project.

Scene 3

Synopsis – The writer produces the synopsis and he and the producer discuss the key scenes and events that happen in the film.
Step outline – The writer creates a step outline to plan their script.
Drafts – The draft is written up by the writer, the draft can sometimes be the hardest part of screenwriting. It includes the dialogue and also the events that will be seen on the screen.
Revisions – The draft is then sent to the financiers, and all of them will have their own ideas for the film.
Final draft – When everybody involved is happy with the script it is locked off and becomes the final draft. At this point the writers will get paid.
Sales Treatment – The final stage of the script development is the sales treatment. A sales treatment is a synopsis designed to sell the film to potential financiers. It is produced by the producer and often with the help of the director and writer.

Scene 4

What is packaging - The producer and director must package the script into a full commercialproposition, ready for financing.
The cast – To make the project more commercial a good idea is to bring in some big named stars, this will increase the funding into the film.
The heads of departments – Heads of departments carry considerable clout with knowledgeable financiers.
Budget and production schedule – Before the producer can pitch the funding she will need to know how much time and money the film will take to make.
Finance plan and recoupment schedule – Potential investors will want to know how the producer plans to raise the money, and how she plans to pay them back.
The complete package – Once the producer has packaged the film into a viable commercial proposition they must see what people think of it.

Scene 5

The market – The producer must now travel and compete against other producers to try and get an investment for the film, the director might be able to help out, especially if he is well known in the industry.
Investment for the film can come from private individuals, production companies and public bodies, the contracts for are drawn up by the producer’s lawyer.
Pre-sales – The producer can also raise money for the film from pre-sales, this is selling the rights to the film before it has even been made. The producer sells the rights to the sales companies, broadcasters and distributers.
Banks and Gap funding – The departments at banks that specialise in film finance will invest in commercial projects and will also offer loans.
Completion Bonds – Most financiers make sure that there is a completion bond in place before they will invest; this is insurance for the production.
Green light – Once all of the funding and insurance is in place the film can get the green light. Every film is developed, packaged and financed differently there is no set way to go about it.

Scene 6

The kick off meeting – Once all the heads of department are hired, the shooting script is circulated and pre-production begins
Casting – The casting director along with the director and producer begin to start identifying and casting the actors.
Storyboarding – Storyboards are the blue prints for the film, this is where every shot for the film is planned in advance by the director and the director of photography.
Production design – The production designer plans how everything will look, they then have to hire people to build each part.
Special effects planning – Effects shots are planned in much more detail than normal shots, and they can take months to design and build.
The production unit – The line producer and the production manager make up the key logistics triangle of the production for the first ad.

Scene 7

1^st day of principal photography – This is a key moment when shooting begins and funding is released.
Camera – The camera department need to capture all of the footage that the director and editor need.
Lighting and sound – Once all of the light and sound and hair and make-up are complete shooting can finally begin.
Acting – The actors have a lot of responsibility to make the film successful, the actors must create an emotional world and draw the audience in.
Special physical effects – Every special effect is carefully constructed and must be filmed with minimum risk to cast and crew, this is why stunt men are bought in, they are paid to take risks.
Chain of command – Film productions are run with precision, if they fall behind schedule, the financiers and insurers may step in and do something about it.

Scene 8

Rough cut – As the footage captured by the cameras comes in, the editor must assemble it into scenes and creates a narrative sequence for the film.
Post production sound – Once the picture is locked, the sound department works on the audio track laying, creating and editing every sound.
Digital effects and titles – Digital effects are added by a special effects compositors, and titles and credits are then added in a compositing suite.
Grade and colour – The final stage of the picture edit is to adjust colour and establish the fine aesthetic of the film.
Final mix – The rough sound mix is dubbed in a dubbing theatre where the sound mixer sets the final levels. Sound is vital to the overall quality of the finished film.
Final cut – After the final cut the film reaches full lock, it is now finished and is ready for duplication.

Scene 9

Selling the product – To get the film to the public is complex and time consuming. So to help the producer sell the film to distributers, they try to secure the help of a sales agent, who are specialised in selling films.
The trailer – To help sell the film, a trailer is made to show film buyers the most marketable aspects of the film. The trailer must sell the key elements to its audiences without giving too much away.
Sales toolkit – The producer and the sales agent collect everything they need to sell the film to distributers. The sales pack will have trailers, information about cast and crew, a synopsis and key information about the likely target audiences.
Taking the film to market – The producer must go to extreme lengths to attract attention to their product as the marketplace is crowded with competitors.
Screenings – A high profile screening at one of the top film festivals can be great for generating heat around the film by getting stars and other people in the industry to watch the screenings it makes it become a hot topic.
Deals – The producer now has a hot product and can negotiate good deals with distributers around the world.

Scene 10

The marketing team – The distribution company has a team of marketing specialised who will market the film to the public. They must use marketing methods and the unique selling point that will make their film stand out from the crowd.
The audience – The marketing team runs test screenings to see how the film is received, and try to create heat around the film so that it can be spread through word of mouth.
Advertising – The potential audience for the film is targeted with posters on bus stops and busses, cinema trailers, TV spots and other marketing material.
Press and media coverage – Television, magazines, radio and newspapers can all help create positive word of mouth about a film.
The internet and new marketing models – With the birth of digital media and the internet film distributers have been presented many new opportunities to market their product in more targeted and cost-efficient ways.
Selling the film – The distributer must negotiate a deal with the cinemas to screen it.

Scene 11

The premier – A high profile, star-studded premier is used to launch the film to the public with an explosion of media coverage.
UK Cinemas – The UK has more than 3,500 cinema screens and although the British public tend not to visit the cinema as much as the Americans, cinemas still remain the most important market for any film.
Prints and logistics – Distributers provide supply the exhibitors with prints of the film, the more screens the film is shown in the more prints are needed.
Box office performance – Data about film attendance is collected continuously, from this cinemas can see which films to play and which ones to put off. If a film is under achieving the cinema will not waste its time with it, some films do fail at the cinema but can create a profit when bought out on DVD.
Revenues – The exhibitors take a share of the box office receipts, after which the distributors recoup their marketing costs.
Recoupment – Once the distributors have been paid, the financiers can recover their investments, as laid out in the recoupment schedule.

Scene 12

Hospitality – In-flight entertainment and hotel and pay-per-view channels are the first way in which films are sold after their cinema release, these methods can bring in millions in additional revenue.
DVD - In the UK the audiences spend more on DVDs than going to view the film in the cinema, so the success on DVD is massive as it can compensate for a failure at the cinema.
Broadcast – Television is the last source of revenue for the film, rights are sold separately for pay-tv showings and terrestrial broadcast. The film is put onto TV once all of the other windows have been exhausted.
The game of the film – Rights for computer games and other product licenses can be good sources of additional revenue. With the growing popularity of computer games, some games can rival the film industry, so bringing out a computer game can bring in additional revenue.
Profit – Once the exhibitor, distributer and the investors have been paid, it is then that the producer gets money for the film, if the deals struck at the financial stage were not favourable, the producer might not get much money.
The end – The final income of the film is never known, distribution still continues and the film maybe re-released in the future.

Attack the Block review

Attack the block is about a gang of kids who try to protect their apartment block, in south London, from savage aliens

I thought that the idea and plot of the film was quite interesting, crossing an alien with a gang of kids sounded like a funny combination. I thought that the idea was quite unique as in other films that involve aliens on earth there are always the predictable saviours as the army and other big organisations protect the world from aliens. Whereas with in this film I thought that it was good as the gang were unlikely heroes. The area in which they were bought up in was quite poor and ruff so to speak, from an early on in the film you could see that they were committing crimes, as they mugged the women, so I thought that it was a good idea as the heroes are normal kids living in an apartment block in south London. The film is set in an apartment block in South London, I thought that it was affective as it was simple and not over the top it just worked well. I thought that the film was typically British, the scene in which it was set and the actions that the boys did and said just made the film flow.

The film was funny in places without really doing too much. I thought that some of the lines that were dropped were quite funny and it didn’t feel like they were trying to force it. Although I don’t think that the lines came often enough, it lacked the comedy throughout, I thought that when the lines were in there I thought that it was funny but they were a rarity in this film. If they were to add more comedy in to the film I think that it would be more enjoyable to watch.

As the film is a sci-fi, I thought that there might be more scary things going on. The film was made on a low budget and I think that what they have done is great considering that and the amount of money is spent on other things, but I think that they needed to try harder to scare/intimidate the audience. For me the aliens never seemed real, they lacked detail, and the ‘scare factor’. I thought that more could have been done to try and scare the audience and even intimidate the audience, at no point did I believe that they were genuinely scared of the aliens, they just treated them like angry dogs. I think that if the characters believe that they are real it makes the audience feel it as well as we play off their emotions. I didn’t think that they tried hard enough to scare the audience or even intimidate them, it was almost like they didn’t want to put too much into it to make it scary but they didn’t put enough comedy in it either in my opinion.

I also thought that there was a lack of emotion running throughout, aliens have landed on the planet and the first thing that they do is attack it, it is not a normal first response. But also two of the members of the gang were killed, they were all friends and nobody really seemed bothered by it, the deaths happened they were never thought of again, the police didn’t even question anybody about deaths. There might have not wanted to talk about it as they were sacred of the aliens but from the expressions and actions you couldn’t tell that they were bothered about either of them.

I think that the film was trying to do too many things and missed out on the simple things. I get the impression that they didn’t quite know what they wanted to do with the film, as I have already said the film was funny in places but I thought that more could have been done to ensure that it was funnier and made the audience laugh more. Although I thought that the lines that were in the film were effective and worked really well, I just needed more of comedy to really enjoy the film. I had the same kind of opinion for the sci-fi part of the film, I thought that they didn’t do enough to get people to be scared by the film, it wasn’t intimidating at all and I thought that the aliens looked like puppets. Even if the aliens were kept the same I thought that there could have been more points in which it could have made the audience jump or even feel intimidated by what was on the screen. It tried to be two things; I thought that they could have maybe gone with a full sci-fi film and maybe add in a few bits of comedy to lighten the mood. Or make the film a comedy and add some scary bits in as well to maybe throw the audience a bit and make them really interact with the film and feel like it was real.

To conclude I thought that the film was good as it was a unique story line and it did make me laugh in some places but I think that the writers needed to think what film they wanted as they kind of got stuck in between not offering enough of each genre to make it a really good film.

Attack the block

How it was produced

The film was produced by big talk productions, known for films including Shaun of the dead, Hot fuzz and Scott Pilgrim vs the world. They produced the film along with Film4, The Uk film council and StudioCanal. The block itself was filmed in various council estates across London. The film was shot across London from March to May 2010, with 6 weeks of night shots.

What it was based on

 The film was based on the fact that Joe Cornish was mugged near his home in Stockwell. Cornish investigated into the mugging and the people that did it. This gave him an idea for the film, a gang. He then combined this experience with a shot of film fantasy from films that he liked such as E.T and the gremlins, this helped him to come up with the idea of aliens and gangs, yet he still managed to keep it real.

Any problems that arose in film making

 One of the problems that occured was the British slang, when the film had to be translated into other languages it was hard to translate the slang as it they were not real words. The slang words couldn't be translated exactly intothe other languages,so it took themmore time to sort that out.

The directors views on the British film industry

 Joe Cornish was interested in 80s fantasy films such as E.T, Gremilins, and Predator, he also liked gang films such as Streets of Fire, but what he really enjoyed watching was when the two genres were combined

How they saved money, the technology used

 They saved money on the film by not using the technology to show the aliens. In the film the aliens are not shown much, there is quick snaps of the aliens. This doesn't cost as much money as showing thema lot in the film as it doesn't use the technology to show the aliens. The film was filmed in various block around London, this means that they didn't have to create a new set,they used real blocks. They use also used real surroundings such as the roads, this again saved money and time as they didn't need to create a new set.

The film's promotion

The film was promoted in a few different ways such as trailers, a trailer was released about the film, showing what the film was about and showing people what happens in the film. Another way in which they promoted the film was by posters, these were put up bus stops and other places so that people would see them and then hopefully go to see the film. Apart from that there wasn't many other promotion ideas, this could be one of the reasons why the film didn't prodice as much money as they might have thought.

The soundtrack

How is Sav represented?

How is Sav Represented?

At the beginning we see Sav holding a gun with blood on his hand, this tells us that maybe he is a bad man. But he seemed shocked by what he had done. He looked at the gun and then okay threw it down onto his bed; he also looked horrified with what he had done. When we saw that he had blood on his hands he quickly wiped the blood off his door and taw his clothes off and went into the bathroom. His actions show that maybe he isn’t as bad as we first thought as he is doing things that make him look like he is shocked by what he has done.

When Sav meets Cassie and Libby on the beach he is the one asking questions trying to find out information about the two, but the women doesn’t want a conversation, she wants to get away from Sav. The conversation is quite awkward, it is obvious that they have a past and something bad has happened between them as when Sav says that he will walk with them Cassie tells him to not bother. This added to the first scene that we seen is building up an image that is the opposite to the what the title suggests.

Sav seems to have a good relationship with others in the workplace. He has lunch at the ‘diner’ with one of his work mates. This shows that they are also friends outside of work as they get along well with each other and have something to eat. Also when he gets into work he has a conversation with another one of his colleagues. They talk to each other about what had happened at the weekend and what had happened with Sav and Cassie on the beach. This shows that they have a good relationship as they had a normal conversation that you might hear friends having and they also feel comfortable sharing things with each other.

When Sav was in the restaurant having something to eat he kept one eye on what the man was saying to Amy the waitress as he used his instincts and experience to see that something was going on, when he saw that Amy had been in the toilet for a while he decided to go and check to see what was happening. When in the toilet Sav was confident and not phased by the man. When the man said that he would ‘hammer’ the next copper he sees Sav was not fazed, he just told him and his ‘crew’ to leave. He saw that there was a danger to the waitress and he used his experience as a cop to react quickly to it to make sure that the waitress was okay. He is then polite to the waitress when he goes to see if she is alright.

When Sav goes upstairs to in the house where the dead baby is he sees the boy holding the baby, he then immediately starts asking questions, but only simple ones. Sav tone of voice is soft as to he doesn’t want to anger or upset the boy. He seems to be quite sympathetic towards the boy as he is not interrogating him or forcing him to answer questions; he is trying to be calm. When the mother starts shouting at her son Sav immediately calms the women down to prevent her from making a scene.

Overview

Hollyoaks is a British TV drama that is mainly aimed at teenagers; it shows the lives of ordinary people living in the Chester village of Hollyoaks. It shows the loves, lives and careers of groups of teenagers and young adults. The reason that it attracts its audiences is that the storylines are mainly of the younger generation and the audience can relate to this meaning that the show gets more views and then builds up a bigger fan base. Hollyoaks is aimed at teenagers as you can tell by the dialogue and characters. Most of the characters are young; this will draw younger people in as they feel involved as it is people mainly their age. It raises issues that happen in real life to people of similar ages, which may even help them to solve them. The storylines are big and normally dramatic; this will again draw people in as they might like this kind of thing as there is always something going on, as their normally is with younger people, this is how it appeals to it’s audience as it can relate to them.

Different type of shots

This is a two shot of Ted and John from the film TED. Two shot is a shot that includes two people, one can be in the foreground and the other in the background but usually it is a confrentation between two people.

This is a close up shot of spider man. Close up shots tightly frame a person or an object, they display the most detail and can be used to concentrate on a certain thing.

This is a point of view shot from the Nike commercial 'Take it to the next level'. A point of view shot is a shot that shows what a person is looking at. A point of view shot can be the view of a person but it can also be over the shoulder of a person while they are still in the scene.



Medium shot from Batman. A medium shot is a shot of someone from the waist up, it is usually used to show the facial expression of a person.



This is the establishing shot from the boy in the striped pyjamas. An establishing shot is usually a long shot or an extreme long shot at the beginning of a scene showing the audience where and sometimes when the scene is set.



Long shot from Batman. A long shot is a shot that shows an entire human body and surroundings, it is used to show the audience the where the person is in relation to the surroundings.