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High Concept, Production Values and Movie Brats
What were the last three films you saw at the cinema and why did
you go to see them?
Spectre:
Sam Smith performing the theme song Writings on the wall. Intrigued to
listen to the song.
The concept in which James Bond's equilibrium of a spy is disrupted. Will
be interested to see the characters equilibrium disruption and how his life
changes from then.
The antagonist has a personal past connection with Bond, making the
conflict more intriguing and driving, for James Bond. Interested to see
the final outcome in the conflict.
Jurassic World:
The trailer showed surreal elements, such as a mosasaur tank.
The hybrid Indominus Rex was concealed during most of the trailers.
Intrigued to see its full appearance.
What do you expect when you go and see a film in the cinema and
why?
I expect to see stylish cinematography, good acting, an engaging plot and
grand soundtracks.
Budget Task
Spider-Man 2
Screenplay: 1000
Producers: 1200
Cast:
Music: 3000
Writing Task
Answer the following...
allowing for more aesthetically pleasing visuals and engaging cuts and
paces for audiences to be drawn into viewing.
Be ready to feedback
What does Globalisation mean?
A process where the different continents of the world (e.g. Africa, U.S, UK
and Australia) become interconnected, due to cultural exchanges and
trades (e.g. A film made in Africa and U.S conglomerate help to market it
globally).
Research Task
Look online and make a list of all the tie in products you can find for the
new Star Wars film. (5 mins)
Merchandise:
Clothing (Star Wars quotes/characters).
Toys: BB8, action figures, lightsabre toys.
Books, comic books.
Lego video game of The Force Awakens coming soon.
a film-maker, you could believe that the art (and the business)
had been liberated for a fresh generation.
But was Lucas a maverick movie director or a new entrepreneur?
Was he an independent artist or someone refashioning the
media? He was born in Modesto, California, in 1944, the son of a
walnut farmer in the agricultural expanse of the San Joaquin
valley. It was a dull rural town that felt a long way from San
Francisco. Lucas did poorly in school, but painted in junior college
and that led him to film school at the University of Southern
California (USC). Gradually, he found a fascination with cinema,
along with the company of Murch and Coppola (his senior by five
years).
Francis and George made an odd couple. Coppola was far more
confident and outgoing; he saw himself as an auteur and a leader,
while the diffident Lucas concentrated on every detail in putting a
film together. Lucas worked for Coppola on The Rain People
(1969), and it was at the older mans urging that he directed his
first film (derived from a college project), THX-1138, made for
Coppolas American Zoetrope studio. This is the most personal or
revealing film the shy Lucas has ever made, a grim parable about
a romantic rebel in a regimented and repressive future society. It
was so pained it seemed confessional, and its failure hurt him
badly.
Again, it was Coppolas energetic defence that prevailed upon
Universal to stick with Lucass second film, American Graffiti, a
story of teenagers, set in Modesto and full of autobiographical
material. Whatever the foolish studio thought, it turned out a hit:
on a budget of $770,000, it grossed $140m. Not only is it (in my
opinion) the most satisfying and dramatically intriguing movie
Lucas has ever made, it prompted Fox to put up the $11m for Star
Wars.
George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola in 1988, on the set of
Coppolas film Tucker: The Man and His Dream. Photograph:
Sunset Boulevard/Corbis
Lucas wrote and directed the original Star Wars and he had every
reason to exult in its eventual gross of $775m. The shy kid had his
revenge and vengeance or payback is a persistent theme in the