Spectre (24th Bond movie)
Genre: Spy movie
Budget: £250 million most expensive Bond films ever made.
Opening weekend:£70.4 million
Total Gross: £880 million
Deadpool
Genre; Comic book movie, comedy, romance
Budget: 58 billion
Opening Weekend gross: $132.7 million Friday to Sunday, $300 million worldwide after first 4 days
Biggest R-Rated opening weekend
Biggest R-rated superhero movie ever
Biggest X-men debut ever
Total Domestic gross: $756,794,170
Rating: R-America 15-Uk. Lot of controversy over rating of the film as it is an x men movie and a marvel movie. They were anxious because marvels primary audience before was family and an R rated movie would restrict the amount of money they would make from it.
Stars: Ryan reynolds was a producer as well, spent 11 years trying to make the film, starred in Green lantern which was a massive failure both for the fans of the comics and
Tj miller, not a big star was in transformers 4.
Morena Baccarin also not a big star
Ed Skerin was in transporter refuelled.
Chose not very well known stars due to the small budget. Was very much a passion project for Ryan Reynolds.
Director; Tim miller. First time feature film director. Marketing; Viral videos on youtube, australia day, promoted it like a romance film Also used emojis Was a fan made film as the test footage was released There was a lot of viral videos that promoted it such as halloween, australia day
The main factors that influence the types of films that are made today are popular culture, the advance in technology within the production of film, target audiences and ultimately how much money producers think a film will make.
In some ways popular culture dominates what films are made. Most of the best selling films of 2015 were either bestselling books, comic book movies or true story movies that have some relevance to society today. Like The Avengers Age of Ultron for example made $191,271,109 in its opening weekend. Marvel films have proved many times over that they are capable of bringing in a lot of money so they will keep making marvel movies until they don't. Part of the reason that people like marvel films is that it is one interlocking universe within which all the films takes place. The Avengers takes place in the same universe that The Guardians of the Galaxy does. All of the Marvel films were already popular comic books before they were films and the popularity of films such as The Hunger Games was also certain due to the Book being a bestseller before it was made into a movie script. Producers will often use stories that have already proven to be popular so there will be less of a chance of the film flopping.
Budget: $25 million
Director: Brian Helgeland
Producer:
Stars: Tom Hardy people would go and see it just to see his attractive face.
Emily Browning
Taron Egerton
Christoper Ecclestone
Colin Morgan
Genre: Crime thriller
Box Office: £3.70m plus £1.49m in Wednesday/Thursday previews, for a five-day total of £5.19m Production company: Anton Capital Entertainment (ACE), Cross Creek Pictures, StudioCanal
Certificate: 18 Can restrict the number of people going to see the film and could put people off with violence.
Marketing: In the poster they hid a 2 star review within a myriad of 5 and 4 star reviews. They made it seem like there were more stars than there really was.
Good trailer with catchy and upbeat music to make people want to go and see it.
Tom hardy playing both characters. He is a really good actor so people wanted it go see it for his performance
The alan carr show, something a lot of people watch so there is a lot of publicity now that they would not have had before. More people are aware of it now.
Release Date: 9th September 2015,
Review: 2 Star review that the guardian gave it which the hid on their poster. Others were 4 and 5 stars.
60% on rotten tomatoes
Empire magazine gave it 4 stars.
The Avengers: Age of Ultron (USA blockbuster)
Budget: $279.9 million
Director: Josh Whedon, Hes's the original fanboy, Buffy the vampire slayer, Firefox
Producer: Robert Doweny JR
Chris Evans
Scarlett Johanssen
Chris Hemsworth
James Spader
Samuel L Jackson
Basically a lot of attractive stars with plenty of successful films.
Genre: Comic book movie, has a reputation of doing well
Box Office: $191,271,109 - opening weekend, $458,991,599 - Gross
Production company: Marvel Studios
Certificate: 12A means a wide demographic, many types of people can go and see the film.
Marketing: The fact that there were so many stars in this film was good for marketing. Also the first film was so successful already made people want to go and see the second one. Young girls are attracted to the male leads and they make scarlet johannsen attractive to young males. The fact that the marvel films are a whole collection of films that are all interlink means that to fully understand all of the films you cant really miss one. They all reference each other
The cast all appeared on various chat shows to promote the film and it was longley anticipated.
The trailer was good and showed all the best bits of the film. Funny and entertaining The trailer its self was long awaited.
San Diego Comic con Big media coverage all the stars there to promote the film Also lots of pranks and cool stuff. Robert Downey JR himself is good and he is the best casting to pay Iron man. The casting is good.
Reviews: In the was of reviews many critics thing that it didnt stand up against the first avengers and that it didnt have as good a plot as maybe The winter soldier.
The Independant - pop culture sugar rush
MORE STUFF ON XMEN, like how it was the birth of comic book genres
There's gonna be 25 comic book movies released by 2020
Another Earth (low budget film)
Budget: $100000
Director: Mike Cahill, former documentary maker
Stars: There was not really and stars in this film.
Genre: sci-f, but subtle like it could be a drama but theres another earth in the sky.
The scene that made me the most uneasy in this film was the
scene with the two little girls. At the start of the scene, Danny is riding a
tricycle. It is an extreme long shot so it makes Danny look very far away. It
is also a tracking forward shot and it makes it seem like Danny is being
followed. The shot lingers on the same corridor after Danny has left the frame
for about 4 seconds. The corridor itself remain empty for those seconds, paired
with the high pitched music is creates a sense of anticipation.
There is then a cut to then next corridor, It is still a
tracking shot yet now it is closer to Danny as we follow him round a corner.
The tracking stops as soon as he stops on his tricycle and at the end of the
hallway are two twin girls. This corridor is much smaller than the last
corridor and even though it is a long shot it still feels claustrophobic due to
the narrowness of the corridor and the fact that there are no shots of the
outside world. There is a switch between a close up of Danny's face and the
corridor with the twin girls. The girls then say "Come play with us,
Danny". In any other situation or genre this would not be scary but here
it is effectively creepy. Children are a very widely used convention of the
horror genre. For example in particularly chilling scene in the zombie movie
Dawn of the Dead, it is the child that becomes the zombie and kills her father.
I think children are used as they are often seen as innocent and when they are
not it can be terrifying because of the contrast. Also people are a lot less
likely to defend themselves against children when attacked by them.
In this particular section of the scene there is no eye line
match editing which would be expected of this type of scene. We never see the
hallway without Danny in the frame and it is as if the person who was following
Danny then went on to watch the scene happening and you are seeing it from
their point of view.
There is then a cut to the exact same hallway yet the two
girls are laying there on the floor covered in their own blood with an axe next
to them. The image of the girls bodies itself is shocking and with it being
such a quick cut from that hallway to this version of the same frame accompanied
with the sharp high music it made me jump.The
axe is significant as it is what Jack later uses to break through the doors and
to kill Mr Holloway. It is in a way foreshadowing to what may happen in future
scenes. Blood is another convention of the
horror genre. This is a big fear for some people with others feeling faint at
the sight of it and as horror films play with some of the biggest fears of ordinary
people it is present in most films. Like The Shining, My Bloody Valentine uses
blood to show brutality and a gruesome murder. While in this film the blood is
sprayed upon the walls in My Bloody Valentine the murderer of a young girl uses
it to write a sinister message on a wall above her body. Blood is used a lot in
this film as a sign of danger, such as in the scene where there is literally a
river of blood down a corridor.
There is a switch between the shot of the young girls massacred
on the floor and them holding hands. They repeat the phrase “For ever” over and
each time it is said the shot of their bodies on the floor is shown and then a
cut to them holding hands. The shot gets closer to their faces each time they
say it. These sharp cuts between each shot are used to make the audience on
edge and fearful of what is going to happen next.
Another scene that makes me hide my eyes was when Jack was
using the axe to break down the door to the bathroom where Wendy and Danny were
hiding. This scene is many of the same themes as the scene with Danny in the
hallway, for example the axe is the same. Weapons such as knifes, axes, chainsaws
and machetes are a convention of the horror genre as they are often seen as
leading to violent deaths and show the most goriest details. They also do the
most damage to the human body and make the victim less likely to survive the
attack. For example in Friday the thirteenth, Jason uses a machete for most of
his kills.
Like the scene with the twin girls innocent and childish phrases
are used to create a chilling atmosphere which leaves the audience in
anticipation for what is about to happen. For example he says “come out, come
out wherever you are”. This phrase is used when children play hide and seek and
it is used in this context to scare both the audience and Wendy.He says some lines
from the three little pig’s tale; he says “little pigs little pigs let me come
in”. The way that Jack calls them the pigs and speaks from the wolf’s point of
view is like they are the prey and Jack is the predator. Also with them being
called pigs it’s almost like the bathroom is a pen or enclosure and they are
waiting in there to be slaughtered.
Inside of the bathroom, Wendy is cowering in the corner
against a white tiled wall. This is a Mid-shot to allow the axe coming through
the door to be seen in the same frame as her screaming. Screaming is another convention
of the horror genre and it is often the women who do it. Screaming is often
used to get people attention when they are in trouble and it usually frightens
us when the screams would not be heard. The tag line for the film Alien was “In
space no-one can hear you scream”. In this film it is frightening because they
are so isolated just like Wendy and Danny are in the Shining.
Our intentions for our film, Possessed was for it to be a thriller for people over the age of 15. We did not want to outright scare our audiences but we did want to make them feel uneasy. We did this with the shots that we created, the music that we used and the lack of emotion shown on the main character.
In our film we used a variety of different shots. Our film starts with a forward tracking shot into the bathroom and a panning shot around the room from right to left. At the beginning of the shot there is a door whit a female sign on it clearly showing that the setting is in a girls bathroom. You see the girl standing at the mirror. This was a long shot to see the whole of the girl and the fact that she was alone. There is then a straight cut to an extreme close up on the eye of the girl. The eyes then startle open. We wanted this to make the audience jump. We then zoomed out to show the whole of her face. I feel like we could of emphasized her eyes opening with a dramatic non-diegetic sound post production to startle the audience even more.
We wanted to show the main character as emotionless and a bit detached. We did this with the facial expressions on her face and with that she didn't have any dialogue with anyone. We also made it so that she was the only one in the bathroom at the beginning to show that she was isolated. This was trying to show that she was possessed. We originally wanted her to be the only one in the corridor when she walked through it but obviously that would be difficult as we were filming in a school environment.
In this film we used both diegetic and non-diegetic sound. We used non- diegetic sound with the creepy music that we added to accompany the shots. We wanted it to be soft and very sinister to make the audience on each and anticipating what was going to happen next. The diegetic sound that we used was the banging of the stall doors that we created whilst filming.
