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Production, Distribution and Exhibition

Production
Many years ago films were produced in black and white and only with a sound track. They were more of a comedy sketch. In 1902 tinted films were made, this was the first step towards coloured films. The first sound-on-film took place in New York City in April 1923. The only editing that took place was adding a sound track. However editing now consists of changing the lighting, editing the transitions and cuts, many different types of sounds, the biggest change to sound was dialogue. Cameras became more high-tec and were able to zoom in and out. Other devises like the crane helped form different types of camera work.
Distribution
In the 1900’s the only way you could watch a motion was on the spinner. Since then it had progressed. The first moving pictures were developed in 1889 and shown in Hyde Park. Since then cinemas have become popular and is still the most common way to view a film. The marketing of a film has changed dramatically, it used done by using posters or billboards. However now it’s on the internet, radio, TV and other technology like mobile phones.
Exhibition
A spindle viewer was one way, many years ago people would view moving image. This is where a spinner with gaps spins fast so the pictures on the inside would make a moving image. The very first type of exhibition was the hand held, lightweight device that was cranked my hand. This was created by the Lumiere brothers. The films were 17 metres long and run for approximly 50 seconds. The craze over the internet means people can now view films online, illegal or legal. There are many websites that allow the public to download or stream online. Another way people view films in through piracy. This is an illegal act where a film in the cinema is filmed, then copied and sold. Video and DVD is the legal way a film is sold. Technology has now evolved so you can see films on mobile phones, play stations and iPods.

Attack The Block and Cowboys & Alliens

Attack the Block


Cowboys and Aliens

Universal

Founded: April 30, 1912 in New York by Carl Buttman.

Get him to the Greek

Released: 4th June 2011
Director: Nicholas Stroller
Writer: Nicholas Stroller
Stars: Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Elisabeth Moss, Rose Byrne, Diddy, Colm Meaney

Producer: Judd Apatow, Joshua Blake, Nicholas Stoller

Distributer: Univeral Pictures

Budget: $40 million

Gross Revenue: £91 million

Nanny McPhee

Released: 26th March 2011
Director: Susanna White

Writer: Emma Tompson

Stars: Emma Thompson, Rhys Ifans, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Asa Butterfield, Ewan McGregor 

Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lindsay DoranDistributer: Univeral Pictures

Budget: $44 million

Gross Revenue: £48 million

Charlie St. Cloud

Released: 30th July 2011

Director: Burr Steers

Writer: Craig Pearce

Stars: Zac Efron, Kim Basinger, Ray Liotta, Amanda CrewProducer: Marc Platt, Ben Sherwood 

Distributer: Univeral Pictures

Budget: $35 million

Gross Revenue: £93 million

Poster Comparison

Get to the Greek is a film made by Universal Studios in 2010. The poster is quite simplistic so it's hard to form am idea of what the film is about. The pose that the character holds suggests the film has an aspect of rock to it as he is holding up a typical rock star pose. The poster includes of the star, Russel Brand. The target audience would be his previous fans who are excited to see him pursue an acting career. The pose the other character, Jonah Hill holds connotes the idea he is maybe frightened or optimistic about the character behind him, however they are close so they must have some level of friendship, this forms an idea that the film's genre may be comedy. The mise-en-scene also helps form the idea it’s a comedy with rock aspect. The skull rings, black long hair, and black bracelets all suggest he is a rock star in the film. Jonah Hill, is in a suit, which suggests he is more formal and has a normal career. Universal Studios usually has big names celebrities in their films and on the poster to attract the audience.

 Shaun of the Dead is a film made by Big Talk Productions in 2011.The poster shows a clear genre of the film, which is horror and comedy. The mise-en-scene helps show this through the colourless zombies, and Simon Pegg amongst the zombies looking more confused than scared holding flowers. The poster is mainly red and black. Red signifies, danger as well as romance. This is significant to the red blood the zombies will want, and the romance of the film, as Simon Pegg in holding flowers. Black signifies darkness, and as many horror films include, is darkness. Big Talk Productions are a smaller company and Simon Pegg appeared in and written three films from Big Talk Productions, which shows he is closely involved with Big Talk Productions.

Big Talk Productions

Big talk productions was first created in 1995.
Kenton Allen runs the company
Big Talk is a production company that makes films and TV programmes
They have made Shuan of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Paul, Attack of the Block, and Sightseers due to be releaed in 2011.

- Name of the film
- date of release
- Director, writer(s), stars
- Producer(s)
- Distributer
- Budget
- Gross revenue

Shuan of the Dead
Released: 2003
Director: Edgar Wright
Writer: Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg
Stars: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighly, Penelope Wilton
Producer: Nira Park
Distributer: Universal Pictures
Budget: $5,000,000
Gross Revenue: $30,039,392


Hot Fuzz
Released: 14th Febuary 2007
Director: Edgar Wright
Writer: Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg
Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent
Producer: Nira Park, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Distributer: Universal Pictures
Budget: $8,000,000
Gross Revenue: $23,637,265


Attack of the Block
Released: 13th May 2011
Director: Joe Cornish
Writer: Joe Cornish
Stars: Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh
Producer: Nira Park, James Wilson
Distributer: Optimum Releasing
Budget: £9,000,000
Gross Revenue: £3,442,302

Film Industory; Josh & Sophie

Idea :

According to Wikipedia, an idea is just whatever is before the mind when one thinks. Very often, ideas are construed as represented images; i.e. images of some  objects.

An idea can come into a producer's mind about a particular image or scene, then more images related to the original scene springs up and these are all sewn together to form a pre-production. But a pre-production can only be achieved after an original idea has been put in place.

Pre-production:

One of the first stages of pre-production is the ability of the producer to identify a theme to the story, whilst working with script writers to form a synopsis. Afterwards a step outline is produced to further break the movie down into a paragraphic sequence to focus more on the story description.

Funding:

Money needed for the film production can be provided by film-investors. Some movies are funded by co-producers. The funding of a movie is necessary as it would help the movie hit the screens. The money needed to produce the movie, get actors and use scenes are all included in the funding. In most times, film investors get back thier money with profits. Again this all depends on how much is made at the movie box office.

Production is the process that makes the film. This is where all  the ideas come together on set with the actors and filming is completed. Post production is after the filming has finished and the shooting comes together. This consist of video editing, special effects, colour correction, making and adding the sound track and other sound effects.

Distribution and marketing are linked. Distribution is where the film becomes connected with the audience in some way. However a distributer is needed before a film can be distributed. The finished film is distributed into the market. The film has to be marketed to different areas, first it needs to be marketed to the exhibitors where the distributer needs to interest the theatre so the film is shown at their theatre/cinema. It then needs to get marketed to  the audience, where trailers are shown to publicize the film. The box office is commonly the first place the audience can see the film. Other marketing ideas are posters, adverts in magazines and creating a website for the film.

Exhibition is where the tickets are sold at the box office to the public. After a film has been released in the cinema, there is a brief period of time before the film can be seen again. 12 - 16 weeks is the average time before the film in shown on premium channels and then, after another brief period of time, they are shown on the nomal channels eg. channel 4. Films can also be shown on the internet however there is alot of illegal downloading of films.