Thursday, 26 January 2012
Monday, 5 December 2011
Film4 fact file
The controller of Fim4 is Tessa Ross.
It's a production house and a channel that produces and broadcastrs alternate films.
In 2006, the channel moved from pay TV to being free-to-air allowing more free access to home grown and blockbuster films.
It used to be a subscription-only service, mainly available to UK cable networks, costing £5.99 or £6.00 monthly, eventually going up to £7.00. It ended on 19 July 2006. Due to the changes, the channel's availability increased from 300,000 subscribers to around 18 million households. The broadcasting hours had changed too (12:45 - 08:45), and commercial breaks were added during films for the first time.
Channel4.com/film - Users can find a wealth of reviews, listings and interviews.
Film4 philosophy - "Commited to enhancing the British film making industry by nurturing and funding new talent." It offers a distinctive range of mainstream and independemt films "encouraging audiences to broaden their horizons" and by making and showing alternate films.
2002 - Big change. Financial worries lead to a need to boost annual investment through a third party. Film 4 announced that it would no longer be distributing its own films.
Channel 4 budget rise of 50% from 2011 to £15 million per year, guaranteed for the next five years. (Used to be £7.5 million per year).
The increased budget will provide the the domestic film industry with a financial boost following the governments decision to close the UK film council.
"At a time when funding is increasingly difficut to access it will allow us to extend our reach further towards new voices and new audiences" - Tessa Ross.
Film4 make 6new films a year.
In addition, they have set up a low budget studio with a film council and distributors optimum (Subsidiary) - warpx (a digital production house)
Working access TV and film drama also allows for economies of scale and cross-fertalisation.
Tessa Ross ees Film4 as part of a wider creative community working with, e.g. working title, the BBC and BBC film, and partnerships with distribution companies as essential.
Success:
Film4 have won 5 oscars in 4 years, and 3 BAFTA awards in 2007 alone.
28 nominations for its films for this year’s British Independent Film Awards, (2011)
Reaches 8.3 million ABC1's a month, with an upmarket(42%) and male(55%) profile.
Since 1982, Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years.
- My beautiful Laundrette,
- Trainspotting,
- Shallow grave,
- East is East,
- The motorcyle Diaries,
- Touching the void,
- This is England,
- The last king of Scotland,
- Slumdog Millionaire,
- 127 hours,
- In brudges,
- Hunger,
- Another year,
- Never let me go,
- Four lions,
- WEDS.
Latest/Key Directors
- Danny Boyles
- Martin Mcdonagh
- Steve Mcqueen
- Mike Leigh
- Mark Romanek
- Chris Morris
- Peter Mullen
Digital initiatives under the brand nanner of film 4.0 - Film 4.0 - it's aim will be to find new talent, discover neew ways of making, marketing and distributing films and engaging news audiences online in a multi platform enviroment.
It's a production house and a channel that produces and broadcastrs alternate films.
In 2006, the channel moved from pay TV to being free-to-air allowing more free access to home grown and blockbuster films.
It used to be a subscription-only service, mainly available to UK cable networks, costing £5.99 or £6.00 monthly, eventually going up to £7.00. It ended on 19 July 2006. Due to the changes, the channel's availability increased from 300,000 subscribers to around 18 million households. The broadcasting hours had changed too (12:45 - 08:45), and commercial breaks were added during films for the first time.
Channel4.com/film - Users can find a wealth of reviews, listings and interviews.
Film4 philosophy - "Commited to enhancing the British film making industry by nurturing and funding new talent." It offers a distinctive range of mainstream and independemt films "encouraging audiences to broaden their horizons" and by making and showing alternate films.
2002 - Big change. Financial worries lead to a need to boost annual investment through a third party. Film 4 announced that it would no longer be distributing its own films.
Channel 4 budget rise of 50% from 2011 to £15 million per year, guaranteed for the next five years. (Used to be £7.5 million per year).
The increased budget will provide the the domestic film industry with a financial boost following the governments decision to close the UK film council.
"At a time when funding is increasingly difficut to access it will allow us to extend our reach further towards new voices and new audiences" - Tessa Ross.
Film4 make 6new films a year.
In addition, they have set up a low budget studio with a film council and distributors optimum (Subsidiary) - warpx (a digital production house)
Working access TV and film drama also allows for economies of scale and cross-fertalisation.
Tessa Ross ees Film4 as part of a wider creative community working with, e.g. working title, the BBC and BBC film, and partnerships with distribution companies as essential.
Success:
Film4 have won 5 oscars in 4 years, and 3 BAFTA awards in 2007 alone.
28 nominations for its films for this year’s British Independent Film Awards, (2011)
Reaches 8.3 million ABC1's a month, with an upmarket(42%) and male(55%) profile.
Since 1982, Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years.
- My beautiful Laundrette,
- Trainspotting,
- Shallow grave,
- East is East,
- The motorcyle Diaries,
- Touching the void,
- This is England,
- The last king of Scotland,
- Slumdog Millionaire,
- 127 hours,
- In brudges,
- Hunger,
- Another year,
- Never let me go,
- Four lions,
- WEDS.
Latest/Key Directors
- Danny Boyles
- Martin Mcdonagh
- Steve Mcqueen
- Mike Leigh
- Mark Romanek
- Chris Morris
- Peter Mullen
Digital initiatives under the brand nanner of film 4.0 - Film 4.0 - it's aim will be to find new talent, discover neew ways of making, marketing and distributing films and engaging news audiences online in a multi platform enviroment.
Sunday, 4 December 2011
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Improved exam answer
Camera shots are used to show different situations and character relationships and feelings. The establishing shot shows a country setting and the next shot shows a character. In the foreground we see Paul and another character in a shabby hat and in the background we see other middle aged working class characters all similarly dressed. This long shot shows the community at work and shows the close relationship between all the men.
The headmaster is smartly dressed in a jacket and v neck jumper covering a shirt and tie. This shows that he is well off and suggests that he is middle class. His language and posture shows an authority which comes with age. His manners while speaking to a younger person shows that he has power. The girl Sam is at the opposite end of the spectrum. She is shown as a timid character by the camera angles and the close up facial expressions of worry. We know she is young because she wears fashionable clothes rather than work clothes. The Extract is set in Scotland where A Girl is obviously staying with another family. It Is Soon discovered she has run away from home and is not the Age she has claimed to be. It hints towards this before we (the audience) are even told. When she hesitates whilst driving a car that she says she can drive...The man ‘Paul McDonald’ is the older character who is like the father figure to the girl he is shown as a cleche man of the house character. He works as some kind of builder as he is shown at the beginning carrying some tools. When he finds out the girl has lied to him he reacts in a way that most teenagers can relate towards their parents...when the girl and the man [are seen] the camera seems to be at a lower angle of the man showing his superiority as an adult whereas the girl is viewed at a higher angle looking down at her representing inferiority.
One way the extract represents age is the way that nearly all the men on the building site are probably 30+, which coincides with the ideology that only older men are into DIY. When we see the headmaster the camera is pointing slightly upwards which signifies that with age comes importance; and that he has been at the school for a long time. The general mise en scene of the school suggests that it is a well-established school that has probably been there for quite a long time. From a camera work perspective the younger people are rarely seen on their own and when they often don’t have much on screen time. This matches the ideology that ‘children must be seen and not heard’ which influences the audiences thoughts to focus on if the director does not believe that children are very important or central characters.
Mise en scene is extremely important such as the character costumes and props, most of the characters are wearing outdoor lumberjack outfits which connote masculinity and outdoor work. However the girl within the clip is the only character wearing normal feminine clothing. Her top is cream which has connotations with purity and innocence. This reinforces her youth when she is juxtaposed with the older characters, therefore creating representations of age His red tie could represent danger and oppositional rivalry between the younger girl and himself. The establishing shot shows the Scottish highlands and scenery, showing the audience the drama is set in a rural place. The old brick buildings give a traditional old feeling to the drama, suggesting the girl is out of place within a place meant for the older generation.
The headmaster is smartly dressed in a jacket and v neck jumper covering a shirt and tie. This shows that he is well off and suggests that he is middle class. His language and posture shows an authority which comes with age. His manners while speaking to a younger person shows that he has power. The girl Sam is at the opposite end of the spectrum. She is shown as a timid character by the camera angles and the close up facial expressions of worry. We know she is young because she wears fashionable clothes rather than work clothes. The Extract is set in Scotland where A Girl is obviously staying with another family. It Is Soon discovered she has run away from home and is not the Age she has claimed to be. It hints towards this before we (the audience) are even told. When she hesitates whilst driving a car that she says she can drive...The man ‘Paul McDonald’ is the older character who is like the father figure to the girl he is shown as a cleche man of the house character. He works as some kind of builder as he is shown at the beginning carrying some tools. When he finds out the girl has lied to him he reacts in a way that most teenagers can relate towards their parents...when the girl and the man [are seen] the camera seems to be at a lower angle of the man showing his superiority as an adult whereas the girl is viewed at a higher angle looking down at her representing inferiority.
One way the extract represents age is the way that nearly all the men on the building site are probably 30+, which coincides with the ideology that only older men are into DIY. When we see the headmaster the camera is pointing slightly upwards which signifies that with age comes importance; and that he has been at the school for a long time. The general mise en scene of the school suggests that it is a well-established school that has probably been there for quite a long time. From a camera work perspective the younger people are rarely seen on their own and when they often don’t have much on screen time. This matches the ideology that ‘children must be seen and not heard’ which influences the audiences thoughts to focus on if the director does not believe that children are very important or central characters.
Mise en scene is extremely important such as the character costumes and props, most of the characters are wearing outdoor lumberjack outfits which connote masculinity and outdoor work. However the girl within the clip is the only character wearing normal feminine clothing. Her top is cream which has connotations with purity and innocence. This reinforces her youth when she is juxtaposed with the older characters, therefore creating representations of age His red tie could represent danger and oppositional rivalry between the younger girl and himself. The establishing shot shows the Scottish highlands and scenery, showing the audience the drama is set in a rural place. The old brick buildings give a traditional old feeling to the drama, suggesting the girl is out of place within a place meant for the older generation.
Monday, 21 November 2011
Sunday, 6 November 2011
Evaluation of 'Working Title's' website
Homepage
On the homepage, there are a few choices of film pages, for example, Paul, Johnny English, Billy Elliott, Senna etc.
It's easy to use, and looks professional. Due to the fact that they're joined with universal, the working title's website has a lot of things that other websites don't have.
It gives you easy access to other pages, for example, films, trailers, news etc.
On the homepage, there are a few choices of film pages, for example, Paul, Johnny English, Billy Elliott, Senna etc.
It's easy to use, and looks professional. Due to the fact that they're joined with universal, the working title's website has a lot of things that other websites don't have.
It gives you easy access to other pages, for example, films, trailers, news etc.
Doug Bihlmaier
Our first thoughts of Doug Bihlmaier, is that he's a tramp, because of the way that he dresses.
Grey beard, scratty hair, jacket from bin, holes in trousers, dirty shoes, hat hiding face, alone-avoided, smoking a tab, rolled up trousers, are they too long?
Meditation - The way the media represents an idea to us.
Critisms- Stereotypes over-look the individual
Place people in groups
qualities often exaggerated which lead to a caricature.
Leon Festinger came up with the idea of cognitive dissonance, which is when you can't accept that you're wrong.
Media gives us the wrong impression at times.
We thought Doug Bihlmaier was a tramp, but in reality he's a fashion guy for Ralph Lauren. He likes to dress this way.
He's head of vintage, and ignores the idea of how people with good jobs should look like, and dresses in his own style. Those who are unaware of who he is, automatically assume that because of how he dresses, and how he looks, he's a tramp.But once they find out who he is, their idea of fashion might change and they'd associate certain parts of what he's wearing with fashion, for example the patches.
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