Film Industry - Easter Revision for Year 12

Revision for the Film Industry

1. Film Case Studies

Skyfall (2012) will be our big budget case study, Monsters (2010) will be used as an exemplar case study for a micro-budget film along with Shifty (2008).

Read through the power points and make notes on the production, distribution (& marketing) and exhibition of all three films.

To what extent has digital technology affected the production, distribution & marketing, and exhibition of there films?

Spend about an hour on each film.

Monsters

http://www.monstersfilm.com/

http://www.monstersthemovie.com/monsters.html

Gareth Edwards went on to direct the new Godzilla (2014) movie. Find out more about it here:

http://www.godzillamovie.com

Was there anything interesting about the production, distribution and marketing or exhibition of this film?

G322 case study monsters from Alleyn's School Media Studies Department

Godzilla (2014) quiet marketing

Godzilla (2014) viral marketing

Shifty

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms/film/shifty

Eran Creevy went onto direct Welcome to the Punch (2013).

Was there anything interesting about the production, distribution and marketing or exhibition of this film?

Welcome to the Punch Premiere at Glasgow Film Festival

Shifty : A Case Study from robertclackmedia

G322 Section B Shifty Case Study from Alleyn's School Media Studies Department

Skyfall

http://www.skyfall-movie.com/site/

G322casestudy skyfall from Alleyn's School Media Studies Department

Skyfall DVD Release from Chasen Doerr

Check out the teaser trailer for Spectre:



Ex_Machina

We will also look at the film Ex_Machina (2015) as our art-house 'Indiewood' case study if we have time...

http://exmachina-movie.com

Working Title

If we have time we will also be looking at Working Title Films as a Case Study. It would be very useful for you to watch some Working Title films. There are 'classics' like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually but also more quirky (and less successful) releases like The Boat That Rocked (bad film but good case study). Try and watch at one in the hols...

http://www.workingtitlefilms.com

G322 case study working title Case Stu from Alleyn's School Media Studies Department

Independent Research

I would also like you to do some research of your own. you should spend a couple of hours on this.

Find out more about the small independent UK film production company Warp Films and answer these 4 questions…what kind of films do the produce? For what audience? How do they market and distribute them? Where are you likely to see them?

http://warpfilms.com

2. Film Industry Revision Documentaries

You will be given a DVD containing 4 documentaries on the film industry that cover Production, Distribution, Exhibition and Film Piracy.

You should watch these and make notes on what you think are the key elements.

Each documentary lasts about 25 mins. so this should take you about two and a half hours.

3. Film Industry Revision Booklets

The last of the revision guides for the film industry (on Exhibition, a Case Study on production and distribution of the low budget British film 'My Summer of Love and information on the Film Industry in the Digital Age) are all available on the department's Slideshare account here:

http://www.slideshare.net/mickgoogan/edit_my_uploads?page=1&type=documents

These should take you about 30/40 minutes to read through.

All available at the same location. Here's the booklet on Exhibition to get you started:

07 g322 section b exhibition 2012 from Alleyn's School Media Studies Department

All the booklets are available to download. Which is my way of saying you should download them, read them, make notes and review the questions as knowing a lot about the film industry is the way to get great marks on questions about the, er, Film Industry.

4. Practice Essays

I will give you two practice essays to complete in the three weeks of the holidays. Time yourself and spend one hour writing each.

Here is a break down of the exemplar essay I gave you.

Work hard and you will do well in Media Studies in the summer. Don't do the reading, and watching, and writing, then prepare to underachieve.

Exemplar Essay Plan - Warp Films Research from Alleyn's School Media Studies Department

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A2 Evaluation - Deadlines for the next two weeks

Notes for the next few weeks:

Evaluation Q1. You need to produce a Final Cut film using text and images doing a final analysis of your two final selected/chosen ancillary tasks.

Here's an example of a couple of 4 min videos you could use as examples… - you need to go into more detail to get higher than a 17...

How are you going to choose your final two ancillary tasks? Let the audience decide at the screening? That leaves it rather late.

Evaluation Q2. Are you going with the Director's Commentary idea, intercutting between the three final pieces? Remember to SHOW as well as TELL. Link the use of fonts, graphics, colour, tone etc...


Evaluation Q3. This is what have you learned from your audience feedback - so you need to do lots of audience feedback…

You should already have vox pops on your drafts magazines and posters. Comment on these.

Use your Facebook page to get feedback on the three posters and magazine. Comment and analyse this.

Create an online survey to gain further information. What have you learnt.

Audience Screening - Monday 16th March.

Remember you need to produce two questionnaires - one quantitative before asking about viewing habits, the qualitative one for after reflecting on your film. Film the screening and be prepared for a Q&A session at the end.

Here's Willa's from last year...


Evaluation Q4. - This can be a collaborative effort.

I'll add some notes to this later this week.

Final deadline Friday 20th March - I need a week of Postmodern Media revision with you before Easter.