Monday 30 April 2012

Revision

Current box office chart:
Titanic: Budget: $200,000,000.  Opening Weekend:$28,638,131 (2674 Screens).Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Paramount Pictures. In 3D.
The hunger games: Facebook/twitter pages. Budget:$78,000,000. Opening Weekend:$152,535,747. (4137 Screens) Gross:$336,666,363.(soundtracks by mariah carey)
Mirror mirror-the untold adventures of snow white: Facebook pages, Budget:$85,000,000, Opening Weekend:$2,514,673, Gross:$49,316,185
Battleship: Budget:$200,000,000  Opening Weekend:€2,137,456 420 screens. Gross:€3,559,907. soundtrack sugarbabes. Big actress-Rhianna.
Gone: Opening Weekend: $4,770,360.(2186 Screens) Gross:$11,653,123.


Cinema listing by the big 6:
men in black3 3D- columbia
The lucky one- Warner bros

Monday 23 January 2012

The vow

The vow is to be released 10th Febuary.
Advertised:

-Trailer http://www.empirecinemas.co.uk/index.php?page=forthcomingreleases (More than one)
-Twitter
-Facebook
-Youtube
-Billboards

The use in digital technology in marketing:
-Empire cinema app
-There own website
-Trailer shwoing on television

The USP (unique selling point):
-Released around about valentines day so it fits with the genre of the film
-Released also in half term
-Inspired by true events so it could link with the audience

Distributor/production & significance(are they conglomerate( large coperations that owns a range of media industries from different parts of the media e.g. internet/ tv e.g. DISNEY OWN PIXAR):
-Distrubuter Sony pictures
-Production co: screen gems, spyglass entertainment.

Opening weekend figures:

Synergy:

Significance of the stars:
Both of the main stars are very well known they have stared in many films which were welll known and sold a lot. So many

Friday 20 January 2012

Summary:State your understanding of the following using paranormal activity as a case study.

The impact on new technology on media industries:-Apps for your mobile
-Facebook/twitter links to get onto the films website

-TV to show the trailers
-internet

The transformation of distrubution and marketing strategies by media institutions:
 -Teasers
-Social networking sites
-made there own website

The use of new technology to facilitate more accurate targeting of specific audiences:
 -placed videos of the audiences reaction rather than clips of the film
-demand button on the website
-Facebook/twitter
-able to comment on the different clips
-Able to post there own videos of themself on the website.
 How audiences embrace the use of new digital media technologies
-3D films are now in place
-smell-o-vision
-IMAX
-HD

Friday 13 January 2012

What films have you watched and where?
Hangover 2-Watched it on a DVD at home, The genre is comedy it's country of orgin was America. The budget was $80 million. The main stars to this film is Bradley Cooper
Ed Helms,Zach Galifianakis,Justin Bartha.
Inbetweeners movie-Watched it on DVD. The genre is gross out teen humor, The country orgin was UK, The main stars were Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and its budget was £3.5 million.
New years eve- Watched in the cinema. Its genre was a romantic comedy.The country of orgin was the Unitied States, Its main stars were Halle Berry, Jessica Biel,Jon Bon Jovi,Abigail Breslin,Chris "Ludacris" Bridges,Robert De Niro,Josh Duhamel,Zac Efron,Héctor Elizondo,Katherine Heigl,Ashton Kutcher,Seth Meyers,Lea Michele,Sarah Jessica Parker,Michelle Pfeiffer,Til Schweiger,Hilary Swank,Sofía Vergara and there budget was $56 million.
Cinderella story- Watched on DVD, its genre is a comedy family romance. Its budget was  $19 million. Its main stars were Chad michael murray and hilary duff. Its country of orgin was America.
The holiday- Was watched on ITV2. Its genre is comedy romance and its budget was $85 million. Its main stars were Kate winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude law and jack black. Its country of orgin is America.
Magdalene sisters- Was watched on DVD and its genre is a drama. Its main stars are Anne-Marie Duff,Nora Jane Noone,Dorothy Duffy,Geraldine McEwan,Eileen Walsh. Its budget was $20,957,001. The country of origin was ireland united kingdom.
Hannah montana movie-Was watched on DVD, its budget was $35 million. Its genre was adventure comedy family muscial. Its main stars were Miley cyrus, Billy ray cyrus. Its country of origin was Teenesse and Los Angeles.
Finding Nemo-  Was watched on sky movies, its main stars are Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould. Its budget was $94 million. Its country of orgin was America. Its genre was a comedy drama.
Bridesmaids-Was watched on DVD. Its main stars are Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne. Its budget was $32,500,000. Its country of orgin was USA and its genre was Comedy.
Dirty Dancing- Was watched on DVD, its genre was drama musical romance. Its main stars were patrick swayze, Jenifer grey and Jerry Orbach. Its budget was $6,000,000 and its country of orgin was USA.


















 


Top 10 UK box office:
  • Mission impossible- Ghost protocol.
  • Sherlock holmes
  • The iron lady
  • The girl with the dragon tattoo
  • Alvin and the chipmunks
  • Puss in boots
  • Goon
  • The atrist
  • The new years eve
  • Hugo
New releases:
  • Haywire
  • 3D underworld
  • J.Edgar
  • .E
  • The sitter
  • Coriolanous
  • 3D monster in paris
  • The enchanted island
  • the descendants
  • Intruders
By all the films we have wrote about above most audiences prefer to watch comedy rather than anything else. The more important and well known the stars are the more people will want to watch the film. Things like the inbetweeners have a series out before the film so people know what the film will be like so if they know what its like more people will want to watch it and the series was such a hit so it was obvious the film would of been well known. Also if it was a second part of a film and the first part was good more people will want to go watch the second film.

Friday 6 January 2012

The inbetweeners movie.

Genre: Comedy
Overview: Four socially troubled 18 year olds from the south of England go on holiday to Malia

Director(s): Ben Palmer
Production company/companies:Bwark production & Young films.
Any other companies involved: Film 4 (funding)
When was this realeased? Is this a significant time? 17th of August 2011. Yes this is a significant time as it's the time when most people are going on holiday.
How many screens was it shown on here and the USA? In the uk there was 475 screens.
Trailer- This trailer shows a funny film from the begining. It also shows regular 18 year olds on a first boys holiday. I Think this trailer was very successful because when you watch it you instantly want to know what else is going to happen. Also it must have been successful as there was so many tickets sold.Trailer - what sort of narrative expectations do you develop?  How successful do you consider the trailer to be?  Look at the full length trailer and the teaser trailer if there is one.
The film is a happy funny sort of film it makes the viewers realise the comedy in the film. Also it shows how teenagers are on holiday. Is very successful as it shows clips from the film from the beginning of the film to the end. Gives the viewer better idea of whats actually going to happen on the film. The trailer highlights the funny parts to make viewers want to go watch it.
Poster campaign (again, might include a teaser poster with ltd information) - how does it sell the film?  Consider the mise en scene and information given
consider the use of the internet in the marketing of the film - what sort of things were
done?
It sells the film by putting punchlines which makes you want to watch it and know what is means such as 'the summer 4 boys become men' this makes you want to watch it and find out how they have became men. Also it highlights the main cast in the film. Its all in bright colours so it stands out.

Was/Is there any merchandise available alongside the film, or promos in the way of things like happy meals/giveaways/competitions
There was a soundtrack CD to go with the film.

was there a soundtrack?  Is there any significance/relationship to who the artist is or what the song is?
Sean kingston- party all night is the soundtrack, There is significance to the song and film because the song links with a typical boys holiday.

who are the audience, what are their needs and how have they been targetted?
The audience is 15+ and they have been targetted perfectly as the film was based at college on the first bit of the film this relates to most of the audience. Also a lot of the audience will have gone on holidays with just friends and be able to relate to the way they go on. Also because of the comedy in this film it will relate to the audience.

what was the commercial (i.e. $ + £) and critical success (reviewers responses) of the film?