20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

 

20th Century Fox

 

Twentieth Century fox film corporation is one of the six major american film studios as of 2011. Their Headquaters is in California, United States. The founders are Joseph Schenck and darryl Zanuck, it was founded on 31st May 1935, it was a merger of Fox films (founded in 1915) and 20th Century Pictures (founded in 1933). The key people now are Rupert Murdock who is the chairman and Daniel Tayne who is the president. The products that Twentieth century fox preduce are Motion pictures and Televison films.
Twenieth Century Fox have distributed alot of commercially successful film series, these include Star Wars, Ice age, Die Hard, X-Men, Planet of the Apes, Fantastic Four, Alien and Predator.
The television series produced by Fox include The simpsons, The X files, Family Guy, Glee and Buddy the vampire slayer.

Certificate research

There are 6 main certificates for films according to the British certificates since 2009, they allow and forbid certain people to watch films due to age restrictions.
The certificates are the following:

This certificate's Name is Universal. This means that the film is suitable for all ages and that the younger generation does not need to be accompanied by an adult. However before 2009 there used to be a certificate which was Uc. This was suitable for all, but especially suitable for young children to watch on their own. But because the certificate U pretty much covered this they scrapped this from 2009 onward.

The name of this certificate is Parental Guidance. This is for general viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children. So this leaves the parents to decide whether they accompany their child or not.







The name of this certificate is 12 Accompanied/ Advisory. This means that it is suitable for those aged 12 and older (cinema only) so this is only used in the cinema not on films or TV programmes that you watch/buy;under 12s admitted, but only if accompanied by an adult








The name of this certificate is just 12. This is suitable for those aged 12 and older (non cinema only) So this is not used in the cinema only when buying films etc.








The name of this certificate is just 15. This is suitable for those aged 15 and older and the person does not need to be accompanied by an adult. Sometimes if this were to be used in a cinema or when buying/renting a film then they may get asked for id.

The name of this certificate is just 18.It is listed on films and TV programs. and is suitable for those who are 18 an older. This probably because the scenes that are within the film may be unsuitable/violent for those who are at a younger age.

Film Settings for Ed ryan and myself

The settings for our film:

Beginning: 0- 40 seconds:

In the opening few seconds of our film, the audience get to see the real discrete location for the high profile deal taking place.
The reason for this discrete location is because the deal is going to have a lot of money taking place and so having it in an easy visible place could cause problems for the dealers.

Middle: 41 sec- 1min 20sec:

As the deal has taken place but has gone horribly wrong, the runner decides to head towards more people hoping to blend in and hide from the chasers.
The settings of these scenes keep changing as they are going at a fast pace through the town.
After a few scenes of chasing down alley ways and in between buildings, the runner does not make it and is caught by one of the chasers.

End: 1min 21sec:

As one of the chasers finds the runner he holds a gun to his head. they are still in a discrete location and so the runner can’t do anything it except hand the package back over.
As they have a stand-off the scene goes black and then the audience hear the sound of a bullet. This means that one of them has died in this location.

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures



paramount pictures:

Paramount pictures are a Film and television priduction/distribution studio, consistently ranked as one of the largest film studios. It is subsidiary of U.S. media conglomerate Viacom, paramount is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. It has distributed various commercially successful film series, such as Shrek, Star Trek, Jackass, Indiana Jones, Kung-fu-panda.

Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the worls behind Universal Studios, Nordisk Film, Pathé, and Garumont Film Company. It is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood disstrict of Los Angeles. Paramount dates its ecistence from 1912 founding datt of the Famous Players FIlm Company. Founder Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working class imigrants

Universal studios

Universal Studios



Universal Studios

Universal Studios is an American Motion picture studio, owned by Comcast. It was founded on 30th April 1912. The founders were Caerl Laemmle, Pat Powers, mark Dintenfass, William Swanson, David Horsley, Charles Baumann, Adam Kessel and Jules Brulatour.

Universal studios serves world wide and has 4 different locations accros the world;America California and Florida, Japan and Singapore.

Universal is the fourth oldest Institution in that world that still has continuous production. And is in the top six major movie studios. Their Revenue is $4.239 billion in 2011 and their operation income is $27 million (2011).

Warner Bros

Warner Bros

Warner Bros

Warner Bros is an American film producer of Film, Television, Music and Entertainment. It was first founded in 1923. The founder of it were 4 brothe named Albert, Harry, Jack and Sam Warner

The head quaters of them is in Burbank, California, U.S.A.
They are a global leader in creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing of all forms of entertainment and their related businesses

Questionnaire – Question 6

Questionnaire – Question 5

Questionnaire – Question 4

Questionnaire – Question 3

Questionnaire - Question 2

Questionnaire - Question 1

In our film we chose to do a chase scene, because it is fast paced allowing the spectators to fill energised in the beginning. Also we preferred to do a chase scene and so did the participants of the questionnaire.

Action genre

romance Genre

Codes and convections

Three act narrative structure

Predictable narrative content (follows format)

15 or 18’s age rating (mostly male audience)

Clear binary opposition’s e.g. good V evil

Use of low key lighting, Use CGI, FX

Dominate representation of gender: male villain, the female victim

Extensive use of close up, Point of view shots, low angle shots

Young/teenage characters

Use of hand held camera: audience Identification

 

Questionnaire

The Exploit Questionnaire

 

                  

1. What is your favourite action thriller film?

 

2. What opening would you prefer?

a) Fight scene

b) Chase scene

c) Other (Please state)

 

3. What setting do you prefer?

a) Urban

b) Rural

 

4. What type of style of fighting do you prefer?

a) Jackie Chan and jet Li

b) James Bond and Jason Bourne

c) Sherlock Holmes

 

5. Do you prefer an action to be based on reality?

a) Yes

b) No

 

6. What do you prefer an action to be based on?

a) Agents

b) Criminal perspective

c)  A normal citizen

d) other (please state)

 

7. How would you like a film to end?

a) Cliff-hanger

b) Hero beats villain

c) A twist

 

 

Costume research

There will be two types of costumes which the actors will be wearing during the first opening two minutes of the film.
The first type will be suits. This will be for the Villain and the Hero who are the two main characters in the opening two minutes. The hero who is a undercover agent who is looking through the villains eyes will be wearing a light suite to show that he is the good guy out of the two people who will be in the scene. This is because he is going under cover and will be doing business with a Man who is quite powerful and you would want to look quite respectable when dealing with someone like him. The villain will be wearing dark colors probably a black suit because that is what you usually get villains wearing in action movies.
The Suit will look quite similar to this:

Its a grey suit and will be perfect for the agent to wear as its smart and its something that we already have to hand so we won't have to buy it from online or anything.









The Villain will be wearing a suit that will probably be completely black. This'll show that he is the bad person in the first two minutes being that he is in all black like most villains are. For example.









For the people who are chasing the Agent in the alleys they will be wearing hoodies and genes/track suit bottoms as they technically have an importance in the film and so we will not need to see their faces hence why having a hoodie on with the hood up will be showing that they are the hench man of the villain.

Props for The Exploit

Props

• Guns (pistol)
• (maybe knives)

The guns will painted black to make them look more realistic and will only given to our main characters in are opening, because we do not have enough gun props to allow all characters to have them, plus their is no need for them too have them.

 

• Briefcase

Briefcase is the main attention and is the reason why the chase is happening however in the opening it will never be opened, this is to create suspence in the audience.

• fake money for exchange - if needed.

We may use fake money, during are flashback during the meeting while making the exchange. Most likely monopoly money.

• Earpiece.

We will use an earpiece to make our main character look more realistic at his role of being an agent.  Also if we wish to add more dialogue we could make it so he communicating to someone.

opening of James bond

In the beginning of the opening  of James Bond, Skyfall, it starts of with introducing the companies that represent and help create this action thriller film sequel. This helps to relies the expectation of the film from the start based on the other films/t.v programs the companies may of created. It then opens up with a black screen with non-digetic sound in the background which gives off a curious feeling.

There then appears a silhouette of  a human figure at the end of the dark hall. They use a long perspective with a middle angle view to give off a mysterious feeling.  The silhouette then slowly approaches which tells us the figure is trying to move stealthily and quietly. The figure appears ( now slowly becoming a close-up shot), showing us a man in a suit, holding a gun. This tells that the man is wealthy and has  a job involving crime, however still unknown if he is with crime or against it. His job is dangerous so the man consist of being courageous, brave and strong, which is a conformed stereotype of a man.

He then heads towards a room. Using the tracking shot they follow Bond into the dark lit room where there lies two dead bodies on the floor with blood oozing out. You now instantly know that the film is an action based thriller, which symbolises it is for a male audience 12 - onwards.

After the dialogue James goes to assist a man called Rohnson, the camera shows that Bond has more dominance than Rohnson because James is standing above him, however James Bond then crouches down which indicates that they are equal and most likely friends.

The camera is then positioned into a shot reverse shot to show a close up of each actors facial expressions. It starts of with Bond facial expression, which is pity and forgiveness for Rohnson. It then switches to Rohnson, showing that he has an understanding but still scared facial expression. James Bond then stands back up to continue on the mission he was assigned, leaving Rohnson behind due to the orders of the female speaking to bond through the headset.

Indiana jones raiders of the lost ark

Annotation of Indiana jones raiders of the lost ark

In the first two minutes of the film you straight away realize that it is an action and adventure film because the first ever cut scene you see that the characters are in the tropical rainforest. The music also starts straight away with a slow tempo and low base which gives of a sinister feel to movie. Then the characters then enter with torn clothes, this shows that they have come through trouble and has taken effort to get where they are at the beginning of the film.



Target audience in a action thriller

1) What is your gender?
2) How old are you?
3) Do you like action thriller films? ( If not, why?)
4) What setting do you expect from a action thriller?
5) Why do you like action thrillers?
6) What age range do you expect from from an action thriller?
7) What is an action thriller film?`
8) What is your favorite action thriller film?
9) Who is your favorite actor/actress and why?
10)  What do you look for in a action thriller genre?

Ed's and my Media short clip.

 

in your evaluation commenton your choice of setting, situation, relationship between the characters and dialogue?

shots that we should of be included. match on section, shot reverse shot, the 180 degree rule?

what shots did you use?

how effective were they?

were the cuts clear and seemless?

 

My personal opinion is that I find are clip is too short and will only make real sense to us. We could have used more dialogue to help the audience understand what it’s about. However we have used a range of camera perspectives to make the clip more interesting because it gives of more opinions and details. We started off with a mid-shot when my colleague enters through an old wooden door. When he is walking across the room we used a tracking shot to symbolise the speed he is walking at. For when my associate approaches me in the clip I am currently sitting down, with an over the shoulder shot to show what my view of what is currently is happening. We then go into a shot reverse shot alternating between my first line and Ed’s first line, this so then you can see who is talking and you will be able to hear the actors speak clearly. The final shot we used in are clip was a high angle shot with Ed and I both in the scene and I say the last line, however we should off used a low angle shot to show that we have dominance and control of what we were planning.