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

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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