British and American cinema

US Blockbuster- Doctor Strange (2016)
Budget - $165 million
Box office - $617.7 million
Stars - Featured famous actors such as Benedict Cumberbatch
Genre - Comic book movie/action/sci-fi
Production company - Marvel studios
Certificate - 12A
Marketing - Went onto talk shows, Trailers shown in movies and on TV, Advertised itself within other films in the Marvel cinematic Universe.
Release date - Initial release 13th October 2016 in Hong Kong, UK release date 25th October 2016, US release date October 13th 2016
Reviews - IMDb 7.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes 91%, Metacritic 72%

UK production - Spectre (James Bond) (2015)
Budget - $245 million
Stars - Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz
Genre - Action, Adventure, Thriller
Box office - $880.7 million
Production company - EON Productions
Certificate - 12
Marketing - Collaboration with aston martin to make 50th anniversary car (DB10), promoted film during Mexican grand prix on cars. Released still images on blogs and other forms of media, and did comedy sketches referencing the films.
Release date - 26th October 2015
Reviews - IMDB 6.8/10, The guardian 5/5, Metacritic 60%

US independent - Popstar (Never stop never sopping) (2016)
Budget - $20 million
Box office - $9.3 million
Stars - Many famous celebrities, Andy Samberg, Adam Levine, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg, DJ Khaled, 50 Cent, Emma stone, James Buckley, Pink, Simon Cowell, Seal.
Genre - Comedy, Music
Production Company - Apatow Productions, Lonely Island.
Certificate - 15
Marketing - Trailers on youtube, promotion on talk shows.
Release date - 3rd June 2016 (USA)
Reviews - 77% rotten tomatoes, 4/5 The Guardian.

World cinema production - Son of Saul (2015) (Hungary)
Budget - $1.6 million
Box office - $1.7 million
Stars -
Genre - War, Drama
Production -


US Blockbuster (2) - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Budget - $200 million
Box office - $1 billion
Stars - Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Ben Mendelsohn, Mads Mikkelsen, Riz Ahmed.
Genre - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Production Company - Lucasfilm, Walt Disney Studios Motion pictures.
Certificate - 12A
Marketing - Advertisements, Cast appeared on talk shows, social media
Release date - 13th December 2016 (UK), 16th December 2016 (US)
Reviews - 8/10 IMDB, 65% metacritic, 85% Rotten Tomatoes.
Director - Gareth Edwards

Heavily dependant on visual effects as the story is based around wars in space, involving laser guns and lightsabers, and spaceships. Most of which don't exist so visual effects are needed to make them seem real.
Blue screens were used in most scenes to create the background such as the planets seen in the movie.
Tons of CGI used to make laser bolts, and the space battle scenes, and the planetary shield.
Some explosions were created in real time, but most were post production effects.
Real prop ships were used, then edited post production to appear to be flying or blowing up

Aims and Context

Aims and context

'Online' - Photo Storyboard
Genre - horror/drama
Target Audience - 15+ Teenagers for the modern era
Stylistic elements - Plot Twist, parallel storyline

Kill Bill Vol.2 Analysis

The first shot of the clip shows a women who appears to be at her wedding walking down the aisle, she appears to be happy until she hears a flute which is when she suddenly changes from being happy to being confused or shocker. This is done with a medium shot that tracks her backwards, so that we can see her expression and know how she feels, as well as seeing the background and to give us a sense of her surrounding at what her current situation is. Therefore, I can see that she must be happy since it appears to be a wedding and this makes me feel calm and happy, because I know that at a wedding there is a low chance of any trouble happening and that it tends to be rather peaceful. However, the scene is also in black and white, so when I first see it I feel quite confused and start to question if it is a dream or a flashback.

The next shot is where we can see even more of the church, and we also get to see the door to the outside. This is done by using a point of view shot with a long shot, and this is done so that we can see more of the setting and get the full idea that it is a wedding, and it also lets us know what she is currently thinking and where she is hearing the music from, which creates mystery and made me want to know what was happening outside that caught her attention and changed her mood.

After that we get another shot where we see the woman being confused and then grasp her hands together and begin walking towards the entrance of the church where the sound of the flute appears to be coming from. To create this a mid shot was used to further show her confusion and curiosity, and then another tracking shot is used which tracks her backwards again. I can see from her reaction that the flute must be something that she recognises judging by the fact that she is curious and not just ignoring it, this makes me want to more what is outside and also why she is so curious about the sound.

The shot that is next just shows the doorway again but this time the bride begins to walk past and move towards the right of the doorway of the doorway and lean against the pillar. We just see this as the camera tracks the bride forward and moves into another long shot, and I can see from the way she moves casually tells me that there is no danger, but is instead something she knows is safe.

In the next shot we see both the bride and the source of the sound which is an old man who is playing the flute while sitting on a bench, we see this through a low angle shot with the man on the right and the bride on the left further away from the camera. From this I assumed that the two people had no correlation and do not associate with each other because she does not immediately engage with the man on the bench but instead look into the desert.

The next few shots is just a series of close up reverse shots between the two people, with the length of the shots becoming shorter and shorter raising tension and suggesting that something serious is about to happen. I can see from the brides face that she does recognise the man and may be slightly scared of him.

The final shot in that sequence is when the man finally stops playing his instrument and turns to acknowledge the bride and speaks to her, we see his face through a close up so we can see that he does know the bride and probably well because he calls her 'kiddo' which means he must have known her when she was a lot younger.

In the shot after we see the bribe reply to him and ask him a question, we see this from a low angle medium long shot, which shows that she is more important than the man sitting down. We also begin to see at this point that the bride is always on the right of the camera with the man being on the left side of the camera. The bride is also still facing away from the man so I can see that you does not really feel comfortable with him and doesn't exactly want to be speaking with him. The next two shots are just more close up shots of characters in a conversation with very little movement, but I can still see that she progressively gets more comfortable with him.

The next shot we see the man finally stand up and begin to walk towards to bride which shows that he is comfortable with her presence and is familiar with her, the camera pans up and to the right to follow him as he stands and moves closer to the bride. The shot after we see that the bride is now facing towards to man so I know that she is becoming more comfortable and is directly speaking to him which shows that she does know him well. The shots once again switch between mid shots of the two people and their emotions.

The next shot we see that she begins to move close towards the man as she begins to understand that he isn't causing trouble but instead is trying to be sweet, so the camera does a close up on her face to show her reaction which is happy, while is tracks her to the left as she moves. The few shots then switch between her feet and her face, to his feet and his face, showing their expressions as well as showing that they are getting more and more comfortable with each other. It finally ends when the camera stops tracking them and shows both their feet coming together at the same time.

Next is a very long shot of a conversation between the two, it uses a close up which shows the expressions and their emotions between them. I can see from it that she is rather happy to see him and is finally comfortable with speaking with him since she got so close to him, I also see that while she is mostly happy she also has mixed emotions, while the man tends to have the same expression and emotion throughout. After the long shot ends it then proceeds onto a series of over the shoulder shots from each person, and throughout the conversation we can see that the two are very close as they know a lot about each other, and even though he is quite intimidating, he still tries to be sweet.

Horror Essay

Horror films all use similar features to convey fear into the viewer, such as using high pitched and fast paced music, or using different types of lighting to create mystery, and especially using camera angles and different types of shots to confuse the audience.

In the Paranormal Activity films the lighting is mainly low key throughout, just to give the audience a sense of fear that something dangerous is lurking in the house and is hiding in the shadows. As well as this the directors use a lot of wide and high angle shots, this is probably so that the audience has to look at a lot of things in the frame at the same time so if something was to move around it would catch the viewer off guard and make them question what just moved in the frame, creating mystery and confusion for the viewer, also used are jump scares throughout and frighten the audience suddenly. In the films you get to witness the protagonists during the daytime which is always set in high key lighting to make you feel safe since it is daytime, this relates to the usual horror stereotype that if the sun is up then the evil will disappear, during this time a lot of close ups are used too to show what the characters are feeling and experiencing while they are victims of the horrors.

In one clip of the film you get to see a dog sleeping in the same room as a baby and you get to see this from the viewpoint of a surveillance camera, the footage in dark by using low key lighting and then the dog begins to bark wildly and dominantly. This scene is to probably show that the dog is protecting the child from evil as we know that there is evil present in the house, and when the dog begins to bark we can tell that the evil spirit is probably nearby and might hurt the baby so the dog is trying scare the spirit off. The fact that the camera is positioned in the baby's room probably means that the evil spirit want to harm the baby, or that the baby may even be important to the spirit as if it has a motive. We also know from this scene that the dog may be able to see the evil spirit and might be used later on to get rid of or even defeat the spirit. The high angle of the camera in the scene shows that the baby and the dog are inferior to spirit and that they are helpless against it no matter what they try to do, and because we are unable to see the spirit there are no camera angles to show the power it has and so we as the audience have to assume that the spirit has unlimited power which cannot be shown. The camera has a slight static effect in the scene, which conveys mystery since you cannot get a perfect picture of what is going on.

Favourite Film Induction Task

My favourite film this summer was the latest Star Trek film ‘Star Trek : Beyond’, which meets the crew of the enterprise half way through their five year mission which was given to them at the end of the last film ‘Star Trek : Into Darkness’ where the crew were excited for the mission, however at the start of Beyond we see the crew rather depressed and not up to the usual standard we have seen them in the past. This caught me by surprise because I got to see the main protagonist in a different light, where he is caring and sad instead of being smart and ready to get into action, and this I liked because I got a different perspective of the enterprise crew instead of them when they are fighting an enemy. During the beginning of the film you also get to see a new artificial planet that was created by the films main faction, and I loved this because you get a sense of scale like we got in the first film when we saw Kirk next to one of the federations latest starships, but this time we see one of these starships next to this giant glass sphere the size of a moon. It isn’t soon after this that the tension begins to rise when the director makes us think that the new planet is in danger of attack by suddenly snapping to an unknown ship approaching and using a shaky camera to feel like the protagonists are in danger. It isn’t till later on where we do eventually see the first bit of action, but this time its to a scale non of the previous movies have shown before, and this is the enterprise being fully destroyed, and the director set the tone for this scene perfectly by switching from interior shots of the ship being attacked to wide angle shots of the exterior of the ship being destroyed, this made me feel sympathy for the protagonists as they face an enemy they cannot defeat for the first time. It was not only the camera shots and angles used that had an effect on me but it was also the music used during the destruction, a sad and depressing score that really set the tone of the scene, where the protagonists are defeated. After this we get to see the protagonists fight back even when they are at a disadvantage by outsmarting the enemy and eventually figuring out a way to defeat them. We see this in an action scene where the main protagonist rescues his entire crew on his own, where the camera pans around following the protagonist and also cuts between different moments of the battle. Even later in the film we get to a bit where this new planet is under actual threat and we see that they are helpless against the undefeatable enemy, and so the audience feels sorry for them, but then protagonists come in and manage to save the day which makes the audience feel joy, and want to celebrate. During this big fight the camera follows the new ship around and gives a sense of scale again amazing the audience, and the music used also conveys the sense of victory.

Deadpool Induction Task

Deadpool became a box-office success because of how different it was to other movies of similar genre and style; cinemablend said that people love the characters “blabber-mouth and general insanity”. This is completely different to other comic book characters, who just tend to be serious and only speak when needed, where as Deadpool literally doesn’t shut up and this creates humor as he annoys other characters in the film and as cinemablend says “humor goes a very long way into making comic book movies stand out”. We get this humor from the protagonists constant 4^th wall breaks where he talks to the audience, or references the production of the film, and his non stop jokes when in the middle of intense fights and normal conversations. As well as this, the film doesn’t stick with the hero cliché and instead follows an anti-hero, which allows the film to contain a lot more action and violence than other comic book movies, but it “never pushes the violence towards unpleasant gratuity” claims cinemablend. The film also tied into the x-men films with the main protagonist meeting with a few x-men characters at their mansion, and for a lot of big x-men fans this was a surprise and a good treat for them, and by doing this future x-men films could have deadpool in them and bring back a loved character. Another reason for success is that the film managed to balance a story and action together very well by giving us deadpools backstory, the reason why he does what he does and showing a caring side of him while also giving us the action and humor that we want to see from the character, and through all of this they still managed to keep humor high throughout even during times we should have been feeling sorry for the main protagonists. One of the big reasons that deadpool was a success is because the director stuck to how the character should actually be and not try and alter it to how they like it, so in the end we had a protagonist who turned out how every fan of deadpool wished he would be, a skillful killer who runs his mouth and doesn’t care what other people think of him. The actor who played deadpool fit the role so well and managed bring him to life and make him a loveable character who stands out from other characters in films. Even with a small budget to make the film, they still managed to make it look great, from the amazing latex suit up to giant fight scenes with fire and explosions.

A films success is measured directly by the ticket sales during the opening weekend, and by the overall reviews is gets from renowned reviewers. In deadpools case they made $132,434,639 in the opening weekend and a total of $782,612,155 worldwide, which for a film made from a budget of $58 million is an incredible success, and as well as the money they received great reviews from top reviewers from 4 up to 5 stars, so overall Deadpool was a box-office success

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