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