The Kings Speech Posters.

The King's Speech.

 

The lay out has the same structure as a world war poster, this shows the same layout and therefore connotates the Britshness. Also having looked at the Social Network poster it is just a copy of that in the structure and the layout, by using the same font, colour and placing of the text as you can see towards the right.

THE TRAILER:

It goes into more indepth of the film showing people the typical audience who would be interested in the film. Colin Firth is also shown on one of the posters but on the trailer it goes into scenes. Colin Firth himself is classed as a 'typical British' man connotating the genre and style of the film and he is recognised for the representation of the British culture, being in film genres like The King's Speech often. The general source of being able to just watch something to gather information abpout a film is generally more appealing to people, however this is generally more relating to the younger generation trying to grab a different audience type.

Film four institutions and audience.

1. What is Film4's remit (its reason and purpose for being)?

2. What types of films are green-lighted by Film4? Give examples of films and genres.

Examples: Slumdog Millionaire, Happy Go Lucky, In Bruges and more recently Four Lions. I would say that Slumdog Millionaire was green-lighted the most as it rose the Film4 bidget up to £15 million a year. These genres include


3. Why is Tessa Ross regarded as "the mother of British film-making" and therefore instrumental for Film4's success?

Tessa Rose is reguarded as a a mother figure for the British film making as she helps(nutrures) new talent into the industry and their career. She involves directors who havent been on the sce3ne for a while. This relates to the reference of her mothering the British film making as she is always there to help and make people freel comfortable in then industry.

4. How much is Film4's yearly budget and how much of it did "Slumdog Millionaire take up?
Film4's budget rose to £15million a year thanks to the hits such as Slumdog Millionaire


5. Why does Film4 form partnerships with other companies/individuals?


6. What is the future for Film4 - budget and film-wise?

Although there is finacial worries Film4 are still planning on making British films. Such as Ken Loach finishing the new film he has been working on Looking for Eric.
 
7. What problems did Film Four face in the naughties?
Film4 faced a short future as the funding was short as the broadcaster couldnt get the money. 

Class/ Status

Stereotypes of Class/Status:
Upper class:
  - 'Posh'
  - Snobby 
  - Wealthy/rich
  - Big house/mansion
  - Expensive clothing (e.g. designer clothing/brand names)
  - Rude/disrespectful attitude
  - Arrogant/ignorant
  - Selfish
  - Often away on business
  - Always go on holiday
  - Speak formal english

Working Class:
  - Less formal clothing, scruffy (e.g. builder)
  - Terraced housing
  - Lack of parking
  - Busy
  - Few children

Lower Class:
  - Council flats
  - Criminals (e.g. theft/burglary)
  - Do drugs/drug dealers
  - Alcoholics
  - Many children
  - 'Scroungers' (e.g. benefits)
  - 'Chavvy' clothing
  - No/few qualifications 
  - Jobless (cant get one/cant be bothered)
  - Lazy

Sexuality

Sexuality is an awareness of self and attractiveness. 

Examples of sexuality:
  - Homosexual (eg. gay/camp, lesbian)
  - Bisexual
  - Transexual
  - Hetrosexual
  - Straight 
  - Gender (e.g. men, women)

Representation of sexuality:
  - Clothes
  - Gestures
  - Behaviour
  - Relationships
  - Accent/speech 
  - Narrow minded/limited
  - Friends

Avatar

Directed by James Cameron and produced by James Cameron and Jon Landau.The genre is fantasy and science-fiction. The stars which were included are:

- Sam Worthington
- Zoe Saldana
- Stephen Lang
- Michelle Rodriguez
- Joel David Moore
- Giovanni Ribisi
- Sigourney Weaver

Distributed by: 20th Century Fox.
Production budget: $237million (re-release $9million)
Gross revenue: $2,778,527,559
The running time is 162 minutes.
Ways in which it was marketed was through promotions, books, video games and action figures.

Ethnicity.

Ethnicity is a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage, consisting of a common language, a common cculture often including a shared religion and a tradition of common correspondent to a history of beliefs.
Members of an ethnic group are conscious of belonging to an ethnic group; moreover ethnic identity is further marked by the recognition from others of a group's distinctiveness. Processes that result in the emergence of such identification are called ethnogenesis.




For example:

Kick Ass.

Mark Miller after producing "Wanted" produced Kick Ass but he decided to make it how  he wanted "Wanted" to be made and the story. Firstly he chose the cast, then  the script being drafted, also he chose the costumes as well as the sets and where the film took place, for how long and how many hours a day overall it took 14 weeks, doing 14 hour days. Kick Ass is based on the comics of Marvel Comic's chief writer Mark Millar, however problems occured because people wouldnt give money unless it had an happy ending which wasnt the orriginal story line int he comic.Also he was shocked at the accommodations that he had to make the film in along with how much work was involved. We were not able to afford even a 'C grade' Marvel character so the film took the unusual step of writing the comic book at the same time the film was produced taking up more time and effort. The technology used was a built a set at Elstree Studios with an enormous green screen. We got high-resolution plates of Manhattan and imported them into Media Composer. Media Composer’s got amazing motion tracking tools, so you can track the background using the on-set tracking markers. There’s a feature called SpectraMatte that allows you to adjust keys with such detail—it’s incredibly realistic.” Directors views on the British film industry. is that we (British) are the most periodical, world class leaders in making movies we just don’t have the industry and that we should stop being service providers we have the best crew directors producers. The problem is that we dont have enough money to finance the films. The film has a wide-ranging soundtrack was also a challenge, maintaining consistency with material ranging from Elvis to The Prodigy.