Section B Half Term Work Miss foster

Liverpool


There are 88 separate screenings over the weekend.
In total there are 16 films being shown on Saturday and Sunday.
7 of these films are being screened several times at the same cinema.
There are 3 films that are shown at this cinema and other cinemas at the same time. These films are The woman in black, The vow and The Muppets.
Films in relation to screenings are 2:11
There are 5 unique screenings at this cinema which is shown as a percentage in the pie chart below:

Chelsea

Over the weekend the are 38 separate screenings

In total 9 films are being shown in this cinema

4 of these films are being screened several times at the same cinema

Films in relation to screenings as a ratio is 9:38

There are 4 films shown at this cinema and different cinemas at the same time. These are The vow, The woman in black, The muppets and One day.

There are 3 unique screening which are shown as a percentage in the pie chart below:

Middlesbrough

Over the weekend there are 92 separate screenings

There are 25 films being shown in total

9 of these films are being shown several times at this cinema

There were 3 films shown at this cinema and other cinemas at the same time. These are The woman in black, The vow and The Muppets.

Films in relation to screenings as a ratio is 5:18

The number of unique screenings shown at this cinema is 12. This is shown as a percentage in the pie chart below:

Bolton

Over the weekend there are 144 separate screenings at this cinema

There are 29 films being shown in total

10 of these films are being shown several times at this cinema

There were five films being shown at this cinema and others at the same time. These are The woman in black, The Vow, One Day, Star wars episode 1: phantom of menace and The muppets.

Films in relation to screenings as a ration is 1:14

The number of unique screenings shown at this cinema is 9. This is shown as a percentage in the pie chart below:

Ipswich

There are 112 separate screenings over the weekend

There are 24 films being shown at this cinema

9 of these films are being shown several times

There were only two films being shown at this cinema and others at the same time. These are The woman in black and The muppets.

Films in relation to screenings shown as a ratio is 3:14

Then number of unique screenings at this cinema is 7. This is shown as a percentage in the pie chart below:

Conclusion

In conclusion I have noticed that all the cinemas that I have looked at distribute their films at similar times. Many screenings are at night from 6:30 onwards and they also have early screenings in the mornings for childrens films. Also films from successful companies such as The Woman In Black are the main focus of the cinema and will be shown for much longer than films such as Haywire which has also been released recently, but has been given less screenings and less advertisement on the website and in the cinema.

Films such as Rango have now been out for over a year and is still being shown in some cinemas such Cineworld because of how popular and well advertised it has been with the public.

I have noticed that all cinemas give films from a major company more screenings than films from smaller companies which could be just as successful.

Group vlog

This is our group vlog talking about our e book revision and what we have done so far in our film opening.

Representation of class and status in TV dramas - shameless

Shameless is a very successful british Tv drama written by award winner Paul Abbotts. It feautures the dysfunction family 'the gallaghers' and where they live called the chatsworth estate. The show is mainly about taboo language, sex, drugs and violence etc. In the clip I have watched of Shameless season 6 episode 9 there are many camera angles and good use of editing which help to present the class and status of the characters.
Jump cuts are used a lot in Shameless. This represents how the peoples lives do not run smoothly, instead they are rough and busy and hectic hense the jump cuts. At 2:40 in this clip there is a jump cut of a man in the pub which shows that the scene is dominated by him and that he is of importance.

Also in this clip it shows a pan of a man in a suit in the pub. His clothes show that he is of high status as he is well dressed in a suit whilst everyone around him is wearing a tracksuit or cheap clothing. This pan also shows that this man is of high status because the pan follows him through the pub showing that he is the important dominant person in the scene.
At the beginning of the clip there is a low angle shot of a man on the toilet. Although this image does not show this man as high class, the distorted image that makes this man looks a lot bigger than he actually is shows him of a higher status than the rest of his family.

 Finally at the beginning of this clip it shows a dysfunctional family having a conversation at 0:30 where there are a lot of jump cuts used to show how this family are middle class as they are seen as quite argumentative and rowdy.

Filming

We started filming for our second film opening idea yesterday and things went a lot netter than last time. We were a lot more organised and confident and we have now uploaded our clips onto the mac and looked through them. I think our shots are much better quality an am now looking forward to start editing and filming out other parts.

New Film Opening Idea

We have been struggling to think of a new film idea since our spoof idea went wrong, but we have now found an idea we think is great and cant wait to film. We have decided on the idea of two girls who have stolen an exam paper from school. Our two minutes will consist of a conversation between two girls at a park as well as memories/flashbacks of the girls stealing the exam. Also there will be a voice over of a phone call between the two characters. We have decided to make one of the characters very innocent looking whilst the other looks like the typical rule breaker. We have done this to create controversy and a mystery as the innocent one will turn out to be the 'baddie' whilst the other has been peer pressured into this. I think this is a good idea as we are making use of the resources we have and is it not a cliche or a typical teenage film.

DreamWorks - Antz

Antz is an american computer animation film produce in 1998 by Brad Lewis, Aron WArner and Patty Wooton. It was directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson. It was Tim Johnson story and his idea.
Antz was the first animated movie produced by DreamWorks and was incredibly successful in the box office earning $171,757,863. Others succefuls movies from DreamWorks e.g Shrek earned a whopping $484,409,218. Shrek was also directed by the same people.
Antz is a part of Disney/DreamWorks feud as Pixars; Its a bugs life was released a month later where the public thought that one must have ripped off the other as the plot is very similar with a worker ant falling in love with a princess ant in both movies.
Jeffrey Katzenberg left Disney in 1994 the day A bugs life was being pitched by John Lasseter the Pixar head. Altough Katzenberg says that Antz was pitched by Tim Johnson Lasseter and Steve Jobs both said they felt betrayed by Katzenberg. Antz release date was moved from march 1999 to October 1998 to be first before its a Bug life as Pixar would not move the release date for their movie Its a Bugs life which was coming out the same time as DreamWorks other movie The prince of Egypt.
95% of Antz reviews were positive and was said to have wonderful animation backed by humor and the vocal talents of its cast make for an entertaining movie. Movie critic Gene Siskel ranked the movie 7th of best films in 1998.
In Antz opening weekend the box office earned $17,195,160.
From the success of the film the video games Antz, Antz Racing and Antz Extreme Racing were created and the film was also nominated 10th in AFI top ten films, while Shrek came in 8th.

DreamWorks - Shrek

Shrek is an american animated comedy directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jensen. This film was loosely based on William Steigs fairytale picture book Shrek in 1990.
This film was commercially successful on release in 2001 and helped DreamWorks to become equal rivals to animated film company Pixar.
As this film was so successful it has led to three sequels Shrek 2, Shrek The Third and Shrek forever after as well as Shrek The Halls which was a christmas special and a halloween special called Scared Shrekless. In 2008 Shrek recieved eigth place in America Film Institutes Top Ten Films of all time.
It was ranked second in Channel 4 100 greatest family films and recieved third place on Bravos 100 funniest films.
Shrek also won the first academy award for best animated feature and was nominated for the academy award best adapted screenplay. Shrek was one of  DreamWorks movies that achieved the highest grossing at its time and was so successful that Shrek became DreamWorks actual mascot for the companys animated productions.