Ao2- examples- 25 marks
Use the correct vocab- 4 quadrant
45 minutes to produce response
Introduction-Breif express your opinion
Identify you film institution
Pre-production, production, distribution (wide release) and exchange (how can i buy or watch)
Main- US v UK- link to me
Disney v Momentum
Disney- Tron, Toy story
Momentum- Film4, Moon, Kick ass
Conclusion- What does the future hold?
Tech becomes cheaper
Watch at home/ on the move
In the future tech will become cheaper and then more films will be able to afford to film in 3D. Also people will want to watch films online instead of going to the cinema and then it will be hard for indie films to get noticed. Especially if major films take a blanket release as you wont notice that some film have even come out. But Companies that are in the Big six wil grow and will then buy out more screen in cinemas which will then put independent films at a disadvantage.
Arguements
- Will make a lot of money through advertising
- Both have established actors featured in the films
- Both in the group of the Walt Disney group
- Big budgets for both films
DISNEY:
- Walt Disney is part of the six and in 2009 it revenues $36.1The Walt Disney Company owns the ABC Television Network, cable networks including ESPN, the Disney Channel, soapnet, A&E and Lifetime, 277 radio stations, music and book publishing companies, production companies Touchstone, Miramax and Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, the cellular service Disney Mobile, and theme parks around the world.most country's. Divided into 4 segments: parks and resorts, media network, studio entertainment, and consumer products. Distributes motion pictures under walt disney pictures which includes Pixar animation studios, disney animation studios, disney toon studios, hollywood pictures and touchstone pictures. Disney own smaller companies and corparations so is a conglomerate company. has made 6/10 of the highest grossing films.
- Budget:$30,000,000
- Opening Weekend:$29,140,617 (USA)
- Gross:$415,004,880
- Disney Digital 3-D (3-D process)
- Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
- Tom Hanks (woody) got paid $15,000,000
- Let out in Europe first
- Advertising: $35,000,000
Tron
- Budget $170,000,000
- based on the original tron- pre production
- green screen so could make it 3D
- Daft punk produced soundtrack
- Distribution released in 3D
- Disney monorail turned in tronorail
- Merchandise- tech gadgets, clothings, toys
- DVD, blueray, online
- Opening Weekend:$44,026,211 (USA) (3451 Screens)
- Gross:$400,062,763 (Worldwide)
- Sound Mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
- IMAX 3D, $150 3D glasses
- Spent about $150m on advertising
MOMENTUM:
- Which is also known as Alliance films UK company, and is one of the leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and Ireland and releases approximately 20 theatrical films a year, with several stv releases.
- Made a comic to base the film on- pre-production
- Distribution: $37m opening weekend in the US. not a four quadrant film, was aims at 14 years olds boys. The film was rated 15 so there was a limited audience.
- Almost set back the release date as couldnt find right person to play main character (dave)
- production- saved money by green screening, most of the cast was British except Nicholas Cage
- exchange was blueray and DVD
Moon
- Pre-production was an original idea
- Distibution- released in hardly any cinemas, and left quickly for DVD release
- Distribution right for the film are handled by sony pictures worldwide aquisition whose main focus is non- theoretical markets. Where films generally go straight to DVD
- Production- $5m budget and was filmed in a studio over 33 days.
- Kevin spacey didnt have much faith and didnt agree to doing the voice of GERTY untill he had seen the rough cut
- Premiered at 2009 sundance film festival and made $6,700,000 and box office
- exchanged to DVD
