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Media magazine the appeal of Arthouse cinema

1)The article states how art house films are more artistic rather than concerned with character and focus on what audiences will actually find authentic and how certain events can have a different impact on certain audience members. This article also highlights how some films are harder to understand by certain audiences as the narrative for art house films may be harder to understand for some people. 2)The audience pleasures for art house cinema is more concerned with actions rather than with action which means that it is a cinema of psychological effects and creates maximum ambiguity which creates more tension for audiences. they limit entertainment and believe that Art house cinema  focuses on films that harder to read. 3)Some audiences may find it difficult to understand art house cinema films because they are harder to read and links to reception theory as audiences find the hegemony of the film harder to understand and also the lack of narrative links to Todorov's theory

A field in england: case study

1) This article is about how the film a field in England was released, distributed and funded. The article states that this was complex as it was not easy to shoot at one location and used film 4 and 4DVD to fund this film which was a BFI distribution fund made at £300K and each area that was used was designed to add value to the film and give it a source of identity.The article states that this film was made by a diverse strategy making it more liable to be more original and less dominated by other technologies. 2)Industrial Evolution:Producer Andy Starke on the music industry influences informing A field in England's release strategy. This page states how the release strategy helped them be different in the media by releasing their film in a different way in the industry which made this film unique. Screen/radical release: Commissioning Executive Anna Higgs on the groundbreaking release plans A field in England. This page states how the film was promoted  through posters an

Film regulation and BBFC

1)The BBFC is responsible for how much sexual nudity and bad language is within the certain media and is funded based on the fess it charges for it service  and depends on the vice presidents consensus. 2)The BBFC rates films depending on the material the DVD has within it by two vice presidents who take ultimate responsibility as they reach a consensus. This means that is it has unacceptable and under the BBFC guidelines then there will be a list cuts formed which would be make it better. 3)The issues that are faced when classifying a film is that whether it has conflict with law and whether the material is on its own or combination with other content or if it has potential harm for viewers, whether the availability of the material at the age group is concerned which unacceptable to broad public opinion. 4) The dark knight generated a large amount of media coverage regarding its certificate due to the fact that it had received complaints from the public as the violence was too s

Chicken case study blog task:

Funding: 1) The budget for chicken was £110,000 2)Joe Stephenson raised the money for the film by rich contacts and investment by individuals through the BFI film fund which uses the national lottery to fund the film. 3)The budget for the chicken compares to a Hollywood funded British blockbuster as it was very limited in terms of the money and locations that were used within this film where as films like Paddington have a higher budget and used more different types of locations within the film as they had more access to certain things because the budget limit was higher. 4)The BFI film fund is the British film fund institute which is a charitable organisation which helps to promote and preserve film making in the United Kingdom. 5)This film failed to secure funding from the BFI Film fund because the film was based on a low budget and it was harder to see whether the film industry is accessible in this case. Product 1)The difficulties the film had during the production w

Film and TV language: Final index

1)Film poster analysis 2)Mise en scene blog tasks 3)Star persona:Video feedback and learner response. star persona blog task star persona mood board  4)Lighting blog tasks. 5)sound blog tasks. sound analysis 6)Sound: parallel and contrapuntal video feedback and learner response. 7)Cinematography blog task  8)Cinematography video task and learner response  9)Moonlight trip homework 10)blade runner 2049- trip homework 11)Editing Blog task-750 word analysis 12)editing video task and learner response 

British film industry fact sheet: 100 & 132

Fact sheet 100: 1) The cultural test to see if a film accounts British is that a film has to have Cultural context, Cultural contribution, Cultural Hubs and Cultural practitioners which means the aspects of these four categories has to maintained and the film should at least get 16 out of 31 to achieve this. 2)The Sweeney: In the cultural test it scored 31/31 and the financing budget was 3 million and classified as a British film as it fit with the cultural test. Attack the block was seen as a low budget film but classified as a British film and the estimated budget was 13 million. The king's speech and invested 1 million and achieved 34% profit within the net. We need to talk about Kevin had a budget of  £7000 000 and classed as a British film. Sky fall (2011) had a budget of  £200,000,000. 3)The main problem for the British film industry is that selling the film can be hard when sacrifices have to be made a they have to sell the film to a distribution company. This