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11.  List 2 famous directors that Working Title have worked?
 Nick Evens & Edgar Wright.

12.  What is Hugh Grant’s relationship with Working Title?
Hugh Grant once remarked that, while most British production companies are run by awfully nice

Chaps who once worked for the BBC, there’s a level of professionalism about Working Title which sets it apart.  ”Tim and Eric are the definition of real producers,” said Co-Chairman of Universal Pictures Donna Langley.  “They stay close to the process and maintain their ability to hand pick and produce each of their films in a very individual way.  Their unique vision and taste has been key to their success.”

13.   Find out about the Coen Brothers (films, genres, status) and what do they have to do with Working Title?
The Coen Brothers have directed films such as Blood Simple, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, and True Grit.

They are film directors, screen writers, producers, editors and cinematographers; they have worked with working title to produce films such as ‘the big labowski’ witch are comedic films.
14. Who owns 67% of Working Title films?
 Universal studio’s owns 67% of working title.1

15. List two of Working Title big blockbuster films and find out their budgets.

Atonement had a budget of £30 million and made about £130 million at the box office.

Johnny English had a budget of £40 million, and made about £160 million at the box office.

16. What genre's of film are Working Title famous for?
working Title produce films from all genres, but are well known for comedy and romantic comedy.


17. What other genres to Working Title make?
Working Titles make films from all genres, ranging for a rating of U all the way up to an 18.


18. Find out as much as you can about Working Title 2 (when established, films made, budgets and awards).
Working Title 2 is a smaller branch of Working Title dedicated to making smaller films and helping independent ideas. It was established in 1999 and has made films such as Billy Elliot, which had a budget of £3 million, but made just over £72 million.


19. What information can you find out about working title throught their web page?
They have recently released the Johnny English sequal and SENNA.


20. Find out one other interesting fact about Working Title that you would like to share with the class.
After 1992 they made several films for production company Polygram, Polygram soon became a huge competetor against the U.S.A giants 'Hollywood'.

Sound

In its simplest form sound can be broken down into two categories
Diegetic - sound which occurs naturally within a scene (e.g. dialogue,sound effects)
Non - Diegetic - sound which has no obvious source and is added on (e.g. Jaws theme during and attack)

Within these categories there is however important distinctions to be drawn.

Diegetic -

Dialogue. An actors voice can add important information about a character just by varying pitch and tone.
Synchronous sounds are those sounds which are synchronized or matched with what is viewed. For example: If the film portrays a character playing the piano, the sounds of the piano are projected.

Synchronous sounds contribute to the realism of film and also help to create a particular atmosphere. For example: The “click” of a door being opened may simply serve to convince the audience that the image portrayed is real, and the audience-may only subconsciously note the expected sound. However, if the “click” of an opening door is part of an ominous action such as a burglary, the sound mixer may call attention to the “click” with an increase in volume; this helps to engage the audience in a moment of suspense.
Asynchronous sound effects are not matched with a visible source of the sound on screen. Such sounds are included so as to provide an appropriate emotional nuance, and they may also add to the realism of the film. For example: A film maker might opt to include the background sound of an ambulance's siren while the foreground sound and image portrays an arguing couple. The asynchronous ambulance siren underscores the psychic injury incurred in the argument; at the same time the noise of the siren adds to the realism of the film by acknowledging the film's (avowed) city setting.
Non-diegetic sound
Background music is used to add emotion and rhythm to a film. Usually not meant to be noticeable, it often provides a tone or an emotional attitude toward the story and/or the characters depicted. In addition, background music often foreshadows a change in mood. For example, dissonant music may be used in film to indicate an approaching (but not yet visible) menace or disaster.
Background music may aid viewer understanding by linking scenes. For example, a particular musical theme associated with an individual character or situation may be repeated at various points in a film in order to remind the audience of salient motifs or ideas.
General terms
Sound bridge. Adding to continuity through sound, by running sound (narration, dialogue or music) from one shot across a cut to another shot to make the action seem uninterrupted.

Momento

The narrative of Memento challenges the traditional narrative structure, it is in non-chronological order this confuses the film, and to make you feel as if you are in the mental 'confused' state of the main character Lennie. The film starts with a Polaroid picture fading away in reverse order as a metaphor for the general narrative and confused state in which the whole film is representing.
Black and white scenes are the forward real life scenes that come to meet the colour scenes coming backwards, this slowly adds more detail to the facts you know, adds more facts and introduces new sides to the characters involved, creating false hero's, new villains and a new sense of you 'hero' in the film Lennie.

The character of Lennie is a mysterious character in the way the film represents him, he feels as if he has to do what he can to gain revenge on the 'murder' of his wife by using the slim facts and stories and extremely slim evidence he gets fed by his supposable friends. This leads him to start to trust no one and his memory makes it virtually impossible to have a true sense of trust in people. He is incapable of making new memories, although it is suspicious towards the end as he chooses to know about what he wants to know and how he wants to remember things. His charicter turns out to be less innocent and more sinister than we 1st think.

Female Body

Female Model

.Apple Mac vs P.C

Apple mac make some very smart adverts. They have the skill in making a biast viral commertial to be shown over the world. These virals include all of the essential codes, The perticular viral we were looking at includes the cultral code by associating a slim, out going confident blonde girl who is visually plkeasing to the eye. She represents a mac being cool and slic.

The P.C use a short stubby unshaven man, who is rude and seems like a bit of a slob. His Laid back attitude makes it seem like he is just there to make some money, kind of sending the message that, that is all P.C's are out there to do.

The lovely girl is also a semantic code that macs are sexy and appieling so that she makes us think of a smooth slic well perfected, easy running computor when put in the context of her representing a computor. For the comparrison or her and the man in drag representing P.C i would any day choose the mac if it was in that scenario.

The man pitching the speech for mac was young and well dressed to the fashion of that time, he was slim and healthy. He also was a famouse actor which made the mac seem the celeb way to go. Also him having a sensual female representing for him would maybe make you feel asif you could pull 'hotties' just by having a mac. He was laid back, cool and spoke clearly and in a suttle tone as the P.C guy was short, fat, stubbly. He seemed a bit rrigant and rude from how he wants to always show of, but once he got beat he didn't take it lightly.

The short trailer about the mac at the end is all the viral showed making you only think of a mac as if they actually refrenced to the look modell of a P.C the thought of still having a P.C would be in your head and that isn't what they ewant as they want you to only think about buying a apple mac. This cut off leads to an enigma code by us wanting to then see what P.C has to say for itself, and would it top mac.

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