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Film 4

When Film4 started the name of the channel was origionally FilmFour and was the second channel to channel 4, it was launched on the 1st of november 1998. You started off having to subscribe to the channel via sattelite through the sky platform on satellite television via the Sky platform, digital terrestrial via ITV Digital (until the platform went into administration in 2002), and most UK cable services. It cost £5.99 or £6.00 a month (depending on platform), eventually rising to up to £7. The launch night, which was also broadcast on Channel 4, was hosted by Johnny Vaughan and the first film to be shown was What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

Film4's sister channels:
channel4, more4, E4, Kerrang, Kiss, Magic, Q, Smash hits & the box.

Film4's main ambition was not to focus on broadcasting blockbusters, but now  they mainly focus on showing the main big Hollywood movies. Film4 appreciates a niech market and has 'themed nights' or film seasons for example, 'Double trouble' would include 'Bad boys', 'Men in black', 'white chicks', or they would ferature films around a genre e.g. 'action night', they also do themed nights for certain directors or actors. Channel 4 owns Film4 Productions (Channel 4's film production compay), it shows many of its in-house productions.

Occasional non-film (but film-related) programmes are also shown.

Wherever possible, films are shown in their correct aspect ratio. No digital on-screen graphics are superimposed. Under UK broadcasting rules, it was able to screen most films unedited and in earlier timeslots when it was a subscription channel, but these concessions were lost when it became free-to-air, and more adult material is now confined to after the 9pm watershed. Some films are also now edited to make them suitable for pre-watershed screenings, a decision which was criticised by viewers on the channel's now defunct internet forum.

Controller of Film4: Tessa Ross


Tessa Ross: She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2010 Queen's New Year’s Honours List for her services to Broadcasting. She is the Controller of Film and Drama at Channel 4.
Born - 1961 in London, England, UK
In May 2009 was named by 'Time' magazine as one of the hundred most influential people in the world.
By 1984 C4 had co-produced over 20 feature films for the special slot Film on Four.

Because there was a guaranteed TV premiere for these films they could afford to take more risks in terms of both their content and their treatment of this than mainstream films.

 

Moarch Of The Glen.

Editing for monarch of the glen.

Age stereotype:

This is a Long take as the clip lasts for 15 seconds, the clip panns slowley across the scenery and the working men, the men are not working at a fast busy pace, they are working more sidately and in casual clothes. This represents the age as they have alot of time to complete this on, they are organised and don't realy have to focus to much, this shows that they know what they are doing and that they can afford to work in a laid back manour but still work effitiontly.

Regional identity

Regional identity:
accents in exam - identify charicter (pitch & tone)
nasel tone - northen
lack of vouls - southen
(estory english origionated in londen in the cockney accent but has spread accross england)

T.V drama's always link to londen

North:
-think that southeners are soft
-poor

Cockney
-untrustworthy
-dodgy car dealerships
-own pub's
-bubbley

Yorkshire
-farmers
-cricket
-stupid
-tense persona
-tweed caps

Jordy
-Trust worthy
-chavy
-out going

Scouser
-curley hair
-annoying

Welsh
-Barry island
-Rugby
-Gavin and stacy

Leicester
-Chavs
-Slang
-Big ears (Garry Linekar walkers adverts, links to leicester)

Brum
-stupid
-rural jobs
-friendly tone
-heavy metal



City    vs     Country
.loud & exiting       .Relaxing
.Concrete/bland      .Sites and views
.Stressfull (noise)   .Boring





Some Londeners talk in RP, mostly southern londen and posh outer counties.

Sexuality steriotype

Sexuality steriotypes in media on Prezi

Male Gaze

The male gaze :

This is concept in what the audience see how the way how people are presented throughout the media.

*How the men will focus on women

*How the women look at the women

*How women will look at themselves.

Feminist theory

Laura Mulvey thought of the term of 'male gaze' in the year 1975. In what the film audience will have to view the charicters from the eyes of a hetrosexual male.

- Camera hangs on the curves of the female body, and events which occur to women are presented largely in the context of a man's reaction to these events.
- Relegates women to the status of objects. The female viewer must experience the narrative secondarily by identification with the male. 

Theory's feedback:
Some of the women that look upon the male gaze do not like the idea as they could find it demening by the way they will be looked upon but then again you get women that like the attention to there body and accept the concept of the male gaze. The gaze can also be directed toward members of the same gender for several reasons, not all of which are sexual, such as comparison of body image or clothing.

Categorising Facial Expressions
Women - Marjorie Ferguson (1980)Chocolate Box - half/full smile, lips together/slightly parted, Teeth barely visible, Full/ three-quarters face to cameraInvitational - Emphasis on eyes, Mouth shut with a hint of a smile, Head to one side or looking back at the cameraSuper-smiler - Full face, Wide open, toothy smile, Head thrust forward or thrown back, Hair often wind blownRomantic or sexual - Includes male/ female 'two-somes', Dreamy, Heavy lidded, Overtly sensual/ sexual
Men - Trevor Millum (1875)
Seductive - Similar to cool/level, Eyes less wide, Expression is less reserved, but still self-confidant, MilderCarefree - Nymph like, Active, Healthy, Vibrant, Outdoor girl, Often smiling/grinning
Practical – Concentrating, Engaged in business in hand, Mouth closed, Eyes object directed, Sometimes a slight frown, Hair usually short style or tied back
Comic - Deliberately ridiculous, Exaggerated, Acting the fool, Pulling facesCatalogue - Neutral looks of a dummy, artificial, wax like, Features may be in any position- but most likely eyes wide open and a smile, Looks remain vacant and empty with personality removed.

Jonathan Schroeder 1998
To gaze implies more than to look at- it signifies a psychological relationship of power in which the gazer is superior to the object of the gaze.

Narrative codes

Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes was a semioligist; basically he was paid to look at the texts to decipher how they were put together. He described it like a ball of string, texts may be..
open - unravelled in lots of different ways
closed - when there is only one obvious thread to pull on.

Threads you pull on to try and unravell meanings are called Narrative codes and can be catagonsed in five ways.

Action code – something that implies something is going to happen
Enigma Code – something within a story makes you hink whats going to happen
Semantic Code – anyhing that siggests a particular often additional meaning by way of connoation
Cultural Code – relyson audience knowing same thing – body of knowledge
Symbolic Code – binary opposites

Binary Opposites - Levi Straus
He believed that the world was split into a series of binary opposites. Essentially only one thing can be defined in relation to something it isn't. E.g. a hero is only a herp is there is a cowardly option.

Ideology
An organised collection of ideas. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision as a way of looking at things, a belief which helps explain the world around us

steriotypes

The 7 areas  of steriotypes: - Gender
- Age
- Ethnicity
- Sexuality
- Class and status
- Physical ability/disabillity
- Regional identity

Whats the Purpose/popularity of stereotypes?
The steriotypes relate to audience, also the audience understands the steriotype through passed down knowledge, some steriotypes can be posative - not all negative and false.

Problems/criticsmKey term - Mediation: The way the Media represent an idea to us.

- Stereotypes overlook th individual
- Place people in groups
- Qualities often exaggerated which leads to a caricature.Leon Festinger - Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Argued that we resist adjusting our attitudes unless faced with overwhelming evidence against it. Believed that we seek out confimation of our thoughts/beliefes.

Websites (Working title)

Advantages:
.Cheaper than advertising ont.v
.Wider audience whowill view advertising
.Easier to get out topublic
.Provides exclusives of upcoming releases
.More detail
.24/7 updates
.Viral marketing
.Contact details
.Archive material - past projects
.Awards / celebrations
.History
.Merchindise / sales
.Downloads

Task - Evaluate working title's website commenting on what features make it particulary useful or interesting:

Working title have a large proffetional looking website with all different features, informing and entertaining accessories for the viewing audience. 
The website includes games, preview clips, outakes, games and interviews, also a particular feature to the website is it's actors video logs throughout the films. This feature is specific to working title's website, the websitehelps people to findinformation on the making of the films, get them intrestedin theupcomingnewfilms and provide the 'behind scenes feeling' by having the actors log and have them lead you around etc.

Hot Fuzz

11. How many pieces of merchandise can you find for the film Hot Fuzz? Hot fuzz has it's own clothing range of combat trousers to fan t-shirts, it has toys and also soundtrack cd's and special edition dvd's. you can buy props and stuff online etc and special edition merchindise such as framed pictures etc.

12. How many different versions of the Hot Fuzz DVD are there (you can include imports)? 6 different coppies

13. What special features are contained on the two disc special edition DVD?  Behind the scenes, out-takes, narrators annotation through scenes
14. Why do you think they place different ‘special features’ on DVD’s and who are these designed to appeal to? Special features such as the directors annotation will be for upcoming directors that want advice and learn aboout things to do with the creation of scenes they liked. There are other features like out-takes that are there to be funny and make us laugh and see the creation shooting side of it.

15. How many Oscar winners appear in the film? 4 oscar winners

16. What was the films opening UK box office takings? april 20th - 26th - $7,724,188

Apr 20–26

6

$7,724,188

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825

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$9,363

$7,724,188

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17. What is its current world wide gross?

Total Lifetime Grosses

Domestic:	$23,637,265	29.3%
+ Foreign:	$56,936,509	70.7%

18. What convention did Nick Frost and Simon Pegg attend in order to promote this film? comi'con

19. Why do you think they chose to attend this particular convention so they get a good idea of what prime audience will want to be involved in the film and what the audience would want to get from a film such as 'hot fuzz' the british 'bad boys'

Hangover advertising campagn.

Advertising Campaign on Due Date

Steriotypes

Problems/criticism.

key term - Mediation

          The way the media represents an idea to us.


          .Sterio types overlook the individual place people in groups
          .Qualities often 'exaggerated' which leads to a caricature.

Dugg Bihlmaier

Dugg Bihlmaier is a miss conceptive man, he likes to be viewed as different and to get this elution he dresses in a different way, he uses plain colours and strait shapes. He is a big fan of the style that he invented called hobo sheik. This look is designed to go against the way that common society judges people, for example a person wearing the plain clothes with patch work pattern and short wasted jackets would be associated with no doubt the lower class as the style will look poor and un-caring.

This man is called Doug Bilmaier and he heads Ralph Lauren's vintage department. This gentlemen travels the world buying all the great vintage items (frames,books,fixtures etc) that you find decorating Ralph's stores.

When we 1^st got shown the picture of him and told to write a short paragraph this is what I wrote,

This guy looks like he has took a lot of risks in life that haven’t paid off, leaving him homeless and living on the streets, if he was still in contact with family and friends then he wouldn’t be left to dress ad walk around in that way. His clothes are old and tatty, a shirt and big jacket insinuates that he is dressing warm along with his beanie hat even though the day looks quite warm itself. He is also smoking to me this makes him look as if he has given in and does not care anymore, his trousers are rolled up to his shins and make them look to short for him, this made me think that he cannot be fussy about size, and that anything that slightly fits will do. His hat looks as if it is also there to cover his long white greasy hair, his beard is rugged and un pampered making it look un cared for.

working title

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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