Similarities and Differences Between Blockbuster and Low Budget Film

Frozen vs Wild Bill

Previous Films - 

• Disney - 
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 
• Dumbo
• Bambi
• Peter Pan

• 20ten Media and STS Media - 
• Everywhere and Nowhere 
• Harrigan
• Dead Man Running

Differences between the two films based on previous films - 

• Frozen is animation from start to finish whereas Wild Bill is all drama and real people. 
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Wild Bill - 2

Wild Bill 

 Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on. Although Dean the older boy has found a job and is doing his best to be a father to his younger brother Jimmy, the arrival of Bill has brought them to the attention of social services. With the danger of being put into care looming, Dean forces his feckless Dad to stay by threatening to grass him up for dealing. If there's one thing Bill doesn't want it's to go back to prison. He reluctantly agrees to stay for a week o help fool social services that the boys are being cared for. Having never really grown up himself Bill quickly connects with Jimmy and through this new bond starts to realize what he's been missing. He has a family, a place in the world. He is a father. However, their happy family set up is short lived when Jimmy gets into trouble with Bill's dangerous old cohorts. To sort it out would breach the terms of his license and risk sending him back to Jail. Bill's next steps will show what sort of a Dad he wants to be. A good one or a free one.

•  Genre - Drama 
• Production Company - 20ten Media and STS Media 
• Distribution Company - 
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (2012) (Australia) (DVD) 
• Film1 (2014) (Netherlands) (TV) (limited)
• Koch Media (2013) (Netherlands) (DVD) 
• Sunfilm Entertainment (2014) (Germany) (DVD) 
• Sunfilm Entertainment (2014) (Germany) (Blu-ray) (DVD) 
• Universal Home Entertainment (2012) (UK) (DVD) 
• Universal Home Entertainment (2012) (UK) (Blu-ray) (DVD) 

• Technical Aspects -

• Budget -  £700,000
• Box Office - £60,430

Fingersmith

Fingersmith 

How is the representation of sexuality constructed in the clip?

Camera - 

• Close up - being each other in the mirror
• The woman constantly looks at the servant
• Look at the servant from the woman who is painting point of view
• Him ---> Her ---> Him --->Her --->Servant

Mise en Scene - 

• Paint dripping onto dress (Lusting)
• Helping her get changed
• Trying on different dresses

Editing - 

• Woman have most screen time throughout the clip
• All the dissolve effects dissolve into the woman
• Straight cuts to male 
• Slow pace 

Sound - 

• Non Diegetic voiceover "She looks so beautiful".
• "I had to keep telling myself  over and over again what she was going to do to me"
• "She changed my uncles books for me"
• Emotional music into sinister music when man realises she fancies the servant. 

Answer to Question

The representation of sexuality is constructed in this clip with the use of camera angles from the opening scene where we are shown two upper class woman who appear to be trying on dresses, at first this seems normal until we realise that the woman who is holding the dress is in fact the others servant. Following this the non diegetic voiceover from the woman referred to as Miss reveals her feelings for the servant at a early stage in the clip "She looks so beautiful". It is unlikely for the normal upper class woman to compliment her servants therefore this diologue immediately brings to our attention the affection Miss has for her servant. Furthermore the way in which the two are positioned with one behind the other bringing the servant to the front which is again different to what we expect to see. Miss is always looking at her servant in a way which shows affection because of this we question her desires and perhaps the fact that she is homosexual.

The clip then progresses with the character sitting in what appears to be a library with what sounds like violin and piano music playing softly in the background while Miss explains how "she changed my uncles books for me". This soft violin and piano music acts as a sound bridge into the next scene where Miss is almost stroking her servant while they are in bed, the character Miss lusts after her servant almost having to force herself not to touch the servant. The editing of the slow dissolve from the library into the bedroom slows the pace of the transition and helps to emphasise her feeling for the servant allowing us the audience to realise her sexual desires for the other woman. Long shot is used to show the whole of the bed and both of them fully therefore making the scene more intimate further emphasising the desires of the character Miss both of the characters are positioned in the centre of the frame therefore forcing us the audience to look at them because they are the most important characters. 

The clip progresses again into another scene of the character Miss again using the dissolve effect to slow the pace
 

Wild Bill

Wild Bill

Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on. Although Dean the older boy has found a job and is doing his best to be a father to his younger brother Jimmy, the arrival of Bill has brought them to the attention of social services. With the danger of being put into care looming, Dean forces his feckless Dad to stay by threatening to grass him up for dealing. If there's one thing Bill doesn't want it's to go back to prison. He reluctantly agrees to stay for a week o help fool social services that the boys are being cared for. Having never really grown up himself Bill quickly connects with Jimmy and through this new bond starts to realize what he's been missing. He has a family, a place in the world. He is a father. However, their happy family set up is short lived when Jimmy gets into trouble with Bill's dangerous old cohorts. To sort it out would breach the terms of his license and risk sending him back to Jail. Bill's next steps will show what sort of a Dad he wants to be. A good one or a free one.

• Genre - Drama
• Production Company - 20ten Media and STS Media 
• Distribution Company - 
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (2012) (Australia) (DVD)
• Film1 (2014) (Netherlands) (TV) (limited)
• Koch Media (2013) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Sunfilm Entertainment (2014) (Germany) (DVD)
• Sunfilm Entertainment (2014) (Germany) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
• Universal Home Entertainment (2012) (UK) (DVD)
• Universal Home Entertainment (2012) (UK) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
• Technical Aspects - 

Film Case Study - Frozen

Frozen 

Frozen Film Poster

Frozen DVD Cover

These are the posters and film covers for Frozen which was released in the UK on Friday 6th December 2013 and in the US on Wednesday 27th November 2013. 

The plot summary is as follows - 

• Anna, a fearless optimist, sets off on an epic journey - teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven - to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom. From the outside Anna's sister, Elsa looks poised, regal and reserved, but in reality, she lives in fear as she wrestles with a mighty secret-she was born with the power to create ice and snow. It's a beautiful ability, but also extremely dangerous. Haunted by the moment her magic nearly killed her younger sister Anna, Elsa has isolated herself, spending every waking minute trying to suppress her growing powers. Her mounting emotions trigger the magic, accidentally setting off an eternal winter that she can't stop. She fears she's becoming a monster and that no one, not even her sister, can help her.

Historical Context - 

• Frozen conspiracy linking into the Little Mermaid and Tangled - http://uk.eonline.com/news/523425/after-reading-this-you-will-never-watch-frozen-tangled-or-the-little-mermaid-the-same-way-again
• Frozen is unlike any film Disney have made before because as a film Frozen is not about finding a Prince Charming even though in the beginning this seems to be the story. However Frozen is more about finding love for family not some prince. 

General Facts - 

• Production Company - Walt Disney Animation Studios 
• Distribution Company - Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
• Director - Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
• Cast -  Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino, Santino Fontana
• Production Budget - $150 Million (£99853548.00)
• Marketing Costs - 

Frozen Values

Institutions 

• Production Company - Walt Disney Animation Studios

                                             - This production company have made a large number of highly sucsessful films below is a list of the films with a link to more. 

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 
2. Dumbo
3. Bambi
4. Peter Pan
5. Wreck-It Ralph 

• Distribution Company - Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures 

                                              - This distribution company have distributed a number of high grossing and highly successful films a sample of these films is listed below. 

1. Marvel's The Avengers
2. Iron Man 3
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 
4. Toy Story 3
5. Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Pre-Production Information 

In the Pre-production element of Frozen there were a number of concept drawings in order to decide what the characters will look like the final drawings are below - 

Elsa

Anna

Olaf

http://www.animationsource.org/frozen/en/custom/&id_film=101&nump=7001

Prince Hans

 Frozen as a film went through a very hard pre-production stage when the film was first pitched to the Disney bosses in 1943 however after many years the film was finally produced but was a flop because the characters were wrong and so was the story however the director wasn't phased he just went back to the drawing board and changed a few aspects of the original notes to create the outstanding film we see today. More information on :

http://www.animationsource.org/frozen/en/custom/&id_film=101&nump=7002

Production

TV Drama

Exam Tips

1st Viewing - NO NOTES

2nd Viewing - Camera, Mise En Scene

3rd Viewing - Editing + Sound

4th Viewing - Representation - 

• Class
• Age
• Gender
• Ethnicity 
• Sexuality 
• Regionalism 
• Disability

Sound - 

• Music 
• Contrapuntal
• Diegetic
• Off Screen / On Screen 
• Voiceover
• Emotion
• Dialogue 

Camera - 

• Frame
• Angle
• Movement 

Mise En Scene - 

• Costume
• Lighting
• Actors
• Makeup
• Props
• Setting

Editing - 

• Transition - Mostly straight cuts
• Order of Narrative / Simultaneous events
• Pace - Length of Shots
• Special Effects  

  

Film Analysis

Production -

Idea ---> Producer ---> Script ---> Budget

Distribution -

Pay for marketing
Sell the film to the cinema

Marketing -

Above the line - Trains, Posters, Websites
                         - All paid for accounted for in the budget.
Below the line - Word of mouth
                        - All Free
Exchange -

Cinemas showing the film.

Media Exam

Exam

Friday 22nd May 2015