Ehsans Media Blog2 (Course work)

FUNDING What was the budget for Chicken Director Joe Stephenson raised £110,000 for Chicken  2) How did Joe Stephenson end up raising the money to make the film? Joe Stephenson raised this money through private donors 3) How does the  Chicken  budget compare to a Hollywood-funded British blockbuster such as Spectre  or  Paddington 2 ? Most Hollywood funded British blockbusters have an average budget of $65 million not including the additional average of $35 million, making an average £100 million for a Hollywood funded British blockbuster 4) Joe Stephenson tried to secure funding from organisations that help low-budget filmmakers. What is the  BFI Film Fund  and how does it contribute to the British film industry?   The BFI (British Film Institution) is a cultural charity set up by the government to help fund low budget filmmakers. The BFI is funded through the national lottery. 5) Why do you think  Chicken  failed to ...

1)  Film poster analysis 2)  Mise-en-scene blog tasks 3)  Star persona: video feedback and learner response 4)  Lighting blog tasks 5)  Sound blog tasks 6)  Sound: parallel and contrapuntal video feedback and learner response 7)  Cinematography blog tasks 8)  Cinemography 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

1) Write a one-sentence definition of what makes a film British. If the movie is filmed in Britain, if the people filiming are british, if its funded within Britain, If the cast is british and or if the films subject matter is british or about british culture. 2) What is the difference between a Hollywood production context and production context of a British film? Hollywood production context means that most films made by hollywood film studios tend to be high budget productions with heavy emphasis on famouns celebrities in both cast and crew and are spectacle driven stories. While the independent productions tend to be low budget character rather than spectacle focused stories and have a heavier word of mouth and viral advertising. British Film on the other hand have no  specific clearly defined chracteristics. 3) When did the James Bond franchise start? The James Bond franchise started in the 1960's 4) In terms of film censorship and graphic content, wh...