Key Film Industry Glossary terms: Part 2

Carrying on...

Horizontal Integration: where one media company acquires another media company in the same sector, e.g. Cineworld acquiring Picturehouse Cinemas in 2012.

Digital technologies: primarily this refers to how the internet has changed the industry including online distribution, film streaming, piracy, legal and illegal downloading, 3D and digital projection...

Synergy: where two or more compatible products sell each other, e.g. a film and a computer game or a film and a soundtrack

Merchandising: where the popularity of film is manipulated and exploited through the sales of spin off goods, e.g the Star Wars franchise has made more money through merchandising over the years than ticket sales.

Franchise: the licensing of intellectual property from an original work which can be sold on using the same brand name for commercial exploitation e.g Harry Potter film franchise or Star Treck or Star Wars (8 Films) from Str Wars (1977) to Star Wars: The Force Awakens ( December 2015)

Event Movie: where the date of release is used in the marketing e.g Spectre on the first Monday of half term or The Hobbit where you have to wait until Christmas to see them.

Cross Media Ownership: where companies have interest in a range of media e.g song and Gaming, Film Distrubution, Electronic.....

Media Convergence: where film is available/consumed and can be marketed on a number media platforms e.g Cinema, Streamed, DVD, X BOX, Playstation...Film websites often have convergent links to a range of rich media.

Key Film Industry Glossary Terms

I thought by making a glossary of terms from the Film Industry it will remind me each time if i forget and help me remember, these are mainly what i collected from the BFI Film Festival.

Production: the physical film making process (the UK film industry is stereotypically more production led, the US distribution led)

Distrubution: getting films out to audiences and paying for the advertising and marketing. To understand commercial success, the role of distribution is crucial.

Exchange: audience film consumption on a range of platforms, e.g Cinema, DVD and streaming....

Multinational Conglomerate: large organisations whose business interests are global, utilising synergy and convergence and also cross media ownership- apart from Disney, all of the 'big six' film distributors are owned by multi national conglomerates. 

Monopoly: where one company dominates the market. Netflix are currently dominating online film distribution

Oligopoly: where four or more companies dominate the market e.g the big six

The Big Six: the studios that dominate film distribution and form the oligopoly of ownership (owned by multi national conglomerates)

Globalisation: where films are distributed around the work through elaborate cross media marketing net works.

Spectre Film Review

I went to see Spectre on the second week it came out and the Everyman in Belsize Park. It was really hard to get a ticket as it was always fully booked, but the second week was less full than the first. To be honest, I didn't enjoy Spectre as much as I thought I would, considering the amount of hype there was. I thought the film was very basic, although it was filmed really well. I really like the locations where they shot, they made the film more interesting and exciting. I  didn't like the Bond girl Léa Seydoux who played Dr. Madeleine Swann, personally in my opinion they could of used someone more stimulating and special because the role of the Bond girl is really unique and I don't think anyone really knew who she was. Director Sam Mendes says: “The tradition for Bond is always real stunts, real action, real explosions. There's nothing made on a computer and that remains the case here. So the ultimate goal is the kind of visceral excitement you can only get from live stunts." For me these are the best parts about the film, it basically started with him nearly having a building collapsed on him and this is when the movie really starts. Overall I did enjoy it, but they could of made a few changes to make it better, as Skyfall was such a hit I think it could of been better.

Spectre: Making more money than Skyfall

According to reports, Spectre has landed the biggest seven day bank drop in UK history, where $63.8 million coming in over the  first week of its release. The film has brought overall $80.4 in six territories, which is music to Sony and MGM's ears. As both studios had not the best summer, Spectre is just what  they both needed. If anything, Skyfall is the reason that drives people to see Spectre. With Skyfall grossing the $1 billion mark, people are hoping that Spectre can hopefully make the same success.


As you can see Spectre made the top 20 films at the weekend box office per Rentrak theatrical:
1). Spectre (SONY), 3,929 theaters / 3-day cume: $70.4M / Per screen average: $17,919/Wk 1

Stories that can be used as a thriller

Here are some good ideas I thought of to be used for a thriller movie:


1- Possibly a young girl walking home from school each night, and every night she walks home she feels as if she is being followed. There is a series of events where nothing happens and then the scene switches to her waking up under a bridge with bruises/marks and then you have to decide for yourself what actually happens.


2- I thought the idea of a girl babysitting at home and she keeps hearing noises from upstairs and around the house, and then she goes up stairs to check what's going on and sees nothing. Doors slam and the letterbox opens and she sees a shadow at the front door. Before the parents went out they made sure all the doors were locked, but when she comes back downstairs the back door seems to be wide open with the wind swinging it back and forth. So she goes to get the key and hears and scream, rushing upstairs she checks the childrens bedroom and one of the girls is missing....Why that child? How did the door open?


3- This could be set in a fancy dress shop? or any sort of shop I guess and suddenly he/she gets sent an anonymous text message which threatens her.......and tells her the person is 'watching her' Then she looks round the room and turns around and looks and loads of masks, when suddenly one of them has someone's face behind it and the person runs.

Napoleon Dynamite: First day of editing

Today, our group started using Final Cut Pro and it was our first actual day of editing. All of us were really excited about getting to look through the footage properly and analysing each shot. When we were sorting out each shots, we realised there were some scenes we had not yet filmed, which we had got ready to film (Like the egg, steak etc....) but unfortunately didn't work when we came to film them. For example the egg was cut wrong and looked really bad and the steak ended up becoming to watery to film. So we had a successful first day of editing but there were a few complications in the way which we will resolve by re-filming.

Fiding the font

Today, we were researching websites that will match the font to Napoleon Dynamite. One of the websites was blocked on the school computers, so that was difficult but there were many others. We will be using these fonts by including them in our film openings, so they resemble much more.
There were successfully many websites that
consisted of the Napoleon Dynamite font and here are some of the following examples :

Following Websites for Napoleon Dynamite Fonts:
http://www.fontspace.com/category/napoleon%20dynamite
https://www.myfonts.com/
http://www.fontsaddict.com/font/search/napoleon-dynamite

Woody Allen

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying"

"Eighty percent of success is showing up"

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons"

Woody Allen is an American actor, writer, director, comedian and playwright. He was born December 1st 1935 (79 years old) and was born in The Bronx, New York City.

• He worked as a comedy writer in the 1950s
• Writing jokes and scripts for television and also publishing several books of short humour pieces.
•  In the beginning of the 1960s, Woody Allen began performing as a stand-up comedian, emphasising monologues rather than traditional jokes.
• By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films, he started with specialising in slapstick comedies before moving into dramatic material, which was influenced by European Art Cinema during the 1970s. His  best-known of his over 40 films are Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), and Hannah and Her Sisters(1986). Critic Roger Ebert described Allen as "a treasure of the cinema.
• Woody Allen has been nominated 24 times and won four Academy Awards
• 3 for Best Original Screenplay and 1  for Best Director (Annie Hall).