How important is film marketing in attracting an audience? The importance of marketing and promotion of films is clear in one very simple way: an entire sector of the film industry – film distribution depends for its profits and survival upon the successful marketing and promotion of films. Organisations such as Icon and Artificial Eye as well as the more mainstream distributors for Hollywood studio pictures exist to get films from production to the market and exhibition. As well as these organizations
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Film noir is generally associated with a ‘dark’ type of film in the era following WWII. Film’s that are categorized in this genre are marked by a style that generally contains certain distinguishing elements – dark rooms with Venetian blinds‚ dark alleys‚ rain-slicked streets‚ dark offices and low key lighting. The plot usually deals with the dark aspects of humanity-greed‚ murder‚ deceit and paranoia. There are also distinguishing characters‚ the main character a detective or an investigator usually
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Film analysis of the opening scene in the film Laura (1944). In the opening scene of the film Laura‚ there is much to analyse. Be it from unusual casting options‚ to the cinematography‚ it seems that the director Otto Preminger knew exactly how to make the audience to think when making Laura. Casting is of a big importance when analysing the film Laura. What is interesting about Premingers work is how he makes unusual casting decisions‚ that always seem to make the feature a success. It seems
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Film and cinema 1 Match these words with their definitions below: star director scene critic review 1. somebody who reviews new films 2. a very famous actor or actress 3. what a critic writes about a new film 4. the person who tells the actors and actresses what to do 5. one small part of a film 2 Put these words into the sentences below: screen subtitles row trailers credits 1. Let’s sit at the back. I don’t like being too near the ........ . 2. I like
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Introduction Superhero films as a popular culture are a phenomenon that has experienced fluctuating amounts of success and change throughout its long history‚ spanning over seventy years. With origins in comic book lore‚ the mythology of superheroes emerged in 1940s films and has ultimately become a multibillion dollar empire. Over the last century‚ the heroes and mythology within superhero films drawn from various comic book universes have established an unrivalled relationship with audiences‚ who
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My Best Friend’s Wedding Courtney-Anthony-Br English 225 Introduction to Film Instructor: Hazar Shehadeh May 9‚ 2013 “My Best Friend’s Wedding” is a romantic comedy that hit the movie scene in 1997 about a 27 year old woman who made a pact with her best friend and former lover that by age 28 if neither was married that they would marry each other. Four days before her 28th birthday her best friend calls with news of him getting married. Now she has to decipher whether she wants to be
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text. 3. Jean-Luc Godard’s use of sound in his films can be described as a mixture of conventional and contrapuntal strategies. Give an account of how this particular mixture affects the act of film viewing. 4. Sound in film is often considered as secondary in importance to the image as a communicator of narrative information. Discuss whether and why you agree or disagree with this implicit hierarchy‚ giving examples from films that you have been shown on this course to support your
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Memento‚ directed by Christopher Nolan‚ is an action-packed‚ psychological thriller guaranteed to leave the viewer thinking long after the film ends. Released in 2001‚ the movie stars many famous actors‚ including: Guy Pearce‚ Carrie-Anne Moss‚ Joe Pantoliano‚ and Stephen Tobolowsky. Considered "one of the best movies of the 2000’s‚" Memento is a complicated‚ head-spinning adventure of revenge‚ heartbreak‚ and manipulation. In this movie review‚ I will analyze the thematic significance regarding
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Until this point‚ special effects artists were mostly limited to methods of stop-motion animation and practical effects to create fantastical displays within a film. That was until ground-breaking director Stephen Spielberg‚ who is most famous for his work in classic films such as E.T. and Jaws‚ made a single decision that would influence film-making to this day. It was the decision to utilize computer graphics in the iconic production‚ Jurassic Park. Filmmakers had used computer graphics previously
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As a sociologist‚ I examined the movie named Mustang and in this essay‚ I will try to explain the actions of characters and the events that have happened in the movie by using the sociological imagination. The relationship between the five sisters‚ the grandmother and the uncle is based on sexism‚ gender roles‚ also on the separation of spheres. In the movie‚ sexism can be seen in almost every scene‚ for example‚ the importance that has been attributed to the virginity of girls as it’s the only
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