Friday, 28 March 2014
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Fan Films.
A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar source, created by fans rather than by the source's copyright holders or creators. Fan filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs, but some of the more notable films have actually been produced by professional filmmakers as film school class projects or as demonstration reels. Fan films vary tremendously in quality, as well as in length, from short faux-teaser trailers for non-existent motion pictures to full-length motion pictures.
The earliest fan film was in the 1920's.
The earliest fan film was in the 1920's.
YouTube, Vimeo, LiveLeak, Vine
it is now a lot easier and quicker to make a little video and edit it due to all the apps and websites now (web 2.0). people can upload their films instantly and get feedback. people can connect with each other and get a much wider audience.
•What types of film are shown on user generated sites?
trailers, remixes, parodies,
•What is audience produced and what is industry produced?
industry produced is a film produced by a proper company like Warner Bros or something but an audience produced film is on produced by an amateur fan.
•How can you tell? What are the differences?
fan films have a lower budget so lower quality and the special effects aren't as good. they also have no famous people/locations. they are usually shorter due to budget/effort and the team of people making it/the cast is usually smaller.
•Look for remixed trailers. How are audiences ‘remixing’ film trailers? Why might they do this?
trailers, remixes, parodies,
•What is audience produced and what is industry produced?
industry produced is a film produced by a proper company like Warner Bros or something but an audience produced film is on produced by an amateur fan.
•How can you tell? What are the differences?
fan films have a lower budget so lower quality and the special effects aren't as good. they also have no famous people/locations. they are usually shorter due to budget/effort and the team of people making it/the cast is usually smaller.
•Look for remixed trailers. How are audiences ‘remixing’ film trailers? Why might they do this?
when fans remix trailers, they change the genre of the film. for example, the shining becomes a family movie and the notebook becomes a thriller. it is usually for fun and they can be very convincing when done properly.
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Robocop.
How is Robocop using the internet?
YouTube
Trailers
Facebook Page: 987,487 likes
Pictures On The Internet
Twitter Account: Followers 22.2K
Has Its Own Website
Video Game released for the films main website and app stores
Trailer with real film footage: shown at comic-con
Apples trailer website
2 main film posters
Tv spots
Action figures being released by jada toys
Comic tie-ins
How many screens is it being shown on?
On its opening day in the USA and Canada it was shown in 3,372 theatres.
What type of print is being used?
Can it be downloaded?
It can be streamed
Where from?
www.alluc.to
What quality was it?
YouTube
Trailers
Facebook Page: 987,487 likes
Pictures On The Internet
Twitter Account: Followers 22.2K
Has Its Own Website
Video Game released for the films main website and app stores
Trailer with real film footage: shown at comic-con
Apples trailer website
2 main film posters
Tv spots
Action figures being released by jada toys
Comic tie-ins
How many screens is it being shown on?
On its opening day in the USA and Canada it was shown in 3,372 theatres.
What type of print is being used?
Can it be downloaded?
It can be streamed
Where from?
www.alluc.to
What quality was it?
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Distribution.
There are TOO MANY movies being made … and we see it in the middling quality of too many films that are not getting bought. The production tools that make filmmaking accessible to just about anybody are resulting in a glut of films that aren’t nearly good enough to attract an audience of consequence. How can we make it stop?
Crowdfunding is creating a bottleneck. The wonderful financing platforms of Kickstarter and Indiegogo are fueling dozens of new projects. That’s a great thing for filmmakers, and a big problem for the indie business. Because now hundreds of movies are getting financed that have no prayer of financial return for the filmmaker. Yes, there is distribution on VOD and Vimeo and Netflix in addition to Sony Classics and The Weinstein Co. Good luck paying your rent with that revenue.”
There are many new buyers, but they don’t pay much. So we now supposedly have a wide array of distribution channels: traditional theatrical, VOD, streaming on Netflix/Hulu/Amazon and the like, iTunes, Snagfilms, Indieflix. The problem: none of it pays enough to support a proper filmmaking culture. Do we need to start thinking about a government-subsidized model like they have in Europe? (Short answer: that doesn’t work either. Their films aren’t any better.) New ideas, anyone?
http://pando.com/2014/02/10/as-more-movies-are-made-is-this-good-for-the-art-and-business-of-film/ February 10 2014
Towards the end of 2005, the UK distribution and exhibition sectors were starting to move towards digital distribution and exhibition.
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/distribution/distribution7.html
Fighting piracy with release windowsThe VoD window has compressed even further into a window that opens right into the theatrical run. Premium VoD is available up to 60 days following theatrical release for a fee of around $25-30. Adriana Whiteley, managing partner at Farncombe Consulting, suggests that compressing windows is imperative to combat piracy.
http://www.csimagazine.com/csi/The-future-of-online-movie-distribution.php september-october 2011
Crowdfunding is creating a bottleneck. The wonderful financing platforms of Kickstarter and Indiegogo are fueling dozens of new projects. That’s a great thing for filmmakers, and a big problem for the indie business. Because now hundreds of movies are getting financed that have no prayer of financial return for the filmmaker. Yes, there is distribution on VOD and Vimeo and Netflix in addition to Sony Classics and The Weinstein Co. Good luck paying your rent with that revenue.”
There are many new buyers, but they don’t pay much. So we now supposedly have a wide array of distribution channels: traditional theatrical, VOD, streaming on Netflix/Hulu/Amazon and the like, iTunes, Snagfilms, Indieflix. The problem: none of it pays enough to support a proper filmmaking culture. Do we need to start thinking about a government-subsidized model like they have in Europe? (Short answer: that doesn’t work either. Their films aren’t any better.) New ideas, anyone?
http://pando.com/2014/02/10/as-more-movies-are-made-is-this-good-for-the-art-and-business-of-film/ February 10 2014
Towards the end of 2005, the UK distribution and exhibition sectors were starting to move towards digital distribution and exhibition.
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/distribution/distribution7.html
Fighting piracy with release windowsThe VoD window has compressed even further into a window that opens right into the theatrical run. Premium VoD is available up to 60 days following theatrical release for a fee of around $25-30. Adriana Whiteley, managing partner at Farncombe Consulting, suggests that compressing windows is imperative to combat piracy.
http://www.csimagazine.com/csi/The-future-of-online-movie-distribution.php september-october 2011
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
The Impact of Web 2.0 on Audiences and Institutions.
The arrows are the web, see how it is created?
Things like YouTube allow amateurs to become professionals. Comment boxes let people give each other feedback. Quite often people will tweet institutions to give them feedback as well....
Institutions can even contact each other with web 2.0.....
Monday, 3 March 2014
Scenarios task – Higher
Read the scenarios below and the descriptions of each organisation. For each scenario explain which organisation/institution would get involved and how they would help to resolve the situation. NB: more than one organisation will be involved, make sure you explain them all.
1) A country within the continent of Africa does not believe they are being paid a fair price for some of their goods and that they are being ‘undercut’ by another country.
WTO-deal with trade between countries.
IMF-financial cooperation between countries.
2) An individual country wishes to lower its customs tariffs and trade barriers as well as keeping open markets.
what does that even mean????????
3) A country in Asia has companies who are exploiting their workers, through poor working conditions and unfair wages.
UN-human rights.
UN works with IMF and World Bank to do this.
4) An Less Economically Developed Country wishes to sell its primary products globally to NIC’s and More Economically Developed Countries but does not have the money or contacts to start this process.
World Bank-money
IMF-trade
Extension – Exam Practice
1) Name two global organisations (2)
The World Bank and the World Trade Organisation.
2) Explain two ways global organisations can help LEDC’s (4)
Help to bring money into the country through trade. Make sure that everything is fair and no one's human rights are breached.
3) Describe how one named global institution helps to make countries more globalised and creates a global economy (6)
1) A country within the continent of Africa does not believe they are being paid a fair price for some of their goods and that they are being ‘undercut’ by another country.
WTO-deal with trade between countries.
IMF-financial cooperation between countries.
2) An individual country wishes to lower its customs tariffs and trade barriers as well as keeping open markets.
what does that even mean????????
3) A country in Asia has companies who are exploiting their workers, through poor working conditions and unfair wages.
UN-human rights.
UN works with IMF and World Bank to do this.
4) An Less Economically Developed Country wishes to sell its primary products globally to NIC’s and More Economically Developed Countries but does not have the money or contacts to start this process.
World Bank-money
IMF-trade
Extension – Exam Practice
1) Name two global organisations (2)
The World Bank and the World Trade Organisation.
2) Explain two ways global organisations can help LEDC’s (4)
Help to bring money into the country through trade. Make sure that everything is fair and no one's human rights are breached.
3) Describe how one named global institution helps to make countries more globalised and creates a global economy (6)
Questions.
1.How is the world more interconnected?
Globalisation and world trade. The world is a much 'smaller' place now.
2.What has created a ‘global village’?
Marshall McLuhan described how the globe has been contracted into a village by electric technology and the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time
3.What has happened to transport to help globalisation?
Bigger/quicker cargo ships. Everything can go faster now and hold more. Also SAT-NAVs so the drivers don't get lost.
4. How does it help countries?
Trade brings in money.
5.Who benefits the most from TNC’s?
The owners because they get loads of cash.
Globalisation and world trade. The world is a much 'smaller' place now.
2.What has created a ‘global village’?
Marshall McLuhan described how the globe has been contracted into a village by electric technology and the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time
3.What has happened to transport to help globalisation?
Bigger/quicker cargo ships. Everything can go faster now and hold more. Also SAT-NAVs so the drivers don't get lost.
4. How does it help countries?
Trade brings in money.
5.Who benefits the most from TNC’s?
The owners because they get loads of cash.
match the abbreviation to the definition.
World Bank-International Bank for Reconstruction and Development: a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments
IMF-The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 188 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
WTO-The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business.
TNC-A TNC is a large company that trades and competes in markets overseas as well as from home.
UN-The United Nations is made up of 192 countries from around the world. It is often called the UN.
IMF-The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 188 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
WTO-The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business.
TNC-A TNC is a large company that trades and competes in markets overseas as well as from home.
UN-The United Nations is made up of 192 countries from around the world. It is often called the UN.
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