Production, Distribution and Exhibition

Production:

This is the process of making a film. Production involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story idea, or commission, through script writing, casting, shooting, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition. Production takes place in many places around the world in a range of economic, social, and political contexts, and using a variety of technologies and techniques used in the cinematography. Typically, it involves a large number of people, and can take from a few months to several years to complete, this means that a two hour film actually can take years to develop and create.

Distribution

This is the process through which a movie is made available to watch for an audience by a film distributor. Some channels of distributions are: Internet sites such as YouTube, home entertainment such as DVD it also may include digital distribution. The media content that is produced is then distributed by certain websites and viral networks to a range of viewers. Some other examples of channels of distribution are: Box Office (Sky), Cinemas, Netflix etc. 

Exhibition

Exhibition is the retail branch of the film industry. It involves not the production or the distribution of motion pictures, but their public screening, usually for paying customers in a site devoted to such screenings, the movie theater. What the exhibitor sells is the experience of a film  and frequently other products that connect to it such as popcorn and drinks. Because exhibitors to some extent control how films are programmed, promoted, and presented to the public, they have considerable influence over the box-office success and, more importantly, the reception of films.

007 Skyfall - Sony Xperia

Production Of Distribution And Exhibition (Keerthana Rajakulasingam)

The Film Making Business:

1. The Idea- Someone comes up with an idea.
2. Development Finance- The rough idea is turned into a final script ready for production.
3. Script Development- The finished script is delivered to the producer and financiers. 
4. Packaging- The director and producer decide how they want to film it and who will help them.
5. Financing- The producer secures enough funding so that the film is made to the highest possible standard. 
6. Pre-Production- The full cast and crew are hired. Detailed preparations for the shoot begins. 
7. The Shoot- The film is being shot.
8. Post Production- Usually starts during the shoot. As soon as the first 'RUSHES'- raw footage and sound are available. 
9. Sales- The producer finds a distributor. 
10. Marketing- The distributors plan their strategy and begin to market it.
11. Exhibition- Cinema exhibition is the primary channel for films to reach their audiences. Box office success equals financial success. 

Distribution- Is when a product is released, so it can be viewed in cinemas. This Is done after the full marketing process. 

The Selfish Giant - Case Study (Keerthana Rajakulasingam)

The genre of the film - Drama

Marketing Techniques - Facebook, Twitter, Poster, Trailer.

Facebook Page

Twitter Page

Poster

 

Trailer

Website

The cinema's this film was exhibited in are:

1. Cornerhouse
2. Showroom Workstation
3. Watershed
4. Picture House 
5. Curzon Cinemas Renoir 
6. Curzon Cinemas Soho
7. Barbican 
8. Genesis Cinema 
9. Peckham Multiplex 

Release Dates: The film was released in a number of different countries including; France, Brazil, Poland, USA, UK, Czech Republic, Israel, Ireland, Sweden, and the Netherlands. In all of the countries listed above, other than Ireland and Netherlands, the film was released on the same day as a film festival.

Film review quotes:

1. "Britain has found a new director to be proud of" - The Times
2. "A heart-wrenching movie....Cements Barnard's reputation of one of Britain's best film-makers" - The Guardian
3. "Astonishingly strong performances.....cinema that tells an unsure nation who we are" - Daily Telegraph.     

The film was distributed by:

1. Cinéart (2014) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
2. Pyramide Distribution (2013) (France) (theatrical)
3. Sundance Selects (2013) (USA) (theatrical)
4. Front Row Filmed Entertainment (2014) (United Arab Emirates) (all media) (Middle East, North Africa & Iran)
5. Rialto Distribution (2013) (Australia) (all media)
6. Rialto Distribution (2013) (New Zealand) (all media)

These distribution studios are know for films based on a specific genre, this being drama, which is also the genre for The Selfish Giant. For example, Cinéart - Blonde (2001) drama. And Pyramide Distribution - The Amazing Catfish (2013) drama. Sundance Selects - Young and Wild (2012) drama. Front Row Filmed Entertainment - How I Live Now (2013) drama. Rialto Distribution (Australia) - Like Father Like Son (2013) drama. Rialto Distribution (New Zealand) - The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013) drama. Distribution companies choose films would appeal to their audience. Each distribution company has a different genre they choose to pursue. This then enables them to choose their target audience and aim all their films to that select group/demographic.

Awards - The film was screened in the Director's Fortnight section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Europa Cinemas award. It was also nominated for the 2013 Lux Prize. The film was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. 

Publicity - Overall the film has received incredibly good and positive publicity, with amazing reviews from some of the top UK newspapers. It definitely lived up to the buzz that was created over the film. The director has received many praises on his work and he is now being called one of the UK's best ever directors.  

007 Skyfall DVD

007 Skyfall - Premiere (clip)

007 Skyfall - Newspaper Articles

007 Skyfall - Behind the scenes

007 Skyfall - Game Trailer

007 Skyfall - Film openings

Skyfall Opened in the UK on the 26th October 2012.

Skyfall Opened in the US on the 9th November 2012.

007 Skyfall - Fan Sites

Skyfall News Blog 

007 Skyfall - Distribution

Premiere of Skyfall was on 23 October 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The event was attended by Charles, Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.The film was released in the UK three days later on 26 October and into US cinemas on 8 November. Skyfall was the first Bond film to be screened in IMAX venues and was released into IMAX cinemas in North America a day earlier than the conventional cinema release. Skyfall was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the US on 12 February 2013,and in the UK on 18 February 2013. It was distributed by MGM and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

007 Skyfall - Awards

Academy awards/Oscars

• Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song 'sky fall'.

• Best Achievement in Sound Editing 

Golden Globes, USA 

• Best Original Song - Motion Picture 

BAFTA Awards 

• Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film
• Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music 

Screen Actors Guild Awards  

• Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards 

• Top Box Office Films

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

• Best Action/Adventure Film

American Society of Cinematographers

• Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Feature Film

Art Directors Guild

• Contemporary Film

BMI Film & TV Awards

• Film Music

Black Reel Awards

• Best Supporting Actress

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

• Best Action Movie
• Best Actor in an Action Movie
• Best Song

Central Ohio Film Critics Association 

Costume Designers Guild Awards Best Cinematography Excellence in Contemporary Film Empire Awards Best Director             Best Film Evening Standard British Film Awards Best Film   Blockbuster of the Year Florida Film Critics Circle Awards       Best Cinematography Golden Trailer Awards Best Action      Best International Poster Best Original Score Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards    Best Song Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards    Best Cinematography      MTV Movie Award                 Best Latino Actor Motion Picture Sound Editors       Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film Online Film Critics Society Awards     Best Cinematography     Palm Springs International Film Festival  International Star Award   Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Original Score Best Original Song Best Stunts Satellite Awards        Best Actor in a Supporting Role World Soundtrack Awards      Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film

 

007 Skyfall - Merchandise

007 Skyfall - Box Office Figures

UK Box Office Figures- $161,176,369
World Wild Box Office Figures- $804,200,736

007 Skyfall - EMPIRE Review

007 Skyfall - Heineken Sponsor Trailer and Poster

007 Skyfall - Coke sponsor

skyfall bus poster

007 Skyfall - Interview

007 Skyfall - US poster

007 Skyfall - UK poster

007 Skyfall - Trailer

007 Skyfall - Premiere

007 Skyfall - New Fragrance

007 Skyfall - Online marketing

007 Skyfall - Adele Skyfall Single

The Fast and Furious Swede - Editing

The Fast and Furious Swede - Production

The Fast and Furious Swede - Planning

This is the scene from The Fast and Furious that we will be trying to recreate. We were originally going to make the trailer for Fast 6 but we realised that it would be very involving and most of the shots would be very impractical and difficult to recreate. We chose this scene as it is quite a significant and known scene from the first Fast and Furious that we felt wouldn't be too difficult to make given the time and resources we have available.

Analysis:
The Fast and the Furious was the first of the Fast and Furious franchise. The film is essentially about an undercover cop (Brian O'Connor) that is needed by the LAPD to help solve a case involving street racer suspect Dominic Toretto. The scene shown is at the end of the film when O'Connor has chased Toretto after an unsuccessful mission. The pair do however by now have a relationship and the scene is almost a show of how the officer is commited to the street racing life by risking his life to get across the train crossing with Toretto.

The scene starts with the two p

Props:
We will be using toy cars to shoot the outside shots of the cars. We have decided to do this as it is the best way to represent the action in the scene - We would not be able to drive two cars side by side over a train crossing and do stunts in real cars, but we could achieve these things with toy cars and different ways of moving them. We would for instance attach stiff wire to the car to be flipped at the end of the scene so that we would be able to maneuver it through the air in slow motion with a lot of control.

Other props include real vehicles or cardboard boxes made to look like cars for the closer shots of the drivers. We would also have to make the street setting with a train track, train and crossroad.

Setting:
The scene can be divided into two settings. One being in miniature, with a model street, and the other being in real scale, with medium shots in cars.

The miniature set and toy cars will be used to shoot the outside shots of the cars. We would make this out of cardboard with drawn garage fronts, sprayed black roads with authentic looking signs and scenery.

The real life sets would literally just be used for the interior shots of the cars. To do this we will hopefully borrow two stationary cars and possibly use a green screen backdrop to make the vehicles appear to be moving. If we cannot use real vehicles, or if we decide on deliberately going against it for comic effect, we will use cardboard boxes and props to mimic a car.

Roles:
The roles we will all have - Camera, editing, set design etc...

Keerthana's Swede Analysis

I like this swede because its entertaining and its an original take on the film. They use ordinary household objects and materials to make the props but it looks effective. 

Beata's Swede Analysis

I like this swede because it is funny and very different from the original because the person who made it, made it humorous even though the actual movie is quite sad and thrilling. This shows that the creator of this swede is very creative. The sounds added to the swede are quite good and goes very well with the swede.

Akim's Swede Analysis

I liked this swede of Edward Scissorhands mostly because of the very similar representation of Edward and the effort made to represent the film with mise-en-scene. It is also quite amusing to watch. I appreciated how the swede achieves affects from the film and how realistic the scissors hands are.