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Big Talk Productions

Big Talk Production is one of the UK's leading film and television companies founded in 1995 by Nira Park. Kenton Allen is the current CEO of the production company. Big Talk Productions produces movies and TV shows such as:

Shaun of the Dead
- date of release: 9 April 2004
- Director: Edgar Wright

 -Writer(s): Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg

-Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Kate Ashfield

-Production companies:  Universal Pictures, Studio Canal, Working Title Films, WT2 Productions, Big Talk Productions
- Distributors: United International Pictures (UIP)
- Budget: £4,000,000
- Gross revenue: $13,464,388

Hot Fuzz
- date of release: 14 February 2007
- Director: Edgar Wright

 -Writer(s): Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg

-Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Martin Freeman

-Production companies: Universal Pictures, Studio Canal, Working Title Films, Big Talk Productions and Ingenious Film Partners
- Distributors: Universal Pictures International (UPI)
- Budget: £8,000,000
- Gross revenue: $23,618,786

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- date of release: 25 August 2010
- Director: Edgar Wright

-Writer(s): Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall

-Stars: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Kieran Culkin

-Production companies: Universal Pictures, Marc Platt Productions and Big Talk Productions
- Distributors: Universal Pictures International (UPI)
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Gross revenue: $31,494,270

Paul
- date of release: 14 February 2011
- Director: Greg Mottola

-Writer(s): Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

-Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogen

-Production companies: Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Working Title Films and Big Talk Poductions
- Distributors: Universal Pictures International (UPI)
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Gross revenue: $40,000,000

Attack the Block
- date of release: 13 May 2011
- Director: Joe Cornish

- Writer(s): Joe Cornish

- Stars: John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker and Alex Esmail

-Production companies:: Studio Canal, Film4, UK Film Council and Big Talk Productions
- Distributors: Optimum Releasing
- Budget: $13,000,000
- Gross revenue: $1,024,175

Universal Studios

Founded in 1912 by Carl Buttman,^[1] it is one of the oldest American movie studios still in continuous production. On May 11, 2004, the controlling stake in the company was sold by Vivendi Universal to General Electric, parent of NBC.^[2] The resulting media super-conglomerate was renamed NBC Universal, while Universal Studios Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. In addition to owning a sizable film library spanning the earliest decades of cinema to more contemporary works, it also owns a sizable collection of TV shows through its subsidiary NBC Universal Television Distribution. It also acquired rights to several prominent filmmakers' works originally released by other studios through its subsidiaries over the years.


Nanny McPhee
- date of release: March 26, 2010 (2010-03-26)
- Director:

-Writer(s):

-Stars: Susanna White, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ralph Fiennes

- Producer(s): Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and , Lindsay Doran

-Production companies Universal Pictures, Studio Canal, Relativity Media
- Distributer: Universal Pictures International
- Budget: $35 million
- Gross revenue: $93,246,388

Kick Ass
- date of release: 26 March 2010 (2010-03-26)
- Director:

-Writer(s):

-Stars: Aaron Johnson, Chloë Moretz and  Nicolas Cage
- Producer(s): Matthew Vaughn, Brad Pitt, Kris Thykier, Adam Bohling, Tarquin Pack and David Reid

-Production companies: Marv Film and Plan B Entertainment

- Distributer: Universal Picture International

- Budget: $30,000,000
- Gross revenue: $48,043,505

Robin Hood
- date of release: 12 May 2010
- Director;

-Writer(s):

-Stars: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and Matthew Macfadyen
- Producer(s): Ridley Scott, Brian Grazer, Russell Crowe

-Production companies: Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Relativity Media and Scott Free Productions
- Distributer: Universal Pictures International
- Budget: $200,000,000
- Gross revenue: $321,669,741

Little Fockers
- date of release: 22 December 2010
- Director:

-Writer(s:

-Stars: Ben Stiller, Teri Polo and Robert De Niro
- Producer(s): Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, Jay Roach and John Hamburg

-Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Relativity Media, Tribeca Productions, Everyman Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures
- Distributer: Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $100,000,000
- Gross revenue: $148,383,780

Leap Year
- Date of release: 26 February 2010
- Director:

- Writer(s):

-Stars: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode and Adam Scott
- Producer(s):

-Production companies: Universal Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment
- Distributer: Optimum Releasing
- Budget: $19,000,000
- Gross revenue: $25,918,920

And Cowboys vs. Aliens
- Date of release: 17 August 2011
- Director: Jon Favreau

-Writer(s): Roberto Orci , Alex Kurtzman and others

- Stars: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde
- Producer(s): Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Roberto Orci, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg

-Production companies: Universal Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, Reliance Entertainment, Relativity Media
- Distributer: Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $163,000,000
- Gross revenue: $140,555,209

How's the representation of gender constructed in Primeval?

the 2nd scene opens with a mid shot of the blond guy in a what we'd call an exotic location -a small forest- covered with mud and a close up of a girl manipulating a tractor, the representation of the woman manipulating the tractor go against the general stereotype of women playing the damsel in distress as she doesn't look like she needs any help and she knows what she's doing in contrast to the man who looks puzzled and confused when he hear the sabre tooth tiger coming form far. we also have a couple of low angle shots of the man in wall which emphasises his position of weakness throughout this scene, we can see a clear role reversal there. we also have a long shot of the girl shooting the tiger from far, this shows how confidence although she misses her target, then the camera tilts from right to left in a low angle to show us the group of heroes who are manly men with girl at the end to show that she plays a heroin in the extract. We can tell that by her costume and makeup, she has short blond hair and she's wearing a leather jacket and she barely has any makeup on, this gives her some manly qualities or attributes however in the last scene, the woman with long hair clearly fulfils the stereaotype of women being the damsel in dietress when we have a low angle shot of her laying on the floor with the man pointing his gun at her, being manipulative in her dialogue as she tries to get the man assume the responsabilities for something he didn't do and finally her makeup which makes her look like a femme fatale.
The editing manly favorises the man with the blond hair who seems to be principal hero in the extract as we always get a clear view of him in each scene, and whenever he speaks it's always to give an order - ''no, no  don't... we have to finds her...put your gun down...'' the fast pace editing not only emphasises how fast the blonde man is when he tries to escape from the sabre tooth tiger but also how agile the woman is to try and keep on the track with the events and this set equal representation of both genders.
In terms of sound the dialogue is very effective in constructing the representation of gender the blonde girl doesn't speak a lot, her actions speak for her, while the blond guy is the one who's panting, shouting to her what to do; her speach is always short and doesn't have more than 4 words, so she has all the attributes of a manl hero. The woman in the barn's dialogue with the fat man, suggest that she's been given the possition of power as she's so confident and a bit arrogant in what she says. And her complainning about ruining her best coat always makes her fit the stereotype of women being quite vain, given that she nearly died! 

how does the sound help to construct the representation of disability.

http://youtu.be/auSAGvpM7W8

There's a complete absence of soundtracks for the first 3 minutes of the sequence, and that help in creating the mood and emphasising the awkwardness of every single scene and the ambience of the flat is very quiet!
- Dialogue: the actors' dialogue is a succession of unfinished sentence like "shall i... erm please... dad...'' that helps creating some kind of tension as no one really knows what to say or how to anything view the awkwardness of the situation.
- The very distinct sound the closing and the girl locking it also helps in occasioning the boy's anxiousness as he feels vulnerable being alone in that room the girl.
-The sound that comes out of the radio was deliberately chosen to create some kind of in-synchronisation with the atmosphere or the dad's mood to highlight his anxiousness.
-a sound bridge starts from the end of dad's scene on the car to the call girl and the boy in the room, this helps in creating some kind of sadness to make the audience feel kind of pity towards the boy. And we notice that it's the harmonica playing, and usually instruments such as harmonica or violent are used to create a sad atmosphere.  

Sound

The sound is what builds tension and sets the mood in a movie.

-Diegetic sound: it's the sound within the world of the movie(story)

-Non diegetic sound: it's the sound from out side, the sound that the audience can hear but the actual characters in the story can't hear it.

-Soundtrack: Score music(the music written a specific movie, it's the sound chosen to go with a particular scene to set the mood)

-Sound effects:it's the sound of things that are quite difficult to achieve during the shooting of a particular scene in the movie, so it's the sound added in the post-production to create drama.

-Them music: it's the soundtrack which goes with certain situations or characters.

i.e: Estenders' theme music or MI theme music

-Ambient sound: it's the natural background music.The sound from the environment.

-Dialogue: the actors' speech (always try to pick the different accents if possible, intonation - representation)

-Sound bridge: it's the soundtrack that start at the end of one scene to set the mood for the next scene. It helps in with the continuity or to make the story flow.

how does the editing help to construct the representation of disability.

http://youtu.be/auSAGvpM7W8


-an eye line match to emphasise the awkwardness of the situation s the girl looks asks for her money.
-an action match as the takes the money from the back of the boy's wheelchair to emphasise that awkwardness.
a shot reverse shot drawing attention to the boy's feeling of vulnerability as the girl locks the door.
-many long takes (slow paced) are used to generate a feeling of anxiety .
-the 180 degree rule has been established so the audience so the audience don't get confused or anything about the two characters' position
-in the next scene we have an eye line match of the dad looking up the window and this is to highlight his anxiety about how his son must be feeling at that moment.
-a sery of jump cuts follow that shot to emphasise his uncertiny as he's seating on the car doing differents things to kill time or to try to relax.
-then there's a cross cuting which emplies what is happening in the room a the time.
teh edit priviledges the master shot which is the shot of teh girl leanning toward the boy, it shows the getting getting more and more comfortable as she understand the boy now.

Editing

Transitions

-Hard cuts:it's the change from one scene to another without any transition.
-Action match:it's when an action starts in one scene and it's ends in the next scene.
i.e: like when people start fighting in one scene and take their fight to an other scene let's say outside ...
-Eye line match: it's when we see an looking at something, like we can see he's eye direct to specific thing and the next thing we see, it's the object/thing or person she was looking at. Shot A looking----- Shot B looking at.
i.e: like when 2 people are fighting and they both direct their eyes on the floor and the next thing we see, it's a gun on the floor.
-Graphic match:it's when 2 shots are put side by side, like 2 shot chosen in like a shot reverse shot.
-Crosscutting:it when it cuts from one scene to another to show what's happening at the same time. It suggest that different actions are taking place at the same time but different locations.
-Shot reverse shot: it's usually used in conversations, where you one persons talking and in on side you have the image of the person who's talking and vice versa.
-Jump cut: it's when a scene started with an actor doing something,it cuts to show the thing done.
i.e: like if on scene we see a person walking towards a chair and it cuts to that person seating on the chair next.

Other kinds of transition:

-Wipe:it's a transition from one scene to another which might be used deliberately to create some king of tension.
-Fade in/out:when the image goes blank or black but slowly...
-Dissolve/Cross fade:The impression is of an image merging into and then becoming another. A slow mix usually suggests differences in time and place.
pace of the clip:it's when the pace in which the movie's shown, fast or slow paced.
privileged by the edit: it's when something or someone get the more time in front of the camera the other characters(or actors)
Marginalised by the edit:it's when a character get the least time og being in front of the camera.

Continuity editing is the editing that you almost never notice, it makes the story flow.

disability

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In this shot drama we see two different people with different disabilities. The first one has an uncurable disease and is on a wheelchair. He has the support of his brother and people are nice too him. So in his case they use the stereotype of people always being nice to disabled and making them feel like they're always right and they diserve attention and care even in small thing e.g: when the waitress gave him a biscuits and his brother asked if had special treatment just because of his condition. And also they use the stereotype some disable people in denial or who can't deal with their  new body condition and usually are mean a bit anti social e.g: when his brother ask him which blazer he like and he started to tell the lady about his condition and got abit angry at his brother, so that's i think how the represented the first case.
In  the 2nd case it's a bit more dramatical, nobody knows about his disanility.

Camera work or Cinematography

shot sizes
-Extreme Close Up: very detail shot of something usually small
e.g: eyes or an ant
-Close Up: for conversations, up to the shoulders
-Medium Close up: we can see the characters' chest and the content of the room where she/he is
-Mid Shot: when we need to see the characters body language. It goes from head to waist
-Medium Long Shot: frames the subject from head to knees
-Big Close UP: just the face, to see the subject facial expression
-Wide Shot or Extreme Long Shot: an establishing shot of the location.

Shot composition

-2 Shot: used in converesation between two people
-Behind the shoulder/ shot revers shot
-High Angle Shot: to make the subject look vulnerable
-Low Angle Shot: to make the subject look powerful

Camera Movement

-Panning: when the camera pivots from side to side
-Tilt: when the camera pivots up & down
-Tracking: the camera follows something/one for quite a long way
e.g: car chasing
-Doli Shot: small smooth movement
-Zoom

How does the camerawork help to construct the representation of age:

-Mid Long Shot to show of Emy to show her body language  and to identify with her as a teenager.
-Fom a Long to show the 2 cars , to Close up of Emy's face to show the confusion she's going  through after crashing into the headmaster's car to emphasis the in-certainty of her youth.
-Mid shot of the headmaster to introduce him he's character when the 2 cars crash and (it's like a young vs old clash)as they show the tow characters arguing from different sides of the road.
-Pan between characters to emphasize Emy's vulnerability and the protective work of her guardian, this show the age difference and how society view that difference. Young usually get in trouble an look to elders for protection.
-Close up of Emy's face after the crash so the audience knows who their suppose to sympathies and identify with.
-Long shot of the 2 men because the audience needs to see the room in which they are. That room is quite old and antic and from it's decoration we can clearly see that it's not a place for kids.
-the other very noticeable detail in this camera work is the eye level of the character the director wants the audience to identify with, it started with Emy's guardian eye level to let the audience see things form his point of view, as his the one to make the decision and he represent the adult figure in the scene. Then it shifts to Emy's eye level so we ca see and analyze the situation from her prospective, the audience is then ask to feel the adult authority over Emy and this goes vice versa on the shot reverse shot.
-Then we a pan of Emy's bedroom starting from her bed to establish the new location (in stead of an establishing shot), the camera tilts slowly from her bed with the magazines to the teddy bears with the good buy notes to show the audience the change of locations. And emphasize the fact we are getting in her world; close ups of the picture on the mirror to show the things/moments she Cherishes.  
-a Tilt of the window to emphazie the fact that she went through a window, and this clearly show her childish mindset 'cause that's how teenagers usually run away from home, so it's quite import for the audience to get that fact.
-the camera stay outside cause now the audience is meant to feel for Emy, as she feels like an outside like young people generally feel, so that scene really emphasizes her age and emotions.
- a Mid Close up of the woman's face so we can see her motion as she's confused and anxious about Emy.
-and the we're back to Emy's guardian eye level to sympathize with him as he feels guilty about her run away.

Types of TV drama

1 Soap opera/Social realist
 - There's always an
 -Always improbable things going on
 -Deals with social issues
 -Characters represent real life people
 -Always set in community
e.i: Eastenders


2 Crime police
 -criminals and cops
 -Always a bad cop
 -A psycho murderer
 -Victims/ court scene
e.i: CSI, Law Order


3 Medical
 -Always a storyline building up out of the hospital
 -Learn about the doctors private life
 -The discovery of the illnesss
e.i: House, Grey's anatomy


4 Costume
 -Historical setting
 -War time setting
 -Social class differences 
 -A hero
e.i:Rome, Spartacus, Casa nova


5 Docu-drama
-set on reality
 -following specific people's daily life
e.i:The Only way is Essex, Jersey shore

How does Mise en scene help to construct the representation of age?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTQDipfN8JA&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLFB82E5E1AA5FBC19

The story is set in a  rural environment and usually when we talk about the country side,people stereotypically think about old men and women(mainly farmers.) So the location, Wales, gives us a rough idea on the age group of people we're more luckily to see throughout the small extract and on the same note we see a goupe of men, country men carry gardening tools of labor. And the mansion or castle where they live in seems to be very old, and especially the room in which Emy's headmaster was having a conversation with her uncle. It's looks very old with old furniture, neat, calm, you can tell that it's a every posh environment comes out of the way things been placed and it's definitively not a room where you could find kids. So the room also shows something about the representation of age, as in what kind of people get to chill there. And there's Emy's room, a nice big room very colorful unlike the previous room with a nice red bed shit, teddy bears and a nice mirror. This is very good contrast of people from different age groups living in the house but who have different taste and conception of things.


In terms of costume & makeup, we have the country men wearing their brown/black coats and you can tell that they're hard workers by the way they position themselves, things carry and their body language. Them there's the younger ones, the boy and the young girl who are wearing a bit more casual clothes, especially the young girl a she's wearing a white blouse, jeans and trainers. Her clothes make her stand out a bit more from the farmers as if she is not from  there. Later on we see the girl's school headmaster who wears some old fashion clothes (grey blazer, shirt and tie on, grey hair, beard...with glasses) and we can clearly see the difference of age, cultural groups between them.


In terms of body language, Emy react like the teenager she is, when she tell them she can drive when she clearly can't and ends up crashing into the headmaster's car, and that tell us something about young people's behavior always putting themselves in trouble without thinking. And her facial expression when she gets off of the car and tries to hide behind her guardian like a typical kind after doing very big mistake. And there the headmaster who looks very serious and calm even when he shouts at Emy. And Emy's guardian who has sense of authority that we see throughout the extract, he basically represents the adult responsible who has a big charisma authority like when he shouts at Emily because she lied to him, and points his finger at her.


   

AS Media Studies Task 1

1 What are Media Key Concepts:
-Media Language
-Representation
-Audiances
-Institutions


2.What does each key concept refer to,  what does it mean?
-Media Language refers to Cinematography (camera work), Editing (Post production work), Sound (diegetic and Non diegetic sound from the film) and Mise en Scene (everything that's the audience can see within in the movie or everything in front of the camera).
-Representation refers to stereotypes, how people arre represented  in terms of age, sexauality, gender, ethnicity, social status and regional identity.
-Audiences and institutions refer to your knowledge of the relationship between the people, ditribute films with the people want to see it. It's got to do with how the produce the films, the technics they use to promote them and keep the audiences interest.


3. How does the exam go about testing your knowledge of each exam concept?
They're gonna ask you to whatch and analyse a small clip to show the producer/director using the key concepts to conevey meanning or a message to the audience and explain how the film indistry works using two case stuadies (Attack the Block and Harry Potter).