Production, Distribution, Marketing And Exhibition

Production

Before carrying out the actual production of the movie the film has to be carefully planned and pre-visualized, a storyboard may be created so it is easier for the director as and illustrators picture how to movie should be and also so there is a blueprint of the shot sequences. Financing is also a big part of production and entails a film budget to outline everything they would need to spend money on and insurance to protect the movie in case of accidents. A crew is obviously needed to help in the film making process, the size of the crew depends of the size of the movie, whether it's a big budget Hollywood film that would need hundreds of crew members or an independent film which may only need 8 or 9 people ( if that). During the production process the team would also handle the casting, sets and locations and wardrobe before filming. After filming the shots taken are put together by a video/film editor, during which they would add music, sound effects and/or visual effects.

Distribution

The movie can be released to the public via movie theatre distribution, straight-to-video release or film festivals which are normally a test run for the movie and if it is a positive response by the public it may be distributed to the theatres as well.


Marketing

This is the process in which the film is released to the public which normally includes movie posters, movie trailers which show small bits of the movie all this and more involve the movie being advertising and promoted, some methods of marketing the movie might be through the movie's website and social networking sites. 

For example movies such as Think Like a Man have used social networking sites such as Twitter to promote the movie with their "battles of the sexes" challenge which required fans to use the hash tag #GGActLikeALady or  #GGThinkLikeAMan. They have shown it to be advantageous as the movie has earned $96,070,507 in the box office. Common ways that films are released are via launch party, interviews with the press, and film festival screenings which are more popular in the independent film industry. 


Exhibition

Although the most common way of exhibition is through the cinema it is started to lose popularity as now only 4% of film viewing is in the cinema and more people are beginning to use the Internet for film viewing with increasing amounts of pirated films.

This Week's Film Releases [Blog 3]

This Week's Film Releases 

America has dominated the film industry, which is shown by the films released this week as the majority have been from american film companies such as 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros, with the exception of a few British films like "It's A Lot" seen below and surprisingly a few foreign films such as "Hannah Arednt", "In The Name Of" and "Warning" which is a 3D thriller.                                                      


                                                                   1. Runner Runner

2. Blue Jasmine

3. Girl Most Likely

4. Austenland

5. Hannah Arednt 

6. In The Name Of

7. It's A Lot

8. Mister John

9. Prisoners

10. Warning 3D

Kaay, Sophie, Barnabas (Blog 4)

Three Films That we enjoyed that were swede

First Sweded film That we have seen and liked is;

• Lord Of the Rings Sweded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLP2II1ElOU

Second Sweded film that we have seen and liked is;

• Taken Sweded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFDLGFiPXNc

Third film we have seen and liked is;

• Titanic Sweded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bPWIrU4Mck

10 facts about the Film Industry [Blog 2]

10 facts about the Film industry

  1. Think like a man, Hunger Games and The Avengers were the most tweeted movies of 2012

      

       2.   3D films account for just under £1 in every £5 spent on cinema tickets

       3.    £300 million were spent on print and advertising by film distributors in 2012

       4.   Around 40% of cinema's profit comes from refreshments

                                                 
                 

 
 

     

     5. In 2012 the top 3 movies were Skyfall, Dark Knight Rises, Marvel Avengers

     6. In 2012 Bollywood has only accounted for 1.1% of the UK box office

                                                    

           

           7. 14% of retail buyers have purchased a film they have watched in the cinema

          8. According to Bit Torrent in 2012 the most pirated films were;

• Project X (8.72 million downloads)

• Mission Impossible and Ghost Protocol(8.5 million downloads)

• The Dark Knight Rises (8.23 million downloads)

         9.  During 2012 646 film were released in the UK,  so over 12 new titles per week

       

        10.  More than half of 15-24 year old visit the cinema once a movie

Kaay... (Blog 2)

10 Facts About The Film Industry...

1.In 2012 the UK box office took over 1billion for the 3rd year running.
2.Saturday night is the most popular with ox office by 24.1%.

3.More then half of the ages between 15-24 year olds visit the cinema at least once a month.
4.Top 3D releases of 2012 were Marvel Avengers Assemble, The Hobbit:An Unexpected Journey.
5.People who go to the cinema shared a experience with an average of 3 people per party.

6.BBC I player is hugely popular as it has had 6 million request every DAY in 2012People Spending on average 16 minutes in the foyer.

7.Bollywood movies accounted for 1.1%of UK Box Office in 2012 

8.14% of retail buyers bought a film they had previously seen at the cinema.

9.In 2012 the most popular genres with % Box Office:

• Action-34.5%
• Comedy-17.5%
• Drama-14.2%
• Animation-12.2&
• Horror-4.4%
• Rom Com-1%

10.646 films were released in the UK in 2012, thats over 12 new titles per week

Kaay,Sophie,Barnabas

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