Directed and wrote by
Richard Curtis
Produced by
Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
Hilary Bevan Jones
The Boat That Rocked is a 2009 ensemble comedy film, released in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2009. After the film's commercial and critical failure in the UK. Set in 1966, it tells the story of a fictitious pirate radio station broadcasting to the United Kingdom from a ship moored in the North Sea.
Basic Plot
Boat on north sea is seen apoint by the goverment as menis to the publis which love it, the boat station is targetted by the goverment but the boat station seems to have the uper hand as the public loves them.
Sub plot
New boy on the boat is a boy who is oreder by his mum to go on the boat with his Uncle to try and sort out his ways but it seems a funny choice as he is allowed to do what ever he wants, is he really there to meet his real dad for the first time.
Sub plot
Leggendary radio broudcasters come back and this anoyyes the replacesment who came in from the states. These two people seem to not get on but they get on well after climbing really high on a post of the boat and then walk down out to the edge of some polls to jump into the sea from 40+ feet.
other sub plots
There are other plots like a girl who marries a boy to only sleep with an other DJ. How did a old man get on the boat who no one have ever seen.
Monday 22 March 2010
Friday 19 March 2010
Thriller target audience
There are many different types of audiences and thrillers, and these all target specific people. Horrer thrillers such as The Sixth Sense, Signs and The Village are targeted towards teenage girls and thrillers such as No Country For Old Men and Silence of the Lambs are targeted towards young males. The older classic thrillers like those from Alfred Hitchcock are targeted for Adults even though they are rated PG's.
Thrillers tend to be for people who like to work things out but sometimes it never happens until the end.
Our thriller appeals to those who enjoy the mystery. The twist at the start of film just before her possible death gets the audience to think because thev've seen part of the end of the film at the start. Our thriller is not made to strike horror into people but it's there to make people ask questions and to get thier hearts beating faster a few times. Our target audience 15-30 because we feel that anyone younger than 15 wouldn't be able to understand part of the ending being at the start. For anyone older than 30 we feel this film will not appeal to them because the film is about a young girl who attends college.
Thrillers tend to be for people who like to work things out but sometimes it never happens until the end.
Our thriller appeals to those who enjoy the mystery. The twist at the start of film just before her possible death gets the audience to think because thev've seen part of the end of the film at the start. Our thriller is not made to strike horror into people but it's there to make people ask questions and to get thier hearts beating faster a few times. Our target audience 15-30 because we feel that anyone younger than 15 wouldn't be able to understand part of the ending being at the start. For anyone older than 30 we feel this film will not appeal to them because the film is about a young girl who attends college.
Script
Script
Jessica running along a country path in with a perspective view of the killer chasing her.
Heartbeat noise linking in with music and blackout after every heartbeat whist Jessica is being chased
(Hand reaching out to Jessica.) Jessica: heavy breathing and shocked face.
Blackout/Flash back to the morning before the accident.
Jessica's mother: Jessica time to get up!
Jessica: Grumbles No, ergh
Gets up and goes to the bathroom, door closes fade out and then fades back when door opens, comes out of bathroom dressed.
Jessica goes downstairs and starts making breakfast
Jessica: looks at time oh! Grabs Jacket and puts on shoes "Bye mum!!"
Walks out of door up the pathway whilst being watched by killer
Jessica running along a country path in with a perspective view of the killer chasing her.
Heartbeat noise linking in with music and blackout after every heartbeat whist Jessica is being chased
(Hand reaching out to Jessica.) Jessica: heavy breathing and shocked face.
Blackout/Flash back to the morning before the accident.
Jessica's mother: Jessica time to get up!
Jessica: Grumbles No, ergh
Gets up and goes to the bathroom, door closes fade out and then fades back when door opens, comes out of bathroom dressed.
Jessica goes downstairs and starts making breakfast
Jessica: looks at time oh! Grabs Jacket and puts on shoes "Bye mum!!"
Walks out of door up the pathway whilst being watched by killer
Friday 12 March 2010
Thursday 4 March 2010
case sTudy
Hancock
Hancock is very funny twist on a normal super hero movie. The director Peter Berg was teamed up with Vincent Ngo and Vince Gillian as the writers for this great film that used great actor like Will Smith who plays the super hero or in some people eyes a villain. This film was realised on 2 July 2008. It when on to make the gross revenue of $624,386,746. This film was made in the US and then it was distributed by Columbian pictures.
I went to see this film in the summer of that year in the cinema with a friend and we both left thinking we have just seen one of the best films of the year because it had a mix between easy and hard humour for adults and for teens and also we though the plot was very new and very rare to find in a film and it had many twists This film is rated 6.6/10 and by watching the review are very positive and they most have a opening line which say “all better then I though it was going to be.” There were a few bad reviews; the big bad point was bad CGI and also no main villain. But the people do say that the film is more about will smith and he girl and there relationship than him saving the day. This review goes with the catch line which say don’t worry about the bad reviews this film is brilliant. I next quote I read had the title “Solid Popcorn Flicker”, he also then gave it a 9/10 rating. He said “Good special effects (even though there not all done)”, so it seems he like the special affect but he also says in this it could have been done a bit better as some of them did not seem right as they did not seems finished as this is silly thing to say to me as film company will not release a film if the special affect have not been done or completed to the right standard, that is why Avatar took so long. He also then said, “The relationship of Jason Bateman's character, Ray and his wife Mary isn't fully fleshed out and the chemistry isn't all there (towards the end Will Smith has better chemistry with her and there scenes together are juicy and easily the best parts of the last twenty five minutes)” By this he seems to be saying that the relationships between some of the character could have done with some more work but by the end of the film it seemed better and also this is the best part of the film as it takes the final twist, this twist creates a tense and drastic ending which should have stratify all audiences.
Technological Advancements
I think the main and most important thing in this film was the CGI, This film is unarguably the best CGI film ever made; this is probably because it took over 8 years to make with the best CGI equipment to date. CGI has been around since the early 1970’s but it near really hit the big screen until Star Trek II but it was only use in a small part of the film. The first real big hitter was the 1993 master piece Jurassic Park, this film use it though out the film to make the dinosaur with other beast come to life with the best life likeness they could get. This film single handily caused Holly wood to dump all old techniques and pick up digital techno to improve there films. There first real go was in the film Forest Gump where it was used in the historical parts of this film. CGI then single handily create a new type of film which is animation, animation had been done before using clay but CGI made it possible to make a film on a PC with no need for Clay or any other materials. Films like Beauty and The Beast where the best from the 90’s but Toy Story in the early 2000’s made the biggest impacted.
In this film they used CGI a lot to make the characters with power fly and also do other stuff, the CGI in this film was criticized a lot because it was apparently poorly done with big mistakes, they have to use the CGI in a big part of this film because it a superhero film and all super hero films use CGI.
Mise on Sense
Characters
The main character wears two outfits, one is his super hero suit which he where at the end, it is black which could show that he is a bit evil, it is also made out of leather so he is maybe a bit of a hard nut like a biker and also it is tight and this may show that he cares and looks after his figure,
this is backed up by the fact that he is seen a bit working out and will smith is show like this in many film like iRobot.
His second out fit is a typical American out fit with a shirt and a pair of shorts, this shows that is casual person who don’t really care about his powers and this is shown in this clip.
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi283836697/
His top is white, this shows that he is a nice person who is relaxed, his shorts are cream and that could show that he don’t care and he is very passive.
Mary Embery (the special girl) wear very normal cloths as well, blue jeans which could represent that she is very neutral, she is also wearing a green top, this shows that she is also a kind and sweet person who possible cares about the environment.
This film was set in LA; this film was naturally light though out the film by the American sun, this film was lightened really well as there was no real night seen so all they had to do was to make it like it was day time and in America that is easy. This film does not really use make up aspect from he normal make up that all actresses and also some actors use to make them look just right for the shot.
Hancock is very funny twist on a normal super hero movie. The director Peter Berg was teamed up with Vincent Ngo and Vince Gillian as the writers for this great film that used great actor like Will Smith who plays the super hero or in some people eyes a villain. This film was realised on 2 July 2008. It when on to make the gross revenue of $624,386,746. This film was made in the US and then it was distributed by Columbian pictures.
I went to see this film in the summer of that year in the cinema with a friend and we both left thinking we have just seen one of the best films of the year because it had a mix between easy and hard humour for adults and for teens and also we though the plot was very new and very rare to find in a film and it had many twists This film is rated 6.6/10 and by watching the review are very positive and they most have a opening line which say “all better then I though it was going to be.” There were a few bad reviews; the big bad point was bad CGI and also no main villain. But the people do say that the film is more about will smith and he girl and there relationship than him saving the day. This review goes with the catch line which say don’t worry about the bad reviews this film is brilliant. I next quote I read had the title “Solid Popcorn Flicker”, he also then gave it a 9/10 rating. He said “Good special effects (even though there not all done)”, so it seems he like the special affect but he also says in this it could have been done a bit better as some of them did not seem right as they did not seems finished as this is silly thing to say to me as film company will not release a film if the special affect have not been done or completed to the right standard, that is why Avatar took so long. He also then said, “The relationship of Jason Bateman's character, Ray and his wife Mary isn't fully fleshed out and the chemistry isn't all there (towards the end Will Smith has better chemistry with her and there scenes together are juicy and easily the best parts of the last twenty five minutes)” By this he seems to be saying that the relationships between some of the character could have done with some more work but by the end of the film it seemed better and also this is the best part of the film as it takes the final twist, this twist creates a tense and drastic ending which should have stratify all audiences.
Technological Advancements
I think the main and most important thing in this film was the CGI, This film is unarguably the best CGI film ever made; this is probably because it took over 8 years to make with the best CGI equipment to date. CGI has been around since the early 1970’s but it near really hit the big screen until Star Trek II but it was only use in a small part of the film. The first real big hitter was the 1993 master piece Jurassic Park, this film use it though out the film to make the dinosaur with other beast come to life with the best life likeness they could get. This film single handily caused Holly wood to dump all old techniques and pick up digital techno to improve there films. There first real go was in the film Forest Gump where it was used in the historical parts of this film. CGI then single handily create a new type of film which is animation, animation had been done before using clay but CGI made it possible to make a film on a PC with no need for Clay or any other materials. Films like Beauty and The Beast where the best from the 90’s but Toy Story in the early 2000’s made the biggest impacted.
In this film they used CGI a lot to make the characters with power fly and also do other stuff, the CGI in this film was criticized a lot because it was apparently poorly done with big mistakes, they have to use the CGI in a big part of this film because it a superhero film and all super hero films use CGI.
Mise on Sense
Characters
The main character wears two outfits, one is his super hero suit which he where at the end, it is black which could show that he is a bit evil, it is also made out of leather so he is maybe a bit of a hard nut like a biker and also it is tight and this may show that he cares and looks after his figure,
this is backed up by the fact that he is seen a bit working out and will smith is show like this in many film like iRobot. His second out fit is a typical American out fit with a shirt and a pair of shorts, this shows that is casual person who don’t really care about his powers and this is shown in this clip.
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi283836697/
His top is white, this shows that he is a nice person who is relaxed, his shorts are cream and that could show that he don’t care and he is very passive.
Mary Embery (the special girl) wear very normal cloths as well, blue jeans which could represent that she is very neutral, she is also wearing a green top, this shows that she is also a kind and sweet person who possible cares about the environment.
This film was set in LA; this film was naturally light though out the film by the American sun, this film was lightened really well as there was no real night seen so all they had to do was to make it like it was day time and in America that is easy. This film does not really use make up aspect from he normal make up that all actresses and also some actors use to make them look just right for the shot.
Wednesday 3 March 2010
Case study
Avatar
This film is one of the best films of the decade. Directed and written by James Cameron who has done other film like Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines and he is now directing the new Terminator 5. Avatar was released on 17th of December 2009. When it first hit the screens it amazed the whole with the out of this world graphics but it did take 8 years. With massive gross revenue of 1.3 billion and as it is still at the cinemas they will be earning more and more money. More money will be on it way when the film goes on to DVD. This film was made in England and then it was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
This film that I saw late last year was one of the best films ever in my eyes and with the 8.7/10 and also every but very few people think this film is also one of the best this decade or of all time. The first review that I read had the catch line of Best movie experience of the last 30 years. The person says he was one of the lucky people to see the pre viewing. He said that 80% of the people who where in the room where totally blown away. The rest of the people where complaining about the characters or the popcorn. He then says to all of you people who can to expect a thriller like Alien. He says nobody wants to see people dieing anymore. People want to see great animation. I have now just seen a 1/10 review which says half way though, Why it sucks? The reason are very simple, he thinks it has copied the plot of an old film from the 70s. He then says the script could have been written by any one. He then goes on to say why the hell do we need actor because we have CGI to do that for use, all we need is some old random guy in a black suit with white stickers all over him. My last quote ha caught my eye because it has the title/ catch line which says “The best Block Buster in Years – The master is back”, this blatantly show that his review is going to be positive. He gives it a 9/10 star rating, he starts his review talking about the director and writer James Cameron, he says that this film has been a long time coming and it was a long 12 year since Cameron’s last master piece which was the brilliant Titanic. He then says that, “Avatar has turned out to be the biggest and best event movie of the year, perhaps the decade.” A massive appraisal but I can see why he is saying this after I have been to see it on the big screen, this possibly does concluded that Avatar should be named in the best 10 times of all time with other personal great like the other big hit this decade which was Batman and The Black Knight. There is one thing I did not like to the film and that was the slight bit of predictability of it, soon as I saw the part where he had to pick his Mountain Banshee and he was then told about the larger Toruk which only the leader or savers could ride which is the same old stuff in every fantasy film. Soon as I saw this I predicted to near perfection the next 30 mins of the film.
Technological Advancements
This film is unarguably the best CGI film ever made; this is probably because it took over 8 years to make with the best CGI equipment to date. CGI has been around since the early 1970’s but it near really hit the big screen until Star Trek II but it was only use in a small part of the film. The first real big hitter was the 1993 master piece Jurassic Park, this film use it though out the film to make the dinosaur with other beast come to life with the best life likeness they could get. This film single handily caused Holly wood to dump all old techniques and pick up digital techno to improve there films. There first real go was in the film Forest Gump where it was used in the historical parts of this film. CGI then single handily create a new type of film which is animation, animation had been done before using clay but CGI made it possible to make a film on a PC with no need for Clay or any other materials. Films like Beauty and The Beast where the best from the 90’s but Toy Story in the early 2000’s made the biggest impacted.
Avatar was started to be produced around this time and it ended an 8 year wait in 2009. They did not start from scratch, they actually use the Hallelujah Mountains as there bases for there set. They also use actor’s faces as bases for the characters. Some of things I have read say it took so long because they had to do every thing so perfect, the new land/ planet where they where shooting this was men to have different colour for nearly every thing, the big shot of where they are in the tree tops and you can see the floor took the most time best every part of the floor had to be changed to be beautiful but also not to distracting.
Mise on Scene
The outfits / skin of the characters in this film is very good in the senses of what they are meant to represent. Take sully, he is blue all over and that could repent that he is a calm and passive person, He also has black line all over him which could represent he is also a bad person in some ways and he is also very capable at fighting. This seems to go for all of the Avatars as they all seem to look basically the same. Next we have the Military Leader, he seems old so that could show that he is experienced, also he is in black which represents that he is evil and possibly he is going to be a bad guy combat outfit which represents that he is going to be up for a fight and he may even fight to the end. Next you have the non Avatared Grace who is a science person who is trying to build relationship between the human and the avatars by creating replicas which are controlled by special people. She is always seen wearing a normal white coat which all doctors / professors seems to where in films and also in normal life. The white may represent that she is anti violence; also this may represent that she is a very nice and calm person who is the correct person for the job in hand, the fact that she is wearing a doctor’s coat may also show that she is very professional and it could also show that she has some authority.
This film is meant to be set in space but as I have already said it, it is based on the Hallelujah Mountains, with some brilliant CGI they have got there set for a master piece of a film. I think in this film they used no prop accept from the ones they may have made on the computer. This film was perfectly light because it was all made digitally so they could edit the light every tiny shot to create there perfect shot and also to create the atmosphere they desire.
Conclusion
I think this film is a very good film which is flying towards picking up many awards, I think to not make a sequel to his film is stupid because this could become bigger than lord of the rings, the wait for the next film maybe 5+ years but I am sure that people who love the first one would not mind waiting for the second, I think this film should be the start of a trilogy because I think 3 film are right unless you have a book already out like Harry Potter or like Star Wars which is going on for there 6th or 7th film. Other film like the Lord of the Rings are a trilogy an they are the best film to be set in that manor of thinking, yes the Hobbit is coming out but that is set in a time before the Lord of the Rings and I think it is the start so some think new. The possible Avatar 2
will be brilliant because the graphics will be better, also by then cinema screens may be improved so the graphics could be improved even more. Also with new improvement sound could be improved like it is after every film to the next. I even have a idea for the title to the next film, Avatar 2 – The Humans Revenge, I know a bit cheesy but don’t we do love a cheesy film.
By Tyler. E. Davison
This film is one of the best films of the decade. Directed and written by James Cameron who has done other film like Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines and he is now directing the new Terminator 5. Avatar was released on 17th of December 2009. When it first hit the screens it amazed the whole with the out of this world graphics but it did take 8 years. With massive gross revenue of 1.3 billion and as it is still at the cinemas they will be earning more and more money. More money will be on it way when the film goes on to DVD. This film was made in England and then it was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
This film that I saw late last year was one of the best films ever in my eyes and with the 8.7/10 and also every but very few people think this film is also one of the best this decade or of all time. The first review that I read had the catch line of Best movie experience of the last 30 years. The person says he was one of the lucky people to see the pre viewing. He said that 80% of the people who where in the room where totally blown away. The rest of the people where complaining about the characters or the popcorn. He then says to all of you people who can to expect a thriller like Alien. He says nobody wants to see people dieing anymore. People want to see great animation. I have now just seen a 1/10 review which says half way though, Why it sucks? The reason are very simple, he thinks it has copied the plot of an old film from the 70s. He then says the script could have been written by any one. He then goes on to say why the hell do we need actor because we have CGI to do that for use, all we need is some old random guy in a black suit with white stickers all over him. My last quote ha caught my eye because it has the title/ catch line which says “The best Block Buster in Years – The master is back”, this blatantly show that his review is going to be positive. He gives it a 9/10 star rating, he starts his review talking about the director and writer James Cameron, he says that this film has been a long time coming and it was a long 12 year since Cameron’s last master piece which was the brilliant Titanic. He then says that, “Avatar has turned out to be the biggest and best event movie of the year, perhaps the decade.” A massive appraisal but I can see why he is saying this after I have been to see it on the big screen, this possibly does concluded that Avatar should be named in the best 10 times of all time with other personal great like the other big hit this decade which was Batman and The Black Knight. There is one thing I did not like to the film and that was the slight bit of predictability of it, soon as I saw the part where he had to pick his Mountain Banshee and he was then told about the larger Toruk which only the leader or savers could ride which is the same old stuff in every fantasy film. Soon as I saw this I predicted to near perfection the next 30 mins of the film.
Technological Advancements
This film is unarguably the best CGI film ever made; this is probably because it took over 8 years to make with the best CGI equipment to date. CGI has been around since the early 1970’s but it near really hit the big screen until Star Trek II but it was only use in a small part of the film. The first real big hitter was the 1993 master piece Jurassic Park, this film use it though out the film to make the dinosaur with other beast come to life with the best life likeness they could get. This film single handily caused Holly wood to dump all old techniques and pick up digital techno to improve there films. There first real go was in the film Forest Gump where it was used in the historical parts of this film. CGI then single handily create a new type of film which is animation, animation had been done before using clay but CGI made it possible to make a film on a PC with no need for Clay or any other materials. Films like Beauty and The Beast where the best from the 90’s but Toy Story in the early 2000’s made the biggest impacted.
Avatar was started to be produced around this time and it ended an 8 year wait in 2009. They did not start from scratch, they actually use the Hallelujah Mountains as there bases for there set. They also use actor’s faces as bases for the characters. Some of things I have read say it took so long because they had to do every thing so perfect, the new land/ planet where they where shooting this was men to have different colour for nearly every thing, the big shot of where they are in the tree tops and you can see the floor took the most time best every part of the floor had to be changed to be beautiful but also not to distracting.
Mise on Scene
The outfits / skin of the characters in this film is very good in the senses of what they are meant to represent. Take sully, he is blue all over and that could repent that he is a calm and passive person, He also has black line all over him which could represent he is also a bad person in some ways and he is also very capable at fighting. This seems to go for all of the Avatars as they all seem to look basically the same. Next we have the Military Leader, he seems old so that could show that he is experienced, also he is in black which represents that he is evil and possibly he is going to be a bad guy combat outfit which represents that he is going to be up for a fight and he may even fight to the end. Next you have the non Avatared Grace who is a science person who is trying to build relationship between the human and the avatars by creating replicas which are controlled by special people. She is always seen wearing a normal white coat which all doctors / professors seems to where in films and also in normal life. The white may represent that she is anti violence; also this may represent that she is a very nice and calm person who is the correct person for the job in hand, the fact that she is wearing a doctor’s coat may also show that she is very professional and it could also show that she has some authority.
This film is meant to be set in space but as I have already said it, it is based on the Hallelujah Mountains, with some brilliant CGI they have got there set for a master piece of a film. I think in this film they used no prop accept from the ones they may have made on the computer. This film was perfectly light because it was all made digitally so they could edit the light every tiny shot to create there perfect shot and also to create the atmosphere they desire.
Conclusion
I think this film is a very good film which is flying towards picking up many awards, I think to not make a sequel to his film is stupid because this could become bigger than lord of the rings, the wait for the next film maybe 5+ years but I am sure that people who love the first one would not mind waiting for the second, I think this film should be the start of a trilogy because I think 3 film are right unless you have a book already out like Harry Potter or like Star Wars which is going on for there 6th or 7th film. Other film like the Lord of the Rings are a trilogy an they are the best film to be set in that manor of thinking, yes the Hobbit is coming out but that is set in a time before the Lord of the Rings and I think it is the start so some think new. The possible Avatar 2
will be brilliant because the graphics will be better, also by then cinema screens may be improved so the graphics could be improved even more. Also with new improvement sound could be improved like it is after every film to the next. I even have a idea for the title to the next film, Avatar 2 – The Humans Revenge, I know a bit cheesy but don’t we do love a cheesy film.By Tyler. E. Davison
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