Lessons Next Week

 

 

This lesson is based on your homework learning 

- The Article

- Watching the Film (Godfather, Jaws, Star Wars) & their significance as blockbusters

- Analysing: 

• Box Office Takings
• Cinema Attendance figures for this period
• Hyping the Event Movie (marketed as an 'event' to be part of)
• Technologies (home video, special effects)
• Multiplexes

 

What changes that affected the

Production (the ways they are made and reasons for making them),  

Distribution ('hype' & advertising and getting them 'out there' to the public/cinemas/video rental)

Exhibition/Exchange (screening them to an audience, box office sales)

 

of how these films and how do they apply to this question:

 

Q1. What factors led to the decline of town or city centre cinemas in the late 1970s and early 1980s? [30]

 

Factors that led to the decline of town or city centre cinemas in the late 1970s and early 1980 include discussion of:

• The arrival of blockbuster films (e.g. The Godfather (1972), Jaws (1975), Star Wars (1977) and the ensuing developments in production, distribution and exhibition.