Friday, 8 March 2013
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.
Blockbusters Session 2
Prepare
for
Learning
– 20
mins
Create
Meaning
What
are the arguments around Blockbusters? Case
Study: Transformers
New
Info:
Share
characteristics and apply to a case study each
of blockbusters in
1972-1981, 1982-1991, 1992-2001, 2002-2012 (imdb)
>(Re) Create
a film poster for this film demonstrating the Hype surrounding:
Collage screenshots of the prmotional hype surrounding the 'event' of this film (toys, tie-ins, posters, games, iconic moments in the film, film premieres/audience etc)
Create a Tagline that explains why its a Blockbuster
- Box office takings
- Budget
- Tie-ins/Merchandising
- Technology
- Pre-sold audience
Star
Director
Release Date
Apply
to demonstrate:
Skyfall
to
70's
Cinema
Attendance
>Create
a Timeline
from then to now with significant event (Box Office Taking, Budgets,
Event Movies, Technology) - significant – Put together and put up
on wall Skyfall
Create
Meaning
Articles
& Image resources
Identify
aspects of your Context & rewrite explanation in your own words
feedback to teach to class with examples of images for your section
Group
1: Social (cinema
attendance)
Group
2: Technology (CGI,
3D, Piracy)
Group
3: Economic (box
office figures)
>Apply:
Conclusion
(Record a Mark Kermode style review of a Summer Blockbusters 2012)
Thursday, 7 March 2013
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