Assignment 2: Notes

Assignment 1: Notes

Assignment 3: 'The Dark Knight Rises' as a transmedia text

Dark Knight Rises book

Batman game series called, 'Arkham'.

The Dark Knight Rises app game on Google play

Batman comic

Assignment 1: Auteur Theory Video

Assignment 2: The Zombie genre

Film genres go through cycles where they change slightly so that audiences don't get bored. This happens over long periods of time and is called the Schatz Cycle.
1. Innovation Phase - When a film genre first appears
2. Classical Phase - When the genre is perfected and has its most success
3. Parodic Phase - Because the genre is so well know that they can make parodies of it
4. Reconstruction Phase - Where the genre can take on elements of other genres

Assignment 2: Film Production

Avengers Assemble 2: Age of Ultron
It was released in 2015
It was Directed by Joss Whedon
It was produced by Kevin Feige
The production companies that were involved are Marvel Studios
It's not distributed because its still out in cinemas, its new. Not on DVD yet
It was exhibited in Odeon, Cineworld, Box Office and more.

Vertical and Horizontal Integration:  Vertical Integration is an arrangement, which the supply chain of a company is owned by another company.
Horizontal Integration is a strategy where a company creates or acquires production units for outputs which are alike, either competitive or complementary.

Synergy: Is when the interaction of two or more forces working together to create money and help each other, example a movie in a happy meal. It will help the movie get a bigger audience.

BBFC: British Board of Film Classification. Includes a searchable database of UK censored movies.

MPAA: The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is an American trade association that represents the six major Hollywood studios. 

Assignment 1: A brief introduction to TIm Burton and The Auteur Theory

Character 1

Tim Burton full name, 'Timothy Walter Burton', was born in August 25 1958, which was in California.

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Character 1

 Just after TIm Burton formed his own production company, he directed the lavish production Batman in 1989, which was one of the big films back in the era. In his movies, he mostly works with Johnny Depp to act in the film. These films are, Edward Scissorhands

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, Sleepy Hollow

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, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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and Alice in Wonderland.

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A series of pictures of his film posters.

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Character 1

As a child Tim Burton spent most of his time as a recluse, watching movies and drawing cartoons, in ninth grade, he was recognised from his artistic talent, by a local garbage company. Tim burton then won a prize for an amazing anti-litter poster he designed. Tim Burton is a producer, a screenwriter and mostly known as a Director from the film called, "Edward Scissorhands".

An Auteur is a Director that makes films that are similar to each other and so the audience can tell who Directs the movie. It has influenced film criticism since 1954, this was when it was advocated by film  directors. This Auteur Theory method that is film analysis, was originally associated with the french new wave. 

Tim Burton is as known as an Auteur, because movies such as, Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Sleepy Hollow (1999) are "dark, horror and gothic". This shows that he is an auteur because since Tim Burton made all these films and you can tell they are similar to the other films he has made, it makes an Auteur Director.