Unit 1: Media Products & Audiences

  Get Out (2017) Director: Jordan Peele Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams Production companies: Blumhouse, QC, Monkeypaw Distrubuted by Universal  Budget: $4.5 million Box Office: $255.4 million  Blumhouse productions (founded by Jason Blum in 2000) + QC entertainment (producer Scott Mckittrick + Monkeypaw productions (founded in 2012 by Jordan Peele, initially for the comedy series, Key and Peele) = Get Out Opening scene:  Sound: Diegetic conversation on the phone + cricket / night noises - parallel. Diegetic car sounds - parallel. Diegetic 'run rabbit' music from car - contrupuntal (however lyrics could be parallel - victim is prey). Non diegetic soundtrack of 'run rabbit' as the sound quality improves - still contrupuntal. Non Diegetic theme. Camera: Broke 180 rule to seem eery. Tracking movement. All steadicam and shaky - reflects audience mood. Mid shots throughout. Long shot of car.  Editing: No cuts until late into the scene with the car. Mise-en-sc...

The Term ' Micro ' elements refers to:  - Cinematography - Sound - Mise-en-scene - Editing Cinematography - Use of the camera: - Camera Shot - Camera M ovement - Camera Angles  SHOT - Extreme close up (ECU) - Close up (CU) - Long shot (LS) - Wide shot (WS) - Medium shot (MS) - Point of view (POV) - Low angle - High angle - Over the shoulder (OTS) MOVEMENT: - Pan - Tilt - Crane shot - Tracking shot - Rolling shot - Steadicam Sound: Diegetic refers to world of the text - Examples: dialogue, sound effects, music with a source within a text e.g. radio. Non-diegetic refers to everything outside the world of the text - Examples: voiceover, soundtrack, captions, titles, subtitles.  On-screen sound - the audience can see the source of the sound. Off-screen sound - the audience can't see the source of the sound. Parallel sound match the action. Contrapuntal sound does not match the action.  Jaws: - Diegetic sound of the dialogue and beach sounds. - Non diegetic soundtrac...

  Levi-Struass and Binary Opposition: 'Cinema is a set of universal rules, a set of relations that could be described as the grammar of film'. Levi-Strauss theorised that since all cultures are products of the human brain, there must be, beneath the surface, features that are common to all. Structuralism attempted to drematicise the filmaker as auteur and apply a more scientific approach to uncover the underlying structures of film. Vladmir Propp: Created Russian folk tales to identify a basic narrative element. Propp's character types: Hero - Harry Potter - Defeating Voldemort Villain - Voldemort - Trying to kill Harry Potter Dispatcher - Hagrid - Helping Harry with resoruces and info Donor - Dumbledore - Gave Harry the Gryfindor Sword Princess - Ginny - To have a crush on Harry Princess's Father - Arthur Weasly - To guide Harry  The false hero - Malfoy - Tries to get most house points The helper - ron and hermoine - friends of Harry Key Terms: Verisimilitude: H...

 An independant film is one made outside of the Hollywood studio system. The major Hollywood film studios are often reffered to as 'The Big Six'. These command a significant market share, and the budgets tend to be much bigger than those of an idepenedant film. The Big Six are: - Paramount - Warner Brothers - 20th Century Fox - Universal - Colombia  - Walt Disney Bait An independant UK film, released in August 2019. Described as a 'no-budget' film (no exact budget has been given), it was directed by Mark Jenkin and intially recorded without sound - sound was added post production. Jenkin also wrote and recorded the score.  Joint Ventures Not all films have this luxury, though, so independant comapnies (i.e. those free from the control of a conglomerate) may undertake a joint venure - this is when one media company works with another on a project mutually beneficial for both parties.  Get Out is an example of a joint venture. It was produced by independant companies, ...

Encanto is a disney film; because Disney is a conglomerate company (one overall parent comapny owns a number of smaller, subsidiary companies) , they have creative control over the production process.  Encanto, then, was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Therefore, the company has complete control over the film from inception to release, and have access to multiple platforms for cross-promotion (Disney using bilboards in their theme parks or trailers on Disney+) and Synergy (working with another comapny).  Video-on-demand: Nowadays, companies can also exhibit their films via online video-on-demand (VoD) services such as Netflix and YouTube.  Disney owns the Disney Channel (TV) but also Disney+, a VoD allowing it to compete with the likes of Netflix.  Watching films in the cinema because: Saw a trailer on YT. Hype/buzz on social media. Anticipation for a sequal etc.  The experience of seeing the film in the cinema....