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Hotel Babylon

Analysis based on the representational issue of Ethnicity

 

In the 'Hotel Babylon' short clip is hugely based on ethnicity due to the obvious factor of the story line being based on immigrants, who are mainly within a black ethnic background who work in the hotel, juxtaposing with immigration officers who are generally of a white background.

 

To start, the audience can clearly see that the immigration officers are coming toward the hotel reception. The officers are all mainly white and are extremely well dressed, which clearly conveys their level of authority. During this point, the music is at a high intensity and the footstep sounds added help to add anxiety and panic to question to the audience who is approaching. The ticking sound could be showing they the time is decreasing for the immigrants and showing that they need to hide, firer conveying the power the officers have over everyone. Camera angles here include a lot of close ups and zooming into close ups, this again, shows the authority and perceived importance of the officers. In terms of editing, there are multiple shots used, including a motivational shot used to build tension and create atmosphere. Furthermore, at this stage the mise en scene illustrates a busy scene with many people involved, this also creates an atmosphere of panic and emphasises the impotence that the immigrants must get away.

 

Within the next couple of scenes, some of the people within the hotel are being earned that the immigration officers are within the hotel and must urgently pass the message back to the immigrants so they can quickly hide. Next, we see the immigrants all being frantically rushed into a small room to hide, the mise en scene here is very plain and this could be used to show that they are seen to be less important by the officers being contained like 'animals'. Here, a sense of calm falls upon the room for a split second which conveys tension until the lady in charge notices that one man is missing, the atmosphere then returns to panic and despair in hope that their friend is safe. The camera then slowly pans up the missing friend and the slow paced shots show that he is in his own world and is completely oblivious to what is going on. The camera then skips back to the immigrants in the room. The music is slower at this point and this emphasizes the binary opposite of the British officers and the foreign immigrants as the music is always much faster when the scene is focused on the officers.

 

Next, we see a shot of the missing immigrant worker in a lift with the officers standing behind, he is still completely oblivious to what is going on at this point. The officer them walks out moot a res carpet which highlights his perceived importance. The shots are much quicker as the officer walks after they have caught the immigrant to show his power over him. As the worker falls over his Hoover, the shot focuses in this to make clear that he has been caught, conveying a sight of weakness. In terms of mise en scene, it is very basic in the hotel hallways which could link to the kind of lives the immigrants are living. Also, the colour red appears again on the man’s boiler suit, as it has done subtly throughout the extract, and this infers danger which links well to what is happening

 

In the next scene, we see the man who was caught being taken away by the officers, as he is dragged through the main reception, we see other people look on and beg for them to let him go, whilst realizing that they can’t do anything about it. The reception is very busy at this point and has an exotic feel to it which shows the variety of races present in the hotel. This is also shown as we can clearly see a range of people from different cultural backgrounds, and a typical Italian waiter which shows diversity and equality, promoting the fact that the hotel welcomes all races.

The following few scenes show the arrested man’s friends and colleagues in sorrow and emptying his locker, the camera shot briefly shows us a poster of his national football team which says to the audience that he is proud of his background.  The music at this point is very slow and sad, to perhaps show that the colleagues of the arrested man are reflecting on the recent events and feeling deep sadness for their friend but also a sense of relief that they are safe themselves.

In the final scenes of the extract, we see the camera panning round the canteen to show and emphasize on the fact that the hotel is home to a wide range of nationalities. However, everyone is sitting at separate tables with other people from their respective nationalities; this follows the stereotype that ethnic groups stick together.  The music at this point reflects the overall mood running through the hotel. There is loud conversation however at some of the tables and then it goes much quieter when the camera gets to the table with the man and woman and this represents their ethnicity and the fact that they are praying. The camera work used here concentrates on the eye contact that the two workers are giving each other to perhaps show their relationship or that they are sharing the same feelings about the day’s events.

 

Overall, ethnicity is presented in many ways throughout the extract; sometimes more obviously than others, and it is made clear that the hotel is full of a very wide range of ethnicities and cultural backgrounds.

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Extended Avengers: Age Of Ultron trailer contains brand new footage: watch now

There’s only one path to peace…

Nov 13th 2014 By George Wales

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As if we hadn’t already watched it to death, a new extended version of the Avengers: Age Of Ultron has appeared online, featuring a few snippets of brand new footage.

The new footage comes largely at the front end of the trailer, with Ultron taunting the Avengers and warning them that “there’s only one path to peace… your extinction.”

Indeed, this latest trailer mainly serves to ram home just what an impressive antagonist the new film has on its hands, with James Spader delivering a genuinely unnerving vocal performance.

Paramount Pictures documentary script

Paramount Pictures Corporation (commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, and formerly known as Famous Players-Lasky Corporation) is a film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor, consistently ranked as one of the "Big Six" film studios of Hollywood.

In 2014, Paramount Pictures was the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all its films in digital-form only

Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world after Gaumont Film Company (1895), Pathé (1896), Nordisk Film, (1906), and Universal Studios.

It is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles.

To date, Paramount Pictures have made 153 movies since 1912. It has distributed several successful film series, such as Transformers, Mission: Impossible, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Indiana Jones, The Godfather, Star Trek, Jack Ryan, Jackass, The Bad News Bears, Beverly Hills Cop, "Crocodile" Dundee, Paranormal Activity, Friday the 13th and G.I. Joe.

On December 11, 2005, The Paramount Motion Pictures Group announced that it had purchased DreamWorks SKG (which was co-founded by former Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg) in a deal worth $1.6 billion. The announcement was made by Brad Grey, chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures who noted that enhancing Paramount's pipeline of pictures is a "key strategic objective in restoring Paramount's stature as a leader in filmed entertainment

Paramount Pictures is noteworthy for having five films that have surpassed the $1-billion-mark in wordwide box office sales:

• Titanic (1997 - $1,843,201,268)
• Marvel’s The Avengers (2012 - $1,511,757,910)
• Iron Man 3 (2013 - $1,125,439,994)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011 - $1,123,794,079)
• Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014 - $1,065,153,989)

 

Transformers 4 documentary script

Pre-production

The writer of Transformers 4 and the whole of the transformers films was Ehren Kruger who’s idea the films where and who created them. It is an American science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line.

The production company of Paramount is extrmeley well known with popular films such as Star Trek which was very successful which also applies to the Transformers films. It is both a sequel to 2011's Transformers: Dark of the Moon and a soft reboot of the franchise, the film takes place five years later.

The film was produced by Don Murphy and Tom DeSanto. They developed the project in 2003, and DeSanto wrote a treatment. Steven Spielberg came on board the following year, hiring Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman to write the screenplay for the first film. The U.S. Armed Forces and General Motors (GM) loaned vehicles and aircraft during filming, which saved money for the production and added realism to the battle scenes.

The director of the film is Michael Bay with Steven Spielberg serving as executive producer.

Production Phase

In February 2012, Paramount Pictures and Michael Bay announced that Bay would be producing and directing a fourth Transformers film, scheduled to be released on June 27th, 2014.  Ehren Kruger and Steve Jablonsky returned to write the script. In April 2013, it was announced that China Movie Channel and Jiaflix Enterprises would co-produce the film with Paramount.

On September 1st, 2013, Fusible revealed three possible titles for the film, which were, Transformers: Last Stand Transformers: Future Cast, and Transformers: Apocalypse. On September 2^nd, it was revealed that there was one last possible title, Transformers: Age of Extinction.  On September 3rd, 2013, Paramount released an official teaser poster for the film, revealing the title to be Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Filmmaker Michael Bay chose to shoot action movie follow-up Transformers: Age of Extinction partly on location in China to chase a “new experience” as a director. The new movie shot partly in Hong Kong, but also built a Hong Kong set in Detroit for the more complex action scenes.

The film had an estimated budget of $210,000,000

 

 

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Film Piracy

 

 

Film news

Channing Tatum and Milan Kunis star in new Jupiter Ascending trailer .

A new trailer has arrived for Jupiter Ascending in which the Wachowski siblings pull back the curtain on the fantasy universe in which the film is set.

The new teaser establishes the back story to the film, in which we learn that a powerful alien dynasty controls Earth, and doesn’t take kindly to having its ownership challenged.

Because, as it turns out, Mila Kunis’ lowly toilet cleaner is actually Earth’s true heir, putting her on collision course with Eddie Redmayne’s alien overlord.

The new film certainly looks spectacular, with the Wachowskis pulling out all the stops to create what looks like their most arresting sci-fi landscape since The Matrix. And that film didn’t have Channing Tatum as a half-werewolf bounty hunter…

Co-starring Sean Bean, Douglas Booth, Tuppence Middleton and James D’Arcy, Jupiter Ascending will open in the UK on 6 February 2015.

Film Piracy

Moving Image

Monarch Of Glen

In this clip we can clearly see two juxtaposing contrasts of age presented in Monarch of the Glen. We are able to see this clearly through the two completely differant story lines. One of them presenting a young, teenage girl in who portrays selfishness, contrasting with a portrayel of selflessness in the second shot while a more older generation take part in community service. This creates a negative portrayel of the younger generation.

As we can tell, Amy's camera shots and scenes go on for a lot longer than the hard at work older generation's do which may further signify the selfish and perhaps ignorant portrayel of the girl due to perhaps thinking the world relvoves around her which inhances the reckless portrayel of teenagers which differ from the older cast who do not ask for anything in return for their hard work.

The mise-en-scene of the clip conveys a dramatic change in clothing between the two generations, due to the girl wearing denim jeans and a light top which typically conveys the average teenage, refusing to wear a coat in case it ruins her outfit, jusxtaposing with an older generation who are wrapped up in warm, appropriate clothing which conveys how they are dressing for comfort whereas the girl is dressing to impress. The denotation of the older head master is that he is extremely formal with a posh voice, wearing a red tie which has clear stereotypes of danger, preparing us for the car crash and the confrontation which happens next in the clip. The headmaster clearly opposes the girl in terms of age due to the non diagetic voices conveying an image of perhaps common and uneducated as a younger generation. Moreover, the teddy bear seen in the girls room is clear to convey a sence of immaturity and clear to being a younf girl. Adding to this point, the pink essence of the room may further describe how the girl is stil only young and is typically seen in a younger girls room. Also the envelope left is extremely girly and child like.

While Amy is trying to run to the car, we see a close up mastershot of her, so we focus on only her, this makes us relalise that she is unaware of what she is doing and we can clearly see the immaturity of her facial expressions preparing us for the car crash. Howevwe, she shoes determination to represent the younger generation and how they can not be proved wrong or told what to do. The mastershot makes us concentrate on her coming across as lieing and decieving which gives an extremely negative portrayel of the younger generationas this gives us the first indication that she is not whoe she says she is.

The non diagetic music while the community convey and image of selflessness is extremely jolly and happy which really emphasizes the hard work in which is being presented. As they are effectively workin in time to the music. It creates an upbeat optomistic atmosphere to the scene which may symbolise that the older generation are happy to work and strongly enjoy it.

As we can see, as Amy runs she looks extremely fit and has no limitation while running which shows she is fit and healthy where as when the older women is running she appears out of breath and tires which conveys how much of a struggle it was for her contrasting with Amy's representation of a fitter, younger generation.

For me personaly, I feel this clip is slightly biased upon age due to representing younger generations in a negative, wreckless way, conveying rebellion and immaturity.

Production, Distribution, Exhibition

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Film distribution - Company or individual responsible for releasing a film publicly and sells copies of the tape to cinemas and stores where viewers can see it.

Film Exhibition - The exhibition of film primarily involves the ownership, management  and operation of cinemas. The exhibitor sells the experience of the film

Walking on Sunshine

Walking on Sunshine

 

Walking on Sunshine is a 2014 British romantic musical comedy-drama film directed by Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini. The film features covers of hit songs from the 1980s and was released on 27 June 2014. Directed by Max Giwa and Danis Pasquini, produced by James Richardson and written by Joshua St Johnson. It runs for 97 minuites and made $3,248,671 in the box office. As of July 23, it has grossed $3,248,671 worldwide.

Reviews
The film received mixed to negative reviews, currently holding a 26% rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes bades on 19 reviews.

Plot
Maddie is organizing her wedding with her Italian fiance, Raf, and she invites her sister Taylor. But Maddie doesn't know that Raf is Taylor's ex-boyfriend and the love of her life. The film is set in Italy in the southern part of Apulia, the sub-region Salento, around the historic towns of Nardò and Gallipoli, and the beautiful beaches of the Ionian west coast.

 

Vertigo Films

Vertigo Films

Vertigo Films is a British film production and film distribution company based in London since 2002 by Allan Niblo and James Richardson, England. Vertigo Films has been responsible for the production and distribution of Bronson, StreetDance 3D and Monsters.

Vertigo also owns a successful post production company in Berlin, The Post Republic and is a partner in sales company Protagonist Pictures along with Film 4 and Ingenious.

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures is a film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor, consistently ranked as one of the "Big Six" film studios of Hollywood. Paramount  Film insdustry was founded in 1912 as Famous Players Film company but then went on to become Paramount Pictures in 1914 by Adolph Zukor. It is based in Hollywood, California, USA.

To date, Paramount Pictures have made 153 movies since 1912. It has distributed several successful film series, such as Transformers, Mission: Impossible, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Indiana Jones, The Godfather, Star Trek, Jack Ryan, Jackass, The Bad News Bears, Beverly Hills Cop, "Crocodile" Dundee, Paranormal Activity, Friday the 13th and G.I. Joe. It's the world's fourth oldest major film studio. In 2014, Paramount Pictures was the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all its films in digital-form only.

Distribution
Paramount Pictures is noteworthy for having five films that have surpassed the $1-billion-mark in wordwide box office sales:

• Titanic (1997 - $1,843,201,268)
• Marvel’s The Avengers (2012 - $1,511,757,910)
• Iron Man 3 (2013 - $1,125,439,994)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011 - $1,123,794,079)
• Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014 - $1,065,153,989)

 

 

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Transformers: Age of Extinction

 

 

Tranformers: Age of Extinction was directed by Michael Bay, Produced by Don Murphey, Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Ian Bryce and written by Ehren Kruger. It was released for the first time in the USA on the 27th of June 2014, however was released in the UK on July 5th 2014. It runs for 165 minutes. The 4th Transformers film had an estimated budget of around $210,000,000. In the opening weekend, the action film made $100,038,390 in the USA and grossed $244,435,833.

 

Reviews

• IMDb have rated the film a 6.2 and have described it as 'boring and a waste of money', another quote says that it 'goes on for too long'.
• Unfortunately, Rotten tomatoes have rated the film 1 out of 5 stars (18%)
• Metacritic have rated the film 1 and half stars (32%)

 

Trailer

The first televised advertisement for Transformers: Age of Extinction aired during Super Bowl XLVIII. The first official teaser trailer was released on March 4, 2014. On March 30, 2014, a shortened version of the teaser trailer was aired during the season 4 finale of The Walking Dead. Another shortened version of the teaser trailer was aired during the 2014 MTV Movie Awards.