Thursday, 10 November 2011

SeeSaw: The Kings Speech

Genre – is it a hybrid? Explain why:Well first of all a hybrid is two or more types of genres that have been added together to make one for instance a romantic comedy. In the film "The Kings Speech" Is a Biography of King George IV aswell as being as being a high class drama, with historic value, because it has been set in the 1930's and reperesents the history of England and its past royals.
Who are the target audiences? The target audiences of this film were for people that will have general interests in Englands history and would like to see how things were back in those days and people who have maybe lived through it and would like to see how producers, actors and editors of this modern days have interpreted what had happened - survivers of the world war.


Was it niche or mainstream film? Did this change?
started of as a niche film and then expaned mainstream "The kings speech" started off as a niche film because it was only produced for small specific audience's but once it has been released a wider variety of people wanted to view the film and therefore it became more mainstream as it has expanded so quickly.


Director?
The director is "The kings speech" was Tom Hooper


Casting? Decisions, reasons for audiences, budget, genres, etc.
the main roles of this film where played by such famous actors as
Helena Bohman Carter - Queen Elizabeth
Colin Firth - King George VI
Geoffrey Rush - Lionel Logue


Budget? How much did it make? 
£8million ($15million)
£250million ($414,211,549)


Music?  Cost of tracks?  Record Companies?
music was done by - Alexandre Desplat for "Lionel and berty"
Decca Redcords Cutting Edge - Abbey Road Studios


Was it a joint production?  How and Why? For the King's Speech there are TWO production companies and synergies would have arisen from such a production. What were they?
There was a number of different companies involeved with the kings speech for instance;



Special Effects?
A list of companies that are responsible for the effects that had been used in the movie:
Technology – cameras?
very-wide-angle [ARRI] Master Prime lenses
Steadicam
D21
Producer?
Iain Canning, Emile Sherman & Gareth Unwin.
Executive producer’s  - Paul Brett, Mark Foligno, Geoffrey Rush, Tim Smith, Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein.
Associate producer - Charles Dorfman.
Co-producer -  Simon Egan and Peter Heslop.
Co-executive producer’s -  Phil Hope, Lisbeth Savill and Deepak Sikka.
Scriptwriter?      David Seidler.


Companies involved with the production of the kings speech
Tin Tin - Columbia


Genre – is it a hybrid?
The film has three genres, they are Animation, Action and Adventure. This makes the film a hybrid because the film comes under more than one genre.


Who are the target audiences?
manily people who have grew up watching this aswell as children of today ( younger audiences )


Was it niche or mainstream film? Did this change?
The film Tintin is a mainstream film. The film is a well known a largely distrubuted film.


Director?
Steven Speilberg.

Casting? Decisions, reasons for audiences, budget, genres, etc
$135 million budget, the film made $159,100,000 in box office and
£6,758,724 (UK) (30 October 2011) (512 Screens) in the opening weekend and £6,758,724 (UK) (30 October 2011) in gross.

Music?  Cost of tracks?  Record Companies?
Sony recorders,  produced all the music

Was it a joint production?  How and Why? For the King's Speech there are TWO production companies and synergies would have arisen from such a production. What were they?
Yes the film was a joint production, this is because more than one company produced the film - Columbia pictures and Paramount pictures.

Special Effects?
Weta Digital

Technology – cameras?
Digital Voretchs Avid HD Editing System Support - animation film

Producer?
Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy.
Scriptwriter? 
Steven Moffa



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