Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Representation Disability

Associated words and stereotypes

  • Special
  • R
  • Impaired
  • incapable
  • physically impaired
  • spastic
  • mong
  • melt
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Saturday, 18 February 2017

Task 2

The Big Six: Films produced in the past year

SONY
WARNER BROTHERS
20TH CENTURY FOX
PARAMOUNT
WALT DISNEY
UNIVERSAL
·         Smurfs: The Lost Village
·         Spider-Man: Homecoming
·         Trainspotting
·         Passengers
·         Inferno
·         The Magnificent Seven
·         Sausage Party
·         Ghostbusters
·         The Shallows
·         Angry Birds
·         Money Monster
·         The Brother Grimsby
·         The 5th Wave
·         The LEGO Batman Movie
·         Live By Night
·         Bastards
·         Collateral Beauty
·         Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
·         The Accountant
·         Storks
·         Sully
·         War Dogs
·         Suicide Squad
·         Lights out
·         The Legend of Tarzan
·         Central Intelligence
·         The Conjuring
·         Me Before You
·         The Nice Guys
·         Keanu
·         Barbershop: The Next Cut
·         Batman V Superman
·         Midnight Special
·         How to be Single
·         A Cure for Wellness
·         Hidden figures
·         Why Him?
·         Assassins Creed
·         Rules Don’t apply
·         Trolls
·         Keeping Up with the Joneses
·         Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
·         Morgan
·         Ice Age: Collision Course
·         Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
·         Independence Day Resurgence
·         X-Men Apocalypse
·         The Other Side of The Door
·         Eddie the Eagle
·         Deadpool
·         Kung-Fu Panda 3
·         Rings
·         Monster Trucks
·         Fences
·         Silence
·         Office Christmas Party
·         Allied
·         Arrival
·         Jack Reacher
·         Ben Hur
·         Florence Foster Jenkins
·         Star Trek Beyond
·         Be Somebody
·         Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of the Shadows
·         Everybody Wants Some
·         10 Cloverfield Lane
·         Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
·         Zoolander 2
·         13 Hours
·         Anomalisa
·         Daddy’s Home
·         The Big Short
·           Rogue One

·         Moana
·         Queen of Katwe
·         Pete’s Dragon
·         The BFG
·         Finding Dory
·         Alice Through The Looking Glass
·         Captain America: Civil War
·         A Beautiful Planet
·         The Jungle Book
·         The Finest Hours
·         The Great Wall
·         Fifty Shades Darker
·         A Dog’s Purpose
·         Split
·         Sing
·         Almost Christmas
·         Ouija
·         Kevin Hart: What Now?
·         The Girl on the Train
·         Bridget Jones’s Baby
·         Jason Bourne
·         The Secret Life of Pets
·         The Purge
·         WarCraft
·         Popstar
·         Neighbours 2
·         The Huntsman
·         The Boss
·         My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
·         Hail Caesar!









The mini Majors: films produced in the last year
Lionsgate
MGM
·         Everybody Loves Somebody
·         Patriots Day
·         Contract to Kill
·         La La Land
·         Hacksaw Ridge
·         American Pastoral
·         Middle School
·         L..O.R.D
·         End of a Gun
·         Blair Witch
·         The Wild Life
·         Mechanic: Resurrection
·         Nerve
·         CafĂ© Society
·         Our Kind of Traitor
·         The Duel
·         Genius
·          A Hologram For The King
·         Compadres
·         Natural Born Pranksters
·         The Conformation
·         The Perfect Match
·         Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer
·         The Belko Experiment
·         The Magnificent Seven
·         Ben Hur
·         Me Before You
·         Barbershop: the Next Cut
·         Creed
·         Spectre
·         Southpaw
·         Max
·         Poltergeist
·         Hot Pursuit
·         Hot Tub Time Machine 2
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Thursday, 2 February 2017

Task 1

  • What are the big Six film companies
  1. Sony
  2. Warner Brothers
  3. 20th Century Fox
  4. Paramount
  5. Disney
  6. Universal
  • Think of the dates and the school holidays
All films were released during or recently before the school holidays. This is due to the company targeting their audience and making their films more accessible since school holidays are the time where not only students have free time, but adults typically take their holidays/ time off in these periods as well.
  • Which films are on general release?
La La Land,  Trainspotting 2, Sing, The Lego Batman Movie, Split, Moana, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Rings, 50 Shades Darker, Storks, Trolls.
  • What genre of films are there? Blockbuster, indie, foreign?
Sci-Fi, Drama, Comedy, Musical, Thriller, Animation, Romance, Family film,
  • How many are sequels?
1, Trainspotting 2
  • How many blockbusters are aimed at a younger audience?
Moana, Lego Batman movie, Storks, Trolls
  • How many are produced by the big 6?
Storks (Warner Brothers), Moana (Disney), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Disney), 50 Shades Darker (Universal)
  • How many different formats are there?
General release and DVD. They are not on streaming websites (Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc...)
  • What kinds of films seem to be missing?
There are not any Teen movies (similar to High School Musical, The Duff, Mean Girls) or intellectual films aimed at intellectuals and the more educated. All are mainstream films which are easy to watch without much thought.
  • How many of the film distributors seem to be missing aswell?
Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, On the other hand, Disney has two big films out.
  • Who do you think are the target audiences for these?
Mainly children (some teenagers). As they are all mainstream films, the target audience is most likely commercial consumers of films and cinema. The average family.
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