Evaluation 3

3)  What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 

A single man

Title                        
A single man

Director            
Tom Ford

Writer         

• Tom Ford

• David Scearce

Distributed by     
The Weinstein Company


Production Company
Lawrence Bender Productions

Plot 

George Falconer is depressed and struggling to cope a year after his partner of 16 years, Jim, died in a car accident. He plans to commit suicide that night, but people that he meets that day change his mind, especially one of his students, Kenny Potter.

My review
This was an interesting film. Colin Firth's acting was phenomenal, and his portrayal was both touching and realistic. I, personally, loved the non-linear story. The flashbacks really added a richness to the emotions and events, that wouldn't have been there otherwise. The cinematography was also extremely well done, in my opinion. The saturation added a nice tone to the shots; it reflected George's mood. It was mainly grey-ish and washed out, except during certain conversations when his mood peaked, when red tones were heightened. However, I can see how the slightly surrealist impression that the style and soundtrack give could turn people off the film, but I really enjoyed it.

Good Will Hunting

Title                        
Good Will Hunting

Director            
Gus Van Sant  

Writer         
Matt Damon
Ben Affleck           

Production Company
Lawrence Bender Productions

Distributed by     
Miramax films  

Plot 

"the film follows 20-year-old South Boston laborer Will Hunting, an unrecognized genius who, as part of a deferred prosecution agreement after assaulting a police officer, becomes a client of a therapist and studies advanced mathematics with a renowned professor. Through his therapy sessions, Will re-evaluates his relationships with his best friend, his girlfriend and himself, facing the significant task of confronting his past and thinking about his future."                       
                                     
My review
I really loved this film, the character and the plot were amazing, None of the conflict felt forced or unnatural. The long on the characters faces worked amazingly well and the emotions were palpable. The soundtrack was one of the best I've heard. I would definitely recommend this film to anyone.

'Elementary'

I found this article about gender roles and race in CBS's Sherlock Holmes adaptation, 'Elementary'. It was extremely interesting, and deconstructed how changing the gender and race of Watson (from British Male to Asian Female) changed the dynamics of the characters from previous adaptations.

Broadchurch

Title                    
Broachurch (season 1)

Director
Various          

Writer    
Chris Chibnall        


Network
ITV

Plot 
When a young boy is murdered, a small town is rife with suspicion and blame as the police try and find the killer.                    
                               
My review
This show was amazing. The premise was one that I had heard before, so, despite many gushing reviews I was not excited to watch. However the shots were so brilliant from the very first second, the atmosphere so intense that I was hooked. There is no doubt in my mind that the shots and music are virtually unparalleled in any T.V. show I have seen in recent years. The acting was also extremely compelling, and very real, as many scenes were shot in one take, with no rehearsal time. I absolutely loved this series, and I will be watching the second, although it will not be able to rival the first as this is a show that only really works once, due to the suspicion being placed on virtually every key member of the small coastal town.

Arq

Title                        
Arq

Director                  
 Tony Elliot

Writer                    
Tony Elliot

Production Company
Lost city
XYZ Films
MXN Entertainment

Distributed by        
Netflix

Plot                        
In a dystopian world, where the Earth is polluted and at war, Renton and Hannah have to fight to protect an unlimited energy source whilst stuck in a time-loop                                      


My review
This film was, in my opinion, extremely well filmed. The tension was
 extremely high throughout, and this was acheived through long moving shots. There was very little cutting between camera angles, and the camera instead panned over the scenes. The tension was also heightened by the restricted location. Except for the about a minute near the end, this entire fast-paced action film took place within a single house, which added a certain tension due to the closeness of the enemy.

The plot left a lot to be desired. It had so many plot holes that it hardly made sense. As with any time travel fiction it needed a hard and fast set of rules that it sticks to, and Arq didn't. They tried to complicate it too much, by having a closed time-loop, and it fell a bit flat.

Overall though this was a very well filmed action film, and the tension worked well, but the plot means that I agree with the 3/5 rating it received on Netflix.

POV shots and Luther

When we were editing our opening, we realised that the girl getting attacked was very out of the blue, so we decided to have a counterpoint by having some shots from the attackers POV, which would hopefully help to build tension. This is an idea that was inspired heavily by an opening of an episode of Luther that we watched and used early in the course for storyboarding practice.

Art of the title

We looked at existing openings to see if any were helpful, and I found:

1) 'Beyond Clueless (2014)' This is very like our opening in the fact that the titles are over the action, and do not have a separate sequence.









2) 'Chasing Shakespeare (2013)' Had the same sort of establishing shots at the beginning of the opening, and the same sort of calm music to start that we had planned.









3) 'Panic Room (2002)' Gives the same feeling of tension through music that we are hoping to achieve.

The Life Of David Gale

Our group took our main inspiration from the opening to the film 'The Life of David Gale'. In this opening there is a very large air of mystery, with a woman running frantically running from something. We took the same air of panic and time running out for our opening, though in David Gale the woman is running to somewhere and in our opening she is running away from something, we took a great amount of ideas from this, such as the long shot of the female running.