Analysis of The Boat That Rocked

The Target audience for the film is quite wide, I would say it is for teenagers in Britain however there will be many older people willing to see this film from the 60's as that was the time they were teenagers. The fact that the film is a Richard Curtis film will also widen the target audience as he has been writing films for years now and people who are familiar with his films will wish to see them.

The film uses stereotypes to gain the audience it wants to get, people wouldn't go and see the film unless there were characters they can relate to. Nick Frosts Character for example is a stereotype of the "average Joe" his character is called Dave and is somebody that most people would recognise we see him as the slob, lazy and fat. British actors that we recognise such as Bill Nighy will also influence us to go and see the film as he is commonly used in Curtis films.
Gemma Arterton is a principal stereotype, she plays a character named Desiree which is exactly what her character is, desirable, she represents females as sex objects, they only come onto the boat for party's. Dave and Desiree are very British, Dave has a very Cockney accent and Desiree a very upper class one, they both dress British (for the 60's) and so the audience feels comfortable watching them.

Richard Curtis and the team can be said to be appealing to the mythological tendecies of the audience.

Hot Fuzz

Helena and I have created a powerpoint presentation about the film Hot Fuzz. I feel that the presentaion has helped us learn more about the way british films are made.

Get Carter vs The Italian Job

Get Carter and The Italian job are both film staring Micheal Caine. My reactions toward the two films are very different, The Italian Job being a film which has an almost positive approach to crime whereas Get Carter is quite shocking, very violent, it doesn't make crime seem glamorous like in the Italian Job, it is very different, Micheal Caine plays Jack Carter, a character who is set out to kill people as revenge for the death of his brother, he is heartless and kills anybody who gets in his way. The film was made more shocking perhaps after watching The Italian job as The Italian Job is a soft friendly type of film, Caines character in the film is humorous and lovable. The opposite is said for Jack Carter. When Get Carter was first released it got very bad reviews, people found it very shocking as it was made in 1971, it was a one of a kind gangster movie that people were not used to. "soulless and nastily erotic...virtuoso viciousness", "sado-masochistic fantasy", and "one would rather wash one's mouth out with soap than recommend it" are all examples of what people thought of the film at the time. As the film has been re-reviewed it has been noticed as one of the best British gangster films of all time. "Possibly Caine's finest hour in one of the grittiest, most suspense-filled crime dramas of all time." and was given 5 stars from Empire magazine.

Iweb Experience

My iweb experience has been very enjoyable, I have learnt a lot from this lesson about how to make a web page how to hyperlink and how to upload content onto the page. In the same Lesson I learnt about key Internet terminology such as Netiquette (The etiquette on the Internet) and what cyberspace is. The lesson was very use full as we will be using the iweb program to make our web pages for our coursework, the program was very easy to use and I picked up the tools fast, I still need to learn things such as how to make content on the page down loadable. I have also been looking at the option of pod casting for updating my blog, it could be much simpler to do a podcast for my blogs and very existing. Overall the iweb experience has really helped me to understand the Internet a lot better and I feel that when making my web page I will have the skills I need.

UGC

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

User-generated content (UGC), also known as consumer-generated media (CGM)[1] or user-created content (UCC),[2] refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end-users.[3]
The notion of free content has been central to the media sector for decades. Consumers have been willing to receive free content, via commercial radio and television broadcasts, in exchange for advertising.

Examples of UGC:

www.Yahoo.com

www.youtube.com

www.ebay.co.uk

Exploration of British Film- Working Titles

http://www.paramountpictures.co.uk/romzom/ Shaun of the Dead

http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/trailers/obrother.htm O Brother Where art thou

http://www.theboatthatrocked.co.uk/site/index.html The Boat that rocked

The three films above are all films that are produced by the British film production company Working Title Films. The company is based in London and was founded by Tim Beven and Sarah Radclyffe in 1982.
I have chosen to explore the Shaun of the Dead website as it goes very well with the trailer, the layout of the website is made to look like the inside of a pub, just like the one in the film, it is very state of the art and people who have not seen the film with get the general idea from the website and the trailer.
The same goes for The Boat that rocked website, the theme of the website goes with the film, the background looks like the floor of the boat and retro symbols appear when you click on certain areas of the site. Looking at these two websites has given me an Idea of how my website should look for the film trailer that I will make. For instance, if I was making a horror movie I would make the website dark and horror like.
Looking at trailers, especially the one for O Brother where art thou, which I have not seen has helped me get an idea of what needs to be included in a film trailer, for instance whats important to put in, the audience needs to get to grips with the general plot in order for them to want to go an see it. The trailer included personality's of characters and showed us the time period of it's setting.
Overall looking at the three films have helped me to understand what I need to do for my own project.

Michael Caine British Actor

In Class we have started watching "The Italian Job" and have been asked to research the actor Michael Caine who stars in the film, Caine is famous for his Cockney accent; especially in this film with the line "you're only suppose to blow the bloody doors off" and also for his way with women in films; films such as "Get Carter" and "Alfie" which made him a success. Michael Caine was awarded a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, for his contribution to the performing arts in the year 2000. His film "Get Carter" is usually rated one of the top British films of all time despite it having bad reviews when it was first released.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzJxVRBq0uM - The Italian Job film Trailer