TV Drama - Doctor Who - Micro Elements

Notes:

Mise-en-scene:

Period props to identify the era in which the film is set.

The costumes also fit the period and connote when the programme is set.

The lighting is dark around the characters to show that their in an eery situation and make the audience fell uncomfortable.

Music:

There is none to begin with but as the situation builds a dark soundtrack begins. It make the audience feel that there is a sister present in the room.

Editing:

Slow cuts are used throughout the hole sequence to make the audience feel unsettle about what they can see and what lies behind the camera.

Cinematography:

There are a lot of pans around the main charters to signify that there is a evil presents in the room and to also make them feel as if there in the room with them.

Drive (2011)

Drive is a 2011 American drama film directed by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, and Albert Brooks. Although Drive shares several characteristics with the similarly-named 1978 Walter Hill car-chase film, The Driver, it is actually adapted from the 2005 James Sallis novel of the same name, with a screenplay by Hossein Amini.Like the book, the film is about a Hollywood stunt performer (played by Gosling) who moonlights as a getaway driver. Prior to its September 2011 release, it had been shown at a number of film festivals. At the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Drive was praised and received a standing ovation. Winding Refn won the festival's Best Director Award for the film. Reviews from critics have been positive, with many drawing comparisons to work from previous eras. Praise has also been given to Gosling's and Brooks' performances. Winding Refn has said the film was influenced by Halloween and The Transporter, and that it was a tribute to Taxi Driver and the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky. The film achieved a moderate success at the box office and has since gained a large cult following (Source 'Wikipedia')

PLOT:
A mysterious man who has multiple jobs as a garage mechanic, a Hollywood stuntman and a getaway driver seems to be trying to escape his shady past as he falls for his neighbor - whose husband is in prison and who's looking after her child alone. Meanwhile, his garage mechanic boss is trying to set up a race team using gangland money, which implicates our driver as he is to be used as the race team's main driver. Our hero gets more than he bargained for when he meets the man who is married to the woman he loves.

Budget: $15,000,000 (estimated)

Production Companies

• Bold Films

• Odd Lot Entertainment

• Marc Platt Productions (as Marc Platt)

• Motel Movies

Distributors

• 01 Distribuzione (2011) (Italy) (theatrical)

• 24 Bilder Filmagentur (2012) (Germany) (theatrical)

• Alliance Vivafilm (2011) (Canada) (theatrical)

• Cinéart (2011) (Belgium) (theatrical)

• Cinéart (2011) (Netherlands) (theatrical)

• Energía Entusiasta (2012) (Argentina) (theatrical)

• FS Film Oy (2011) (Finland) (theatrical)

• FilmDistrict (2011) (USA) (theatrical)

• Forum Films (2011) (Romania) (theatrical)

• Forum Hungary (2011) (Hungary) (theatrical)

• Icon Film Distribution (2011) (UK) (theatrical)

• Klock Worx Company, The (2012) (Japan) (theatrical)

• Le Pacte (2011) (France) (theatrical)

• Maple Pictures (2011) (Canada) (theatrical)

• Nu Metro Cinemas (2011) (South Africa) (theatrical)

• Pinnacle Films (2011) (Australia) (theatrical)

• Shaw Organisation (2011) (Singapore) (theatrical)

• Spentzos Films (2011) (Greece) (theatrical)

• Svensk Filmindustri (SF) (2011) (Sweden) (theatrical)

• Svensk Filmindustri (2011) (Denmark) (theatrical)

• Svensk Filmindustri (2011) (Norway) (theatrical)

• Universal Pictures International (UPI) (2011) (Russia) (theatrical)

• Universum Film (UFA) (2012) (Germany) (theatrical)

• Viva International Pictures (2011) (Philippines) (theatrical)

• Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (2011) (Spain) (theatrical)

• Wild Side Films (2011) (France) (theatrical)

• Ascot Elite Entertainment Group (2011) (Switzerland) (all media)

• Blue Sky Media (2011) (Bulgaria) (all media)

• Blue Sky Media (2011) (Czech Republic) (all media)

• Blue Sky Media (2011) (Hungary) (all media)

• Blue Sky Media (2011) (Poland) (all media)

• Blue Sky Media (2011) (Romania) (all media)

• Blue Sky Media (2011) (Slovakia) (all media)

• DT Production (2011) (Russia) (all media)

• Golden Scene (2011) (Hong Kong) (all media)

• Italia Film International (2011) (Italy) (all media)

• MG Film (2011) (Croatia) (all media)

• Mongkol Major (2011) (Thailand) (all media)

• Pancinema (2011) (South Korea) (all media)

• Pris Audiovisuais (2011) (Portugal) (all media)

• Sierra / Affinity (2011) (worldwide) (all media) (sales)

• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2012) (USA) (DVD)

• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2012) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)

• Twin Pics (2012) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-ray)

• Twin Pics (2012) (Netherlands) (DVD) (special edition)

Opening Weekend

€525,166 (Italy) (2 October 2011) (301 Screens)

$11,340,461 (USA) (18 September 2011) (2,886 Screens)

Gross

€1,624,191 (Italy) (16 October 2011)

€1,319,506 (Italy) (9 October 2011)

$35,010,464 (USA) (22 January 2012)

$35,037,185 (USA) (29 January 2012)

$34,363,122 (USA) (20 November 2011)

$34,598,322 (USA) (4 December 2011)

$33,720,938 (USA) (30 October 2011)

$35,054,909 (USA) (5 February 2012)

$34,677,497 (USA) (11 December 2011)

$34,911,585 (USA) (8 January 2012)

$34,972,717 (USA) (15 January 2012)

$27,003,029 (USA) (2 October 2011)

$21,417,373 (USA) (25 September 2011)

$34,064,642 (USA) (6 November 2011)

€525,166 (Italy) (2 October 2011)

$33,188,983 (USA) (23 October 2011)

$34,259,311 (USA) (13 November 2011)

$32,113,455 (USA) (16 October 2011)

$11,340,461 (USA) (18 September 2011)

$30,107,885 (USA) (9 October 2011)

$34,746,353 (USA) (18 December 2011)

$34,840,191 (USA) (1 January 2012)

Weekend Gross

$11,972 (USA) (5 February 2012) (22 Screens)

$11,340,461 (USA) (18 September 2011) (2,886 Screens)

$1,842,563 (USA) (9 October 2011) (1,330 Screens)

$608,534 (USA) (23 October 2011) (367 Screens)

$61,775 (USA) (20 November 2011) (46 Screens)

$48,452 (USA) (11 December 2011) (70 Screens)

$5,763,998 (USA) (25 September 2011) (2,904 Screens)

$56,208 (USA) (8 January 2012) (30 Screens)

$60,515 (USA) (4 December 2011) (86 Screens)

$1,116,149 (USA) (16 October 2011) (703 Screens)

$105,466 (USA) (13 November 2011) (75 Screens)

$3,289,714 (USA) (2 October 2011) (1,974 Screens)

$28,827 (USA) (15 January 2012) (32 Screens)

$267,464 (USA) (30 October 2011) (194 Screens)

$26,543 (USA) (22 January 2012) (33 Screens)

$24,518 (USA) (1 January 2012) (25 Screens)

$197,534 (USA) (6 November 2011) (136 Screens)

$13,397 (USA) (29 January 2012) (23 Screens)

$41,947 (USA) (18 December 2011) (56 Screens)

From the research, I have that Drive (2011), the production company is Vertical company purely because its production company only produces, and a separate companies distribute the film. This is because this is a fairly independent film and had a small budget compared to a high budget Hollywood film.

The Film Industry – Related Words

Production

Film production is the process of creating a film from one idea that has been developed for an audience. This is the first stage of making a film. For example 20^th Century Fox produce some of Hollywood’s biggest films and ideas

Distribution

In marketing, distribution is the process of moving a film from its production to its audience. For example paramount will put the film into cinemas and after will put it on to DVD and Blu-ray.

Exhibition

This is when the retail branch of the film industry. It involves not the production or the distribution of motion pictures, but their public screening, usually for paying customers in a site devoted to such screenings, the movie theatre. What the exhibitor sells is the experience of a film (and, frequently, concessions like soft drinks and popcorn). Because exhibitors to some extent control how films are programmed, promoted, and presented to the public, they have considerable influence over the box-office success and, more importantly, the reception of films.

Audience

The audience is the key for creating and advertising any film made considering that this is the demographic in which is going to make an income for the film companies. Target audience are a key concept in the industry.

Institution

The institution is the company, in which, the industry uses primarily uses. This is the same for the film industry and Paramount is the institution.

Convergence

The term convergence is when a product, i.e. a phone, not only serves its prime purpose, in also unites other technologies for example camera, the Internet etc. In the film industry, the same thing applies. If a book or novel is turned into a film, then this is convergence.

Synergy

This is when two companies work together for one goal or purpose. For example if Disney and McDonald’s work together, the release toys with meals, which not only advertises the film, but it also entices children to buy the food for the toy.

New Technologies

This is where new things, i.e. LCD/LED television, have replaced old technologies (Box TV’s). This is what film companies have to consider when they create and release any film.