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Viewing entries from category: Science Fiction

Attack The Block Case Study »

Nicole Ponsford | Thursday May 03, 2012

Categories: Courses, A Level, OCR A Level, OCR AS, Film, Action, British Film, Comedy, Film Analysis, Horror, Science Fiction, Hot Entries

Synopsis and Character

Lambeth in South London, Bonfire Night / Fifth of November. Present Day. A young nurse called Sam (played by Jodie Whittaker) is mugged by a gang of masked hoodies: Moses, the quiet but serious leader (played by John Boyega), Pest by name and nature(played by Alex Esmail), Dennis (played by Franz Drameh), Jerome (Leeon Jones) and Biggz (Simon Howard). In the middle of this, a meteorite plummets from the sky into a nearby...

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Marketing a Blockbuster | Star Trek Paramount Pictures UK »

Rob Miller | Tuesday April 24, 2012

Categories: Advertising, More on Advertising, Film, Action, Action Adventure, Science Fiction, Hot Entries

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The main aspects of marketing are:

  • PR: offline/online
  • Media: budget, targeting TV, press, radio, outdoor, interactive
  • Research: NRG, Fame, TGI
  • Creative: trailer, POS, print, TV/radio, interactive, strategy.

The main aim of marketing is to draw people into the film, but also to target audiences who the company believe will make it a blockbuster.

Star Trek provides a very valuable franchise, which has spanned a large period of time. Overall...

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Star Trek »

Rob Miller | Tuesday April 24, 2012

Categories: Film, Action, Action Adventure, Science Fiction, Hot Entries

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Cultural capital would be relevant in terms of intertextual references to the Star Trek television series and significant Star Trek film franchise (8 films) including Star Trek (1979), The Wrath of Kahn (1982), The Search for Spock (1984) and Nemesis (2001). All films were distributed by Paramount Studios, and written and produced by Gene Roddenberry, who created the original 1966 TV Series made by Paramount TV. These are characters of which...

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WJEC Textual Analysis Writing Frame Science Fiction Film Trailers »

Jassy Hothi | Saturday January 23, 2010

Categories: Courses, GCSE, WJEC GCSE, WJEC GCSE Media Studies, Film, Science Fiction, Other Topics, Posters, Film Poster Analysis, Skills

Film Poster Writing Frame Sci-fi Trailers.doc

 




Film Trailers »

Richard Gent | Sunday November 29, 2009

Categories: Film, Film Trailers, Science Fiction, Other Topics

We’ve added some film trailers to the gallery section on Media.edusites.co.uk We hope this will prove a useful stimulus for discussion and analysis. In time, we’ll separate these out so that you can click on the genre, concept or theory you’re interested in rather than scrolling through the entire archive of still and moving images.

http://media.edusites.co.uk/index.php/gallery/

The genres / areas we’ve covered so far include: Action, Drama,...

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Schemes Downloads »

Richard Gent | Tuesday August 18, 2009

Categories: Other Topics, Science Fiction

Schemes | AQA GCSE Scifi.zip

Schemes | BTEC National Assignments.zip

Schemes | Science Fiction.zip




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