Busted Lip Sync

This is our introductory task to lip syncing to our set song. Also the extra two minutes came out of nowhere after the video was uploaded to YouTube...

The King's Speech Summarised!

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Digital Distribution Article!

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/distribution/distribution7.html

Towards the end of 2005, the UK distribution and exhibition sectors were starting to move towards digital distribution and exhibition. For exhibitors, digital projection, especially when married to the increasing use digital formats in production, can now replicate - if not surpass - the image quality of conventional 35mm cinema presentation. And, of course, digital sound systems have been used in cinemas for some time.

In distribution terms, the advantages of digital technology are even clearer, though perhaps longer term. Digital technology is seen to offer a more cost effective and logistics-light alternative to the tried and trusted, but unwieldy model of 35mm print distribution described above. It will, eventually, be cheaper and much less stressful to send films as computer files to cinemas across the UK, than to transport 20-25kg tins of film in the back of a van.

Digital distribution and exhibition on a large scale has started to appear in certain parts of the world, notably China and Brazil, where conventional logistics cannot, for one reason or another, efficiently bring together supply and demand. In the UK, digital technology has been embraced by the non-theatrical sector, in film societies and schools, where the use of DVD and mid-range digital projection has replaced 16mm.

The force of this change, coupled with the new capacity of technology to replicate 35mm imaging, has led the UK Film Council to establish a digital distribution and exhibition programme for the theatrical sector at the end of 2005. Entitled the Digital Screen Network (DSN), it will eventually support new facilities in 211 screens across the country (out of a total of just over 3,300 screens in the UK), and is seen as a small but important step change towards full digital cinema.

The DSN will initially work with files transferred from a high definition digital master (either HDD5, or HD Cam). The compressed and encrypted files will be sent directly to cinemas to be downloaded, de-encrypted (unlocked) and opened as files for screening with digital projection equipment. In principle, digital distribution will, in time, change the paradigm of 35mm print logistics. It will be possible for the distributor to send feature film files electronically, via broadband networks, thus eliminating dependence on transportation.

There is little doubt that the advent of digital distribution has the potential radically to alter the modus operandi of distributors around the world. The comparatively low cost of film copies and additional logistical effectiveness of digital distribution provide the distributor with greater flexibility. It will be less expensive in the coming years to offer a wide theatrical opening with many copies, and also conversely, to screen a film for just one performance at any cinema. In theory at least, it will be possible for both distributors and exhibitors to respond more precisely to audience demand.

All this suggests that in the future, more titles, both mainstream and specialised, will receive wide theatrical openings, and that this broadening of access at the point of release will dramatically reduce the overall theatrical period from 3-6 months to perhaps 1-3 months. Thereafter, films will enter into a second-run and repertory programming market aided by lower costs.

The shortened first-run period will in turn bring forward the distributor's release of the DVD. And there's the rub. The adoption of digital technologies offers greater opportunities for distributors to create joined-up campaigns for theatrical and DVD releases, in which, increasingly, the theatrical opening is used as a way of providing a loss-leading marketing platform for the highly lucrative DVD leg.

See Saw Productions and Momentum Pictures

• A London/Sydney based company
• Founded by Emile Sherman and Iain Canning
• Sister company is Transmission Films
• Gareth Unwin is also a producer there
• The King's Speech is their most successful film to date
• Have a film finance deal with Paramount Pictures
• Have a first look distribution deal with Momentum Pictures

• Founded in 2000
• Subsidiary comany of Alliance Films
• Only helps to fund/distribute 20 films a year
• Larger independant distributor in the UK 

The King's Speech Facts

• The film was funded by the UK film council. Also Precedence Film Finance provided 2/3 of the £8m budget using the £325 Aegis Film Fund. 
• Produced by Iain Canning, Emile Sherman (both co-founders of See Saw films) and Gareth Unwin from See Saw films.
• Directer by Tom Hooper.
• The film used very famous British actors. For example the actors of the main three roles are Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush, who are all successful, award winning and extremely popular actors. 
• The main locations in the film were the house of the Duke and Duchess, the therapist's office and the therapist's home. The outside of the Duke's home was filmed at 33 Portland Place, as their actually home was destroyed in the war. The inside of Portland Place was also used but as the therapist's consulting room. 89-96 Campton Street was re-painted, to make it look new, and used as the outside of the speech therapist's home. Also they Ely Cathedral rather than Westminster Abbey, this was because the Abbey is very busy and also sacred.
• Tight shots were used, rather than traditional sweeping shots, because it was filmed inside small houses.
• A  wide lens was used to create the feeling of entrapment, and wider shots enhanced the body language.
• The film was market through two main methods the official website and cinema posters. The poster were very traditional, much like a portrait, and looked extremely regal, with elements such as formal attire, the palace and gold fonts. This immediately communicated the genre. The website displayed images of the film to give the audience a preview and it linked to Facebook, Twitter and itunes (synergy) to allow the film to be followed complete and it will appeal to the young audience.
• Distributed digitally by Momentum Pictures in the UK.
• On the opening weekend it took $3,523,103 in the UK. Took £10.76m in the first 10 days.
• Won 4 Oscars and 7 BAFTAs.
• Colin Firth is being considered for a Knighthood to honour his performance.

Character Class and Status

The clip I have chosen is from the E4 show Misfits. It shows an interaction between a main character Nathan, his father and the bolwing manager that arrested him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl1lzmf5DFs&feature=relmfu

The scene begins with a wide shot of the room the characters are sat. We see Nathan sat lounging with his feet on the deask, this shows his releaxed attititude to what is happening to him and his lack of respect. As his father comes in he towers above Nathan. This not only shows his authority as a father but that he has a higher status than Nathan. We can pressume he has a higher status than Nathan because as he is in trouble, and in a young offenders program, we get the idea that he is less educated. With the close up shot where Nathan is focused in the foreground, we get the suggestion he is the most important character however we can still she his unfocused father towering behind him, which emphasises his higher class. Nathan however is parallel with the bowling manager suggesting that they are both of the same uneducated class. Whilst his dad his still higher than the bowling manager, even when they were both stood up which shows he has the highest class.

The shots are framed in the centre of the of the room and it seems as though we are looking into the room watching the exchange. As the shots move around and zoom in the camera still only moves lightly as though we were the camera and were just watching.

The sound is all diergetic which shows that even though there are higher statuses within the group they are all quite a low class and nice music wouldn't fit with them. It also reflects the mood in the room as although there is a slight about of tension, which we already feel, the scene is mainly humorous and so music would seem out of place.