Film production company Case Study
- 1. Film production company Case Study ShannonWebb
- 2. Skyfall • Director: Sam Mendes • Writers: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan • Budget: $200,000,000 • Opening weekend: $88,364,714 (USA) (11th November 2012) (3,505 Screens) £20,180,369 (UK) (28 October 2012)(587 Screens) • Domestic Gross: $289.600,000 • Production companies: Eon Productions and Danjaq. • Distributors:Andes Films, Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment,Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and much more. • Main Characters of the cast: Daniel Craig Judi Dench Javier Bardem Ralph Fiennes
- 3. Promotion of Skyfall • Promotional video: A new advert for Sony, stars Daniel Craig as a James Bond-esque character. Dates of the showing of the film are revealed. • International trailer. • Skyfall bonds with Coke, to become the appearance of the can. • Berenice Marlohe (Severine) covers GQ magazine.The august issue also included an interview with the new 007 director Sam Mendes. • Sony previews 4 minutes of ‘Skyfall’ at CineEurope.
- 4. Poster. This is one of many Skyfall posters placed around world wide. Unlike many other posters made, this specific Skyfall poster does not include a previous credit or positive quote.This action can be looked upon negatively, due to not showing a positive outcome and appearance towards the targeted audience. Moving onto the long shot of the actual star laying across the bottom of the poster with a gun, shows the audience a hint towards the positioning and moves he may pull later through the film.This positioning can also link in with the fact that this film star is wearing an extremely dominant colour blue which shows his own masculinity and dominance over this prop gun he holds. Furthering on, the writing is shown to be in dominant outstanding black against the white background to catch the attention of the actual audience on the name and the date it is shown for viewing.The famous logo of the James Bond movies is also shown to be in gold which is even more eye-catching but also tells the audience the way this film will be plotted like the other bond films created.This film neither has a film classification or intertextual reference, leaving the audience in a ponderous sight which does become a negative outcome.The costuming shown on the actual actor on the bottom of the poster is well known from the other ‘bond’ films which creates both continuity throughout the film series, but also helps the audience understand quickly about the film and the characters personality and life.
- 5. Merchandise • Merchandising can be a main factor in promoting a new film. As well as promoting a new film for the audience, the merchandise brings in extra money for the company but also can be long lasting for many of the fans.This means there are no time restrictions on when they can or cannot actually show the merchandise unlike trailers. Skyfall has also got a collection of merchandise for the audiences, these include: James Bond 007 Fragrance James Bond’s 007 Special blend. USB Flash Drive 007 Limited edition S.T. Dupont Bullet Keyring with Push Button Lamp
- 6. SkyFall sound-track • The famous Skyfall sound-track was released on the 29th of October 2012 in the UK, before being released on the 6th of November 2012 in the US. • Moving forward into October in 2012, the singer and song writer Adele confirmed that she, herself had wrote and sang the films theme tune. • The song was produced but also arranged by Paul Epworth, whilst Adele appear courtesy of XL Recordings/ Columbia Records.
- 7. EON Productions. Eon productions (Everything Or Nothing) is a film production company known for producting the James Bond Film Series. In 2008, EON productions signed a deal with Columbia pictures to develop fifteen thrillers and family films outside the Bond franchise, with budgets up to $80 million.The company then hoped that this move would allow more British writers to establish themselves in the United States.
- 8. EON Productions. • Founded in 1961 • The founders of Eon Productions are Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. • The Headquarters is located in London, United Kingdom. • The ‘Parent’ of this production company is Danjaq and LLC. • Operates from Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom. • Closely held private and family corporation. • In 1975, after the nine Bond films were created, Harry Saltzman sold his shares of Danjaq to United Artists. Eon Productions is still owned by the Broccoli family. • Eon Productions is also shown to revealed on a social networking site called ‘Facebook’ by having it’s on ‘Page’ in which to promote films but also reveal old promoted films and ideas.
- 9. Films created by Eon Productions 23 Bond films were actually made by Eon productions for the film series. Eon are well known for specialising in the ‘Bond film series’ but have also created well known films un-related to ‘Bond’ such as ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, ‘The Ipcress file’ and ‘Battle of Britain’.
- 10. Harry Brown • Director: Daniel Barber • Writer: GaryYoung • Budget: $7,300,000 • Opening weekend: $173,353 (USA) (2nd May 2010) (19 Screens) £1,271,814 (UK) (15th November 2009) (351 Screens) • DomesticGross: $1,818,681 • Production Companies: Marv films, UK Film Council, HanWay Films, Prescience Film Fund, Framestore, Prescience. • Distributers included:A-Film distribution, Icon Film distribution, Lionsgate and many more. • Cast: Michael Caine Emily Mortimer David Bradley Charlie Creed-Miles
- 11. Promotion of Harry Brown. • Trailer • Newspaper article • Posters • Social networking sites e.g. Facebook page.
- 12. Poster. Upon the film Poster for Harry Brown, a positive quote from a national newspaper was actually used in the top center. In this positive quote a previous credit was used upon ‘GranTorino’ to prompt the audiences expectations on this new film revealed. By linking these both together, the audience are both prompted but also intrigued with such positive outcomes and expectations. Moving onto the layout of this poster, the main characters name is both shown in the title but also includes his actors name. This shows the audience that both the film would be expensively made meaning a better quality due to having a world wide famous actor.The fact that the actors name is placed there is to prompt the audience further including the fans of this actors work. Furthering on from this, the way the text is placed upon a low angle shot of the character with a gun facing that direction, creates a tense but also intimidating appearance upon the audience. This then creates a sudden twist on the stereo- types people place on the ‘older aged’ group creating a more intriguing view of the film.The colour saturation of all the text is also important as it reveals to the audience a more urban and dangerous vibe. Moving on from this, the poster seems to not actually contain the a Film classification, which can actually fool the audience into believing that the film is able to be watched by the younger category between ‘12 and 15’ which then creates a larger audience. The costume and background also gives a big hint away to the audience about the setting and area this film would be placed around. By using the traditional big brown coat all buttoned up with a gun is shown to be a juxtaposition between the violence and the higher class, this is then balanced out against a damaged yellow dark wall which resembles the dangerous areas of an Urban place.The dark lightening also helps this interpretation from the
- 13. Marv Films production Marv Films is a UK based film production company owned by MatthewVaughn. Marv films are mainly known for the motion pictures: Layer Cake, Stardust and Kick-Ass. This was all founded in 2004 in the United Kingdom by MatthewVaughan and Kris Thykier.
- 14. Films created by Marv Films production • Layer Cake • Stardust • Harry Brown • Kick-Ass • The Debt • Kick-Ass 2 • The Secret Service.