Four-Quadrant movie

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Four-quadrant movie

A  four quadrant movie is a film that appeals to four different areas of gender and age.

Here a digram showing the four differnt areas that a film has to appela too to become a four-quadrant movie

Select 4 films from your favourite big six producer

Paramount

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

This movie I would says is a four quadrant movie because it appeal to a wide range because it has action and comedy in it

Star trek: Into Darkness

I think this is a four quadrant film because it appeals to the over 25s because they many have been brought up with these character and it will appeal to the under 25 because it is full of action

Tropic Thunder

I think that this would be a four quadrant film because it is a very funny upbeat film that anyone can watch.

Transformer: Dark of the Moon

I think this is not a quadrant movie because I think it only appeals to the under 25 because it is very fast pasted and full of lots of action and explosions

Why British actor move to America

British talent migrate to America because they have a bigger film industry than we do and the big six are in America as well. Also big film companies like to uses British talent because it means that they could try and get there film classified as a British film which means that they got qualify for film funding.

This is bad for the British film industry because they are taking some of are best home-grown talent  which means we can’t afforded to pay big star to be in are British films

The film industry is control by global institutions in America because this is were every actor wants to go if they want to be in big budget blockbuster.

Why Audinces watch Films

People watch films for:

·         For entertainment

·         To education them        

·         It can be a social event

·         To escape the real world

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Blumler and Katz (1974) created the:

Uses and gratification:

Information:  learn, Self education

Personal identity: Find out about oneself

Integration and social Interaction: Finding a basis for conversation and social interaction

Entertainment: Escaping, or being diverted, from problems and real life

Task

The last film that I watch was “The Dark Knight” because it is my favourite film and I am interested in the genre of the movie and the character in the movie (Batman)

Information: the movie taught you a little bit on the difference between right and wrong and if you thing you are doing something good you might not always be right

Personal identity: The movie taught me to be myself and not to hind in the shadows

Integration and social interaction: After watching this I talk to my friends about it because they are interested in the same genre

Entertainment: I real enjoyed the film and it helps me escape the real world and forget about all my problems. I also enjoyed the way the movie is directed and how the character are played like heath ledger as the Joker was the reason I like the movie so much

What makes a film British

A movie can only be classed as a British film if it passes the culture test where a movie has to score 18points out of a possible 35. It doses this by have British actors in the film, the majority of the crew is British and some of the movie was shot in the UK.

Film makers like there films to be considered British because the BFI will give them special funding for the movie. The BFI only has £26million a year to help films. This is not much for a big budgets film but it can be helpful for small budget films like "Four lions" by vertigo films.

The importance of having the special funding is that we have a big film industry which is good for the UK because it provided more jobs for UK citizens, spread British values and gives money back into the country.