Assignment 3: film article

                                 

                         Star Wars V: Empire Strikes Back

This article is going to be about star wars and this will focus on the target audience of this film and how much influence the film has inflicted towards the audience and the production of  this film.

The director of this film was George Lucas and Irvin Kershner who was the executive producer and was given a budget of $ 18 million to produce this film. 

The empire strikes back is a sequel to A new hope and explains how there victory over the destruction of the death star was short lived as the empire is still at large and have drove the rebel alliance to flee across the galaxy and find new planets to hide. The rebels are in hiding on a frozen planet called Hoth but are soon discovered by the empire and the dark lord Darth Vader has been focusing his attention on Luke sky walker as he and his master the emperor are conspiring to turn sky walker to the dark side of the force.

Empire strikes back has been an influence especially due to a line said by Darth Vader during a light saber duel with Luke and he says No I am your Father which was one of the most best and shocking twist to the audience which caused discussions and it made the audience think if it was the truth or not. This line has been so influential that it is recognizable when said in pop culture and there has been loads of this line said in TV and film.

the empire strikes back has been considered to be one of the best squeal in film history due to the plot the suspense and a twist. the target audience that George Lucas intended for star wars was aimed at kids as he had taken the rights for lunch boxes and t shirts and other types of merchandise with the words star wars on it or anything to do with star wars such as a character from the film on it. But star wars was not only enjoyed by kids but all ages all enjoyed the film and have been influenced as much as kids as there are adults who go to star wars events by dressing up as the characters and all of this is what made the film very successful and a blockbuster.

Due to the success of the previous star was a new hope the marketing strategy would be easy to appeal to the target audience by have trailers and film posters of the empire strikes back as the target audience will know what this is. The marketing strategy of this film worked as audiences were excited. This then motivated the audience to pay and watch this film and it made $538 million from this worldwide.  

Assignment 2: comparison of dawn of dead original and latest

Dawn of the Dead Original and Remake Comparison

A brief introduction to Tim Burton and The Auteur Theroy

Tim Burton is a film director who has directed one of the most  interesting film's to ever hit the screen as he has directed movies such as Sleepy Hollow. He is known for his originality and talent  on films that make these movies very good. Tim Burton was born and raised at Burbank, California. In Tim Burton's childhood his hobby was to draw cartoons and he liked to watch old movies that it made him to become very talented with making cartoons that his first job was an animator for Disney as he worked on animated films such as The Fox and the Hound.

Tim Burton was a introverted man as he liked to spend time on his own to do his work. With most of Tim Burtons films he reflects his personality into the films that he creates which makes it interesting and   original. Tim Burton can be seen as a strange person and you can tell as the films that he is directed can have strange features within them. Tim Burton mentioned one time that someone who is different physically can be misunderstood and that human beings can be seen as monsters as he shows this in his films. For example Edward  Scissorhands the character of Edward is different from everyone but is a nice person who cares but because he is different people don't understand and disown him and in sleepy hollow the main character can be seen as an outsider like Edward.. Tim Burton does this to show the audience that human beings can be the true monsters for what they do to each other and so he reflects his thoughts about that onto the screen.

Auteur Theory is a theory about film directors and that the movies that they have made are similar to each other with things such as the personality of the characters or the way the story is set and it can also be the cast that makes a director an auteur as he would have them cast in most of his movies. So an audience who have watched a lot of films made by the same director can tell if he is an auteur if they are similar to each other.

Tim Burton can be seen as an Auteur as he has reflected his personality into his films and you can tell that it has been directed by him as it always features someone who is different and an outsider from everyone but may look like a monster but really it is the human beings who are the monsters as this is shown in sleepy hollow with the towns people who are cruel and selfish that they cause other peoples to suffer and in Edward scissor hands the character of edward is an outsider like the main character in sleepy hollow and from this you can tell that Tim burton is an auteur through his similar work. Also another reason that Tim burton is an auteur director is that he cast Johnny Depp who often plays that part of the main character in his films and this is another way of showing that these films are directed by Tim Burton.