Wednesday 19 June 2013

Production Contexts

Hollywood: before Hollywood film makes were restricted by Thomas Edison, because Edison own the move makers patents and would sue independent film makers such as Biograph. to escape Edison Biograph moved to Los Angeles along with the perfect weather conditions and being free from Edison Biograph were able to start work on films and decided to look at the neighbouring areas stumbling across Hollywood, with out the restriction of Edison Biograph made "In Old California". after hearing of Biograph success in Hollywood other film makes began to move to Hollywood, In 1919 the first motion picture studio was built.
from the late 11920's to 1940 is know as "Classic Hollywood" with the golden age of Hollywood being 1930 to 1948.

Bollywood: base in India , Bollywood release around 1000 movies a year that's more than twice as many as Hollywood the golden age of Bollywood films is 1940 to 1960's. Bollywood films consist of a fusion of relationships between lovers and family, music and dance.In the 1970's commercial Cinerama grew as the Finance corporation were seen to be not going enough, this lead to Bollywood overtaking America as the worlds largest film producer.in 2000's Bollywood became more popular worldwide which has improved Bollywood's quality of films. Bollywood has a shady background when it comes to funding as in India the Bollywood films are funded by crime.

British cinema, in 1920 British films were losing to the up and coming Hollywood films, causing a drop in British films viewed in Britain dramatically, in 1927 the Governor made a new law called the cinematographers trade bill designed to ensure the success of British films.then in 1940 the war helped to make British films and cinemas as documentary's gave a whole new look on British cinema as the public needed a way to escape the war.

Independent films, produced outside of major studies, they are often distributed by by major studios so that the films can be seen by a wider audience than just independent film fans. To be and independent film the production must be funded by no more than 50% by a major film company alto a film may be made in a country the film would not be cammed an independent British film as "independent" and "British" are to different production contexts. One of the best ways for an independent film to find a company to distribute there film is to get nominated for a film awards such as Sundance.

 Interdenominational co-production, an international co-production is the agreement between two or more country's this allows all country's involved in the co-production to gain the advantages of the other country's such as locations, funding and actors. on the other hand then you are working with multiple counter's you may suffer a few drawbacks such as extra laws to abide by, language barriers, cultural barriers and creative disagreements.

Developing country's, Developing country's or third cinema tend to focus on politics and war. third cinema started in the 1960's as a range of low budget movies  were made by a group of Latin American film-makers. the films are typically produced in less that two weeks for around $15.000 unlike most other production contexts third cinema films are so cheep that event the poorest person in a third world country can view them.  

    





1 comment:

  1. Interdenominational co productions is a first whats this? Good discussions Harry and this with your other production context discussions has put you at a merit for GC2. Just please read your work back.

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