- Box office mojo, digital screen network
- BFI.org - statistical yearbook '13, first few pages
- Does my case study use cross media convergence
- How did they film it
- How is it shown
- How is technology used
- How is it appealing to a British audience
- What are my own experiences of consuming a film
- 36% of cinema-goers are over 45, highest it's ever been
- Films are starting to appeal to an older demographic
- Younger people tend to download films online instead of going to the cinema
- People aged 15-24 going to the cinema has fallen to 25%
- British films aren't having as much impact as American ones
- UK film share - 15% (we have to rely on UK film council)
- Video on demand - netflix, lovefilm - lowering probability of people going to cinema
- UK cinema admissions - 172.5m - highest figures in the last 40 years
- Still competing against USA
- Skyfall was the biggest earner
- Tyrannosaur - UK film (Warp)
- Example - This is England
- Usual genre for British films - social realism - British New Wave 1960's
- Regarded Britains richest gift to world
- British films tend to have the realism, but are more creative and have more of a message
- Lighting and setting contribute to 'gritty' look, as well as handheld cameras and unknown actors
- British films need to include British stereotypes to have them be popular in the US (eg, James Bond)
- Showing them the genuine 'This is England' side of us puts them off
- Marketability - appeal to an audience based on creative elements
- Playability - appeal to an audience over a long period of time
- Shot/ reverse shot - switching back and forth between characters
- Eyeline match - begins with one person looking at something, cuts to the thing they were looking at
- Graphic match - Fades from one object to another object with the same shape
- Action match - Starts with beginning of an action cuts to the rest of the action
- Jump cut - accidental cut between a scene
- Cross cutting - cutting between different storylines that are happening at the same time in 2 different locations
- Parallel editing - similar to cross cutting but with contrasting actions
- Insert - a shot of something important that the director wants the audience to pay close attention to
- Cutaway - interruption of scene with another scene (eg, flashbacks)
- Short take - lots of quick cuts, adds drama and makes time seem like it's going faster
- Long take - very few cuts, establishes time, slow paced (eg, gravity)
- Invisible editing - barely noticable cuts, immerses the audience in the scene
- Visible editing - very harsh cuts,, adds tension
- Transitions - fade in/out, dissolve, cross fade
- Passage of time - ellipsis, flashback/flashforward, slow motion
