Unit 26 film studies

Assignment 2: The Contexts of Production

Final Report

Arman Hussain

Brief

I was asked to find out about how the contexts of production can affect the final product, in this case, films. Contexts I was asked to investigate were:

Historical Technological

Cultural

Methods

a) Historical & TechnologicalFirstly I watched a documentary called the birth of Hollywood narrated by Paul Merton which explained about the history of Hollywood films and how its change over the years then I explored a PowerPoint called film history which is from these I constructed a leaflet and a short silent film.

b) CulturalI investigated how ideology and culture can be represented through a country’s film output. This involved looking at some clips from different countries and conducting further secondary and primary research into the films of one particular country of my own choice from which I constructed a PowerPoint about American film I also compared representation made to my own experiences.

c) Remakes (Historical, Technological & Cultural)Firstly I researched 3 films and their remakes noting similarities and differences between them. This included points about their production/technology; narrative; setting sound lightning secondly I focused on back to the future 2 and looked at historical context to construct mood board then chose a scene and planed how I would remake it 30 years in advance to reflect the changes in year difference actors and outfits and difference in technology.

Findings

When I created my leaflet I included facts about Lumiere brothers for example they were both born in France and were sent to Technical School.

When I watch the documentary found out about the birth of Hollywood and how technology has change over years and how the Lumiere brothers became one of the first real directors.

The information that was looked at was related to cultural films, the video clip that was looked at was called “Top ten foreign films”. The clips that I found were the best was put on to Microsoft Power Point. The power point was created so that other films from different country’s can be compared to the films that are listed on the document.

After making the PowerPoint I had too choose the country that I wanted to do. I had to make a Questionnaire first about the country I chose I japan and I made a Questionnaire asking people about japan, with some honest answers. The Questionnaire had to use primary research. Asking people in my classroom about their opinions about japan. I was able to collect my Questionnaire back and I got good result some people were interested going japan for holiday and quite a bit of people wasn’t in to Japanese’s food and some found the Japanese culture quite interesting.

Cultural

The next thing I did went on the Prezi website to research based of the country I have chosen which I sticked with japan I started my work on Prezi but it had problem loading and saving my work so I started from scratched and did it on Microsoft Word. On Microsoft Word we had a few facts about the country respectfully, a brief summary of that film and does the film include any stereotypes that the audience know about.

Silent Film

I made my own silent movie in the style of the Lumiere Brothers. I got some people for my class to act in my movie I named my movie as la troisieme rouethe (third wheel) my

movie was about 45 seconds and we were only allowed to use one shot without any movement or editing. I had to do the film and the French titles for beginning and the end. So all the action and excitement you saw in those early days films, which all was done in one shot.

Mood Board

We all had to do watch a film back to the future released 2 they went in to the 1980s. After seeing the film we created a Mood board. We created four slides based upon thirty years that back to the future is set in. 1955, 1985, 2015, and 2045.

On this Mood board, which I created on Microsoft word we put on pictures and facts that happened in those thirty years respectfully. We did this so we can look at the differences between the thirty years and looking at how things have changed over the years.

Conclusion

When I did my silent film I found out the older days recording was harder they had no sound but now the videos are much clear than the old days the image was black and white and this days they use colour images. They have high quality videos and HD videos are really good nowadays.

There are different cultures in different types of movie. It is really important to have other cultures in as I know from doing my filming and has a major impact because of the different values like music and more things.