Media Studies Theory work 7th may 2010
Discuss the ways in which media products are produced and distributed to audiences within the film industry~ research notes
Two films to look at: Cars and Edward Scissorhands
Cars:
-Made in 2006
-Produced by Pixar
-7th Disney/Pixar feature film
-Final film by Pixar before it was bought by Disney
-directed by John Lasseter and Joe Ranft
-produced by Darla k Anderson
-budget $120 million
-gross revenue $461,983,149
-studio- pixar animation studios
-distributed by Walt Disney Pictures
-written by Dan Fogelman, John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Kiel Murray, Phil Lorin, Jorgen Klubien, Jorgen Klubien, Brenda Chapman, Robert L. Baird, Daniel Gerson, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Steve Purcell, Dan Scanlon
Information about Producer: Darla K Anderson
-a film producer for Pixar.
-The 2008 Guinness Book of World Records lists Anderson as having the highest average movie gross for a producer: $221 million per movie.
Toy Story (1995) (Digital Angel)
It’s Tough to Be a Bug (1998) (Executive Producer)
A Bug’s Life (1998) (Producer)
Monsters, Inc. (2001) (Producer)
Mike’s New Car (2002) (Special Thanks)
Exploring the Reef (2003) (Special Thanks)
Mater and the Ghostlight (2006) (Executive Producer)
Cars (2006) (Producer)
The Road to Cars (2006) (Cast)
Up (2009) (Spacial Thanks)
Toy Story 3 (2010) (Producer)
Disney Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios is an American CGI animation production company based in Emeryville, California, United States. To date, the studio has earned twenty-four Academy Awards, six Golden Globes, and three Grammys, among many other awards, acknowledgments and achievements and has made $5.5 billion worldwide.
Disney announced on January 24, 2006 that it had agreed to buy Pixar for approximately $7.4 billion in an all-stock deal. Following Pixar shareholder approval, the acquisition was completed May 5, 2006. The transaction catapulted Steve Jobs, who was the majority shareholder of Pixar with 50.1%, to Disney’s largest individual shareholder with 7% and a new seat on its board of directors
The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world.
The primary audience for this industry is aimed at young children/ family entertainment. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.
Edward Scissor Hands:
-made in 1990
-directed by Tim Burton
-20th Century Fox, after Warner Bros. passed on it
-produced by Danise Di Novi and Tim Burton
Information about Producer: Tim Burton
-born 25th August 1958
-Golden Globe nominated film director and producer
Specialises in dark and quirky-themed films, but has also directed cinema blockbusters such as Batman.
Producer filmography
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Batman Returns (1992)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Cabin Boy (1994)
Ed Wood (1994)
Batman Forever (1995)
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Corpse Bride (2005)
9 (2009)
Frankenweenie (2011)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
20th Century Fox
20th century fox is one of the six major american film studios as of 2010. Located in the century city area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio is a subsidiary of News Corporation, the media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch.
New Corporation (News Corp) is the world’s second-largest media conglomerate (behind The Walt Disney Company) as of 2008 and the world’s third largest in entertainment as of 2009.
Cars:
In order to attract audiences for this film it, first of all, is an animation with a collection of colourful and childlike characters which would cause a young person or a child to be drawn to them. there is also the typical rules of having no violence, sexual content, swearing or politcal content in which someone would find corrupting for children. it is a classic family film because it includes humourous diagloge which keep the adults entertained, and a smiple storyline which young children can follow.
the fact that is distributed by disney pixar is a way to attract an audience on its own; as a very successful company with a good reputation for family films, they are trusted by the audience to prodcue fun, family appropriate films.
in the recent years they have started to produce films that are aimed at slightly older people, such as the Pirates of the Caribeann films which were rated as ’12’ certificate. this way, they are breaking out of their tradition of producing animation or cartoons, and can gain more of an audience through a wider range of films.
Cars in particular as a film was advertised like a normal disney/pixar film, through adverts on television, billboards, posters, newspaper and magazine. there was also the release of an official video game which would have attracted a wider audience and encouraged those who would usually only watched the film to invest in a video game and vice-versa. this game was rekeased on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube, Wii, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Mobile Phones, and Leapster. there was also a large release of model cars which became very popular. Related merchandise, including scale models of several of the cars, broke records for retail sales of merchandise based on a Disney·Pixar film, with an estimated $5 billion in sales.
Cars was originally going to be released on November 4, 2005, but on December 7, 2004 the movie’s release date was changed to June 9, 2006. Analysts looked at the release date change as a sign from Pixar that they were preparing for the pending end of the Disney distribution contract by either preparing non-Disney materials to present to other studios, or they were buying time to see what happened with Michael Eisner’s situation at Disney. When Jobs made the release date announcement, he stated that the reasoning was due to wanting to put all Pixar films on a Summer release schedule, with DVD sales occurring during the holiday shopping season.
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