Developing countries, Idependent, Internaional co-productions

 

Developing countries is the name of the production context that Africa, Asia, and Latino Americans are included in, they are called this as they are made up of third world countries which are very poor. These places have recentely started to shoot films and get the equipment to do this in the last few years, the technology in these areas is quite underdeveloped. The narratives for these films usually run along the same kind of story idea. An advantage to this is it could bring money into these poor countries. A disadvantage to this is the quality of the film is quite bad. Small companies distribrute the films over seas. In Nigera they have a production name of Nollywood, they have an aim for this to bring more money into the country and to create more jobs, other aims of theirs can be found at http://www.projectactnollywood.com.ng/content.php?id=10

 

Independent is another production context, this is usually films done by a subcompany of a big production company, to qualify as an independent film the production can't have any more than half of the money for the film coming from a big production company, the rest is usually from other investors, examples of these are; Warner Independent Pictures, Paramount Classics, Focus Features, Think Film, Lionsgate Entertainment, Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics and Mirmax Films. The budget for an independent film is never really as big as a British or Hollywood film. Independent films should always try to have one star in their film as it will give the viewers a recognisable face, seeing this on a trailer or picture advertising the film will make more people want to watch it. Another thing to attract an auidience is to enter the independent film into competitions to win awards, being able to show these on advertisments could help the films auidience grow dramatically.

International co-productions is where two or more countries work on a film together. This helps widen the audience as the film will be realised under both/ all countries involved in making it. The budget could be quite big as they can get money from more than one source. A disadvantage to this is travel costs as cast and crew would have to travel to different countries and this would consume a lot of the budget. Having to deal with two or more goverments can also be a disadvantage as the production will have to abide by their laws. There are taxes to film and these are different depending on what country the production is happening. When these films are distributed they have different distributers in each country invloved then if they sell abroad they would use other distributers then too 

In Fear

 

The genre of this film is a thriller-horror, this is obvioous by how the tension was built up by using the music, auido, long waits, jump scares, screams and suddern changes in level of sound. The film was shot at night like mopst horrors as the dark gives a much more eerie effect as nobody knows what's in the dark so this gives the fear of the unknown.

 

The production context for this film is British, this is easy to tell by seeing the actors used to play the roles (Their acting style and their accents), locations used (farm, woodland and a typical British pub), the equipment used was quite end equipment but still not like top Hollywood equimpment. The narrative of the film had a very typical British feel, the couple in the film didn't seem to get on that greatly and the film didn't show much romance between them, this was a big difference it had to Bollywood films. The film also had a lack of CGI but brilliant jump scares, Hollywood films tend to go over the top with CGI, this for me gave the film a much more realistic feelas there was none/ barely any CGI and the narrative of this film could actually happen unlike the other two zombies films we watched (World War Z and Rise of the zombie).

 

The three stars acting in this film haven't really been in many huge films and wouldn't be too regonisable but still these actors were very good and played their roles exelently. It British films I would say it's a lot easier for great actors to do well as it seems like being a big name doesn't great someone a role straight away and actors who have never been heard of can have an equal chance getting the part.

 

The narrative was easily related to being British as the storyline was quite dark at times without going over the top and had no cheeseyness to it. The dialog used was classic for a British film as there was a bit of slang and bad language, this is very typical to see in a British film. The weather, narrative and genre helped communicate the production context as well as the dialog did.

 

The technology was at a good standard, a lot better than the standard seen in Bollywood films but just a little behind the standrad seen in Hollywood films. Hollywood films usually use so much CGI to make it more entertaining to the viewer but British and Bollywood films usually won't be able to do this as their budget wouldn't allow them to. British films don't usually need a lot of special effets as they have other ways of gettaround it. The actors used for this film were not that well known and hadn't been in much else which is a good indecation that this is British as for Hollywood and Bollywood as they like to use big stars for their films that the audience would recognise.

Rise of the zombie
 

I would put this film into the horror-romance genre, it is a little gory at times but much of the narrative relates to back to him and his ex-girlfriend and their love for each other. Some of the soundtracks used are quite eerie and there are a couple of jump scares too, this could help broaden out to two audiences at once as romance and horror are two completely different genres but they work well together.

The production context for this film is Bollywood, this explains why the narrative is quite romance driven as all Bollywood films are massively to do with romance and love. The songs in this film are written to tell the story of the film and they also last a lot longer than they would in British or Hollywood. The things that were allowed to be shot for this film were much more strict than it is in British or Hollywood films, this includes nudity, language used, violence, gore and other things like this too.

The star of this film is Luke Kenny of Italian-Irish descent, he directed and acted in this film, he is also known for starring in Rock On!! and Bombay Boys but if you're not a fan of Bollywood films it is unlikely that you will know this star who may be quite well known in India but outside of there he probably isn't well known at all.

The soundtracks used sound very typically Asian/Indian in most of the songs and tunes. The dialog seemed quite simple as only one person would speak at one time at most. It got pretty confusing when they kept switching from speaking English to their own language but in India that is common for people to do so it makes sense why they did it. They only have two locations throughout the film which is very different compared to World War Z as they used many different famous locations all over the world.

Some of the equipment used was surprisingly good like the camera quality but the sound technology was very disappointing and uneven sounding quite muffled up when it went to different cameras so it seems like they used external mics on the cameras to get the sound and not any real audio equipment or if they did they didn't use it consistently. The make-up used for the zombies was decent but it wasn't to a great standard like Hollywood zombie films as the make-up used there is much better plus they have CGI which Bollywood films don't have the budget to create great CGI to make the zombies look better, this is normal for a Bollywood film.

I think the narrative was fairly decent and a good production for this region but they could improve on the acting, make-up, locations, sound equipment and some special effects. The audio when it kept changing in quality just made it more obvious. The intro contradicts the film as it seems so happy and colourful with an up-beat soundtrack at the start and  by the end there's panic in the streets with a zombie outbreak.