3D and Piracy Exam

To what extent does internet piracy pose a threat on the film industry?

I personally thing that Internet Piracy does pose a threat on the film industry because with modern technology that is now around it is becoming more easy to download films from the internet for free. The new Wolverine film that was realised is an example. Someone got there hands on it before it came out and stuck it onto the internet so the film didn't make a huge profit in the cinema. This is bad for other film companies not just hollywood because with the new technology that we have we can easily just go onto a computer to watch any film we wish to watch. This the film industries hardest challenge to try and beat. The way they have done this is 3D. 3D has become huge now. Nearly every film has been made 3d as well as old films to be remade into 3D. The reasons for this is because people cant stream 3D films through the internet because the screens are right for the film plus at the cinemas it cost loads so the film is most likely going to get its money back. Nearly everyone watches films online because there easy to access. In early cinema films would be on massive round, heavy disks that would hold the film. Sometimes there would be two of them where it cant hold to much films and the cinemas would have intermissions half way through the film. Now its sent via email where its actually even more dangerous to get a hold of (for the film companies) Hackers can easily get there hold on these films and stick the onto the internet. These people who stick films onto the internet have become high on the film industries WANTED lists. Megaupload is a huge example. Kim Dotcom is the owner of Megaupload. He took films and stuck the on the internet for free. His house was raided and he was taken to court. This is how bad the film industry has got that people are actually getting arrested for illegally downloading films. We all watch films online because we have become to lazy and cheap to go out to a cinema and spend money on them or buy the DVD.
Hollywood/Mainstream films see piracy as a threat.
Independent films dont see this as much as a threat then hollywood/mainstream film because they want people to see these films and know who they are.
Internet piracy also allows people to promote films for free. 

The technological impact of 3D is that 3D has become an prevention from illegal downloads as well as trying to appeal to a wider audience for people who like 3D. Most film directors don't want to do 3D film because they believe its pointless but with massive film industries who want money out of it they forced these directors to put it in there somewhere just to show it off. The Amazing Spiderman was a 3D film and there was literally 2 scenes in 3D, one being half way though when Peter Parker is jumping over buildings and another where Spiderman shoots a bit of web at the screen......pointless. This shows that the directors didn't want to do a 3D film but just put it in there so a wider audience will go and see an action 3d film where 3D is adored (in the action Genre) This has a bigger effect on cinematography by using certain camera shots that show of 3D. sometimes you dont have a choice in what film you want to watch because its just in 3D. 3D is more expeinsive then 2D so its just looking for profit. 


Social impacts are used to watching films online and how entitled to watch films for free. I believe that 3D is a waste of money and is pointless. It should only be used at places like theme parks for little kids and cartoons. Its making cinema more of theme park experiance for kids and its lessed focused about story and more about visuals. This is the audience fault because of the films that we watch online. Most directors love it but some have put 3D in there films not cos they like it but because its something people like and it gets more money. Critics always talk about 3D in film and talk about if it works or not. Most of them hate it because its just in there for no reason, 3D is around to try and stop websites such as Megaupload to try and stop illegal downloads because people cant download 3D film.


3D film has grossed so much money for the film industry. This is because the prices are stupidly high and you cant watch them at home unless you have a 3D TV. It has definitely made a huge impact in the  film Industry and cinema attendance due to the fact no one can sit at home at watch them. It has made modern film industries try to create more 3D films as well. A major example is the fact that there now bringing old time classics that now late teenagers ranging from 16 - 19 to go back to the cinema to watch films such as Lion King in 3D because of the experience of modern cinema and its also to make the company who made the film even more money because its an old film and 3D will cost people loads of money. I don't see the point in this because i would happily chose a Video version of the film because its a better experience for me and brings back my childhood other then the 3D version which the films poster always has "A blast from the past" wrote on it.  

Economically 3D film has made so much money that more and more studios are using it including cartoons. This is because people are spending so much money on tickets as well as food and drink. Cinema attendance has gone up by so much. If a new actor is a main character in a 3D film they are an intent star in the film industry as well as the director of the film. 3D is an expensive thing so if a director uses it and a no body actor is in the film as the main role they will get huge from it. 3D has got to the point where they have run out of ideas so they will make Prequels, Remakes, Sequels and even make old films 3D. This brings in a guaranteed audience that will bring people back to watch the film if it was a success. This prevents risk taking and Guarantees that they are investing money into a film that old and new people will love that they have already watched before and will get there money back. It will be the same films you saw years ago just in 3D. we can just watch them at home on our DVDs or even Videos instead of wasting loads of money to watch a film we already own but because its in 3D more people will want to watch it.

In conclusion the film industry sees it has a huge threat to the film industries profits which come from the box office and in turn the money that they get from that goes into production budget. This profit is going into re creating old films but in 3D.  
i would have to say that 3D is a waste of money and time. its pointless. film makers will put it in there for half a minute just for an accuse for there to be 3D in it and make more money. The threat of piracy has shot down because no one can watch a 3D film without the right technology. These studios and producers don't care on the fans they just care about the 3D and the money it will make. Its at that point where most films have such a lame and weak story that they don't care as long as its action, in 3D and has some form sex appeal (transformers)

Homework (part 2)

The Studio’s View

The view on 3D by the studio is that films are becoming less orientated around narrative and more focused on the implementation of 3D. This can be link to the success of the film Avatar and how it’s use of 3D technology made it the biggest grossing film of all time. As a result of this, 3D has been used in films in order to make more money through the extra cost for glasses. They also make money through the additional audience members that see the film, due to the appeal towards the improved quality and animation.

Websites such as Megaupload and Channel1 have also been a rising concern with studios, on the basis it loses them money and is a reason for the cinema attendance to decline. This is because the websites are used to stream and share varying mediums ranging from novels, television series and most importantly in relation to the topic at hand, films. One of the studios ways to counter this is the use of 3D to pull in audiences, promoting the technology as a quality that cannot be offered at home. 

Critic’s View

In the eyes of the critic, 3D technology is recognised as a tool to draw in audiences and make money. It’s involvement in the film industry is mainly for money making purposes. With this, films have become more orientated around incorporating features for 3D, resulting in a more simplistic or repetitive narrative.  

Director’s View

The directors of films may feel obligated now to change their films in order to meet the demands of 3D and try to condone the use of the technology in the multiplexes. It may be that they feel the only way to create a film that has significance or impact, is to use features that will be for the purposes of 3D.     

Film homework 2

Mock Exam

i believe that film censorship is motivated by film due to the way we now make films that have changed from the 1980's to now. They all related back to home video and video nasties. this is due the fact that films now have huge budgets and can only viewed if they are allowed in the country. Due the piracy for films (that is used a lot) we can now go from watching a film on a VHS to watching them online so the bans are to insure people not to watch these films but because people are telling us not to it makes up want to.

Home video has been around since the 1980s and has had things such as piracy and other forms of ways for people to illegally watch films. These illegal videos to be watched of VHS or other ways to watch films has changed our technology side as well as the economic side of film. Technical wise it has shown a new way of watching films at home and for the economic side of things it has made a huge dent in the studio side because people are paying for films to dealers (film dealers) to get a rubbish copy of a film that they can watch when they want and no money is going to the film companies. A lot of other ways that is both social and economic is that with VCR and tapes of films more then one person can watch them at a time so other people can lend the tape of the films to there friends for them to watch on there home television screen which for the film companies it takes even more money from them because one copy of a film can be watched by loads of people not just one person and the other people can watch them for free. VCR has also damaged cinemas as well because people can watch films for free in there homes and not waste money to watch them at the cinemas.

Video nasties are films that may be to graphic or gory for certain people. An example of this is The Human Centipede 2 which was filmed in the UK but was banned in the UK as well. This is down the political side of films. most first world countries have rules when it comes to films and these rules is so that the there is a age rating on the films poster and box. This censorship is to ensure that no one under the age that the films has been rated watch the film. Most video nasties are all horror based which contains graphic images and may have sexual related scenes in. All video nasties are played by not really famous actors that no one has heard of and there are all really cheap. Economic side of things is that they don't have much to pay back to the film studio and wont run the risk of going to far over there budget. Technology has also caused a massive change in video nasties. Some films are banned in countries and what people will do is put them onto the internet so people can watch them so there are other ways to get around that ban of the film.

The moral panic of films are due to that fact that if a film is to bad to be viewed it is to be banned in that certain country. With the BBFC coming into play and saying "this film is to bad to be viewed in our country" it makes a few people say "we cant watch that" but mostly others to say "we really want to watch this film". The BBFC is a conservative based political view on films issued by Margret Thature when she was the Prime Minister of England in the 1980s. The Conservative party is a selfish department. They want people to believe in what they think is right for films.

The BBFC issued that films would be able to be bought at shops to be watched on VHS and later DVD. They made it so that all the profits from the film are sent to the owners of the film and the companies that issued it. The censorship label was also still there so that no kids or people under the age of the censor could buy the film. This made the economic profits for films go up other then cinema profits. The ability to legally buy films in shops but have most of the money go to the films owners was a massive improvement to the cinema industry but sadly it had a downfall. Now that one person buys a film they can them stick it on the internet for more people to watch and in a high quality. An example of this is a site which is now shut down called Mega Video which is full of films and other content that can be viewed for free. The owner was arrested which shows how high the risk is and its also shows how far we have come with our technology that we can view thousands of old and new films online for free.

In conclusion we have taken a few steps forwards for good aspects of being able to watch films such as bigger screens, better sound and picture but at the same time its gone down as well, with the being able to watch films online. In the 1980s it was difficult to watch a pirated film that was actually good but now we can just type in what film we want to watch and accesses it easily. With video nasties there might as well be no ban at all. Its easy to understand why the ban is there but no matter what country the film is banned in there will be someone to upload it to the internet to watch for free. Most film companies have become more mainstream and have brought back old films but re made to make it look more modern so that it shows the film off a little bit more but it the older version is better because its a blast from the past. Horror directors are not big in the film industry mainly because they don't use a huge budget and a huge company like films such as The Advengers. People are not as scared as horror films now. in the 1980's people would be scared of vampires and other monsters now we have films where these so called "monsters" are in romantic films (Twilight) so horror films have to go so over the top to get noticed but are still known as Video nasties. 

Evaluation - Final

For my course work i did a study on the Genre and Mise-en-scene on Shaun of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead. Both Films are of the Horror Genre. i was looking at how the conventions have changed over time for the horror genre One of the main tasks that i carried out was to create a Script for a Prequel for either Shan or Dawn of the dead. In the end i went with Dawn of the Dead. Part of my Script was that i was required to create 9 key frames for my script to go with. The 9 frames had to be of the characters (in costume) posed as they would in the scene where the script has taken place. My Script had to either be a Prequel or Sequel and show either a Resolution (how things are fixed) or show the Disruption (what caused it). i Decided to go for the Disruption of how the zombie outbreak in Dawn of the Dead started.

For my script i mainly focused on the doctor being this mad, distorted mess of a person. i wanted people who read the scripted to feel what the doctor was going through and why he's doing these experiments. My main study was to show how the conventions on how the horror genre had changed over the years. My script was about a mad scientist who's daughter died of a terrible illness while he was in prison for testing on his patients to find the cure for his daughter. He escaped and kidnapped a tramp on the side of the street and took him to his lab, to try and find the cure but ends up creating the zombie virus. after months of experiments he begins a video diary of his progress. I used ideas from other films such as SAW, Hostel, Dawn of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead. I also took ideas from these films such as using the doctor cutting his arm off from SAW and Hostel, The way that there is a doctor like in Dawn of the Dead and how that in the end of Shaun of the Dead it ends with Shaun and his best mate as a now zombie in a shed together.    

For my 9 key frames i focused on the characters as well as the things that make the film show the horror genre. I used The Zombie, Blood, Mad Scientist, Gore, Lab, Dog, Victim to Zombie, Dark Gloomy Shed.   

For my location report i decided to go for a kitchen and a shed like in shaun of the dead and how it links to the film. In the end of shaun of the dead we see Shaun and Ed in a shed and i thought this would be a really good way to show how i wanted to relate my script to both films while basing it off of one of them.  

The part of my course work that went well was my script. This was because i could be creative and show of the genre horror in my own way and link the both my script to the film i was basing it of. One way i did this was by showing how zombies don't attack dogs and only go for humans. In Dawn of the Dead we see a dog escape and the zombies don't care so i thought i could express this more in my script. I also wanted to show how far this character i had created would go to be successful and the way i did this was by including a moment where the doctor cuts his arm off and makes a sacrifice to the zombie for the good of his research. The most important scene of all was to show how it all happens. i included a scene where we see how the zombie escapes and infects another person making the virus even worst. This was both the most creative and hardest parts to do because all had to fit while sticking to the horror zombie genre.

The things that wasn't as good about my script was the fact that it was shot in a kitchen and not a lab like a doctor/scientist should be based and along side that i wanted to use a white lab coat which would of made the character look more professional and better. Due to it being a kitchen and not a lab i was unable to use any props such as surgical equipment and and scientist equipment (beakers, computers) I also couldn't do the zombie up as well as i wanted to do. I wish i had used some make up for the blood and scars.

In conclusion though as a while i loved planning and writing up the script and getting the people together to make it happen. to be able to write up all this has been something i didn't think i could do but im proud of my work and hope anyone who reads it likes it as much as i liked making it happen.

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