The Distributors and What they Distribute?

Rocky:

The Distributor

The Distributors Track Record of 27 years

Rain Man 1988: 

Awards:

The film won four Oscars at the 61st Academy Awards (March 1989)

Rain Man won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role of Dustin Hoffman, Best Director, and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. It was nominated for Best Art Direction of Ida Random and Linda DeScenna, Best Cinematography of John Seale, Best Film Editing, and Best Music. 

The film also won a People's Choice Award as the "Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture". At the 39th Berlin International Film Festival, the film won the Golden Bear award.

Actors:
Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise and Valeria Golino.

Director:
Barry Levinson

Annie Hall 1977:

Awards:
The film won Four Academy Awards, one Golden Globe award and five BAFTA awards.

Director:

Woody Allen

Rocky 1976:

Awards:

The film won three Academy awards and nominated for seven Academy awards.

Three of the Academy awards were for Best picture- Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler, Best Director- John G. Avildsen and Best Film editing- Rachard Halsey and Scott Conrad.

The Seven nominations were for Best Actor- Sylvester Stallone, Best Actress- Talia Shire, Best writing , Story and screenplay based on material not previously published or produced- Sylvester Stallone, Best Best supporting actor- Burgess Meredith, Best supporting actor- Burt Young, Best Music (Original Song for Gonna Fly Now- Bill Conti, Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins and Best sound Mixing- Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaighey, Lyle J. Burbridge and Bud Alper.

Actors:

Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Talia Shire, Burt Young and Carl Weathers.

Director:

John G. Avildsen

Midnight Cowboy 1969:

Awards:

Midnight Cowboy won three Academy awards and were nominated for four Academy awards. Furthermore the film won six BAFTA's.

The three Academy awards that the film won was for Best Director- John Schlesinger, Best Picture- Jerome Hellman, Best writing based on material from another medium. The Nominated awards were for Best actor in a leading role- Dustin Hoffman, Best actor in a leading role- Jon Voight, Best actress in a supporting role and Best film editing- Hugh A. Robertson.

Eventually they won six of their outstanding BAFTA awards, which were for Best actor- Dustin Hoffman, Best Director- John Schlesinger, Best Film, Best Film Editing- Hugh A. Robertson, Best Screenplay- Waldo Salt and Most promising newcomer to leading film roles- Jon Voight.  

Actors:

Dustin Hoffman and John Voight.

Director:

John Schlesinger

In The Heat Of The Night 1969:

Awards:

Overall the film won seven Academy, two nominations and three Golden globe awards with four nominations backed up.

Seven of the Academy awards were for Best Picture, Best Actor- Rod Steigar, Film Editing- Hal Ashby, Best Sound- Samuel Goldwyn Studios and Best Writing adapting screenplay- Stirling Silliphant. The further two nominations were for Best Directing- Norman Jewison and Best Sound Editing- James Richard.

Later on the film won three golden globes which were for Best Motion Picture- Drama, Best Actor For Motion Picture Drama- Rod Steiger and Best Screenplay Stirling Silliphant. They were also nominated for four Acadmey awards, such as: Best Motion Picture Director- Norman Jewison, Best Motion Picture For Drama- Sidney Poitier, Best Supporting Actress- Lee Grant and Best Supporting Actress- Quentin Dean.

Actors:

Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates and Lee Grant.

Director:

Norman Jewison

West Side Story 1961:

Awards:
Overall west side story was the most successful film that came out of production from United Artists as 
it picked up ten Academy and one Nomination thus making it the most 'Successful film' through awards
ever in the film industry.


The ten Academy awards that the film won were for Best Actor in a supporting role- George Chakris, 
Best actress in a supporting role- Rita Moreno, Best art direction, Boris Leven and Victor A. Gangelin,
Best Cinematography and Color- Daniel L. Fapp, Best costume design and color- Irene Sharaff, Best 
Director- Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, Best film editing- Thomas Stanford, Best musical picture-
Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal, Best Picture- Robert Wise and Best Sound- 
Fred Hynes and Gordon Sawyer. The film had one nomination which was for Best Writing, Screenplay 
based from another source- Ernest lehman.


Actors:
Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno and George Chakri.


Director:
Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise.

Four of the Academy awards were for Best actress in a leading role- Diane Keaton, Best Director- Woody Allen, Best Picture- Charles H. Joffe and Best original Screenplay- Woody Allen and Marshell Brickman.

Additionally in the Golden Globes the film won one award for Best Actress (Motion Picture Musical or Comedy- Diane Keaton.

Eventually the film won five BAFTA awards of Best actress- Diane Keaton, Best direction/Director- Woody Allen, Best editing- Ralph Rosenblum and Wendy Greene Bricmont, Best film and Best screenplay- Woody Allen and Marshell Brickman.

Actors:

Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Shelly Duvall, Cristopher, Walken and Colleen Dewhurst

Intro description For 'Million Dollar Punch'

Trainspotter intro:
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

Why we have chosen this:
This is the the similar script that we will be using at the beginning of our film, as you can see here this is from the film 'TrainSpotting' we will be using this text to change into our own about illegal fighting.

Rocky III/IV/V 2 minute analysis

ROCKY III:
- Shows studio company logo at very start of movie (United Artists).
- Second company logo shown at start (MGM productions), during which soft music starts to play.
- Fades into directors name 'sylvester Stallone' / who produced it'Robert Chartoff
Irwin Winkler'
- Voice over is conveyed and states "It's blind instinct.
          But now it is Creed coming back with the left hand!
          What's keeping these two guys up? A tremendous closing moment!
          Here comes Balboa back, but the champion's back with another left". during the name of director.
- Crowd noise is inserted to set the mood.
- Prop shown of champioship belt, to show the superiority of the fighter.
- Theme music starts when name of movie enters from the start.
- Music gets more intense.
- Font of title is simple, but big and bold.
- Fades into previous movie of fight.
- Shows fighting straight away.
- Scars and bruises shown, from long distance shot.
- Second shot is from a worms eye view + Low angle shot and shows man falling to the ground.
- Women screams to show shock.
- Referee counts down to suggest rush.
- Boxers struggleing to get up, shown from a high angle shot.
- Medium shot view to show expressions.
- Crowd shown from different perspectives to show the range of people there.
- Music starts with a major key tone, to convey happiness of the win.
- Wide angle shot used to show crowd a celebration.

Shows High landscape perspective of fight.

ROCKY IV:

- Shows studio company logo  at very start of movie (United Artists)

- Shows second company logo at the start (MGM productions)
- Shows who produced the film 'Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler'.
- Music starts duiring the end of directors name showing 'Sylvester Stallone'.
- Music sets a tone of intesnity.
- Gloves appear/ props shown to give a clear perspective of what it is about.
- Music gets louder, could represent punches from boxers.
- Each glove has the flag of both countries U.S.A and the Russian flag, to represent who's fighting and where they are from.
- Shows gloves clashing together, to show how big the fight is. Also shows explosion when gloves hit eachother.
- Goes straight into fight of previous movie.
- Shows a man shouting to repreent the inseity.
- Shows camera view from 1st person perspective, to show his reaction of the fight.
- Shows oppenent hitting the other from over shoulder shot.
- Shown 180 degree rule from outside the ring, to give the atmosphere a mood of exitment and to also involve the audience.
- Blood shown on the face.
- Man jumps to represent his win in the fight.
- Then fades into the movie, and shows name of film 'ROCKY IV' with simple font.

Shows props to give out a symbollic idea of power. Also shows extreme close up, good for detail.

ROCKY V:
- Shows production company logo at the very start of movie (united artists).
- Second production company logo shown at start (MGM productions)
- Fades into the name of the second production company.
- Font size is big and bold and has white colouring.
- Conveys crowd aswell as music into the title sequences.
- Director name is shown with the same consistent font size and colour.
- Actors names shown with same font size and colour.
- Music theme starts just after the first actor is named.
- Name of film appears from the side, sliding in from the right side of the screen.
- Font size is big and bold.
- Colour of font is replaced with video footage of past fight.
- Shows name of movie in white capital letters.
- Shows medium shot used on both characters.
- Shows a low angle perspective whilst having an over the shoulder shot but a lower version.
- Use of 180 degree, of the two boxers.
- More use of extreme close ups, to show all facial expressions.
- Names appear at the side of each actor.

Analyses of start of movies and Things important to the Film

Things Important To the Film:

1.       Titles- make them simple i.e.: Font size, colour and font style.

2.       Camera work- must be good quality.

3.       Effects- Make effects simple, only lighting are effects are important in our film.

4.       Narration

5.       Setting (s) - give a glimpse of what the setting looks like i.e. give a shot of the environment.

6.       Performance- The performance must be good as it can show first impressions of the actor.

7.       Dialogue- it must be clear and spoken clear via the actor to give a clear view of what it is going on.

8.       Props- Showing of props to show an idea of what they are doing.

9.       Editing

10.   Genre- Convey the Genre through the way they speak/ act/ settings.

11.   Music – play music to also set the mood of the scene.

Analyses of Movies:

Shifty-

§      Presents Production Company at the start and also shows names of distributors.

§      The intro is simple, as in the camera shots and the where about of where it is being shot. Also no effects used, this shows simplicity.

§      Shows the name of actors at side of image/person, but not so standing out , mainly simple text.

§      The intro lasts for 2 minutes.

§      Generally showing main characters at the start of film.

§      Use of music to set the mood of the character and atmosphere.

§      3^rd character shows person with cocaine, gives us hints of what the film is about.

§      Shows road sign to show where about it is set.

§      Shows who funds the movie, and when it was funded.

Trainspotting-

§      Presents the main distributor at the start (Universal studies).

§      Shows who produced the movie (Channel four film production)

§      Opening scene show man running, gives us a sense of enigma, and why he is running? What is he running from?

§      Upbeat music, to convey the chase at the start.

§      Use of close up shots

§      Characters throwing things on the ground, to show that they have maybe robbed from somewhere.

§      Narrated while film is playing- voiceover.

§      Low camera angles used, mostly throughout first 2 minutes.

§      Hit by car and laughs at the driver, gives a sense of enigma yet again.

§      Characters name, big font to stand it out.

§      Drugs are shown being used; this can reveal the main focus of the film.    

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels-

§      Distribution/producer logo shown at the very start of the movie.

§      Shows one of the main characters at the start talking about cards. This could give a sense of what the movie is about and what he does for a living.

§      Music in the title sequence of ‘SKA Production Company’, sound of bass playing a short riff, could give out a starter vibe for the audience.

§      Character at the start shows scars on face- can give a message of how he got those scars? Additionally camera shot take is taken to an ‘extreme close up’- could suggest the intensity of the moment.

§      Character at the start shows him talking to the camera directly, as if he were talking to use, the audience.

§      Second camera shot was taken behind over two men’s shoulder’s (Double over shoulder shot); this is used as the camera is involving the audience as if the audience were sitting behind the two men.

§      Second location is shown, where it shows the lifestyle that the movie is going to be set.

§      2^nd character is shown selling goods. This reveals their tone of voice and therefore the audience knows where he is from.

§      1^st person shows up again, but without any scars. Could suggest a sudden flash before he had the scars or could give out a sense of enigma.