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

Million Dollar Punch (Final Re-Make)

Here is our final video.

Overall we have found In the making of the Feature Film we have experienced new set of skills that we thought we did not have, for example: The editing of the film. As a group we thought it would be really tricky to get that certain 'Pull Factor' from it.

Another point for our success on this production, is the amount of feedback/corrections for the film, so we took them into consideration (Basically most of the film was changed and re-edited).

Eventually we counted up at least 5 takes for each scene, 15 hours on the editing and at least 6 hours of filming but separated into segments of days.

The risk assessment we took into consideration by cleaning up water off the floor and allowing the room to  have heating. But the actors did find it hard at times as cold would have got in and therefore allowing the actors to feel cold.

Our problems we had with the making of the film was that the music was kind of not decided. As a group we went through a number of songs to use in the film, such as: Metallica- One, Foo Fighters- I should of known and Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven. But eventually we decided to stay with the old theme song 'Metallica- One'.

Behind the scenes:

Briefing of Choreography sequence

Make up

Make-Up and Extra Props

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.

music for Million Dollar Punch

We had an idea of changing our song which plays in the film from 'Metallica-one' to 'Foo Fighters- I should of known, but then we came to a desicion to keep our present song 'Metallica- One'

"Million Dollar Punch" Poster Image

Using a Photo editing application on my phone I created the cover and poster for 'Million Dollar Punch'. After filming the scene in the film when both fighters shake hands once the fight had finished, I had them hold the position to take a photo, with the photo I then made the entire picture black and white other that Jimmy Sharmans (Lee Arnold) hand, I did this as I think it gave very good affect. To further this effect I then gave the image a cartoon style look. This shows how I created the image:

This is the original photo I took:

I then gave the photo the black and white effect:

Here is the final finished image with the cartoon style effect. This is the image and poster for 'Million Dollar Punch':

In the future we plan to create a case for 'Million Dollar Punch' and this image will feature on the front cover alongside a title, reviews and production logo.

Props/Equipment

Here is our first image of our props. As you can see here we have used ketchup to convey the blood and coke to give it the liquidy texture that is needed to show the realistic blood, and its easier to spit out.

Here is the end result of the Ketchup + coke.

Here are the hand wraps we are using in the fight sequence for the protectio and also for the costume design.

Here is the 'matress' where Lee Arnold will be using it to punch, in one of opening scenes that we did.

This is the treadmill that features in the training session of Kieran Tylers part.

This chai used at the very start of the film where Lee Arnold will be sitting down to show the opening.

Ths cloth is used to add the sweat feature to the actors to show the work force upon the characters.

The Guitar is used to make the theme of the film, which is fully composed throughout the film.

For lighting effects we used the video alsh of an iphone which actually worked very well than we expected.

The software that we used to edit the movie was Imovie for apple mac. The overall functions of the film editer was very good and provided alot of effects and equipment. The second software we used was Garageband for Mac, this me to add the music that we wanted to do. The overall functions of this wa svery good and showed consistent quality.

The equipment that we were able to access was a apple mac.We chose to do it on here as the software is already provided for us.

Million Dollar Punch class feedback

Improvements:
-Intro hard too read, slow it down.
-Start Feature Film with title.
-Non- Realistic punching.
-Need to have same track throughout film.
-Too Comical needs to be more serious.
-Only Black and white edit to the film, to allow consistency throughout the film.
-Have a montage of shots to show bits of fight.
-Prepare, plan choreography to show planning evidence.
-Fighting match was the flaw of the movie.
-Prologue text (Change first part of it to 'Brave but penniless man') to show the flaw of his character.
-Show the main character in the 'prolougue text'

Good Points:
-First music piece was good, should carry on throughout.
-Good lighting shown on the video.

Feedback Of "Million Dollar Punch"

We posted our 1st draft of 'Million Dollar Punch' on both Facebook and YouTube in order to get feedback from our friends and people from around the world.

I have print screened an image of our Facebook feedback:

  In this image you can see that we have 12 likes and 14 comments from our friends.

This is an image of a few of the comments we received:

As you can see in this image we recieved positive feedback from some of our friends, which surprised our media group. This is very good news as this is only our first draft and we aim to improve and use feedback to help us.

This is a print screen of our Youtube video:

In this image you can see that in just over 2 days we recieved 21 views and 3likes on the film, we are pleased with this and we hope people will comment on the video very soon.

Montage shots/Story board

This is the opening shot of our film which will show Lee Arnold in his first appearance of the movie

Fades in to Rudi Sampat (Director)

This scene is when Kieran Tyler and Lee Arnold engage in conflict

Fades into production company name

This shot is of a first montage shot that shows the first punch being thrown

This shot is when Lee Arnold takes his advantage in taking on the fight and showing his skills

This punch is the symbolic punch that is "million dollar punch" and then will end the feature film.

Filming and behind the scenes

During the making of our 1st draft for 'Million Dollar Punch' I took a few photos of us to show how we made the film, these are the pictures:

These pictures show some of the footage that Rudi shot when we were experimenting with camera angles and scenes. As you can see in the photos we are filming with a mobile phone camera, this is because we found it a much easier way to get the footage onto a computer. It took us around 3hours of discussing and filming until we had all the shots that we wanted, one problem we had is that the phone did not save one of the scenes so we had to re-film.

The Video above is from my camera phone, the camera on my phone has a torch so this is what we used to get our lighting affects. This is the same scene but from my phones point of view, Rudi was filming the actual scene at this point. It is the scene when Jimmy Sharman (Lee Arnold) is preparing himself for the fight.

The image above is of a light on the cieling in Rudis garage, we used this as our source of lighting during the actual fighting scenes. It gave good affect to the scenes.

Improvements for our video "Million Dollar Punch"

- Intro of movie text re-write
- Change transitions to consistent style
- Have a montage of video shots to establish genre
- Cut the ending and have no Led Zepilliin
- Get more shots of realistic punching
- Take away all music except the Metallica song, and play until film ends
- keep whole movie black and white
- Production company should be at the start of the movie
- Slow the prologue text down
- Different colour font for production company

Million Dollar Punch 1st Draft

Here is our 1st draft entry for our main task, we hope to improve this by the 14th of December.

Background information on main video progress

On Saturday 3rd December we completed the filming for 'Million Dollar Punch'
we did much better than we first expected, we came up with many ideas during filming such as the idea for having Lee spit out ketchup when being punched in the mouth. Lee and Kieran kept their roles as the fighters, me and Rudi helped to choreograph the fight and we did many takes until we were satisfied with the shots we had. One of the problems we faced when filming is that we lauged many times, so we had to keep re-taking the shots. Also it was very cold in the garage and lee and Kieran did not have T-shirts on.

In the begining of the film we showed Lee getting ready for the fight in the dark to show how poor and nervous he is, Rudi filmed this while I shined my phones torch at Lee for the effect that we wanted. When we showed Kieran preparing for the fight we showed him in a house and training on a treadmil to show that he is rich and not nervous about this fight.

We discussed each scene before we filmed to find whats best to do and any ideas we have to improve on, Me and Rudi directed the film and helped Lee and Kieran to perform their best, I helped with most of the props and extras such as creating the sweat and doing the lighting, Rudi did the Majority of the filming and creating the music, Lee did the acting and some directing, Danny helped with editing after the film had been created.
We are going to edit our film again to add improvements and add extra shots, we plan to take away the ending and just show the first two minutes of what would be our full length film.

During filming I took a few behind the scenes shots which I will upload to the blog.

Location Shots "Million Dollar Punch"

Risk Assesment

Potential hazards	Resulting effects of hazards	How we over came the hazards	Possibility of hazards (1-10)
Could be that someone may get hit the face by bare knuckles.	This could result in concussion or injuries.	Plan choreography before fight	5
Fake blood could spill on floor.	Therefore would result in actors slipping onto floor.	Be careful where the blood is placed	7
The weather may be cold.	This would therefore affect the performance of the actors.	Heating will be provided before the film is shot.	4