film blog work 1

From the documentaries we watched in class I came to the decision that I think Hollywood movies at the end of the day when it comes down to it are made purely for getting fame and money. I think this because the film producers are investing a large amount of their money into a film that they have no guarantee that it will be a major hit and if it is they will receive a large sum of money and gain that bit more popularity.

They make their decision by reading the script over and over again and they then they only chose to fund the making of the film if they feel like it will be good hit and they could double their money when released. There is no way any producers would invest in a film if they think it would be a frailer, I think this because their money, name and reputation is on the line.

At the end of the day any film and every film is either successful and worth the money put into it or is a complete frailer and waste of money. When it comes down to it the script is the most important part, it’s the dead centre of the movie. You can’t make a box-office sell-out if the script doesn’t have a decent storyline. The script writer’s job does have its ups and downs. They spend X amount of time creating the script and all of its contents and then they could submit it to a number of producers and everyone could reject it and say its not good enough. That would mean they have wasted so much time they spent into it. How ever if when they submit the script and some of the producers like it and start bidding for it they could get quite an earner.

People only decide to sit down and watch a film if they are interested my the trailer or the actors/actress involved. Any major actor or actress have such a huge say into any film like, “a script writer could right a really poor script and it could get sent around and pitched to a number of producers and investors and say Tom Cruise read it and was very interested in making it, all the past producers who had rejected the idea now start bidding because they all want ownership over it”. This because they know it will rake in the cash at the box office.

The marketing and advertising of a film is such a key part to its success. This is because they get the public interested init by using, posters, billboards, adverts, radio plays and advertising on the net. Another big advertising is by teaming up with different companies to help promote each others products like for instance; if “TOY STORY 3” came out they could possibly team up with McDonalds and advertise the movie posters/characters and toys on the sides of children’s happy meals. This would work out very well because the film is targeted at a child audience and so are happy meals. That way the children want to but more McDonalds happy meals because they like “TOY STORY”, both the producers and McDonalds would sell more of their products because they are both gaining more publicity.

The build-up to any new box office film being released is very important because the more they advertise and drill the film into the publics mind to a point where they are seeing it everywhere this helps to persuade them to go and see it. The more good publicity the film gets the more people will go and see it and then more good reviews will get wrote about it making it look good. Reviews are very important to films because they have the power to change the publics mind on their opinion of it. If a film gets only a few bad reviews it can cause a lot of loss in money because people read them and can put them off.