In the panel showing that infinity war is the highest grossing movie. Making over 1$ billion showing the interest in movies of that structure. As well a similar trend can be seen with the rest of the movies of 2018 with superhero action movies like Black Panther, Deadpool 2 and Ant-man and the Wasp being in the top 10 of the box offices.
A thing that is the same about all these movies is there genre. With fan base surrounding the superhero genre and their expanded universe making people feel obliged to watch them if they have investment in the story told so far. As well since these movies are all action based it would draw in a large audience due to its usual lack of complexity making easy but entertaining to follow for any audience.
Another thing the 2018 box office shows is that most of the high grossing movies are made in the United States. This is due to the united states having one of the biggest and most technologically advanced movie studies in the world located in Hollywood. As well since the United States has the worlds largest economy an vast majority of the population would likely be able to afford seeing these movies. As well some of the movies lower down on the list are Chinese, which can be explained by china having the largest population in the world, giving its movies a population of over 1 billion to market to.
Overall the current box office of 2018 shows that there is a very specific and easy way to make a successful movie. However if you take that formula and utilise it to make your movie as good as possible like Deadpool 2 and Avengers: Infinity War did then it will make a much large profit with Infinity War becoming the 4th highest grossing movie of all time.
The Sixth Sense (dir. M. Night Shyamalan, 1999), has a clever use of color throughout the film. For example, whenever something bad was going to happen or ghosts were going to appear, red would appear in the scene in some way In this scene, when Cole goes into the tent, he sees the ghost of a young girl who was killed by her mother. The red tent symbolises that the ghost will come, making the audience already feel tense before it happens. The use of red throughout this film is very clever, as it is a subtle hint towards the ghosts appearing, as red is usually associated with danger.
I think that Planet of the Apes (dir. Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968) has an excellent use of makeup, and the level of detail that went into the apes’ faces was incredible, even though the movie was made in the 60s. Their faces were applied using a mixture of makeup and prosthetics, which would have taken a long time to apply. As there were many extras in the film, a lot of time would have been spent applying everyone’s makeup. More modern Planet of the Apes films use post-production effects for the large cast numbers, which is more efficient than applying each person with makeup. However, this doesn’t look as realistic as the prosthetics do, because CGI effects can start to look outdated.
I chose ‘The Man Who Wasn’t There’ (By Joel and Ethan Coen, 2001) as an excellent example of composition. The whole film uses clever angles and framing, but this particular scene stands out to me because of the rhythm and perspective. There is an aspect of leading lines which draws the audience in immediately, and a strong balance across the scene. The line across the table is an interesting concept because it physically separates the two characters; Ed and Doris across from each other
I chose ‘I, Frankenstein’ (By Stuart Beattie, 2014) because i think the makeup designed was incredible. It looked realistic enough because it was not too deformed or warped to look entirely fake. It is meant to disgust the audience because that is the whole plot behind the character, which is an interesting concept because it adds more depth and development to Frankenstein
In the Star Wars movies but specifically in the original you can see a range of uses of make-up and prosthetic’s especially in the Mos Eisley Cantina scene. The uses of this can be seen through as all the aliens look realistic and make-up creates realism to an unbelievable and the look carries on till today unlike the prequels where the use of CGI aliens looks unrealistic as it hasn’t aged well like the other practical effects what gave off real movement from face features such as Greedo’s antennas what are able to move thanks to prosthetic’s in the mask. As well the hair being messy for everyone except for both Tarkin and Leia what is done to show separation of the people at the top of the galaxy compared Han Solo or Luke who are scruffy as they come from the less strict and political part of the galaxy.
Even though filmed in color, James Mangold did it in a way for it to work in black and white. For the noir edition they had to re-grade it and time shot by shot. This was also obviously done as way to relate as an inspiration of trying to be western film and how its based off a comic that is in a bleak future.
Lord of the Rings, December 10 2001, Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson uses composition throughout Lord of the Rings as every time the ring is on screen it focuses on either Frodo with it or by itself. This was used for the general audience who will not know the importance of the ring, this just shows how importance of both Frodo and the ring is to the plot. Its even used in the Hobbit when its insignificant to the plot.
The good, The Bad, and The Ugly, December 3 1966, Sergio Leone
In this movie Leone uses a range of characters such as priests, mercenary’s, Confederate and Union soldiers, bandits, storekeepers, bounty hunters and wealthy lawmen making up some of the cast though these roles are what takes a majority of scenes. However Leone is able to separate these roles from small changes to the outfits with the drunk Captain Clinton who wears his uniform differently to other Union soldiers showing his type of character or comparing Tuco who dresses messy compared to Angel Eyes who dresses in smart dark clothes. This is done to make it clearer to the audience who these characters are compared to something like Star Trek where everyone wears the same costume and at first its hard to distinguish who is who in their roles. The costume of Clint Eastwood worn has become iconic in both movies in general and the western genre. Boba Fett’s character from Star Wars was based of the Man with no name in mannerisms and his look is slightly based off his signature poncho look what has the same colour scheme as his armor.
Ridley Scott’s uses the elements of the Alien to create horror as he focuses in on certain scenes where the the monster itself isn’t in to create both tension and build up to the monsters reveal. Some examples of this is with the saliva of the alien what occurs throughout the the franchise and with the chest bursting scene where the small alien becomes apart of the foreground as the focus is on it. This is again used throughout the franchise such as in Alien 3 where the monster and Ripley become the main focus when the monster is approaching her. However it works better in this movie as you don’t know what’s coming unlike the sequels where you know what the monster is and what its like.
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