PDE Context and notes

PDE

Production- how they make the film

Distribution- how they get it to cinemas + marketing

Exhibition- sales, revenue from advertising - which films are shown, where and experience

Films are formulaic- effects etc 

Box office focused on revenue 

Box office figures skyrocketed meaning cinema attendance increased dramatically 

Write 35 minute timed essay answering question: what factors led to the decline of the town or city centres....

VFX/ technology- Star Wars meant people went to multiplex cinemas

Massively marketed- jaws

E.T first VCR released and hugely pirated 

godfather was a blockbuster counterpoint 

Hollywood film studio was the reason for multiplex cinemas to make money and advertise their own films 

Big recession in 70's meaning decrease in cinema attendance 

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg made industrial light and magic 

1. Milton keys in Birminghamshire 1983 was the first multiplex cinema to be built

2. The cinema attendance was low at this time which is why the multiplexes were invested in and built in the UK to advertise the blockbusters

3. Saturday night fever in 1977, Jaws in 1975, Star Wars 1977, E.T 1982

4. Built on the upper floor of shopping centres near the motorway so easy access to the destination also had other attraction such as restaurants and shops to draw in the numbers

5. People were intrigued by new and exciting experience at the multiplex cinema with the illusion of choice meaning flea pits were discarded as the old ways. 

6. Better sounds and audio quality, free parking, more of a variety meaning there were more screens meaning more seats meaning more people meaning more money for film distributors

7. Tv was invented meaning fashionability of stay at home came around and invention of VCR meaning people could watch films at home, recession affected what people could do due to lack of income. 

Illusion of choice