The Life Of A Film - 300

300

This movie retells us of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae. Its based on the epic battle between King Leonidas and his 300 Spartan warriors who fought to the death against Xerxes and his enormous Persian Army. This movie was created as a CGI animation mixed with live-action to create a real cinematic experience which is unique compared to others. As the battle brews the 300 spartans are proving themselves strong, but against hundreds of thousands from the persian forces, they now that they will not last. These 300 spartans fight till the death, until the last drop of spartan blood is shed, all fighting till their last breath. Towards the end, after all 300 have made their mark on history, we learn that one of the 300 spartans tracked back to Sparta, telling this epic story to the people of the great city, and this leads to a great army of Spartans being brought forward to fight in the name of the courageous 300, to make sure they did not die for nothing. The war between Sparta and Persia, between two great armys will commence, and the outcome is quite predictable as the numbers are equal, and spartans have proved themselves to be great warriors in battle.

Here is some marketing material from this movie:

300 had a production budget of approximately $65,000,000. The companies that would have financed this movie are Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Virtual Studios, Hollywood Gang Productions and Atmosphere Entertainment MM.

Warner Bros. Pictures is a highly successful company which has made thousands of movies before this, these titles include Harry Potter, Oceans Eleven (and the sequels), I am Legend and many more.

Warner Bros. were also the theatrical distributors for this movie, in 16 different countries including USA, UK, France, Germany, Brazil and many others.

AOL Film Downloads was a home distributor allowing the movie to be accessible through the internet within the USA. Other Home video distributors Turner Network Television (TNT) allowing the movie to be viewable on TV across the USA. Along with this Warner Bros. distributed DVD and Blu-ray to 10 different countries in 2007.

300 had a great box office taking of $455,839,040 worldwide, after 18 weeks. This movie gained $70M in its opening weekend which meant it already gained a profit from the first weekend, showing its success.

A movie of this magnitude would definitely be expected to be shown in Romford VUE as this cinema shows all the big popular movies and 300 is one of them as we can tell by the level of marketing that had taken place for this movie to become appealing towards audiences and awareness of it being raised.

300 is now available on many different formats of home video. This includes DVD and Blu-ray, internet downloads e.g. iTunes. Also 300 is available on near video on demand via Sky box office, and video on demand via Virgin media services. Along with this there are newer ways to view this movie for example, through Xbox Live where you can download movies to your hard drive to watch from your home TV, this can be done in HD to increase viewing satisfaction. Along with this, movies can be rented through these internet based ways and also from places like Blockbusters and Love film.

This movie used Vertical Integration, this is when a parent company (in this case, Warner Bros.) owns multiples companies across different stages of the film industry.

In this case of 300, Warner Bros. Pictures were a production company for it, and Warner Bros. Distribution were the distributors in charge of getting this movie to the exhibition stage which would be the cinemas across the world and also onto home video formats e.g. DVD and Blu-ray. Along with this job, the distribution company also has to go through marketing methods to make sure this movie is appealing the audiences and they are awaiting its release to view at cinemas to gain as much box office takings as possible on the opening weekend.

My Review Of The Summer

My Media Summer...

Where should i begin?

Over the summer i watched tons of movies, i even began to create a list of movies i must watch! One of the new films i watched was "The Hangover". I loved this movie for the fact that they took comedy too another level, for example, they created humor through the use of a baby and

making him do actions which a teenage audience would see as amusing. Here is a trailer for the film to illustrate the comedy throughout the movie.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi311820825/

Another movie i watched was broadcasted on channel 4.

It was called Babel, starring Brad Pitt.

This movie was a Drama b

ased in morocco, and how many different people around the world have lives with actions that affected others across the world. What made me interested in this movie was the advert shown

on t.v, along with this was the tag line which caught my attention: 'A single gunshot...heard around the world'.

During the summer i have caught up with my favourite TV Drama, which is Lost. I am ready for the highly anticipated Season

6 which is due to come out January 2010. I've already watched every episode but i had to view season 5 again because i find the programme so intriguing due to its mystery within every episode and the cliffhanger left at the end of the episodes along the the major cliffhanger at the end of the finale of season 5. What i love about Lost is the storyline which is kept in such depth for the viewers so that they can do more than just watch it, but discuss and

read about it. This narrative is the main reason Lost continues to be such a success.

Here is a trailer for Season 5.

I also watched Scrubs throughout the summer holidays. Scrubs is about a group of Doctors and Surgeons along with the characters and a setting of Sacred Heart Hospital. This would be classed as an American Comedy. Therefore this programme will have many humorous aspects to it, turning serious scenes into comical ones. This show appeals to me mainly because of the humor but also the serious lessons learnt at the end of every episode, which creates a unique selling point for the show by combining these two aspects together.

Alot of the comedy comes from the characters and there actions, this shows characters usually contradict stereotypes by having laid back doctors and a janitor which bullies the main doctor of Scrubs.

Throughout my Summer holiday i cannot remember one day where i haven't listened to music, but one of the songs that I've had stuck in my head would be: Mr Hudson - Supernova. This track has been recorded with Kanye West, which is one of the reasons why this song has been successful in terms of iTunes downloads etc. Mr Hudson and Kanye West had an interview which i viewed via YouTube in which Kanye claims that Mr Hudson will become a bigger and better artist than himself, which according to a teenage audience is highly unlikely, but along with this interview, track and other songs composed by Mr Hudson is a long and successful career for the man. With myself as an example, we can see that the interview along with other methods has brought great awareness to this new music artist for his future career. Music plays a big part in my life, and this is why i go so in depth into one track and artist. This song has obviously appealed to me in more ways that one, from the music video to the voices behind it.