Filming Exercise: Feed The Fish

1. Establihsing Shot of a municiple building
2. Camera tracking into building and a flight of stairs
3. Close Up of a sign on a door- content to be decided by filmmaker
4. Over The Sholder shot of Person A, opening a door and walking through.
5. Reverse angle shot of person A coming though door
6. Mid-Shot of Person B sitting at a desk. "I was wondering when you might get here. Please sit down."
7. Camera tracks to Person A. Person A sits down.
8. Subtle low angle MCU of B: "So, what kept you?"
9. Subtle high angle MCU shot of A: "Yes, sorry I'm late... Traffic." (Shot, reverse shot; 180 degree rule)
10. Reverse angle of B: "Have you fed the fish?" A: "Yes, don't worry, I've taken care of it." B: "Good."
11. Close Up of A: "What do you want me to do next?"
12. Mid-Shot of B who stands and walks around the desk: "I was just coming to that..."

Ways We View Films Today

Back in the day, films were only released in cinemas. Once you missed your chance to watch the biggest film in town, you missed it. But now, there are so many ways to wtahc films besides going to the cinema, you;ll never miss you chance to watch any movie! So, how many ways do we actually watch films?
- Cinema
- Sky Plus
- TV
- YouTube
- LoveFilms
- Game Consols
- DVD
- Netflix
- Illegal Download/Streaming
- Phone (iTunes)
- CPV

Skyfall

-CGI effects used in Skyfall
- MGM and EOD financed the film.
- Sony picked up the film; Sony and Colombia Pictures then had distributing rights. (Sony owns Columbia Pictures) Sony then distributes it in the UK.
- Skyfall: Between $150-200 to make
- Box Office: Over $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the 7th highest grossing film ever.
- It made £100 million in UK Box Offices alone!
- The song 'Skyfall' by Adele (use of Synergy) was released by Melfed Stone Ltd
- Melfed Stone are owned by XL Recordings. XL Recordings are owned by Colombia Pictures, which are owned by Sony. This is a ggreat example of synergy, but aslo a super example of cross media convergence:
Sony Computer Entertainment
Picture Entertainment
Music Enetetainment
Mobile Entertainment

Skyfall was also released via:
- DVD
- Blu-Ray
- PPV
- Rentals: LoveFilm, Netflix
- Airplanes
- TV
- Digital Release
- Illegal Download Release

Piracy: Facts and Figures

For And Against Piracy: NOTES
- Piracy affects production, distribution and exhibition
- 77.75 million fake DVDs were sold in 2013
- Piracy owners earned a total of £228 million
- £700 million loss in film industries due to piracy
- Blockbusters can lose up to £4 million due to piracy
- The internet has made it easier to pirate videos. People can now download movies, burn them onto a disk and sell it.
- People can use the computer to copy movies
- Fast speed broadband means that people can put pirated movies online, for others to consume easily.
- D.I.Y
- Big institutions don't get as affected as lower budget film companies- Watching pirated movies takes money away from the industry, so smaller industries, such as British film industries will lose the money that they need in order to make a profit.
- Audiences will eventually suffer because of this; film institutes will shut down because they weren't making enough money, so there will be no more movies to watch!
- For example, Motion Picture Associations 2005: Studios lost £6.1 billion
- Cinema, Cable and TV lost £8.2 billion; £7.1 billion of it was lost due to internet piracy
-Peer-To-Peer software -> Bit-Torrent -> Delayed released dates
- Piracy is more common in the US than the UK due to release dates!

However:
- It is harder to pirate 3-D movies
- Film industries try battling piracy by releasing movies on many platforms, aside with releasing it on the big screen. Movies are now released via: Bly-Ray, iTunes, Download, Sky Plus, showing films on TV channels such as Sky Movies and ITV, YouTube download, DVD, Rentals online such as LoveFilm and Netflix and showing films on Airplanes.