Film quiz - blockbusters

Film quiz things

• How many questions and what topics?

Questions are divided up into A and B, with 10 questions but only seven need to be answered. Topics include: contemporary "English-language film", “cinema in context" and "the rise of a blockbuster, format wars and multiplexes"

• What relevance are knowing about blockbusters?

• What case studies are you writing about?

• What is production?

There are four main stages of production: development, pre-production, production and post-production. 

- Development: finding finance, script development, getting actors, director, other key crew

- Pre-production: finalising script, scheduling, budgeting, casting, crew contracts, story boarding, location scouting, equipment hire

- Production: camera crew and equipment, sound crew and equipment, lighting crew and equipment, production design (art direction and dressers), actors, costumes/props, makeup/hair, special fx

- Post-production: editing, re-shoots, sound mixing, foley, music

• What is distributing and marketing?

- Distribution: launching a film, distributor acquires the rights to film, could invest in film at the beginning, part of a larger company and automatically produce films (conglomerate)

• What is exhibition/exchange?

• What do we mean by context?

• Name the two most influential directors of films in the 70s and 80s.