Intro Scenes

Misfits


Description:
The misfits intro scene music makes it feel like a fast paced intro with a bit of comedy behind it. It has very dull and boring colours and it gives you  a basic idea about what happened to them in the intro.


The Walking Dead:
This has very dramatic and depressing music, it shows multiple scenes of empty city streets and schools to show that it is a post apocalyptic type series.

Ethnicity

Ethnicity

In the clip show at the beginning the women at the front desk was in a very clean and white formal suit and placed in front of everyone else, also the lighting in the room is very bright and the room is very open compared to the other staff she is wearing different coloured clothing where as they are wearing black suits, also she is a blonde haired blue eyed female and the scene makes here seem that she is clean and pure.

If you compare the women at the front desk to Jackie they are very different as she is in a storage room in the back of the hotel, also the room is very crammed and has no space compared to the big open front desk and the lighting is very dim and hard to see inside the room compared to the bright large lights shining down on the front desk.

Throughout the clip the white legal immigrants are shown as dominant and have power in the hotel and seem to run things but if you compare this to the illegal multi-racial immigrants they have no power and authority throughout the clip and they are constantly being told what to do.

Another way that ethnicity is shown in the clip is by Paul the character that spreads jam in the gums of the women that faints, he is quick to react to the situation and it is obvious he has medical knowledge from his past yet he still needed or wanted to move to England as an illegal immigrant. he would normally be told what to do all day because he is doing basic jobs but when put on the spot he instantly takes up a leader role to show he was maybe dominant in the country he came from.

The police officer at the start of the clip is a white male he is shown as very confident and the camera is zoomed in at his face but it seems that he is showing no emotion, he is very calm and collective and seems like he knows what he is doing and when one of the immigrants gets caught he says "We caught him thats the game" this shows that it is a regular thing that happens and that there is no surprise that it has happened.

The overall mise-en-scen could be shown as racist because the front of the hotel is very open and well light and all of the staff are dressed very formal and have a lot of interaction with the customers but if you compare this to the other side of the hotel were the illegal immigrants are it is very small and compact.

Also through in the clip when the camera enters the small cluttered room that Jackie is working in the camera is at a low angle on Jackie, this shows that Jackie has no power in the situation and that he is vulnerable and weak compared to the girl at the front desk.

Ethnic Representations

Ethnic Representations: Misfits

Curtis:
Black
associated with doing the crime in the group. Doing community service for stealing drugs. No use of manners, speaks in a very "Chav" like way. Athletic and fit, used to be a long distance runner. Very fast.Likes to be on his own and do everything on his own.

Kelly:
Chav
No use of manners as well, very disrespectful to people that she does not know. Doing community service for assault. Dresses like a chad, wears a lot of "Bling".




Nathan:
Irish
Very sexually minded, likes drinking alcohol and being inappropriate. Judges people from there image and personality. The clown of the group





Simon:
Posh
The quiet one of the group. He is classified as freaky and a creep. Wants to be part of the group but is rejected by everyone else. Very careful compared to the rest of the group.

Dredd Research

Dredd

Producer: Alex Garland, Andrew MacDonald, Allon Reich.
The green light for Dredd was in 2009 when DNA films first started to get involved and help produce the film.

Distributor: Dredd was distributed by Entertainment film distributors and  Lionsgate entertainment corporation, While they were distributing this film they were under the supervision of the NBC universal television distribution under universal pictures while others are  distributed for both cable and broadcast television through lionsgates syndicated vision.

The script writer for Dredd was Alex Garland who also produced the film. He began writing Dredd in 2006 during the post production of sunshine and he finished his first draft while the filming of 28 weeks later. When developing the film he decided to follow closely to the comic book instead of the old movie. He named Peach Tress after a restaurant that he went in. Throughout the movie Garland gave the script to John Wagner, one of the creators of the comic book to revise the dialogue and see if it all fitted together.

The budget for Dredd was $45 million, but it only made $36.5 Million gross at the opening box office, so it made a loss of $8.5 Million even with the good feedback from critics.

The director of Dredd was Pete Travis, and the actors and actresses that stared in it were Karl Urban ( as Dredd) Olivia Thirlby (Judge Anderson) Wood Harris (Kay) Lena Headey ( Madeline "Ma Ma" Madrigal).

The Marketing for Dredd was not very successful as you did not see it non-stop T.V adverts constantly advertising the movie and there was not many billboards or posters scattered around places to get the movie attention. There was no teaser trailer to get people interested and excited just one single long trailer.

Even though the movie made a loss of $8.5 million the overall reception from the critics was a good one, most critics said that the 3D work was visually stunning and a enjoyable film to watch yet it made a loss in the end.

Examples

This, finally, is the Dredd movie comic book readers have been anticipating.
A very entertaining and blood soaked action science fiction flick...
Grim, stylish, relentlessly violent - this is the balls-to-the-wall Dredd movie fans have been waiting for.

The reason for Dredds lack of success in my opinion was the lack of advertising and the lack of a A-list star to attract people to come and see, apart from that i could not see another reason why it did not sell because it had a great reception from the critics.

Dredd won an Golden Trailer award and was nominated for many different catergories such as:

Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2013	Won	Golden Trailer	Best Thriller TV Spot
	Nominated	Golden Trailer	Best Action Poster
			Best Action TV Spot
			Best Graphics in a TV Spot
			Best Music TV Spot .
			Most Original Poster
			Most Original TV Spot

The film was shot digitally and primarily in 3D using RED MX, SI2K and Phantom Flex high-speed cameras. Multiple camera rigs were used. Some 2D elements were converted to 3D in post production.

The tie-ins of Dredd are that it is a remake of a comic books in 1977 and written by john Wagner, There was also merchandise sold from Dredd e.g. action figurines and props from the film such as his helmet or his gun. The original soundtrack was written by Paul Leonard-Morgan.

My Personal opinion for Dredd is that it was a very enjoyable film to watch, i thought that the 3D work was fantastic and the overall use of special effects was great. I thought that Karl Urban played the role of Dredd fantastically but i think if they used an a list star they would have gotten more money than they spent. Overall it was a film that i enjoyed.