franchises Flashcards
Hunger Games and the martian
Virtual reality narratives
forum.androidcentral.com
Mad Max
game
- preorder get magnum opus car extras
- Furiosa isnt the playable character, only Max
- Icons of skulls in opening sequence shows post-apocolyptic wasteland with a stung up skull carved out of Max
James Bond
Spectre
- poster: Bond in ls white suit, confident direct address while hold gun in left hand
Resident Evil
3DS game
A Good Day to Die Hard
russian poster: moscow setting, put emphasis on female Russian Yuliya Snigit who gives dierect address to the camera while 2 Americans glance off camera
The Ghost in the Shell
weeks before release, 35,000 posts about whitewahsing emerged with 680,000 reposts and replies
Elysium
Matt Damon ain't Lation about class and racial divide
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Chirrut = Chinese Cassian = Mexican Bodhi = Pakistani Gerrera = Black
The Force Awakens
Rey’s combat skills and determination in poster LS determined face holding a staff
Rey rescues Finn out of platonic not romantic love countering stereotype and our perception of Todorov’s character roles in action films
Kylo Ren vilain easily symbolised by red lightsaber
- audience posititoned to feel emotionally conflicted morally over character
Power Rangers
yellow power ranger hinted at being lesbian
Billy is autistic
- teen vogue article ‘ The powerrangers autistic superhero is so important’
- Bell Hooks intersectionality, black and autistic
Star Terk Beyond
Sulu is seen in a medium shot as hugging his husband and daughter
- in future LGBT wont be a bad thing
Fan films
Star Wars Film Fan Awards - 2016 winner TK-436: A Stormtrooper story - tie fighter quickly flying past Mad Max 'Road Kill' - only 5 comments
Star Wars magazine
one edition involved ‘heroes and villains poster’ as advertised by splash
- Danielle Todd consumerism
Conventions
destination Star Trek Europe
ComicCon
- actor of Chirrut in Rogue One attended panel/meet and greet
The Nice Guys
guns, knuckledusters, knives, March has pistol
Looper
first time a film’s Chinese opening topped its domestic take
Shanghai
poster: Chinese poster feature Chinese cityscapes as background unlink American one
Shi LaBeouf
Man down grossed #7 in cinemas
Indiana Jones
and the Temple of Doom 80s
- Thugee characters sterotyped and racist
- 2011 lego game thugee less overtly racist and indian features not emphasised
Bond and Bourne games
settings of Switzerland, Pais, Greece and others
Theme Parks
Wizarding World of Harry Potter Universal Island of Adventures
- Universal paid for rights from time Warner
- recreation of locations: Diagon Alley and Hogwarts
Ollivander’s wand shop where 1 child of 25 treated as the chosen one who gets a wand picked for them
Studio Canal
bastille day
free fire
now you see me
qr code offered chance to get free ticket
Star Trek into Darkness
3D Dvd
Pre-Order
Force awakens advertised SKy soon as released in cinemas
Netflix exclusives
skiptrace featuring JAckie Chan
Assassins Creed
film based on games
CGI
Force Awaknes
- MEdusa Capture System and tracking dots
- Lupita Nyong’o
A New Hope aliens played by actors in costumes and dont speak english like Greedo
print editing softwaree
mad max
Star Trek the wrath of khan poster = drawn rather than digitially edited so as to not just have plain white background
camera rigs
mad max edge arm
roof mounter
gyrostrabilised camera crane
extends 20 feet+ in length, rotates 360
gaming network co-op
assassins creed unity 2014
