Unit 2 past paper q/a

Question 1

Identify some major Hollywood film companies.

Answer 1

- Disney
• Universal / Comcast
• Paramount / Viacom
• 20th Century Fox/ 21st Century Fox
• Warner Brothers / Time Warner
• Columbia / Sony

Question 2

Suggest some advantages of for a film that comes from being part of a
franchise.

Answer 2

• tried and tested success at the box office
• use of same stars/actors /cast
• success built on continued critical acclaim
• global success through marketing
• merchandising
• cult film recognition and fanbase
• continued success based on already successful film.
• continued employment for actors, production crew and other personnel
• attractive to writers and artists for continued employment and longer-term contracts

Question 3

Briefly outline how the Hollywood film you have studied was funded.

Answer 3

Production funding by major studios
• Collaboration and joint funding
Some recognition of funding British film and 4 categories of funding: 100% British funding, part US and Brit funding, part European and Brit funding, 100% US funding.
Produced in Britain
• Investors
• Conglomerate funding 
• Franchise funding

Question 4

Explore how one key theme is presented in the Hollywood film you have studied.

Answer 4

• Narrative themes
• Levi Straus and Binary opposites.
• Good vs Evil
• Law and order vs crime
• Order vs. chaos
• Youth v old age
• Weak vs strong
• Family relationships
• Gender relationships
• School life
• Challenges to authority

Question 5

What is the funding like for Wonder Woman?

Answer 5

Budget $120–150 million
Box office $822.3 million
Distrubuted by Warner Bros, in the franchise of DC, 4th instalment of the justice league series.
Part US, part UK funding, with locational setting help from various European countries.