Skyfall/TFA/SFS

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Skyfall Box Office
$1.11 Billion
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The Force Awakens Box Office
$2.066 Billion
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Skyfall Budget
$200 Million
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TFA Budget
$300 million
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Poetic Documentary Form
aesthetic over narrative
focus on reflecting tone and mood
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Participatory Documentary Form
filmmaker heard or seen
feel what they experience
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Reflexive Documentary Form
constructed/artificial
narrative framed to withhold important information
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Poetic form in SFS
Animation sequences
All construction of Rodriguez as a mythic figure
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Participatory form in SFS
heard asking questions to Clarence about the money - tense moment
heard asking Rodriguez about whether he was surprised he never took off - strengthens a feeling of his humbleness
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Reflexive form in SFS
Rodriguez didn't commit suicide - reveal later on
His Australian fame and 2 tours there
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John Grierson - what's his deal?
'creative treatment of actuality'
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DA Pennebaker - what's his deal?
Direct cinema/Cinéma vérité,
unobtrusive,
truthful,
no interviews, rehersals or lights, etc
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Grierson in SFS
Constructive narrative,
withholding of info (Rodriguez is alive, Australia, etc)
music
super 8 filter on concert footage
animation
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Skyfall - Film or Digital?
Digital
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TFA - Film or Digital?
Both
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Skyfall - Effects: Practical or CG?
Both
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TFA - Effects: Practical or CG?
Both
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TFA - Effects used in:
Creatures
Most are practical, Luggabeast, droids, etc - charm and authenticity of original films
Some aren't - Maz is CG because it was too complex for a puppet
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TFA - Effects used in:
TIE fighter chase scene
CG - 'theme park film' has a goal to impress and bring something more advanced to the franchise
- Kathlen Kennedy - they wanted to "use all the tricks in the bag"
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