Vertically and Horizontally Integrated.

This is a vertical and horizontal integrated chart. It shows the links between different companies. Going vertically on this chart it shows an example of a production, distribution and exhibition company Warner Bros. Warner Bros when producing and creating films will be made by Warner Bros Pictures. Once the film is made it then has to be distributed to all different countries to be viewed and has to be made for DVD. This is done by Warner Home Video. This will then be send to Warner Village Cinema now known as Vue. The cinema then will play the films which ends the link of the production, distribution and exhibition stages of the film.

Going horizontally it shows the film being produced by Warner Bros. Then Warner Bros has a partnership with DC Comics who creates the ideas for the games from the film. RockSteady Games then will create the games from Warner Bros films.

Studio Idents

These are the 'Big Six' production companies that commands 90% of box office takings. In this picture from top to bottom are;

20th Century Fox
Paramount Pictures
Warner Bros.
Universal Studios.
Columbia
Walt Disney

There are also other studios that make films outside of the major six studios. These are called 'Indies'. These are some examples of the main indies studio companies;

Film 4 Entertainment
Summit Entertainment
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Finally there are studio companies that are too big to be considered 'Indies '. These are called 'Mini Major' companies. The main mini major companies are;

• DreamWorks
• The Weinstein Company
• Lions Gate Entertainment

Focus Group Analysis.

For our thriller film we had to record a focus group where we would discuss our ideas with other students from our class. By discussing our film ideas with other students we can see what ideas of ours can work as a thriller film idea and what ideas don't work. This would give us productive feedback on our ideas so our group know what ideas to improve on and what ideas not to include in our thriller film.

In our focus group we discussed our ideas with some of our classmates. They also agreed that our third idea was the best idea out of the ideas that we had. They agreed that this is the easiest idea to film and that this idea was most practical. This idea we thought would be the best idea out of the three for the thriller because it would be the easiest to film and would be the most interesting opening scene out of our three ideas.

Source Code Thriller Analysis

Source Code is a action thriller (2011), which features a soldier called Colter Stevens who wakes up inside a train in another man's body. He is very confused and stands up and walks about the train, then an explosion goes off inside the train and he dies. He then wakes up inside a machine. This machine is run by a company that is able to go back into the past to change certain events, such as terrorist attacks. Colter Stevens is to live another man's life on this train and has 8 minutes to locate a bomb hidden on the train to save the members of the train to prevent a terrorist attack.

Source code is a different type of thriller films to other films that we have studied. The director and written have created an interesting concept to base the film upon. The filming of the film is very basic. Because most of the scenes are confined onto the train the camera angle are very much repeated. Also because Colter Stevens is re-living the same scenario multiple times, the director decided to use the same camera angles in every scene to keep the continuity of the film. This is needed for a film like this because on screen the same scene is being replay multiple times, so the camera angles of replayed scenes need to stay the same.