Structured Response - Examples

After looking at what is needed in order to structure a response, I researched some examples which I have already looked at; Tron, Toy Story 3, Moon and Kick-Ass.

Pre-Production
Tron was based on the original film from 1982 and kept its original script. The producers also decided to keep the film a PG in order to create a wider audience, (4 quadrant) This increases the film's profit. The producers decided to use the original Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde. These names are not very well known but Daft Punk were chosen to do the soundtracks which makes the film much more popular and more of a reason for the audience to watch. The film's budget was $170. This budget is much larger than the English film 'Moon's budget which was $5m. This is because Tron had a variety of special effects including the CGI effect which makes Jeff Bridges' face young. However Moon's most expensive effect was the cloning scene which involved Sam Rockwell playing ping pong with himself. This scene spent up most of the budget which is absolutely nothing compared to Tron, considering that Moon's budget was $5 million.

4 Quadrant
Tron is a PG as is Toy Story 3. Toy Story, however, made much more because it is designed to be viewed by the four main categories which consists of young, old, male and females. Whereas Tron is aimed more towards males that females. It would be expected of Tron to be aimed at younger people  because of the special effects and CGI however the older audience are also drawn to this movie because of the plot's originality. On the other hand, Moon and Kick-Ass have a specific target audience which means they are likely to make less profit that Toy Story and Tron. Moon also has an audience outside of the 4 quadrant categories as Moon is targeted more for British audiences, this is because it stars a famous British actor named Sam Rockwell who is not very known in America. Kick-Ass is a 15 and contains a variety of taboo, vulgarism and bad language from the characters, based on this fact alone, it targets the film more towards teenagers than the older generation of people.  The film Kick-Ass is also aimed towards the male gender rather than the female gender because of the boyish side to the storyline; explosions, pretty women, and also the controversy of the small girl using taboo.

Distribution
Moon was distributed on 60 screens in the US and 200 in the UK, this is an extremely minimal amount compared to big Hollywood films such as Avatar which was released in 3,452 theatres and the Hang Over 2 was released in 3,615 theatres