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black widow

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 BLACK WIDOW: 1 ) List the companies involved in the creation of Black Widow. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment for US$4 billion. The Walt Disney Company now owns Disney Pictures, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm and Pixar Walt Disney Studios are one of Hollywood's major film studios and generated an income of $2.4 billion in 2017.  This means that they can afford to make more expensive films, market them around the world at great expense and ensure that they are hugely profitable.   2) What is conglomerate ownership and how does it link to Black Widow? A conglomerate is a multi-industry company – i.e., a combination of multiple business entities operating in entirely different industries under one corporate group, usually involving a parent company and many subsidiaries. Conglomerates are often large and multinational. 3) Analyse the film trailer for Black Widow. What aspects of the trailer tell you this is a big-budget blockbuster movie? ...

key concept film analysis

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The hunger games:catching fire In the picture , the first thing i can notice is the main protagonist  ( katniss everdeen ) placed at the centre . This emphasises that she is the main character and that the story is centred around her . as she is the main character she has an icon in the form of a badge / pin . it is in the shape of a mocking jay . This is symbolic as the mocking jay represents defiance and rebellion , this links to the hunger games b ecause the inhabitants of the districts and the "tributes" decide to rebel against the capitol . we can see that the pin is engulfed in flames. This could connote violence, war, conflict and bloodshed. the text at the top relays the message "remember who the enemy is" this makes the audience feel a sense of thrill and excitement to find out what happens next. By adding an enticing message they make the audience intrigued to watch the film.   I think one of the main symbols in the poster is the bow and arrow which the ma...

Film Industry: Marvel Cinematic Universe

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1) How many films were there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) at the time of this article? - 22 films 2) How much money have the MCU films made in total according to this article? - 18.2 bi llion 3) Why did Marvel create the Avengers films? - In 2007, Marvel was recovering from bankruptcy and had sold off the film rights to some of the company's most popular characters like the X-Men and Spider-Man. Marvel still owned the superheroes who form the core Avengers team - Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor and Captain America - so used the early MCU films to introduce these heroes. 4) Who owns the rights to Spiderman and why is the character now appearing in Marvel films? - Long before Marvel Studios existed, Marvel Entertainment had sold the rights to some of its characters to other filmmakers. Spider-Man was sold to Sony. The studio made a Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire, and soon afterwards rebooted the franchise less successfully with Andrew Garfield as the webslinger. 5) Whic...

Aliya GCSE Media blog feedback – December 2022

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  Aliya GCSE Media blog feedback – December 2022 WWW : Aliya- you have settled wonderfully well into this Media class. I appreciate it is not easy joining a class slightly later than everyone else but you have slotted in well. You have managed to catch up on most of the previous blog posts which we agreed for you to complete. Just try and catch up on the 2 remaining from the last half-term. EBI: Just lacking detail in your blog posts - please use your notebook and the notes on Media Macguffin to really develop your answers so they are more analytical and so that you achieve your target grade in Media. Have a think about how we can best support you with this and we can put a plan together. If we can develop our blog posts with more detail, then you will be achieving higher grades in future Media assessments. LR:   Copy and paste this feedback into a new blogpost called ‘Blog feedback and learner response’. Then, set aside some time to go back and complete missing or unfinished ...