The Boat That Rocked is a 2009 ensemble comedy film, released in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2009.
A red carpet wound through the middle of London's Leicester Square as women dressed in 60s' outfits danced on a plinth with vinyl record discs in the background.
I would say that the films target audeice, is mainly people who love rock music, and who was growing up listening to rock music in the 60s, that would be a sort of flashback for them.
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Thursday, 22 April 2010
The Boat That Rocked
The filming of The boat that rocked, i can not really imagine it being an easy shoot as it is on the sea, and that is what i found out, the cinematographer said it was hard for consistency, such as the clouds and the sun staying in the same place, so the shadows on the boat were different so the cinematographer said it was hard to keep consistency.
I cant seem to find any information on any conflicts on the people filming on the boat. I cant imagine there being many conflicts though.
Some of the film was shot up london, blackheath, in some cafes, because at the beginning, you have many different shots of people, so some of it had a location, and obviously in the sea, that can be classed as a location in its self, so yes the film did have a location. As the film was shot on the sea, seasickness pills became part of the routine for many involved in the production as with the word boat in the title it was pretty mandatory that a boat appear in the film. And there is no sly CGI work here – the boat is real and very much a-rocking.
From the sources i have been given, every actor/actress that is in the fi,m is who they wanted to play, casting these people gave insights to what the film was going to be about, so that helps the target audience to realise what the film will include, and what personification will be brought to the film.
Total Box Office:
$7,994,115
in U.S. and Canada
Production Budget:
$50,000,000 Estimated
I cant seem to find any information on any conflicts on the people filming on the boat. I cant imagine there being many conflicts though.
Some of the film was shot up london, blackheath, in some cafes, because at the beginning, you have many different shots of people, so some of it had a location, and obviously in the sea, that can be classed as a location in its self, so yes the film did have a location. As the film was shot on the sea, seasickness pills became part of the routine for many involved in the production as with the word boat in the title it was pretty mandatory that a boat appear in the film. And there is no sly CGI work here – the boat is real and very much a-rocking.
From the sources i have been given, every actor/actress that is in the fi,m is who they wanted to play, casting these people gave insights to what the film was going to be about, so that helps the target audience to realise what the film will include, and what personification will be brought to the film.
Total Box Office:
$7,994,115
in U.S. and Canada
Production Budget:
$50,000,000 Estimated
the film never used a studio, instead it used a real life boat!
Below is where the scriptwriter got his idea from;
The year is 1966, a golden era for rock’n’roll in this country, but BBC radio plays a mere 45 minutes of pop music a day.
Thus, around 25 million listeners tune into pirate radio stations, which devote every waking (and sleeping) minute to music.
One such station is Radio Rock, under the captainship of Quentin (Nighy).
The DJs are a motley crew of misfits with one thing in common: a passion for vinyl. They include star deejay Gavin (Ifans), American rival The Count (Hoffman), sarcastic and cruel Dave (Frost), love sick Simon (O’Dowd), sex god Midnight Mark (Wisdom), goofy Angus ’The Nut’ Nutsford (Darby), newsreader On-The-Hour John (Adamsdale) and the aptly named Thick Kevin (Brooke).
Quentin’s godson Carl (Sturridge), who has recently been expelled from school, joins Radio Rock for the summer, in the hope that he might mend his ways.
Instead, the youngster embarks on a quest to track down his biological father, who could be one of the crew members.
Meanwhile, back in London, government minister Dormandy (Branagh) explores every legal loophole to shut down the pirate radio stations, with the help of his protege (Davenport).
The Boat That Rocked certainly rocks and rolls to a thumping soundtrack which includes The Beach Boys, Jeff Beck, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and The Who.
However, the script springs a leak early on as Curtis attempts to juggle too many thinly sketched characters and gradually loses ballast under the weight of its own unfulfilled ambition.
As usual, Nighy pilfers most of the chuckles as a dapper man of loose morals who views Carl’s expulsion for smoking cigarettes and drugs as “spectacular!”.
The running joke about the name of Dormandy’s underling grows weary very quickly, made worse by Branagh’s theatrics as the pantomime villain.
Subtlety tumbles overboard as the battle between government and Radio Rock intensifies, culminating in a bizarre action-oriented finale reminiscent of Titanic, albeit on a budget.
Also the idea of the film was based on true events.
The film realises Curtis’s long-held ambition to build a movie on his love for 60s music and his fond youthful memories of a time when rock radio was illegal in the UK, forcing entrepreneurial mavericks to climb aboard ships and drop anchor outside the national jurisdiction where they then broadcast non-stop musical mayhem.
Main Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, January Jones.
These men all helped contribute their own lines towards being a DJ, and made the film the hit comedy, it was looking for.
Director: Richard Curtis
He was the one that directed, and thought of the script.
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Kidulthood
Kidulthood is a British independant film made by Menhaj Huda, he put his own money intyo making the film, Kidulthood (rendered as KiDULTHOOD) is a 2006 British drama film about the life of several teenagers in Ladbroke Grove and Latimer Road area of Inner West London. It was directed by Menhaj Huda and written by Noel Clarke, who also stars in the film and directed the sequel, Adulthood.
Critical reaction
Writing in The Guardian, Miranda Sawyer called the film "a rollicking UK youth ride, cinematically filmed, persuasively acted and bumped along by a fantastic all-British soundtrack... It's also very funny, laced with a humour of the slapped-in-the-face-with-a-kipper sort: you can't help laughing because it's so outrageous". Stephen Armstrong in The Times, however, said "the only people who should be shocked by this film are people who have never been teenagers. What Kidulthood does is take all the violence, sex and intoxication experienced in a teenage year and condense it into a single day, because that's far more marketable than a film about eight kids spending four hours sitting on the swings wondering what to do". The Daily Mirror described it as being "as potent as a shot of vodka before breakfast - a harrowing, uncompromisingly bleak but thoughtful look at the anguish of being young and poor in Britain".[
Critical reaction
Writing in The Guardian, Miranda Sawyer called the film "a rollicking UK youth ride, cinematically filmed, persuasively acted and bumped along by a fantastic all-British soundtrack... It's also very funny, laced with a humour of the slapped-in-the-face-with-a-kipper sort: you can't help laughing because it's so outrageous". Stephen Armstrong in The Times, however, said "the only people who should be shocked by this film are people who have never been teenagers. What Kidulthood does is take all the violence, sex and intoxication experienced in a teenage year and condense it into a single day, because that's far more marketable than a film about eight kids spending four hours sitting on the swings wondering what to do". The Daily Mirror described it as being "as potent as a shot of vodka before breakfast - a harrowing, uncompromisingly bleak but thoughtful look at the anguish of being young and poor in Britain".[
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Lesson Review
Today in our film lesson, we watched everyone in the classes opening title sequence, personally this did help us out quite a bit for my group because we knew that we was far behind everyone else! But we showed the class what we had any and Mrs.Moore told us that we needed a lot of work done to it, so now we realised what we needed to do. Some of the other groups we watched were very good, I was particularly impressed with the sequence scrooge and also beuty and the geek, I liked beauty and the geek because of the music that it had, but todays lesson was a good exercise and my group now have realised we need to work hard as a team to get the best out of our sequence 'The Decline',
Thursday, 14 January 2010
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