UK Film Companies Research

Working Title Films

Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London in the UK. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. It produces feature films and several television productions, including films starring comic actor Rowan Atkinson also known as "Mr Bean". Eric Fellner and Bevan are now the co-owners of the company. In 1992, PolyGram became the company's corporate backer. Radclyffe left Working Title, and Eric Fellner, a fellow independent film producer, joined the company. The company produced a variety of films for PolyGram's London-based production company PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. An Anglo-Dutch film studio, PolyGram Films became a major Hollywood competitor. In 1999, PolyGram was sold to Seagram and merged with MCA Music Entertainment, to form Universal Music Group. PolyGram Films was merged and sold to Universal Studios in 1999.

Narrative Research

There are different stages to a narrative of a film. From my research I found that this is what is contained within a film. Staring with an exposition which is an introduction, disruption which is a problem or dilema which could arise in the movie, a climax where there is a turning point and finally a resolution which ends in everything going back to normal.

Todorov's created his own theory and that was that there is an equilibrium which is where everything comes with an introduction, disruption where the antagonist comes into play, recognition where the problem becomes alerted. The effects of the problem start to take place mainly on characters. The disruption is repaired and resolved when is an attempt to correct arises. Finally a new equilibrium is added which concludes the narrative and this end with everything being restored.

Claude Levi Strauss studied man stories and fables. He came to a conclusion that we as humans see the world, events and people by using binary opposites. He also said that narratives are created with traits such as disagreement and conflist between binary opposites such as, Good versus bad and male versus female etc.

Iconic Thriller Director - Stanley Kubrick

This is a small timeline I created on Time Toast. It about Stanley Kubrick who was an iconic director.
http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/iconic-thriller-directors