Different Film Studios

How did the studio system worked?

• Each studio produced its own films
• Actors and film makers were under contract to a certain studios
• Each studio are specialized in doing certain genre due to their sets, actors, money and directors.
• 8 studios operating

Five big studios

• created, produced, distributed and showed movies
• they owned all the movie making process and had their own theatres
• made a lot of money
• Studios:
• fox film corporation
• metro goldway meyer
• paramount
• RKO radio pictures
• Warner brothers

Little three studios:

• Limited number of movie theatres
• Produced many movies but couldn’t show many movies
• Studios:
• Universal pictures
• Columbia Pictures
• United artists

Why did the studio system end?

• US federal laws changed
• Studios did not have control to show their theatres
• Independent film makers could begin to complete

Mise- en- shot:

How scenes are shot and edited?	9 lives (Rodrigo Garcia) 2005	Jurassic Park(Spielberg) 1993
Camera position	Fixed place, from shoulder height. Real position (as if the audience were really watching it)	Many different angles
Camera movement	It follows the character and it moves as the character moves. 360 degrees movement of camera.	Fixed cameras for very short shots. They don’t need much movement as shots are very short and by cutting each shot they create and effect of movement in the camera
Shot scale	Not much depth, small as she is in a prison. Everything happens in the same place and there isn't much to see.	It is has a long scale but at the same time there are a lot of people in one small place, limited.
Length of shot	Long shots as there is no need to cut because it follows the character around.	Short shots, from around 5 seconds minimum and 20 seconds maximum.
Pace of editing	Not much editing. Almost not editing at all.	A lot of editing. Cutting different shots, sounds, lights and effects.

   Films:

- 9 lives: the effect given here is that as the scene is shot in a jail to make it more claustrophobic the shot scale is very small as there are a lot of walls. The camera films what the main character is seeing but also films her. Shots here are very long and the camera doesn’t move much.

- Jurassic Park: There are a lot of angles used as there is a lot of action in the movie and to show the different dimensions. Shots are very small so the camera doesn’t need to move. The space of the scene is not that big for the amount of people in it, so it looks as it had more movement.