An Art-House Film - "American Beauty" Concept Map on Exhibition

Useful for studio art-house films to compare with a shoe-string "indie" films in FS6, Section B .

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The following are weblinks that will not click in the JPEG.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169547/movieconnectionsPublic reviews from Amazon UKhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/American-Beauty-Kevin-Spacey/dp/B0000558PIUK Press reviewhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2000/jan/28/4Amazon UK reviews of the music CDhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/review/product/B00003XACV/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt/276-8899745-1583721?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1Thomas Newman's distinctive score ( some examples)http://www.last.fm/music/Thomas+Newman/_/Dead+Already

Case Study Concept Maps for an art-house film

In the next few days I'll post my completed concept maps for "American Beauty". As the maps will be JPEGS I'll have to add the live links to the posts. Each map will feature issues on production, distribution and exhibition. There's also a generic map for any film. Of course, not everything will be covered but enough will be there for a meaningful Hollywood studio comparison with "ONCE" for FS6. I produced the maps as exemplars for my AS Media Studies class as they are creating case studies for OCR on film production and distribution companies. These concept maps will be followed up by another concept map which deals with the main issues for Section B of FS6: Film and its audience.

Recent small group research by my students on the problems they faced on how to produce, find and buy cameras, get permits for locations, finance and distribute their own films will be incorporated into the final concept map as this will be a good aid memoir for their essays. ( I'll hear the students' pitches this coming week.)

Work and posts on Section C of FS6 will also follow.