The next stage of Assignment 2 is to write an essay analysing the film poster and trailer of the Disney film Moana and our next few lessons will be about learning all the information and skills we need to write that essay.
Blog task: Moana institution research
Work through the following questions and tasks on your blog. Use Moana’s IMDB page, Moana’s Rotten Tomatoes page and the film’s Wikipedia entry to help you answer the questions.
Create a new blogpost called ‘Moana institution research’.
1) Write the storyline of Moana in no more than three sentences.
2) What film genre is Moana?
3) When was the film released in the UK?
4) Who were the stars who provided the voices in the film?
5) Who were the directors for Moana?
6) What other films have they directed?
7) What was the production budget for Moana?
8) How much money did the film make at the worldwide box office?
9) What is the Walt Disney company?
10) What other companies and brands are owned by Walt Disney?
11) What famous film franchises are owned by the Walt Disney company?
12) List three other Disney animated family films.
13) What are the three most successful Disney films ever?
14) What do audiences expect from a Disney film?
15) Why might a family be happy to watch a new Disney film?
16) Read the IMDB user reviews for Moana. Copy and paste three user reviews for the film into your blogpost – one good, one bad, one in the middle.
17) Read this Guardian review of Moana. How many stars is the film given?
18) What does the Guardian reviewer think is the best thing about Moana?
19) Read this Empire review of Moana. Why does it say Moana is similar to Frozen?
20) What do you think Moana and Frozen have in common? Write down three things the two films have in common.
21) Having researched the film, why do you think Moana was so successful at the box office?
22) Embed the trailer for Moana in this blogpost and write three things in the trailer that would make the audience want to go and see the whole film.
23) How many references to Disney can you find in the trailer?
24) Find a film poster for Moana using Google Images and paste it into the blogpost. Find three things on the poster that would make the audience want to go and see the movie.
25) Does the Moana film poster have the Disney logo on it? Where on the poster does it appear?
Next steps
For the Assignment 2 essay, you need to put the key information you have researched into paragraphs. Answer the following questions in extended paragraphs - you can then copy these over to Microsoft Word when it is time to start writing the essay.
1) How are the major star names used in the poster and trailer for Moana to promote the film? Why might those stars attract an audience?
2) How does the Moana film poster and trailer use the Disney brand to help promote the movie? Why might families be interested in watching the latest Disney movie?
3) How are other Disney films used in the Moana poster and trailer to promote the film?
4) How successful was Moana at the box office?
Make sure that all four paragraphs together total at least 300 words.
Complete anything you don't finish in class for homework - due Tuesday.
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