AS Film Study Enrolment Task

By Max Everett 

Task 1 – Deadpool 

Deadpool may have become a box office success as the film has never been shot before; unlike characters such as Spider-man or Batman, Deadpool has never been shot so, more viewers would be interested in how the film comes out and who would be a part of the making of it. The character of Wade is played by Ryan Reynolds, and as lots of people like him, the fans of the antihero would be eager to see what happens during the film. 

Another reason could be that its partly a comedy the public would be more inclined to go to the cinema to see comedies as it combines the humour and violence of every super hero movie. Even though the film has lots of curse words this may be appealing to the lots of viewers as swearing is now accepted in films and in the publics eyes, it’s not taken as seriously as it was maybe 5-10 years ago. Also to some people, swearing in films can also make things seem more funny with the insults that can be made up with a combination of swear words. 

A films success is measured on how much money it makes after its released and shown in the cinema or at the pictures. Then it is measured on the rates it gets from reviews in newspapers and on articles all over the internet across the globe; and then finally its measured on how much money it makes after a DVD is released and how many people buy it. 

This film may have also achieved success as the plot of the film was well thought out and the origin of Deadpool would have been planned in great detail. The directors and producers must have thought very carefully on what the dialog would be. For this they went for the funny side of things as Ryan Reynolds character teases the doctors with small talk and quick punchy one-liners. Something else they would’ve considered would be all of the different shots and all the different camera angles they would have thought about using and all the shots that they actually used and how they decided to use those particular ones. As well as this all he CGI that the used during the film would’ve created more of an excited audience when the trailer was released. Seeing all the big explosions and acrobatics that Deadpool uses would’ve been well thought out and when they use shots as slow motion it creates a sense of suspense and this effect really shoes off all the detail in the shots that they would’ve used during the film. Another idea that they also decided to do was break the forth wall. This is where character look to the camera and speak breaking that barrier between them in the film and us in the real world.