Micheal Caine

Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in South London 1933. He left Wilson's Grammar school to be an office boy for Peak Films. Michael hoped to be discovered with his next job which was with 'The J Arthur Rank organization' which was a huge company at the time. Michael joined National Service and served in Korea and Germany. After 2 years service he worked at Westminster repertory in sussex and then Lowestoft Repertory where he met his wife.Michael and Patricia moved to London to pursue their acting dreams, however it proved difficult and patricia fell pregnant. They moved back to Patricias family home, and michael's dad passed away.Michael left fro Paris to sort his self out and worked in a snack bar, he then returned home after a short while.He gained a part in 'A Hill In Korea' but it was not a success and he was forced to find a new agent.He played a part in 'The Chimes' Charles Dickens in the East End theatre and a few other plays on TV.Michaels determination grew stronger after he was told to give acting up by the Chief Casting Director of Associated British Films.He starred in more than 100 films and has been awarded the Academy Award in every decade since the 1960's. The Italian Job and Get Carter have been huge success's for Caine and his recent work included part in Batman, Alfie and Children Of Men.
Caine has been Oscar-nominated six times, winning his first Academy Award for the 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters, and his second in 1999 for The Cider House Rules, in both cases as a supporting actor. Caine is one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade since the 1960s. The other is Jack Nicholson.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours, and in the 2000 New Year Honours he was knighted as Sir Maurice Micklewhite, CBE. (Such awards must be conferred upon recipients' legal names, and Caine had not yet abandoned his birth name.)In 2008, he was awarded the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Showbusiness at the Variety Club Awards

What defines to me as A British Film.

I define British film as, a film that contains lots of elements, settings, moralistic and ideloistic of British society. It doesn't matter for me if the film has a British director and British actors, as long as it still has British elements like the grittyness or cockney accents. However, the best British films are nearly always done by British directors and British actors which in some way makes the film "more" British, but I think only out of pride and realism.

Working Title

Working Title

What’s its role in British Film?
Gave significant to british film makers to help them create the best possible films.
5 films have been produced by working title?

Ali G in the house
Billy Elliot
Love actually
Notting Hill
Wimbledon

British Film Websites

British film websites help the director and production team sell the british theme in the film. The website designers do this by the use of images, font, colours and language used.

Three websites our group found which we thought were effective in representing britishness;

• The Bank Job (2008) -http://www.bankjobmovie.co.uk/
• This Is England - http://www.thisisenglandmovie.co.uk/
• Kidulthood- http://www.kidulthood.co.uk/

Teaser Trailer

A "Teaser Trailer" is a usually short film trailer which "Teases" the audience by showing them small clips of the film. It is intended to draw people in and make them want to watch the full movie. It usually gives an idea about the story line and sometimes ends in a 'cliff hanger' type of way so that the audience are drawn in even more.

Below are a few examples of which me and my group thought were effective "teaser trailers"

28 Days Later (2002)






This trailer is effective because its completly diffrent to conventional trailers. The clinical diffrence between this trailer and conventional trailers are that they dont follow the known tradition of having an narrator. Instead this trailer uses powerful rethorical phrases which has many polysemic meanings which the audience what answers to0.


This Is England (2006)



This trailer is completly diffrent to the methood to the one used by 28 days. This is because the main methood to assist the audience is the use of music. The director uses non digetic music and i belive that it makes the teaser trariler more effective because through the music the audience can see the diffrent stages of the film being represented. In addition to this the clips of england at the time being represented appeals to the audience as it shows its going to be an historical film. the section where the character says "put your hands off him now!" this quickly shows the audience that the film is grity and violent.


Run Fat Boy Run (2007)

Run Fat Boy Run movie trailer


Run Fat Boy uses a narrator which helps the audience have some context and information about the plot. This works well in the teaser trailer because it helps raises reasonable questions towards the plot of the storyline. . The film clips are picked effectivly as all the clips are humourous which is what the director spefically does to sell the genre of the film across to the audience.