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Transformers: Age of Extinction 

Release date: 5 July 2014 (United Kingdom)

Director: Michael Bay

Featured song: Battle Cry

Box office: 1.104 billion USD

Budget: 210 million USD

Reviews: 5.7/10= IMDB 18%= Rotten Tomatoes 32%= Metacritic  

Transformers is successful as it is a franchise that attracted a large audience, because of of this many people went to see the film despite it's low critical reviews. 

Synopsis 

After the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons that leveled Chicago, humanity thinks that all alien robots are a threat. So Harold Attinger, a CIA agent, establishes a unit whose sole purpose is to hunt down all of them. But it turns out that they are aided by another alien robot who is searching for Optimus Prime. Cade Yeager, a "robotics expert", buys an old truck and upon examining it, he thinks it's a Transformer. When he powers it up, he discovers it's Optimus Prime. Later, men from the unit show up looking for Optimus. He helps Yeager and his daughter Tessa escape but are pursued by the hunter. They escape and Yeager learns from technology he took from the men that a technology magnate and defense contractor named Joshua Joyce is part of what's going on, so they go to find out what's going on.

Trailer

Director: Michael Bay is the director which is significant as he is responsible for being the director of other Transformer films. Therefore he is part of the franchise and why people go and see the latest film. Michael Bay is also responsible for directing the films below -  

Writer: Ehren Kruger is an American screenwriter and film producer. He is best known for writing three of the four films in the Transformers film series which are Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon and Age of Extinction. Ehren Kruger also wrote - 

Stars: Mark Wahlberg is an American actor, producer, businessman, former model, and rapper. Nicola Peltz is an American actress who starred as Tessa Yeager in the fourth Transformers film, Transformers: Age of Extinction. Jack Reynor is an Irish actor who starred in the blockbuster Transformers: Age of Extinction. Marl Wahlberg also starred in - 

Box Office (US) - 

Budget: $210,000,000 (Estimated) 

Opening Weekend: $100,038,390 (USA)

Gross: $245,428,137

Therefore, just relating to this information, the film wasn't successful in the sense that it didn't reach even half the budget in the opening weekend. Compared to Star Wars: The Force Awakens which budget was $306 million and made $529 million in the opening weekend and then went on to make a gross of $1.513 billion.

Reviews

Pictured above are comprehensive critical reviews which conclude with evaluation about how the film wasn't a success. Without bluntly saying the film was bad, they evaluate why.

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Editing Quiz

1) What is the 180 degree rule?

The 180 degree rule is whereby the camera must show the actors in the same position in relation to each other. The camera must follow a invisible axis to achieve this. 1/1

2) Describe match on action 

Is when an actors movement is copied in to another scene to follow through the movement. 1/1

3) What is a jump cut?

An fast and abrupt transition to another scene. 1/1

4) Describe shot reverse shot

When the shot shows the response to the following shot. For example if an actor is looking at someone in one shot, the next shot will show the other actor looking back. 1/1

5) What is a continuity error?

When the film/ production has faults in accuracy. For example if in one shot the actor is wearing a red shirt then in the next shot there wearing a blue shirt then thats a continuity error. 1/1

6) What is eye line match?

Where in on shot it shows the actor looking at something then in the next shot it shows what the actor was looking at.1/1

7) What is cross cutting?

The camera will cut away from one action to another action to show the similarity between them. 1/1

8) Why is pace important in video editing?

As it if an edit is fast paced it can make the video seem dramatic and if you were to slow it down it will become less dramatised therefore video editing can impact the feel of the film/ production. 2/3

9) What is wipe/ fade in transitions?

Wipe- where the scene slides across the scene 
Fade- where the scene gradually appears on the screen 2/2

10) List 3 types of editing special effects- 0/3