...Business Proposal - Economic Analysis ECO/561 Abstract Tuquituqui is an upscale venue/bar where indie music lovers and art enthusiast can gather and enjoy the Chelsea area in New York. Offering a variety of top industry live acts and guest DJs, this venue will bring an urban chic ambiance in a casual setting where all can feel its artistic influence. At 4500 sq ft in size, Tuquituqui offers a full stock bar with reasonably priced drinks, which would include a great variety of domestic, imported and specialty beers, and assorted cocktails. Tuquituqui is a getaway to drink, dance and talk the night away while viding to the best selection of house and indie rock music. A unique experience of L.A. meets NY —Tuquituqui will surely be the preferred location for the alternative NY night going crowd. Tuquituqui will be opened Tuesday through Sunday, and its operating hours will be Sun, Tue-Wed: 8pm to 3am, Thurs-Sat: 8pm to 5am. Our objective is to be ahead of the competition in the Chelsea Area in terms of music, artistic environment, and most importantly, service. Each customer will be given VIP treatment without any discrimination or judgments. Tuquituqui will be known as the only bar in the area able to satisfy the changing tastes of its target customers and will also be a supporter of the arts and upcoming musicians. I. Market Structure Bar establishments form part of the US food service market industry which comprises a large and varied range of away-from home eating...
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...Tuquituqui Bar & Lounge Business Proposal - Economic Analysis ECO/561 Instructor Alan Lane Murcia Student Diana Montenegro March 15, 2014 Abstract Tuquituqui is an upscale venue/bar where indie music lovers and art enthusiast can gather and enjoy the Chelsea area in New York. Offering a variety of top industry live acts and guest DJs, this venue will bring an urban chic ambiance in a casual setting where all can feel its artistic influence. At 4500 sq ft in size, Tuquituqui offers a full stock bar with reasonably priced drinks, which would include a great variety of domestic, imported and specialty beers, and assorted cocktails. Tuquituqui is a getaway to drink, dance and talk the night away while viding to the best selection of house and indie rock music. A unique experience of L.A. meets NY —Tuquituqui will surely be the preferred location for the alternative NY night going crowd. Tuquituqui will be opened Tuesday through Sunday, and its operating hours will be Sun, Tue-Wed: 8pm to 3am, Thurs-Sat: 8pm to 5am. Our objective is to be ahead of the competition in the Chelsea Area in terms of music, artistic environment, and most importantly, service. Each customer will be given VIP treatment without any discrimination or judgments. Tuquituqui will be known as the only bar in the area able to satisfy the changing tastes of its target customers and will also be a supporter of the arts and upcoming musicians. I. Market Structure Bar establishments form part of the US food...
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...the Philippine cinema, Mr. Castro has helped revolutionize and create different kinds of plots through unique kinds of approaches, not only in rom -coms, but also for independent films. A bright future ahead of him, Mr. Jade Castro is one of the Philippines ’ special and unique talents that will surely create a lot of buzz and change within the audience and the country. Extraordinary Newbie Jade Castro graduated last 2000 as a film major from UP Diliman. As a fresh graduate, he first ventured onto the world of television. He worked for ABS -CBN and Star Cinema as a member of Concept Development Group and a script brainstormer, and directed my personal favorite, It Might Be You, where the tandem of Bea and John Llyod was first to be featured. But there seemed to be something missing for Jade. It wasn’t television that he felt was the best medium to express his artistry. 2The All-Around Gem “But I really want to focus on films so I handled script continuity for Direk Uro de la Cruz in movies he was doing for Regal like Bahay ni Lola,Singsing ni Lola and Bakit Papa with the SexBomb. I learned so much from him. Then I also learned writing scripts from Ricky Lee and I wrote the comedy D’Anothers starring Vhong Navarro for Star Cinema.” The pubescent film, First Day High was also Jade’s first ever film project as a scriptwriter. Picture, picture! Before First Day High (2007), Jade, with fellow writers Raymond Lee and Emman dela Cruz, formed UFO Pictures to support and help...
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...The symbiosis with which the blockbuster and the independent film have coexisted for the past fifty years is the result of taking advantage of each other’s success to survive. Hollywood’s blockbuster era is traditionally held to have begun with Stephan Spielberg’s 1975 film Jaws however without the George Lucas helmed success that was Star Wars two years later, it is unclear how long it would have taken studio execs to figure out the formula for blockbuster success. The formula thus devised continues to be used every summer since with success to this day. Although these two trend setters were relatively low budget for their time, the traditional definition of a blockbuster movie is of a high-budget production, mass marketed with associated merchandising and tie-ins. It is interesting to note that with summer becoming the de facto rule for these type of release, recent mega-blockbusters, such as this year’s Last Jedi have been released out of season to both thin out the competition created by summer blockbuster season, as well as giving that competition, in the form of competing...
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...Film Viewer Opinion Paper Movies are a big part of life. People love movies because they can relate to them. Others like them for mere enjoyment and see them as an escape from reality if only for a few hours. The types of movies out in the world today are numerous. There is everything from horror movies, to romantic comedies, to drama, to documentaries, indie movies, foreign, and so on. Everyone has their taste of movies, and people decide to watch certain movies based on the actors and actresses who are staring in them and the storyline of the movie. These are all things that help people decide which movies are enjoyable to them, and which ones are not. Deciding Which Films to Watch Ramon decides on what movies to watch with careful consideration. Any movies that have actors that Ramon doesn't like he will not go spend money on them. In his opinion, some actors play the same role over and over again. A perfect example of this is the lead actress in the Twilight Saga movies. Ramon thinks that they could have found a better actress to play the part of Bella, some who could have played a role that was different from all her other movies. He also bases his decision on the type of movie it is. Scary movies, romantic comedies, and action thrillers are some movies that Ramon likes to see. Action movies that do not involve a love story, or have the story be about the love interest is another factor in my decision making. What Makes a Film Enjoyable? The movies...
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...A Better Life is a movie directed by Chris Weitz illustrating the life of an illegal immigrant from Mexico and his son and a few of the struggles they face. Weitz has made it clear that this film is not to push any kind of political agenda as he says, “I hoped that when people go and see this film, they think it's not a tub-thumping movie.” He has stated that he wanted to make this movie to connect more with his heritage and to highlight a few struggles that immigrants have to face in America today. The film shows what is familiar to me in a few ways because like Luis, I find it hard to relate to my culture. My parents came over to America with nothing, trying to escape a war-torn country still recovering and adapting to a new government. Carlos to me represents a parallel to my parents and Luis is a parallel to me and my brother. I'm the kid that never bothered to really learn Vietnamese as a child. I feel that Luis is the same as me. We are both 'Americanized' and felt no need to learn or remember our cultures until some event or thought opens our eyes to it. In the movie, “Luis sees the culture of his father's part of Mexico.” when Luis says he does not remember his mom singing the song from the rodeo as his dad says she did. It hit home with how Luis did not remember his father singing him songs to put him to sleep as a child because it...
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...John Specht 2/22/14 Film Clerks Clerks written and directed by Kevin Smith. First off I picked a film made by Kevin Smith mainly because he is my favorite writer and director. He also makes it seem like anyone can become a film maker after Clerks was made and it was picked up by Miramax and it was only made for less than twenty eight thousand dollars. This was Kevin Smiths first film in which then several others has followed. Clerks main plot line is two convince store clerks who are in their twenties that go through their day to day lives while talking about their past and future. This movie is based on actual experience of Kevin Smith and is actually filmed in the same store in which he worked in. The whole movie is shot in black and white. You would think it is because of some mood or such Kevin Smith was trying to get. However though, the decision to film the whole movie in black and white was made simply because of the lighting that was in the store as they filmed the movie was interfering with the camera and so he decided to do it all in black and white since it was a lot cheaper than getting extra equipment to make the lighting just right. The two main charters names is Dante and Randal. Dante runs the actual store and Randal runs the video store who is Dante’s best friend. Dante’s charter is based on Kevin Smith and Randal is based on his long time friend from childhood Bryan Johnson. Some of the support charters include Dante’s current girlfriend...
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...Bangladeshi Films: Mainstream Films vs. Alternative Cinemas Submitted to: Ariful Islam Lecturer, Department of English East West University Submitted By: MD. Zaidul Haque ID: 2013-1-10-149 Department of BBA East West University Date of Submission: June 20, 2013 Bangladeshi Films: Bangladesh is varies cultural country. The establishment of film theatres began here in the 1910s, but the production of theatrical features started as late as the 1950s. On April 24, 1898, the Bengali weekly Dhaka Prakash reported that films were shown in Dhaka by the Bradford Bioscope Company, at the Crown Theatre, in Patuatuli, near Sadarghat. The show included news items and other short features. The first permanent cinema in Dhaka, named Picture House, began operation during 1913–1914. This cinema was renamed to New Picture House and then again to Shabistan. By 1947 there were around 80 cinemas in what is now Bangladesh. After the partition of India in 1947, the first film made in East Pakistan was a newsreel about the visit of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, produced in 1948 by the radio broadcaster Nazir Ahmed. The first full-length feature film with sound made in East Pakistan was Mukh O Mukhosh, which was produced by Abdul Jabbar Khan and released on August 3, 1956. Editing, printing and all other film processing for this movie was done in Lahore, Pakistan There was no film industry...
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...CINEMATIC REVOLUTION: AN ANALYSIS ON THE BOX OFFICE HIT FILM “HENERAL LUNA” AS PERCEIVED BY SELECTED: FILM EXPERTS, MARKETING EXPERTS, HISTORIANS AND MASS COMMUNICATION STUDENTS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Letters Bulacan State University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication Major in Broadcasting by Adolfo, Jasmine Faye M. Añonuevo, Sabbyna R. Cara, Angelica P. Paguiligan, Noemi D. BAMC 4B Mr. Regemrei P. Bernardo MARCH 2016 Chapter I The Problem and Its Setting INTRODUCTION A film is a characterization of diverse emotions and motions of a society (Santillan, 1998, 155, as cited in Campomanes, 2015). As disciplines and fields of knowledge, History and Film differ from their own characteristics and potencies however as in the teaching of history, there are times when their relationship is evident. According to CCP (1994) historical films are “films based on biographies and events in the distant past.” Following this definition, it has been said that there are two kinds of historical films, one that uses history only as a context and the latter that attempts to directly represent a historical period, place or personality. (Navarro 2008, 134 as cited in Campomanes, 2015) The amount of information we gain from a book can hardly be equaled to the ones we gain in a film for the reason that a film is limited with its running time. Although with that being...
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...MGMT-780-623 - Week 3 Assignment The Movie Exhibition Industry: 2011 SWOT Analysis Strengths Internal – new digital technology with 3D optional feature, buildings (whether rented or owned) are large (most are multi and megaplex style) External – leverage in both the concession industry and the distribution industry Weaknesses Internal – rely on concessions and advertisements, concession pricing, experience largely the same as every competitor External – content, consumer income, marketing of movies relies on studio production companies, split sales with distributors Opportunities Internal – content choices, experience, concession options External – growing middle class, rebound from recession Threats Internal – only way to increase revenue is through increased concession costs or increased advertising before movie viewing External – home theater technology, release windows getting shorter, streaming video companies How can a company achieve a competitive advantage in this industry? For a company in the movie exhibition industry, a few simple things can be done to achieve a competitive advantage over other companies in the industry. First, let’s define competitive advantage. Competitive advantage, as defined by our Strategic Management textbook, is a “firm’s resources and capabilities that enable it to overcome the competitive forces in its industry.” Independent Content, Customer Experience, Local Concession Options One way for a company...
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...SUBJ: A Look at the Competition Within the Movie Rental Industry EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Analysis: The competitive forces in the movie rental industry are quite strong, as I will explain through the five forces model. There are a vast amount of substitutes for watching a movie. You can go to a play, sporting event, concert, out the lake/beach, go for a run, watch regular television, go shopping; I could go on and on. Also, torrenting or pirating movies is growing increasingly popular. Buyers have a strong presence in this industry mainly because they are picky about how much they will pay to rent or stream a movie. With the amount of substitutes and their pickiness, they make this industry more competitive than what it may seem. Suppliers can make this industry very difficult because there is so much red tape in the movie industry. There are copyrights and restrictions on everything. This gives the supplier a lot of leverage and for the most part, they know that they can demand a price of just about anything. I see the potential and threat of new entrants being moderate to strong. First off; many customers have their loyalties whether it be to Netflix, Redbox or a local hometown movie rental. Secondly; pricing, availability and quality are all key factors. Lastly you have to have a large sum of money upfront in order to get the ball rolling. As I mentioned prior, gaining rights from movie companies is not cheap. The rivalry among the competitors is rather intense as they...
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...Final Film Critique – LA Confidential Adam Ehinger Ashford University: ENG225 Instructor Michael O'Donnell 1/31/2015 Sometimes a movie makes a lasting impression on you as an individual, sometimes you'll come back to this movie time and time again. LA Confidential (1997) is a combination of a star studded cast and a scintillating detective story set in the 50's. The movie combines all aspects of movie making, from acting, directing, writing, mise en scene and all sorts of film techniques to make one of the most entertaining noir's you'll ever see. LA Confidential (1997) is directed by Curtis Hanson, he doesn't have this prolific history of stunning movies like some other directing heavy weights but he handles an a-list cast and directing duties admirably here. While most of the big names in the cast weren't technically BIG names yet they must have still had personalities or needed work to get the job done. Notably at least to me is Kim Basinger, someone who usually I do not enjoy, usually a weak point in movies for me, but in this she is perfectly fine, nothing to much, but not noticeable like usual, a feat in directing to me. The cast is name after name, Russel Crowe as the ham fisted Officer Bud White, Kevin Spacey playing the mercurial Detective Jack Vincennes, Guy Pearce in my eyes as his break out performance playing the golden child Ed Exley. You have a plethora of famous character actors to back these boys up, David Strathairn as...
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...Focus Paper Two: Studio C! Theater vs. NCG Cinema Focus Store: Studio C Theater 1999 Central Park Dr, Okemos, MI 48864 Visited 3/24/15 – 1.5 hours Competitor: NCG Cinema Eastwood Towne Center, 2 500 Showtime Dr, Lansing, MI 48906 Visited 3/25/15 - 3.5 hours Total hours: 5 hours Focus Paper Two Part One (Introduction): The intention of this paper is to take my focus store, Studio C! movie theater, and compare it to the other local movie theater, NCG cinemas. At the heart of both of these companies is the fact that they are both in the business of showing movies. However, when it comes to what sets the two of them apart, in both successful and unsuccessful ways, the experience that happens at each of the companies differs greatly. Part Two: How Studio C effectively incorporates good customer service. 1. Don’t sell stuff…sell experiences: As mentioned in my first paper, Studio C is unlike any other movie theater in that there is a Bistro and full bar inside for the customers to enjoy along with their movie. Prior to a place like studio C, the only place people could eat full entrees whilst watching a movie was at home on their couch. That is an experience that Studio C holds in high regard. Another thing that they do that allows for a great experience is the fact that it is in such a small and intimate building, that is always staffed the perfect amount so that a worker is always around if you need anyone. Most theaters seem to have only a few people...
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...experimental indie film directed by Godfrey Reggio. Koyannisqatsi comes from the Hopi language; meaning “life out of balance”. The film is meant to show what happens when technology is introduced. The film includes many shots of nature and people excluding dialogue and narration. Music from Philip Glass featuring Hopi chants is played throughout the duration of the movie. The film was peculiar in a lot of ways. Koyaanisiqatsi begins with cave depictions and different shots of nature. It is meant to show a more peaceful time without technology. It makes a sudden shift to a coal mining trucks, oil fields, and atomic bombs. Reggio includes this to show destruction to nature. The film is meant to make you feel uncomfortable...
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...Digital transformation [pic] Summer 2008: Dramatic developments in digital technologies and the diffusion of the Internet protocol as an open and efficient communication standard are wiping out the specialized symbiotic link between content and technology. That’s how Gianvito Lanzolla and Jamie Anderson see the digital world, and here they reveal three trends that companies need to prepare for. Comments In the past, media and technology industries operated through specialized value chains with clearly defined boundaries. Mobile phones were used to make simple voice calls, Walkmans were used to play cassette tapes, and computers existed mainly to crunch data. But new technologies have made it possible to convert different kinds of content – a radio programme, a book, a magazine, a song, a phone call – into digital data; in digital terms, there is little difference between them. At the same time, the Internet and other communication networks based on Internet protocol have made it possible to distribute this digitized content in costeffective and ubiquitous ways. The extent and nature of these changes and their consequent strategic implications remain substantially misunderstood. While some studies have been made, they have mainly had an industry-specific focus, with the consequent limitation of overlooking the systemic effect of ongoing transformations. In order to address this limitation, we researched current transformations in media, telecommunications and technology...
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