History of your genre of film

So the film we are designing is sport/drama. This is because the UFC fight and the preparation towards the UFC fight is all sport however the flashback to when Chris Taylor was a child shows a sense of drama. This is because Chris's mum walked out on him when he was just a child so he has had a hard life in and out of foster homes. Spencer found him and gave him the chance to be a somebody, he took the opportunity and now is challenging the world champion for his title... This shows the sense of Drama.

With the film being based around this one fight, you know that this is sport.

 

The second boxing match filmed, listed on the Wikipedia website was "Corbett & Courtney: Before the Kinetograph". This was made in the year 1894 and was a silent film meaning that a lot of the communication would have been through eye contact, body language etc. this means that the film would have mot likely been over-acted making punches and insults a bit extreme with the player flying out the ring, very over acted.

"Corbett & Courtney: Before the Kinetograph" was a short American short black and white film produced by William K.L. Dickinson, starring James J. Corbett. It was only the second boxing match to be filmed after The Leonard-Cushing Fight which had been filmed by Dickinson on June 14 1894. The main two people that starred in the movie were James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney

-The Plot

James J. Corbett & Peter Courtney were both involved in an arranged boxing match under special conditions that it was allowed to be filmed on a Kinetograph. The match consisted of 6, 1 minute rounds, where James J. Corbett was the boxing hero at the time and Peter Courtney was the underdog of the match.

-Production

The film was produced by Edison Manufacturing Company, which had begun making films in 1890 under the direction of William K.L. Dickinson. The entire film, was filmed within the Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey, which is now modernly referred to as "America's First Film Studio"

-Now

The film is now not protected by the copyright laws so therefore it is freely available to download on the internet, however there is a copy kept at 'The Library of Congress"

-Our Film

This boxing film was the start of a new sport, beginning of a super popular sport & the start of sports such as MMA and UFC, taking basic boxing and creating much more with it. This creates a more physical and contact sport.

-More & More

More & More boxing films are being released near to every year being a new one, a new film called "Warrior" is based on 1 man fighting his brother for the UFC world heavyweight title. This is very similar to what we are doing with our film.