Film Research

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Producers/Production company: 
There were three producers, they are; J.J. Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy and Bryan Burk. It had two production companies, these were; Lucasfilm Ltd. and Bad Robot Productions.

Director:
The director is J.J.Abrams.

Screen Writer:
It was written by three people, they were; J.J. Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan and Michael Arndt.

Actors:
The main actors that starred in it were: Harrison Ford as Han Solo, Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Anthony Daniels as C-3PO and Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca.

Budget: 
$306 million

Locations:
There were 10 main filming locations, these were; Ireland (Skellig Michael), Iceland, England (Greenham common), England (Cumbria, Lake District), Scotland, Abu Dhabi, New Mexico, England (Buckinghamshire), England (Gloucestershire) and USA (California).

Screens shown on: 
There were many screens that Star Wars: The Force Awakens appeared on.

Critical reactions: 
The critics consensus was: 'Packed with action and populated by both familiar faces and fresh blood, The Force Awakens successfully recalls the series' former glory while injecting it with renewed energy.' 89% of the audience liked it.

Box Office figures: 
$2.068 billion

Music Composer:
John Williams. He has produced music in all of the Star Wars films. With John Williams music, the film will of had more viewers because other music may not have drawn them in.

Marketing: 
Some of the ways that they did marketing was; teaser trailers, Normal trailers, Posters that were put on the sides of bus stops for example and it was put all over social media which will have attracted a lot of attention as many people use social media.

Tie-in products:
There were a lot of products that were made during the Star Wars franchise, these included; Figurines that range in different sizes, magazines, comics, a lot of lego was made that was in the Star Wars theme, many games were made for XBOX, PC and PS1/2/3  and Star Wars images on top of food packaging.

SFX:
The producers used CGI for a lot of the characters in it. Without it, Star Wars may not have had the same amount of viewers because CGI is very realistic and used in a lot of films which have a high budget, this shows that the film should be good.