Wednesday 28 September 2016

Star Wars; The Force Awakens Questions

1) George Lucas owns Lucasfilm
2) George Lucas formed Lucasfilm
3) Lucasfilm was formed in 1971
4) Kathleen Kennedy
5) They have worked on the Indiana Jones films.
6) Lucasfilm was sold for $4.05 billion
7) JJ Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan and Michael Arndt wrote STar Wars the force awakens
8) It was directed by JJ ABrams
9) This director also directed all the mission impossible films, Star Trek films,
10) There has been 7 Star Wars films, A new hope, empire strikes back, return of the jedi, The phantom menace, Attack of the clones, Revenge of the sith and the force awakens.
11) Star wars a new hope made 3 billion dollars at the box office.
Star wars the force awakens made 2 billion dollar at the box office.
The empire strikes back made 1.5 billion at box office
12) the first star wars film was released in 1977
13) ILM stands for Industrial light and magic.
14) ILM is visual effects brings things to life...
15) George Lucas created ILM
16)They created ILM so that they could make characters which were possible for humans to play possible by bringing them to life with ILM.
17) Casting directors assign roles to the characters.
18) The first scenes of star wars were filmed in Abu Dhabi
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20) They filmned using IMAX cameras.
21) The studios were in ENgland iceland and Ireland.
22) The film studio was at pinewood.
23) Pinewood is also where the James Bond films are shot.
24) James Bond links to Star Wars because Daniel Craig plays in both and because they are both moving to a studio called "Troy Studios"
25) The inspiration for the character Maz Kanata was JJ Abrams old English teacher who sadly passed away.
26) CGI was the technology that brought Maz Kanata to life in Star Wars and a motion suit which is where they put dots on Lupita Nyongo and the dots bring her movement to the computer and CGI adds them to the character they want.
27) Lupita Nyongo played Maz Kanata in Star Wars who is famous for playing the main woman role in 12 years a slave. She won an oscar for this role.
28) Andy Serkis played the role of General Snokes
29) Andy is best know for his performance capture roles. Like what Lupita did.
30) The last scene of Star Wars was filmed in Skellig Michael which is an island near Ireland. This is where Rej meets Luke.
31) John Williams produced the scores in all of the star wars films including The Force Awakens.
32) John has composed the music for all 7 films.
33) John Williams has also done the soundtrack for Harry Potter the prisoner of Azkaban, the chamber of secrets, Sorcerers stone, Indiana Jones films, Jaws, Superman...
34) It took John Bodega  auditions before he got the part as Star Wars.
35) This audition process was done over 7 months.  
36) ! person physically moves B-B8 but many people built it and designed it.
37) The main version of B-B8 was a physical prop but his voice was used by sound affects. Many people said using CGI would be easier but Abrams wanted a physical prop.
38) B-B8's operator wore a green suit so he could be cropped out easily or added to green screen.
39) He needed to wear this suit so he could be like a green screen so they could add a background too him or so they could crop him out easily.
40) Abrams wanted to make this star wars film as close visually as the original so he used every CG tool known to mankind, this was because he wanted to connect the original to this one.
41) More than 200 people were behind the monitor at the moment Han Solo and Chewie returned to the Falcon because it was such and emotional and touching time.
42) Simon Pegg's name wa included in the credits for Star Wars because he came up with ideas for the film and he was just a good friend to Abrams thats why he got a thanks in the credits.
43) IMAX is a type of cinematography which produces images about 10x larger than a standard 35mm film.
44) Nearly 1000 IMAX screens was showing Star Wars globally.
45) The age rating for Star Wars the force awakens was PG.
46) The UK government contributed £31.6 millions towards Star Wars which is 13% to the massive £236 million pound budget of Star Wars 7.
47) Harrison Ford was paid a massive $20 million for Star Wars 7.
48) John Bodega and Daisy Ridley were only payed between $100,000 and $300,000 which is nearly 50x less than Harrison even though they play a bigger part in the film, is this fair?

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