Totally Tockington Edition 81

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Cost of Cinema by Georgina Loring

We all take movies and going to the cinema for granted, plus our parents pay for it but what are they

REALLY paying?

First of all I am going to compare the prices of just going to the cinema

Cinema Adult

Child

Family

Senior

Student

VIP Seats

VUE 7.29-10.79

5.29-

8.29

21.16-

33.16

5.29-8.29 6.29-9.29 +1.80

showcase 8.00 6.85 26.00 6.85 7.80 +3.50

Odeon 6.25 5.10 20.00 5.10 5.10 +1.10

Cineworld 7.16 4.91 21.44 5.36 5.36 ______

Average 8.05 6.08 25.15 6.40 6.88 ______

Theses Averages are calculated using the highest figure in the range for the VUE cinema.

So thats the price of the cinema but you will probably spend more than that also on food, drink and things

like 3D glasses.

Now Im going to look at value for money

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VUE cinema

Team B Edition 81 May 14th 2015

Founded by Ben Owen 2011

Editorial

Hello and welcome to another issue of Totally Tockington, the paper written BY students FOR students. This

weeks theme is films/movies and what a paper we have today!

Lily tells you all the secrets of a film in her brilliant article on behind the scenes, Ben tells you everything you

need to know about Woolly Mammoths, Iona has found out what everybodys favourite films are and

Georgina asks if cinemas charge too much. All this and more in another brilliant issue of Totally Tockington!

Tabitha Huby

Editor Team B

by Isabelle Preston

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TMS Favourite Films

by Iona Campbell

I asked some people around school what their

favourite film was and this is what they said:

Ms Case: Somersby

Iona (me): Over the Hedge

Carmen: Home

Maddie: Alexander and the No Good, Terrible

Very Bad Day

Isabelle P: The Two Brothers

Georgina: Folly Foot

Tabitha: Home Alone

Lewis: Marvel

Ella: Monty Carlo

Beth: Forest Gump

Victoria: Pitch Perfect

Olivia B: Unbroken

What is yours?!?!

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VUE cinema I have been there many times and it is good value

for money. The food is very expensive, but delicious

,though you could probably get it cheaper from

somewhere like Tescos.

Showcase Cinema de Luxe

The cinema itself is de luxe and great value for

money, but the customer service (from what Ive

read) isnt quite up to scratch. I, never having been

there, cant tell you a first-hand experience. Perhaps

some of you have been there? Write in and let us

know your thoughts!

Odeon Said to be quite quiet friendly and good quality.

So there are just a few of the cinemas around

Bristol. Which one will you choose?

Acknowledgments

www.tripadvisor.co.uk

www.myvue.com

www.odeon.co.uk

www.showcasecinemas.co.uk

Write a funny caption for this photograph and win

yourself a prize. Hand entries to Tabitha Huby.

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THE AGE OF CINEMA

by Rachel Shutt

We all go to the cinema but where did it all start?

America and Hollywood!

Cinemas were not what they are like today. No nice

seats to sit in, popcorn or 3d cinema films. Films were

created after the invention of the camera in 1827.

Mirrors were used to reflect pictures but, in the late

1800, projectors were used to send pictures to a wall.

Before the 1920s if you went to watch a film or

movie you would watch a black and white film (no

colour) with no sound. These were called Silent Films.

In the 1920s Classic Hollywood produced films that

werent silent. You could hear people speak! This was

seen as the Golden Years of Hollywood. This style of

watching films lasted until 1963.

Cinema developed over the years to show more

action packed films for all ages. Where would we be

without MyVue?

Emma Watson by Anya Constantinescu

Emma Watson is one of my favourite actresses.

She is most famous for playing Hermione

Granger in the Harry Potter film series. Watson is

now a popular adult actress and she has played

in many films such as the Perks of Being a Wall

Flower and Noah. I believe that she is playing

Belle in Beauty and the Beast in 2017, (I cant

wait)!

Her life! Emma Watson was born on April 15, 1990, in

Paris. Her parents are both British lawyers their names are Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson.

She has a brother called Alex who was born three

years later than her. After her parents broke up,

she moved back to Oxfordshire in England with

her mum and brother.

Life as an Actress

Emma went to the Stagecoach Theatre Arts School in Oxford. She studied singing, acting and

dancing. When she was seven she won a poetry

competition. She wasnt a professional actress.

Her teacher recommended her to agents who

were looking for young actresses when she got

chosen to be Hermione. Emma Watson had eight

auditions before J.K. Rowling said she wanted

her for the role of Hermione just by seeing her

first screen test.

Ice Age

Woolly Mammoth by Ben Jacobi

The woolly mammoth was an enormous mammal

that once roamed the frozen Arctic northern

landscapes. Mammoths are closely related to the

modern-day elephant. The Woolly Mammoth

remained in the wild until roughly 1700 BC when

it became extinct.

Woolly mammoths were huge, with adults often

reaching heights of four meters or more. They

had a thick long coat that kept them warm. They

weighed between 5 and 7 tons. As elephants do

today, the woolly mammoth had enormous tusks

which would have been used for both digging and

collecting food, and for fighting off both predators

and rivals. The tusks of the woolly mammoth

were often quite curved and could easily be up to

5 meters long. The woolly mammoth was a herbivorous animal meaning that it only ate

plants and berries.

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How Projectors Work By Otis Walker

Cinema projectors were developed in 1895 by two French brothers named Auguste and

Louis Lumire. The projector that is positioned behind the audience, throws an image over

their heads onto a screen in front of them.

Celluloid film (old fashioned) -

There is a reel of film, which is made up of still pictures (aka. frames) which are fed into a

projector by the feeder reel in a continuous flow. The film goes down through the gate into

the middle of the projector, where a

very bright light bulb shines projecting

the picture out onto the screen. And a

shutter turns around while the claw

keeps feeding the images onto the

take-up reel. The projector also plays

the sound that accompanies the

moving images.

The problem with this type of imaging

is that the film wears out and gets

scratched every time it is played

therefore it does not last that long.

Digital light projectors - new technologies are changing

the way films are recorded. Movies can be stored as

digital data. The projector reads the data and displays it as

a series of still frames. These images are projected in

sequence and produce the illusion of motion. This is what

we use in modern day cinemas.

by William Sheppard

Have you heard of the new film Big Hero 6? Of course you have! In my opinion, it is the

best Disney film yet.

Did you know ?

When Big Hero 6 was in the cinema, you could see a really good trailer of it on an app could flixter.

You can see the ratings of films in cinemas

You can see what is upcoming for films

You can see what is going to come in to cinemas.

Big Hero 6 was rated 100% on flixter.

I think this film is for the whole family.

By the why what American city does San Franokio sound like? I will give you a clue San

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Favourite Cinema Treats

by Jacob Browning

I asked people what treats they liked to have when they went to the cinema and this is

what I found out

Tom Edwards = Sprite / Popcorn

Mrs Gooch = White Chocolate Jazzers / Pink Choc Mice

Mr Perez = Nachos / Popcorn / Coke

Jacob Browning = Coke / Nachos / Sweet Popcorn

Mme Veron = Sweet Popcorn

Ben Jacobi = Salty Popcorn / Fanta

Mr Weeks = Haribo / Coke

Miss Fox = Sweet Popcorn

Archie Symonds = Mixed Tango Freeze / Sweet Popcorn

Ms Case = Revels

Mrs Mockridge = Sweet Popcorn

Most People Like Sweet

Popcorn

THE FIRST CARTOONS

By Toby Gaulton

The first cartoon was Fantasmagorie (1908). It is the earliest example of a cartoon and was hand-

drawn.

Early Years

Some people say that paleolithic cave paintings are a type of cartoon because the animals often have

lots of legs on top of each other to make it look like they are moving.

The First Mickey Mouse Production

The first Mickey Mouse production was the Steamboat Willie. Now Mickey Mouse is one of the worlds

BEST films!!!!!

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BEHIND THE SCENES OF A MOVIE By Lily Edwards

I love watching films in fact I went to see Cinderella at the cinema this weekend which was

BRILLIANT! But apart from the main actors, have you ever wondered what goes on behind the

scenes of a film to get it to how it looks when you get to watch it? I have, so I decided to find out

some more.

There are LOADS of different jobs and people who help make a movie. There are people in Pre-

production jobs. There are people like costume makers and people who make up monsters;

people who design and make the sets and scenery; people who do the actors make up and, of

course, the important job of writing the script for the actors.

There are also people in Production jobs. These are people like the cameraman or woman, the

gafferthis is a funny word and I found out it means the lighting person, who is in charge of

making sure it all looks right; of course the actors, who tell the story that the script writer has

written for them; and the director, who makes sure everyone does what they should be doing.

Lastly, there are people in Post production jobs. They are people who put the music over the film

( the soundtrack), the animators - they add the special effects to the film- and the editors (like

Georgina and Tabitha) who put all the scenes, the music and the special effects together to make

the finished film. They also get rid of mistakes like people forgetting their lines!!

I think it must be very busy when you are making a film with all these people. Also, it has made

me think about the work that goes into movies and I might think a bit more about it when I next go

to the cinema!

What job would YOU like to do? Write in and tell us put your name and job title on the line below

and give it to me and we will put you in our next edition! Who knows, you might be famous one

day!

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I used the website www.raindance.org/behind thescenes to help me with this article.

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Stunt Performers By Harry Mather

A stunt performer can be either a man or woman who performs stunts for films and television

programmes. Stunts can include falls from high buildings, car crashes and some sort of explosion.

This can be a very dangerous job, so the stunt men and women have to plan all stunts very

carefully.

Stunt work in films began in the early 1900s with famous actors such as Buster Keaton and

Harold Lloyd doing all of their own stunts. Many actors today do some of the stunts in films, such

as Daniel Craig in the James Bond films. However, the more dangerous parts are performed by

trained stuntmen. Stunt doubles, who look like the actors, perform the dangerous stunts in films

and television programmes.

Stunt men and women are highly trained and must be members of a professional stunt

organisation. All stunts must be carefully planned and worked out ahead of any filming with many

rehearsals of the stunt.

The demand for more exciting and dangerous stunts happened in the 1960s and 1970s with more

action films. Many stunt performers worked hard to develop new methods of performing stunts

especially with cars and motor bikes. A man called Evel Knievel developed methods of leaping

over objects on a motor bike and this was used in many films.

It remains a highly risky job and even though there are greater safety levels some stunt

performers still have serious accidents and deaths happen in the process of making a film. In

famous films such as Top Gun stunt performers have died.

It is always worth remembering when you next watch an action film or programme the hard work

and risks that the stunt performer puts into their work.

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By Carmen Rey-Jones

T O I M A T I L D A

P E V A R B S S Z J

B S D O O R C E H T

O V T O Y S T O R Y

L T A N G L E D V H

T N D M K E R H S O

K Z A N N I E I P G

N E Z O R F R K Z N

E N O L A E M O H A

B G N I K N O I L R

ANNIE MATILDA

BOLT RANGO

BRAVE SHREK

FROZEN TANGLED

HOME ALONE THE CROODS

LION KING TOY STORY

Advantages and Disadvantages of

being a Famous Actor

By Tabitha Huby

Advantages

You get to be in films

You get to meet other famous people

You get to do what you love

You have lots of fans

You get lots of money!

Disadvantages

Paparazzi

You have to work long hours

You can be away from your home for a long time

You will have to practise lots of lines

Lack of sleep

Having little privacy

Being watched everywhere you go

Having to write autographs

Having to go to lots of ceremonies etc

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Paddington By Talia Curtis

Michael Bond is the creator of Paddington. He began writing in 1945 and sold his first short story,

to a magazine called London Opinion in 1958. This made him to want be become a writer. The

Paddington books have sold more than thirty-five million copies and have also been translated into

forty languages, including Latin. He still is writing and lives in London, not far from Paddington

Station where it began.

In 2014, a film came out about the Most Loveable Bear in the World. Paddington is an

exceedingly polite bear from Peru but still wears a duffle coat, has a battered suit-case and still

likes Marmalade ! In the new film Paddington is more of a bear cub rather than a teddy bear but

still speaks excellent English.

Umm, he looks like a hungry

bear. I wonder if he would

like a marmalade sandwich

We now have copies of Paddington Bear stories in the Bookshop. Check them out they are only

50 p each and they wont be on the shelves for long!!

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Avengers: Age of Ultron By Henry Packham

Avengers: Age of Ultron is a film about

superheroes based on the Marvel Comics. It is the

sequel to 2012s The Avengers and the cast

includes Ironman, Hulk, Captain America, Black

Widow, and Hawkeye.

The baddies are Ultron and Baron Wolfgang von

Strucker.

The story starts off in the Eastern European city of

Sokovia where the Avengers stop the evil Baron

Wolfgang von Strucker from experimenting on

humans using the sceptre. This was the weapon

the evil Loki used in the previous film. Tony Stark

(Ironman) and Bruce Banner (Hulk) use the special

powers of the sceptres gem to make a robot called

Ultron.

Ultron is supposed to be a good robot, but it

malfunctions and thinks it has to destroy humans to

save the Earth. It steals the spectre and uses

powers to make an army of evil drones. Ultron

plans to launch New York City into the sky so that

when it crashes back down, it will destroy the

world. Stark and Banner make another really cool

robot called Vision. The Avengers team up and

use Vision to battle against Ultron.

There are all sorts of good versus evil things

happening. Do the Avengers succeed? Youll

have to watch it to find out!

My Day With Evie the Unicorn

A story written by Hannah Williams Hello. Im a normal girl called Jewel and I have a long night to get through before it disappears. I dont bother going to sleep because I dont have an alarm clock, so I stay awake. Besides, I normally go for naps. Finally, its the weekend my birthday! I jump out of bed. Mum, Mum! Wake up! Its my birthday! She faintly opens her eyes and mumbles OK, Im up. I bounce down the stairs to the kitchen. Whilst eating breakfast, I beg Mum again, Please can I have a pony for my Birthday? But Mum always has the same answer its too expensive and weve nowhere to keep a pony. Still, I hope that even though its a low chance, there may come a day when I can. I can cope with that. Okay, please can we go to the cinema then? Yes, replies Mum. What do you want to see? Can we watch Evie the Unicorn? Of course Jewel, Ill book the tickets. Off we went to the cinema. We sat down. Shh Mum! The movie is starting! Dun! Dun! Dun! Hello everybody, Im Evie the Unicorn a cute Unicorn says in a peepy voice. I stare in delight as I drop off. Suddenly everything goes blurry, then Evie is talking to a man and walking right towards me. I duck down but she stops. And this is my rider, Jewel she says. Hello Jewel says the man, my name is Coral. Hello Coral I say politely. Come with us, says Coral. I follow them into a very thorny path and a girl appears. She says some words that sound like blabby blo blah and the path opens up into an enchanted garden, where all my friends are playing toilet tag. I play around with them, Coral and Evie until I start to feel sleepy and lie down for a rest. Did you enjoy the film? Mum asks as we are leaving the cinema. Yes I reply. It was a great adventure!

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Warner Bros. Studio Tour London By Isabel Browning

The Warner Bros. Studios is a great family day out if you like Harry Potter. My Granny bought my family tickets to go there last year and it was amazing. You get to see MOST of the original sets and props including the invisibility cloak and all of the actual wands used it the films, although Daniel Radcliffe broke around 60-70 wands during his time filming the movies. The studios are actually built on top of an old aircraft factory where they used to make all different sorts of planes, including Mosquitos and Bombers. When you arrive at the studios, there are loads of massive buildings (studios) where the movies were filmed.

When you get inside the studios, you go into a hallway and queue up past Harrys bedroom under the stairs and into a room where they show you a video and then let you in. When you are in, you see everything from the Great Hall to Diagon Alley to a (small compared to the actual thing but actually massive) model of Hogwarts, you can even ride a broomstick or drive the Weasleys car. You can also see Aragog (spider), the Nightbus, the Golden Snitch, the Philosophers Stone, all of the masks for the dwarves, Privet Drive. In the Weasleys house, you can even see things moving like the knitting, chopping carrots and even doing the dishes.

I really recommend going there, it is amazing and even if you are not a massive fan, I guarantee you will love it.

The Quidditch

shirts being sold in

the gift shop today,

are made by the

manufacturers that

made them for the

film.

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Time to invade Earth