A conglomerate film company has many impacts regarding the production and advertisement of a film. Their huge budgets and equipment, as well as connections (producers, actors etc…) allow them to make ‘top of the line’ films and attract a large following of consumers/ audiences through the merchandise the conglomerate supplies.
Conglomerate film companies have huge budgets, meaning they can afford to really invest a lot of people, time and money into SFX and CGI. Huge film companies such as Warner Bros have their own Studio (Warner Bros Studios) meaning that they can graphically design their own movies without putting in the additional cost of hiring new equipment and graphic designers. It also allows them to save large amounts of time as the same people who produce the film can also monitor the designing of the film. For instance, the film ‘Wonder Woman’ has budget of two hundred million US and paid the actress Gal Gaddot three hundred thousand US dollars. They hired a large cast of actors and trainers for the film. For the ‘Beach warfare’ scene, they split the extras and trainers into two groups to prepare them for the final edits and shots. The extras (Amazon women) were ex-athletes, actresses and fitness coaches to fit the buff role of the warriors women. They were trained in martial arts and how to ride horses for the fight scene on the beach front of Themyscira. The two main actors, Chris Pine and Gal Gaddot were in a separate group with the director, being told how to act and what to feel in each of the scenes and practiced their cues for lines and actions throughout the film. The large budget also helped the film to be set and recorded in different locations around the world. The film was shot in three different countries, England, Italy and France. This helps attract a larger, multicultural and multinational audience, which ultimately is wanted as it creates a larger revenue for the producers and cast members.
Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins and shot by Matthew Jenson, was primarily shot on 35mm film with Panavision Primo spherical prime lenses, which Workman recommends as a go-to for features. The film was shot with Panavision Millennium Cameras with slow-motion scenes done digitally on the Phantom at five hundred FPS to get a crisps and smooth motion picture. Wonder Woman wasn’t filmed on IMAX, but Warner Bros released an IMAX 3D version of the film by simply stretching the images of the film. Although it can distort the image, the film being 35mm creates no obvious difference in quality and it is cheaper to stretch the image rather than record it on an IMAX camera. Warner Bros being a huge conglomerate made it easy for them to film Wonder Woman as they have their own backlog of cameras, lenses and 35mm recording tape in storage houses.
A film company as big as Warner Bros gives them the opportunity to re-write history and change many opinion of political and societal topics in the world. Their idea behind the film was to create a strong, independent, feminist character. Wonder Woman (the hero) represents all women and the fight for love and peace. She fights the God Aeres, who enslaves mankind to fight for power and greed. Diana fights against this, and dictates throughout the film that she wants men to feel love and passion. This gives her the strong strength, and speed that a masculine character would have along with her female qualities such as her beauty, feeling of love and mercy. The film was directed by Patty Jenkins, which was done by the producers so a large female audience could be gained as having a female lead character and director allowed them to bond to the viewers and give a woman’s insight and opinion of the society at the time (set in 1918 so women weren’t equal to men, as shown in the film as Diana is thrown out of the meeting consisting of male army officers and generals).
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