The British Film Industry

BFI- Aims to support develop and promote the art forms of the moving image.
British Academy of Films and Television Arts- promote understanding and appreciation of British films and television heritage and culture.
BBFC- An independent, non-government body which classifies and censors films, video, as well as computer and console-based games released in the UK.
British council- The official UK agency for international cultural relation. Its film department promotes new British films (features and shorts), internationally principally through festivals and show cases.
UK film council- Government backed lead agency for film in the UK ensuring that the economic, cultural and educational aspects of film and effectively represented at home and aboard.

Main British production companies

Film 4- Inbetweeners, Finding Eric, Four lions (own channel)
Pathe- Wallace & Gromit, Chicken run, Jeepers creeps
Working title- Hot fuzz, Shaun of the dead
Momentum- Longest yard
BBC film network- Damned united

Main British films

Bridget Jones
Slumdog Millionaire
The Duchess
Gavin and Stacey

Main British Actors/Actresses

Kiera Nightly- action, drama
Ewan McGregor- action, drama
Kate Winslet- drama, romance/ comedy
Colin Firth- romance/ comedy
Jude Law- drama
Hugh Grant- romance/ comedy

The top 10 ‘bankable’ value actors/actresses are all American and 9/10 are male:

1.       Will Smith

2.       Johnny Deep

3.       Brad Pitt

4.       Tom Hanks

5.       George Clooney

6.       Will Ferrell

7.       Reese Witherspoon

8.       Nicolas Cage

9.       Leonardo DiCaprio

10.    Russell Crowe

Moon

The film ‘moon’ is a British science-fiction drama directed by Duncan jones in 2009. The film was produced by Trudie Snyder who also has films like snatch and lock stock and liberty films. Stage 6 films was the studio who was responsible for making the project straight to DVD, which cost less than $10m dollars. Sonny pictures had the right to release the film and proceed with it.

The budget was $5m. He took stages to minimise the cost of the film by keeping cast small by using Sam Rockwell who played Sam Bell and filming in a studio. The film ‘moon’ was produced at shepperton studios, London, England, where it was filmed in 33days. He preferred to use models instead of digital animation. He worked with Bill Pearson and supervised model maker on ‘alien’ to help him design the ‘lunar rover’ and other parts to his film. The base was a full 360-degree set, being 85–90 feet long and approximately 70 feet wide. The robot films were designed to bound overhead rail within the mining base since its mechanical tether was critical to the story’s plot. The visual effects were made by Cinesite, which has sought cut price deals. Jones past experience created special effects within a small budget. Creating the ping pong scene he had Rockwell mime to the sound being played, then using CGI adding the ball. The budget was so tight that Sony refused to send copies to the Oscar panel judges, they wanted to avoid the film being pirated and knew it would cost too much. Kevin Spacey waited until the film was done to add his voice as the character Gerty as he knew they budget of the film.

All sales are handled by the independent sales company for the film moon. Sony worldwide acquisitions group enabled the rights for the English-speaking territories; they consider making the film moon straight to video releases. But the film premiered in 2009 at Sundance film festival in January 2009, Sony pictures classics decided to handle the films release for Sony pictures worldwide acquisitions group. They also distributed the film in cinemas in the United States and began to screen it in selected cinemas in New York and Los Angeles in 12 June. The premier in Britain was held on the 20^th of June 2009 at Cameo cinema in Edinburgh, at the international film festival as part of the 63^rd Edinburgh. Jones was presented at the screening of the film with the main crew members. The UK release was on the 17^th of July and the Australian was released on the 8^th of October. Moon took $1,813,302 in the UK for a total of $9,747,108 at the box office and worldwide came to $4,736,945. Despite of all this jones stated “ The business sides crazy and the film was out in Germany now, Switzerland, and also other smaller territories it has to be released in. it earned $9.5M worldwide do far and it only cost $5m to make but they are still having to pay back the investors of the film. It was the biggest priority to him and the most frustrating part about the apparent success. In film school they don’t tell you that if you make back everything you spent on a film you are still not half way to making a profit.

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Ethnicity[1]

Audience & Institution

• The issues raised in the targeting to national and local audiences (specifically, British) by international or global institutions.
• The way in which the candidates' own experiences of media consumption illustate wider pattern and trends of audience behaviour.

Blumer 4 stages:

First- came from everywhere- not true, have target audience
Second- go cinema on your own- not true, go with friends
Third- dont talk to each other- not true, always talk after a film
Fourth-

Uses and gratifications:

Highly active audience making use of the media for a range of purposes designed to satisfy needs such as entertainment, information and identification. The psychological basis for this model is the hierarchy of needs identified by Maslow.

The main areas that are identified in this model are:
a) the need for information about our georgraphical and social world news and drama
b) the need for identity, by using characters and personalities to define our sense of self and social behaviour film celebritie
c) the need for social interaction through experiencing the relationships and interaction of others
d) the need for diversion by using the media for purpose of play and entertainment

Task 1:
1) Not every type of person watches the same film, everyone is very different and certian people like different films, this is why producers make traliers to give the audience a inside to the film there going to watch and they can decide on if they like it or not.
2) When you watch a film on your own you dont get the whole media experiance as you have no one to talk to about it after watching it and cant let out your feelings of the film, but if your with a group of people you can say what you liked and disliked and compare on each others views of the film which brings more and more people together as its more exciting.
3) You experiance media by watching the effects and the charaters used in the film as well as listening to get the full effect of whats going on, this gives the audience the feel of being there and a large feeling of how they would feel when their in that persons place.
4) When experianing a film without friends you normally put how you feel about the film over facebook and interract with people that way so everyone can see it and gives them a bit of inside to how the film is, also texting friends to let them know how it was as they might wanna go watch it themselves so they can tell them if its any good or not, or if they ant to keen on it they might think its more someones type of film and tell them to watch it as they would enjoy it.

Task 2:
 McQuail and Katz both worked in commuication which was part of there media range.

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Misfits

Phisical ability: In this tv programme the 5 teens are shown to be young affenders from not to well backgrounds and are put together to help the council with jobs that have been done either by them or other young teens that are messing up the council area where they live. They soon see that theres more to just helping people when they find themselves with powers that bring them trouble and problems they have to solve with these different powers. The powers they have are invisability, rewinding the future into the past, immortalitiy, mind reading and attraction. These powers help them out a lot and they work together as a team to stop the social worker finding out they have these powers that they could get into trouble for having and be exposde to the world, by killing the social worker it brings them a lot of problems which there used to but not like this. They slowly learn to control there powers and be careful when to use them.

how to read a film

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