media blog course work

1)  British Film Industry factsheets #132 & #100 2)  Chicken   case study research  3)  Regulation - BBFC research and tasks 4)  A Field In England   - initial research and tasks 5)  A Field In England   & Arthouse cinema - concluded

1) Write a 100 word summary of the Media Magazine article. The article is about a art house film called A field in England and how it was distributed. it was a low-budget, black and white, art-house film by emerging auteur, Ben Wheatley, A Field in England, was trying to break the Hollywood model of distribution by becoming the first film in the UK to launch simultaneously across all platforms weather that be  cinema or watched a DVD or legally streamed film content. When a normal Hollywood movie would normally space out each platform it release for to maximises profits for each platform. while the director of this art house film release it all at once as it did not matter because the movie is only appealing to niche market. 2) Read the following pages on the official website for  A Field In England  and write a one-sentence summary of each. Each page provides explanations of the unique release strategy that the institutions behind the film chose:  Industrial Evolution : Producer

1) Research the  BBFC  in more detail: what is the institution responsible for? How is it funded? What link does it have to government? The BBFC publishes detailed information about the content of every film that we rate, which we call BBFCinsight. BBFCinsight is aimed particularly at parents. It offers a summary of how and why a film was rated at any given category. 2) Read this  BBFC guide to how films are rated . Summarise the process in 50 words. The Board’s age ratings decisions are reached by consensus, with the Chief Executive, the President and the two Vice-Presidents taking ultimate responsibility. The Compliance Officers' daily viewing programme consists of a combination of film and DVD material. Until July 2012, some Compliance Officers also specialised in video games, as rating an interactive game could be a very different experience to rating a film or DVD. 3) Read this  BBFC outline of the issues faced when classifying a film . Summarise the debate in 50 words

1) Write a one-sentence definition of what makes a film British. A film is defined as British if the people making it are British, it's funded using British money and the cast are British. 2) What is the difference between a Hollywood production context and production context of a British film? Hollywood production context means that most films made by Hollywood studios have high budgets, a heavy reliance on celebrities both in the cast and crew and spectacle driven stories. British films can be large budget, high concept films or they can be character driven, small budgeted films  3) When did the James Bond franchise start? it started in 1962 with 'Dr No (1962)' 4) In terms of film censorship and graphic content, what began to change in British film in the 1970s and 1980s? The 1970s sees a rise in British Films of sexual content, both the act of sex and sex linked to violence with films like A Clockwork Orange (Warner Bros, 1971) coming under a lot

Funding 1) What was the budget for  Chicken ? £110,000 2) How did Joe Stephenson end up raising the money to make the film? This was raised entirely through investment by individuals(probably a rich friend/contact) 3) How does the  Chicken  budget compare to a Hollywood-funded British blockbuster such as  Spectre  or  Paddington 2 ? Spectre had a budget of  $245–250 million and Paddington 2 had a budget of  50 million.While chicken only has a budget of 110,000 which shows how much 4) Joe Stephenson tried to secure funding from organisations that help low-budget filmmakers. What is the   BFI Film Fund   and how does it contribute to the British film industry? The BFI uses National Lottery funds to develop and support original UK filmmakers and films, and to increase the audiences who can enjoy them. 5) Why do you think  Chicken  failed to secure funding from the BFI Film Fund? It failed to secure funding because it was a low-budget film with a low budget filmmaker. Produ