1) Look back at the five films you have analysed for your existing product research. Find which studios made them – e.g. Film Four, Studio Canal, BFI, BBC Films etc.
2) What other films do these studios produce? Can you find any any other independent, art-house or low-budget examples?
3) Do the studios have any notable successes? What is the most successful low-budget or independent film the studio has released?
Lilting
For lilting, this movie produced was produced by many studios which include: London film production, Lilting Production, Microwave, BBC films (in association with) , Stink Films, SUMS* film and media (in association with), Dominic Buchanan Productions(uncredited). In these studios that I have mentioned made this movie, they are very well know especially London film production and BBC film.
London film production have produced art-house films like sideshow that was made in 2001. Microwave are an art-house company as several of their movies are a art-house production,like freestyle or foxglove. Stink films have also produced many art house films like little secret and King Jack, this is also a studio that produces many art-house movies.
There isn't many of this studious that had success through the art house films which were major but lilting was the successful movie that many people heard of and watched. However microwave had a successful art-house movie called Ill Manors,as they had produced this movie with London films too.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
For External sunshine of the spotless mind, the studious that was produced this movie are: Focus Features(presents),Anonymous Content and This is that production (in associated with) (as this is that).
Focus Features have produced art house films which are 'The Danish Girl' and The Signal. Anonymous content have also produced art-house films like, 'The Knick'. These production are not well known but are popular in the art- house movies genre.
This is that production has mainly art-house movies for example the external sunshine of the spotless mind, 'the ex' and the 'Carriers'.
All of the studious haven't had much success for the movies they have released, but focus features have some art-house films that have been successful like, 'Far from heaven' this movie has been presented in many cinemas but has been shown on Tv's as well.
Boyhood
Boyhood has been made by Detour Film-production and by IFC productions(presents)
Detour film-production is an art-house studio, they have created movies like live from Shica's dance floor, or they have also produced tape. IFC production is the studio that presented boyhood and Monsoon wedding, they are a studio that have produced art-house companies themselves like 'kill the poor' or 'paper chasers'. These studious wouldn't be well know but they would be in the genre of art-house films.
The studious have been successful for movies like boyhood mainly as they have presented it, and it had many views that made it successful. Detour films-production have made movies like boyhood and before sunrise, i know this art-house movie was successful because it had high ratings: 8.1/10. Does this show that the movie they have produced art house movies that did become successful.
Donnie Darko
Production companies that have produced this movie are: Pandora Cinema (in association with) (Pandora), Flower Films (II) (as A Flower Films Production), Adam filed production and Gaylord Films.
Pandora Cinema have produced other art-house films like, Cypher that was released in 2002, as well as Donnie Darko. Flower films, are a production that creates art-house films like Never been kissed as also Donnie Darko. Adam filed production have only made 3 moves and in is in the making, they are a art-house production, they have created and produced art-house movies like, S.Darko and breakdown palace. Lastly, Gaylord films, are also a art-house production who have produced movies like Brainstorm.
Art house movies that becomes successful for these studious including Donnie Darko was, brainstorm as many of the productions made this movie together as they made Donnie Darko.
Girlhood
Productions that have made this movie are, Hold up films (co-production), Lilies Films (co-production) Arte France Cinema(co-production) and Centre National de la cinematograohie (participation), they are many other productions that have supported and helped making this movie but they have participated in helping or supported but also they were in association with.
The movies that hold up films are a production that made art-house movies or low budget movies like Girlhood, Acrobat and more, Lilies films have produced 2 art-house films and independent movies which are Girlhood an Tomboy, in both they were as co-production. Arte France Cinema are a well known and famous productions, they have created many movies and one other than girlhood they made, they also made Francofonia. Centre National de la cinematographie, as they are a popular production they have made a lot of movies, is a independent movie like Dermain.
The most successful movie they released was Girlhood, this movie was rated 6.8/10, this was movie noticeable that many people talked about, but Tomboy also a well known movie and it was successful as they had rating 7.4/10.
Distribution: Independent film distributors
1) Research film distribution using this guide from the UK Film Distributors' Association. It's called Launching Film and takes you through the whole process of distributing a movie.
Read the whole step-by-step guide (warning: this is LONG and will take you around an hour)
2) Summarise the 10 steps of film distribution in a list using your own words.
3) Now research the distributors for each of the arthouse films you have analysed for your existing product research. Who distributed each film in the UK?
4) How many cinemas did each film open in?
5) How much money did each film make? Did it make a profit against the budget?
6) Research Curzon Artificial Eye. Who are they and what do they do?
6) Look at the Curzon Artficial Eye YouTube channel. Watch three trailers for recent or upcoming independent films and identify something you can learn from each film to use in your own film production.
2) Summarising the 10 steps of film distribution:
1) The power of the movie generally comes from moments that are unique, true story, historical figure or even a event. As films are about sharing experience and inspring people to convey emotions and allowing the audience to say what they want.
2) distributors task is to deliver and bring out a big number of audience to every film, as films can have an impact in both social and commercial way so they can easily connect with audience. People would want to see a movie in the cinema's only by how the distributors promotes the interests in the titles.
3) Distribution is a competitive business in terms of launching and sustaining films in the market. The distributor needs to bring to the market is: to identify the audience, considering why the audience would want to go and see the movie, estimating the revenue potential across all the formals of the movie releases, persuading exhibitors - cinemas or even art-house cinemas to play the film, developing plans and partnerships to build awareness of and interest in the film and lastly aiming to convert as much interest as possible into cinema visits.
4) UK has six major distributors, and many independent distributors who handle films outside the major studios.
5) larger studious work with major producers and the 'first look' deals on the dims they want to produce and help to finance them to provide studio shoots and post-production facilities and ultimately, if they are happy that are final film is commercial and/or award-friendly to distribute them. Sometimes big blockbusters, a studio will set off the international rights to another major interrelation distributor. When considering acquiring new films, distributors would look for different elements that would help attract audience, they would be looking at distinguishing features, something outstanding, new angles etc. They also need to be able to recognise the importance of local product - something relatable to the location. They also need to know who their target audience is and who the movie can relate to the most or which is the suitable target for that particular movie. Distributors prepare reports for the producers or rights owners, detailing the marketing spend, together with forecast and actual theatrical revenues. As they are many film festivals in town and cities worldwide, but he main annual events attended by thoughts of international film buyers and sellers.
6) Distributors sign a formal contract with the producers, regarding the sales agent or studio, explain the rights they hold in respect of the title. However if a broadcaster has contrived to finding of a film, it is likely to have pre-secured television rights as part of their deal, in which case the rights available to a distributors would exclude TV.
7) Distributors need to be aware of the title, have read the script and be aware of the confirmed cast, but also have met the directors/producers visions.
8) Distributors need make important decisions in when to release the films and how to release it. When distributes have estimated what the film will earn, they prepare a budget to release it, as with every business plan, when planning the release. They need to take in consideration in what kind of movie is it, when it should go out, where it should go and how the film is going to be released.
9) After all the planning, and making, the distributor needs to create visibility and need to raise awareness but also the interest in the film, to persuade the targeted audience to buy tickets and watch the movie in the cinemas. As many movies would be releasing at similar times, distributors and their designs must be able to stand out among all of them so audience can be able to spot the movie. A poster is produced for every time a movie is released in the traditional format of the UK size is 30" x 40". Trailers need to be well thought out to captive audience and also online/mobile where they generally appear first. They need to exit poll research first, trailers emerge as the main source of information about a film. Trailers need to be appropriate, for the classification, and be able to captive audience from the start. Digital marketing comes important when distributors supply online advertising for websites and commission apps and games that can work across social and mobile platforms to support the film and create a bigger awareness. Publicity also comes in this step, which get the audience to talk about the movie and have more insides to the movie. Awards, is something that distributors want when making the film so they make sure the movie is to good standards. Premieres, take place a week or two weeks in advance of the film release. Premiers are like the celebration of finishing the movie to a good standard and the release of it.
10) Research is important for distributors to do, this to identify what elements of the movie are the most interesting - what characters are the most motivating, scenes that are the most appealing etc. Then comes tracking, this is when campaigns breaking, usually 8 weeks before the release, distributors could receive weekly, 'tracking'.
Lilting
This film got distributed in certain countries like ABC Distributed this movie in Belgium. Surprisingly, only one distributer distributed it in the UK which was Artificial Eye (theatrical), released in 8th August 2014.This movie got released in 33 cinemas in the certain countries the movie was distributed in.
As this movie was a Microwave film, and Microwave film cost £15,000, Microwave film production gave them 50% of the budget of £120,000.
External Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
This movie has 33 distributors, Momentum Pictures were the only distributes who distributed this movie in the UK, released in 30th April 2014. They were mainly distributed in other parts of the world, like in Germany and Argentina. This movie was released in 1,357 theatres this shows that this movie was famous or could have been a good movie that attracted the target audience well. This movie had a budget of $20,000,000 (estimated) but their total worldwide profit became to $72,285,126.
Boyhood
This movie had 26 distributors. This movie got distributed by 3 distributors which are Universal Pictures International in theatres, also by Universal Home Entertainment in DVD and in Blu-ray, this was done in 2015 while in it was in 2014 in theatres. This movie opened in 775 theatres. This movies budget was $4 million, when they made $44,495,281.
Donnie Darko
This movie was had 31 distributors, 2 of them were UK distributors, they were Metrodome Distribution in 2002 (theatrical) however Metrodome distribution distributed in movie in 2004 but in DVD. This move was released in 58 theatres.
Donnie Darko's production budget was $6 million. However they made $517,375.
Girlhood
Girlhood only had 11 distributors, and 2 of them were from UK, which were London Film Festival and the other was Glasgow Film Festival in 24th February 2015, they mostly for released in Netherlands, Spain, France, Denmark and the USA. This movie only got released in 5 theatres.
There isn't any production budget being said nor any profit they made.
Curzon Artificial Eye, are the best distributors in European and world cinema since its foundation in 1976. Curzon Artificial Eye releases 20 new theatrical films, and another 30 new DVD & Blu-ray titles. They are the leading independent cinema chain in the UK, they offer a luxury cinema experience to their audience, they also offer the opportunity to their audience to watch selected films on the sam say as their physical cinema releases.
From watching this trailer I understand that two couples, are in a happy and healthy relationship for 45 years, but soon to realise things have been left unspoken, in their relationship that can destroy or even distance themselves away from one and other. Something that I have learnt to use in my own film production, is how different angle shots can create an interesting atmosphere also brings a certain emotion or feel towards the scene. Another thing that I have learnt that certain dialogues they have said can also create a feel and emotion that can allow the audience to create an identification or emotion for the characters as they would feel as if they can understand.
Something that i have learnt by watching this trailer and what i can use for my own film production is how to use non-diegetic music well and which is parallel to the scene, this can be effective, because it can show what the scene create a different atmosphere but it also it is something that can compliment the scene in a different way. This has bought to the attention to when i could use music over my production to choose something that would be appropriate and speaks for the scene.
By seeing this trailer, I have learnt location is the key to a good scene or even to the movie, in this trailer, they were many different scenes that were in this trailer but it showed that directors made good choices about where they were going to shoot the scene and how they are going to make a good use from this location. When doing my film production, I will make sure that the location that we have picked as a group it is something that is useful and goes along with the scene but us using the location well enough to make it look good by the shots we use too.
Exhibition: Arthouse cinemas
Find some London-based arthouse cinemas and research the following:
1) What is the name of the cinema? Where is it?
2) What type of films do they show? What films are on this week? How do their programmes differ from the major cinema chains like Vue?
3) What type of audience attends this kind of arthouse cinemas? Are there any clues on the website regarding the target audience? How can you tell?
Electric Cinema is in London, in Portobello Road. This cinema shows art-house films and independent movies that are created in low budget. During this week they are showing movie which are: Bridge of Spies (12A), Carol (15) and Lobster (15) The Dressmarker (12A) Black Mass (15) Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (15) Big Hero (PG). The movies they show are a mixture of genre which means that it can appeal to a lot of audiences and it they have art-house movies that are PG or 12A+ so teenagers, young adults or even adults would be type of audience that would watch this, regarding class, I would say working class or even middle class or even upper class because of the layout of the cinema, and because as the prices of the tickets are expensive, this can be suitable for them as they wouldn't mind paying £18 for one person watching independent movies. This cinema differs from other major cinema chains like Vue, because it offers different layouts and experience for their audience enjoy unlike other cinemas.
A case study in independent film production: Film London and Microwave Film
1) What is Film London and why does it exist?
2) What is the purpose of Microwave Film?
3) What is the London Calling project for Film London and how does it encourage independent filmmaking?
2) What is the purpose of Microwave Film?
3) What is the London Calling project for Film London and how does it encourage independent filmmaking?
4) Choose three feature films funded by Microwave Film and embed their trailers in your blog. For each film, explain why it fits the profile for an arthouse or independent film and what target audience the film might attract.
5) Watch these top tips for film production. List three things you've learned from these short videos that you can apply to your MEST2 production work.
1. Film London is a well established London's film and media agency, its purpose is to promote and develop London as a major international filmmaking and film cultural capital. London films was created to to promote films, a non-financial based company supported by London's mayor and BFI.
2. Microwaves films not only funds films but it also offers the next generation of filmmakers a proven programme of training-through-production, as well as distribution. Microwaves films are efficient film-making scheme to help low budget film get recognised and help to support them become a growing franchise.
3. London Calling project for Film London is a challenge for anyone who wants to create 15 short films which are then awarded a maximum of £4,000, they provide all of filmmaking teams like training and mentoring. Also match funding can be sought for any film being produced through London Calling. This can encourage independent filmmaking by allowing people to create their own short films which they are then provided with help such as receiving training and mentoring which can help people gain more of knowledge and experience. It also encourages independent filmmaking because it is a low budget movie and also encourage creative thinking into this.
4. how do they fit the profile for an arthouse or independent film and what target audience are they aimed for:
Borrowed time - This movie has a unique narrative, the directors have left audience to remember that describes the movie well, this movie fits a art-house movie because the characters can really connect with the audience and it something audience could create an identification with. This art-house movie would attract young adults because the narrative is something that young adults would be more into the movie than any other target audience wouldn't be so into.
Lilting - This narrative is unique and something different than any normal art-house movie would think to do a plot about, as it tries to challenge the traditional society view and cultural views, they highlight and tries to present their thoughts about gay people, so the audience can watch it with a open mind. This movie would attract gay people but also to people who don't mind this idea of two men being in a relationship, people who are opened minded and don't mind this concept.
iLL Manors - This fit the art-house profile because it provides a meaning and message within the movie that their taggert audience can understand and relate too but also take it away with as something to remember, as this film is more about the environment that the characters are inhabit by being surrounded in the environment they are in rather then the people themselves necessarily. The target market that this movie would attract would be teenagers and young adults but teenagers especially because teenagers can be surrounded and influenced by negative behaviour and they could see that they can create identification with the characters in the movie and the narrative can be interesting for them to watch the movie.
5. From one of the clips that I have watched that knowing your target audience and making your production appealing and relatable towards them is vital because they need to be able to capitative throughout the movie and not be bored in 5 minutes of the movie. Considering location, relationship between characters and the characters that you choose need to be good and consider who would be the most appropriate for the target market you have chosen as they are the main priority.
Also, focusing on the narrative is essential in every production because it needs to be clear that audience can understand and it other elements like over editing, or many shots and many locations effect the narrative and just distract the audience from seeing the actual narrative is something important and theses kind of error need to be avoided.
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