Merlin - Representation of Class and Status_ Essay

Hotel Babylon - What, Where, Why

How is Ethnicity represented in this clip?

Task 6

Independent Cinemas in Essex and beyond...

- Cramphorn Theatre
- The Cornerhouse (Manchester)
- The Orion (Burgess Hill)
- Zeffirellis (Ambleside)
- The Phoenix (Falmouth)
- Watershed (Bristol)
- Watermans (Brentford)
- National Media Museum (Bradford)
- The Phoneix (London)

- Genesis (London)

- Rich Mix (London)

- Rio (London)

- BFI Southbank (London)

- Prince Charles (London)

Task 5

Film4

There films range from award winning hits like Ex-Machina and 12 years a slave to low budget Indies like Richard Ayoade's The Double and '71 and then all the way back to cult classics like Trainspotting.

Film4 have definitely got the best of all the worlds, being a part of the biggest hits and the most creative indies. Back anything if they like it.

Summit

Summit is a subsidiary company of Lionsgate, one of the underlings to the Big Six. They are from the US so most films they back are blockbusters, most likely backing them through Lionsgate. Examples of this are The Divergent Series which are making millions in the cinema but they also back lower budget films but normally they have big names in them so are guaranteed big profits like 50/50 which had Joseph Gordon Levitt and Seth Rogan in it and only an $8 million budget.

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A film distribution company that have been a part of some of the biggest independent films :

Drive, The Road, Paranormal Activity, 30 Days of Night

those are the biggest hits out the hundreds of films they have distributed, the others that they have done I have never seen or heard of.

Warp Films

A production company with the hit TV Drama series of This is England and its beginning film This is England they also worked on '71 and Four Lions. These are their films which are most recognized, they are all indie and the others that are unknown are too. Warp films say so themselves "Sorry, we'd like to help but its no what we do. We're better at distinctive, amusing and thought provoking content".

Task 4 - Independant Film

Independent film

Ill Manors is an independent film one of the many Hoodie Horrors, it was Plan B (Ben Drews) debut and it did very well for its production budget of only £100, 000 this is most likely down to the synergy of Plan B releasing an album to go along with the film making for great marketing and with the posters being released on a few different websites. Also the film used a mix of digital and traditional marketing for the film with a "tweet to unlock" campaign with the hashtag #illmanorsalbum. The youth was heavily marketed because the films story revolved around teenage youths and crime in London; across Radio 1 & 1 extra, Channel 4 & E4 and YouTube. The film made 2 and a half times its budget in the opening weekend : £256,288. This can simply be put down to the marketing and the fact that it was Plan B as the director which in itself is marketing.

'71 | Indie Film Case Study from hentonmedia