Friday, 30 October 2009

Working Title and Warp Films

Working Title and Warp Films

Institution and Audiences

AOs

Production Practices to appeal to audiences

Distribution and Marketing strategies to raise audience awareness

New technologies to help target specific audiences

Audience and how they challenge institutions

1. Who are Working Title- Film Production Company.

Who are Warp Films- short film making company.

Are they independent or part of a conglomerate? They are joint since 2008.

2. How does the ownership of the company affect the budgets for film? The budget would go up because there are two companies.

3. Create a list of films that both institutions have produced.

Working title films:

About a Boy

Ali G Indahouse

Atonement

Billy Elliot

The Borrowers

Bridget Jones's Diary

Burn after Reading

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Warp Films:

Dead man shoes

Rubber Johnny

Scummy man

4. Choose one from each list and compare the budgets for these films and how much they made.

Dead man shoes- £723,000 Burn after reading- $37 million

5. Now choose a Hollywood Blockbuster and research the budget. Jurassic Park- $93,000,000

6. Where do Working Title and Warp Films get their funding from? Grants, funding from other companies, and previous film profits.

7. In the case of Warp Films, how does the budget affect the genre they use? If they don’t have much money then they’re restricted in what they can do.

8. What is the main appeal of this genre? Give examples. It is simple so it looks good.

9. Who are the target audience for Working Title and Warp Films? 18+.

10. What is the main genre of the films Working Title produce? Drama is the main genre.

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