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DEFINING BRITISH FILM :
Category A- film made with British money, personnel and resources
Category B- Co funded with some foreign investment
Category C- Mostly foreign investment
Category D- Films made in the UK but funded by American companies
Category E- American films with some British involvement
-Very few purely British films
THE CURRENT BOOM
-Crisis in 2005-6, investment in making films dropped.
-Now producers are exempt from from certain tax payments.
-Theres are financial, political and institutional reasons why a film doesn't get made.
TELEVISION COMPANY CO-FUNDING :
-Boom in 2006
-BBC and Channel 4 invested in film
Category A- film made with British money, personnel and resources
Category B- Co funded with some foreign investment
Category C- Mostly foreign investment
Category D- Films made in the UK but funded by American companies
Category E- American films with some British involvement
-Very few purely British films
THE CURRENT BOOM
-Crisis in 2005-6, investment in making films dropped.
-Now producers are exempt from from certain tax payments.
-Theres are financial, political and institutional reasons why a film doesn't get made.
TELEVISION COMPANY CO-FUNDING :
-Boom in 2006
-BBC and Channel 4 invested in film
Saturday, 30 June 2012
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-Develop a case study on a particular studio or production company.
-Must be local in a contemporary film industry and must produce or distribute films into the UK.
KEY TERMS-
Production: Making films
Distribution: Promoting films and getting them into cinemas and out on DVD/ UMD as well as any spin offs/ related products.
Consumption: People paying at the cinema, renting or buying DVDs and downloading and purchasing related products.
-British cinema has an ambiguous relationship with America
-British film is really popular because the english language is widely known.
-America has the same advantage plus they are much bigger. Their films are more expensive.
FILM DISTRIBUTION :
- It relies a lot on promotion
- Film distribution= everything that happens in-between production and exhibition.
-Film promotion is fair for all productions
-Films are loaned out to cinemas.
5 MAJOR DISTRIBUTORS :
United International Pictures, Warner Bros. Buena Vista Twentieth Century Fox and Sony > 9/10 films.
- Smaller films have to compete with these with old fashioned technology in some cases.
CLASSIFICATION :
-BBFC produces guidelines
1) Legal
2) Protective
3) Social
- Age limitations; U, PG, 12 & 12A, 15, 18 and R18