British film industry factsheets

Factsheet 132:

1)
If a film is funded by British money, if the cast is British, if it is set in Britain, if it talks about British culture or if the film is made a British person.

2)
Holly wood productions have a much higher budget allowing them to rent out better settings for longer periods of times. If they have more time, it means they can get the best of the best for what they want. They tend to have well known actors/actresses working on the production with famous directors and other crew members. On the other hand, British productions tends to be smaller budgets with less well known actors/actresses. There are some productions that have high budgets and well known actors/actresses such as Harry Potter but it is rare.

3)
The James Bond franchise started in 1960s.

4)
The biggest change from the 1970s was the amount of sexual and violent content within British films. Both sex scenes and violent scenes became more susceptible to the public. In the 1980s, there was a rise of videos and the 'video nasty's scare. This meant that more extreme and explicit content was being created and shown to audiences.

5)
Teenagers - rude, rebels, gang members, violent
Men - strong, leader, smart, dominant
Women - weaker physically and mentally, emotional, needs help
Children - pure, innocent, easily nurtured

6)

• Class
• Social Strife
• Education
• Well known British actors/actresses
• Association

Factsheet 100:

1)

A film is tested on a number of aspects and awarded points if met. If points hit up to at least 16 out of the 31 available, it would be considered British.

2)

Sweeny - 

• Directed by Nick Love
• 2012
• Budget of 3 million pounds
• Earned a 5.8 million pound profit
• Scored 18 points

Attack The Block - 

• Directed by Joe Cornish
• 2011
• Budget of 8 million pounds
• Earned a 4.1 million pound profit
• Scored 27 points

The King's Speech - 

• Directed by Tom Hooper
• 2011
• Budget of 11.4 million pounds
• Earned a 317 million pound profit
• Scored 29 points

We  Need To Talk About Kevin - 

• Lynne Ramsay
• 2011
• Budget of 5.3 million pounds
• Earned a 8.2 million pound profit
• Scored 16 points

Skyfall - 

• Sam Mendes
• 2012
• Budget of 114.5 million to 152.7 million pounds
• earned a 763 million pound profit
• Scored 24 points

3)

The main problem with the British Film industry is that they are more focused on production instead of distribution meaning more money is being spent making the movies but not enough revenue is being made back from distributing the film.

4)

- Good reputation

- Good facilities

- Film artisans

5)

- Cooperate with American film studios to produce more content

- Make lower budget films which aim at smaller groups of audiences

6)

I think that cooperation with American film studios would be better because it allows British films to gain some more publicity and it may make people think about seeing British productions. As time moves on then maybe they can change back to producing more British only films. That way it is almost like a slow but steady way of increasing popularity and profits.