Film Industry: Assessment learner response

1) Type up your feedback in full (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential).

WWW - Q3 is an excellent response: real depth, engagement with the issues and you address both sides of the argument. There is a real passion in your answer which I love to see!

EBI - Q1 + Q2 are too short... you don't need too much for 2 or 4 mark questions but you need a little more than you've written.
     - In particular you must make Specific reference to Chicken. How well do you know             the CSP case study?

2) Read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Write down the number of marks you achieved for the three questions: _/2; _/4; _/9.

Q1 - 1/2
Q2 - 2/4
Q3 - 7/9

3) For Question 2 on Chicken, use the mark scheme to identify at least one strategy used to promote Chicken to an audience that you didn't mention in your answer. The key lesson from this question was to make specific reference to the CSP in your answer.

The use of quotes/ recommendations from industry figures/celebrities. This allows the audience to see that the people they see as powerful have watched and recommended it, therefore, it should be a good movie. Chicken as a low budget film does not have much money to spend on huge billboards or a more expensive way of promoting their film.

4) Now look at Question 3. Using the mark scheme as a guide, write a paragraph arguing that it is NOT important for the British film industry to make social-realist films like Chicken and that it should concentrate on making bigger-budget movies funded by Hollywood studios.

Although social-realist can identify and show problems in the world, there is no point to make these films unless they benefit Britain economically. Nearly all social realist films are unable to earn enough revenue to cover the costs of making the film in the first place meaning our economy is losing money because of these films. If we start working with Hollywood studios, we would have a much higher budget to start off with and then we would be able to earn even more revenue or at least enough to cover our production costs. This assures that we are not losing any money with a higher chance of actually improving our economy status by earning more profit from them as Hollywood films clearly have a better reputation and more viewers.
5) Finally, cover the other side of the debate. Write a paragraph arguing that it IS important for the British film industry to make social-realist films like Chicken and that such films contribute strongly to the social and cultural influence of the industry. You may also consider how they should be funded here. Use the mark scheme to help you with this.

Social realist films have is a significant part of British culture as it highlights the problems we face in todays society that has been cast aside and looked over because people have seen it as normality. Chicken highlights problems like inequality between social classes which is a big thing today because there are still huge numbers of people living in awful conditions or not even having a place to stay at all. These films should be made in order to make people understand the issues we face today and that while they may have the money to buy this buy that, there are people out there who don't have enough to live. The reason why we have such a lack of social realist films being made are that we don't fund them properly. I think the BFI is a good way of funding it and Chicken should have gotten funded by them as its message was important and clear.