What kind of media institution

might distribute your media

product and why?

Working Title are a mainstream

film production company –

previously independent.

They create high budget films

with the help of their $600m deal

with Universal allowing them for

funding and distribution on an

international scale. Must consult Universal if they

want to create a film with a

budget greater than $30m.

However Working Title don’t take

as many risks as independent

companies so use standard

conventions in their films and

don’t break the rules.

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WARP Films are an independent film production

company which often create

films of a budget of £400k -

£800k. They typically create

unsolicited films which are

rule breaking, unusual,

experimental and quite

specific rather than general

unlike Working Title. Normally will not have any

well known directors or

actors for the films.

Exa

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WA

RP

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Personally I think my media product is

more in tune with WARP films, but

aspects of Working Title are

implemented too. It is low budget, the

actors are amateur and we aren’t

experienced directors. However our

storyline is more typical of Working Title

as we didn’t really experiment and break

the rules. We went for a conventional

thriller storyline of “a family member or

friend dies, go and avenge his death”.

My film’s storyline is about a man who

wants to avenge his brother who was

murdered in broad daylight. At the end

of the opening, the protagonist readies

his gun to avenge his brother before

ending leaving the audience with

messages unanswered – what will he do,

how will he find him, will he be

successful?

Why w

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they

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my fi

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WARP films I think will distribute my film because

even though it doesn’t fit with their style of having

a unique plot, unusual and strange conventions

etc, it still uses codes and conventions similar to

them. On the other hand Working Title will like the

conventions used in my film as they suit more of a

passive audience which watch their films. The

camera techniques are quite standard – pans,

tracking shots, high angle, low angle etc. Working

Title and Warp both use these in their films, but

Working Title may get cranes to do establishing

shots, or to show a chase scene in vehicles for

example. So in terms of camera techniques, I was

restricted to a finite amount similar to WARP when

producing their films. Also if Working Title were to

distribute my film it would have to meet a very

high standard, against the likes of Les Miserables

and Hot Fuzz so if the audience do not like the film

it would give them bad press. WARP on the other

hand will produce a mixture of things, so may be

willing to take a risk with distributing my film as it

may appeal to audiences who like WARP films’

productions as it may offer a plot and conventions

that are more niche than most films.

To conclude, I believe WARP will distribute my film.