Friday 11 March 2016

MEST1 Section B: Institution research

Ill Manors: Funding and production budget

1. The estimated budget for Ill Manors was £110,000. 


2. The money used to help contribute to the funding of Ill Manors was from Plan B's savings and money generated from his music career. However, as it to be produced by BBC, they funded Ill Manors with £4 million. After the film was given the go ahead to Film London in 2010, it was then sold to the distributor Revolver Entertainment, which the added to the funding. The films total box office concluded to 4 times of the films budget, of £550,000. 

3. The budget for Ill Manors was minuscule and a lot cheaper than Skyfall. It was estimated that the budget for Skyfall was £250 million, which is much more than the budget for Ill Manors. Generally, Hollywood movies are usually more expensive due to the location and use of well known established actors.

A Field In England: Funding and production budget

1. The estimated budget for Ill Manors was £380,000. 

2. A Field in England was able to secure a higher budget than Ill Manors because Ben Wheatley is a slightly more established director than Ben Drew. 

3. Ill Manors was Ben's first film and he was viewed as a inexperienced director, whereas prior to A Field in England Ben Wheatley had directed films such as Sightseers, Kill List and Down Terrace.

Film London and Microwave Film

1. Film London is the capital's film and media agency and developing London as a major international film-making and film cultural capital.

2. The purpose of Microwave Films is that it doesn't just fund films; it offers the next generation of film-makers a proven programme of training-through-production, as well as distribution support. For the first time they will be offering development funding for successful projects, and offering distribution support to green-lit films. 

3. Ill Manors and Borrowed Time have a few similarities and differences between them. Firstly, the location is the same as there is a shot in the trailer of Borrowed Time where the Olympic Stadium is seen. Also, the genre is about social realism.

Vertigo Films and Warp Films

1. Many of Vertigo's films have been extremely successful some of the most successful include: The football factory, It's All Gone Pete Tong, London to Brighton.
2. I think that the films produced by Vertigo were successful because it took a unique and fresh ideas and turned them into something for all audiences to enjoy.

3. Crime, drama, sport and comedy.
4. Warp films started out as a off shoot electric music label, Warp was already established as Warp X developing low budget films.

5. Two of the films Warp produced were extremely successful some of which include: Dead Man's Shoes and The Last Panthers

6. Warp Films have helped to develop new talent by running on a bedroom producer ethos. They look out of the amateur film makers know how to support creative people and deliver visionary TV drama.

7. A film that Vertigo and Warp have produced which is similar to Ill Manors would be '71. I would consider this to be similar in terms of the genre being crime and violence related. Then, '71 is set at the time of the troubles in northern Ireland and was telling people about what happened at the time. 

Certification: BBFC

1. The BBFC has various age rating used in order to keep the content for the audience appropriate. These make sure audiences cannot purchase a cinema ticket or watch a film without identification of age.

2. In an 18 rated film, sexual content and violence is permitted. The difference between 18 and 15 is that full nudity is not prohibited and the use of any sort of harmful substance is not permitted. Also the audience for 18 rated movies would be more mature compared to a 15 rated audience.

3. Ill Manors was given an 18 certificate because the film contained over thirty examples of uses of very strong language, many of which are delivered with aggression or accompanied by violence. There are a number of scenes of drug use, including the snorting of cocaine, the smoking and injecting of heroin and the smoking of crack and cannabis. This might have affected the Ill Manors target audience and commercial success as Plan B was hoping for his ideal target audience to start from 15 as a lot of the youth were involved who were under the age of 18, also the film was indicating reasons why the youth were involved in the riots which also included youth under the age of 18.

4. It is rated 15 for strong language, one use of very strong language, strong violence and gory images. There are over 30 uses of strong language as well as single use of very strong language. The film contains scenes of fighting, including shootings with historical pistols. In one scene a man is shot in the leg, resulting in a spurt of blood and brief sight of a bone shattering.  Although these images are strong, they are also very brief with no dwelling on the infliction of injuries. Because the film is shot in black and white, the gory detail is less vivid than it might have been. There are also some crude sex references and male genital nudity in a non-sexual and comic context.

5. Films given a 18 certificate could limit the interest in it significantly particularly while it is only released in cinemas. Therefore, the success and profitability of the film would be largely affected and people are unlikely to take a interest in any other films released with the assumption that they could end up with the same certification rating.

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