Warp Films:
What type of films do they make? They make a mix of all genres including crime thrillers, horror stories, comedies and romance films. For example: Horror movie “Hush”, Romance “Submarine”, Crime film “This is England”, Sci-fy “Dr. Easy”.
Background info:
- The Company was founded by Warp Records in 2001 by Rob Mitchell and Steve Beckett.
- The first film they produced was “My wrongs 8245-8249 & 117”
Four lions (dark comedy)- Production:
To fund the production of the film fans could donate between £25 and £100 towards the production costs of the film and would be allowed to become extras in return. The Budget of the film was £2.5 million. And the box office was $4.3 million.
Film poster codes and conventions:
- A poster is a physical piece of promotion therefore it can promote the film in lots of different places
- Posters can be seen on big billboards, bus stops, underground stations and near cinemas, there is no limit where they can advertise films
- Posters aim to catch people’s eye to make them interested
- Icons on posters help the audience to understand the genre of the film, which will result in them liking it or ignoring it, this could potentially lose an audience.
- Image: A main image is what passers-by see when they walk by the poster. There is always some type of iconography that gives away the films genre.
- There are two different posters for the film Black Swan: an official Uk poster, with an image of the main character and a special drawing edition.
- Title: Film posters always have the films title, this lets the audience know what the film is called, allowing them to find out more information.
- Directors, producers and actors names are used as they may be a main selling point of the film
- Quotes, recommendations and ratings: make the
UK DVD features:
- US dvd’s don’t have age certificates, British films have age certificates as they need to be approved by BBFC.
- On DVDs there are two age certificates one for the UK and one for Ireland.
- Tagline
- Title
- Main image
- Blurb/ summary
- Pictures from scenes in the film
- Production company logos
- Cast list
- Director/ producer names
- Website links
- Age certificate
- List of bonus features
- Barcode
Image: There is an image of the two main characters dancing infront of a view of the city. They are the main focus of the poster even though they are not large on the poster. The whole image is a long shot of the landscape, the colours and dark and show the ciy at night, this makes the setting look more romantic. Emma Stone is wearing a bright yellow colour which connotes happiness, this could link to the genre which is a musical as they are usually happy and uplifting films. The title is the centre of the poster, this will allow the audience to be able to search for the film online to give them more information.
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