Tuesday, 21 February 2012

This is England

  1. The production company's are called Film4 and Warp Films.
  2. Shane Meadows directed the film.
  3. The budget of the film was $2,380,000.
  4. The film grossed $8,176,544.
  5. The film won awards from BAFTA, British Independent Film, London Film Festival and many more international awards. 
  6. The poster is shot outside, which means no expensive studio was used, the lighting isn't used for effect anywhere as many medium/high budget films use, mostly unknown actors are shown, the environment looks to be a poor area and in the background you can see council estate buildings. The website looks cheaply created as an unrecognizable building is in the background and the trailer is at the forefront, the rest of the website doesn't look professional compared to other film websites, which fits with the films tone.  
  7. The poster and website doesn't seem to fall into the gang-crime genre as the colours are quite bright and there are no gangs, weapons or any common conventions of the genre, however it does fit with setting of the film which is shown to be a poor, lower/working class area because they are standing by a rusty fence with council estate buildings in the background; they are dressed in clothes from a few decades ago which means this is a time-period film, and the clothes look worn out and cheap.
  8. The target audience would be mostly British people as they will be able to connect with the characters better than a foreign audience who haven't lived in a similar environment, however this may also be a reason why they would want to watch the film, to see what the lower class areas of England were like back in the 80s. Others who grew up in the 80s would want to see how true the film is to the them, or their children who want to know what their origins are. 

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