kidulthood-Lesson 4

Kidulthood had a production budget of £600,000. This budget was mostly provided by director Menhaj Huda and producer friend George Issac. Why would this film have found it difficult to get finance from a production company?

• subject matter thats in vovled
• being a gritty social realist film, people might not want to watch disturbed teenagers and brutal study of disaffected teens and their behaviour and what the dtreets are like in london, some people would hate to beleive it and maybe still be such situations and dissaprove.
• Kidulthood was their first film as a result of this other companys would not wan to throw their money at them incase the film did not make a profit and failed, and if this would have happened, they would have lost alot of their money.
• unknown cast

Some of this budget was funded by the UK Film Council. How much was given to the film for production and distribution? What criteria did the film have to meet to be awarded the funds?

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Revolver Entertainment distributed Kidulthood. Although heavily promoted there was limited distribution of the film, why?


Kidulthood made just £454,000 at the cinema. It was far more successful on DVD. Why would this film be more successful on DVD than in the cinema?

Convergence

short essay questions
The importance of convergence to the film industry:

Converngence is two media industries that are working together to make and promote a film or another media product. for example, a film industry converging with a game industry to produce a game which is similar to the film. this is important to the film industry, one of which could be to promote the film. the more ways that films or images of the film are seen through either cinema,billboards etc the more chance there is that people will go to the cinema to watch it or buy the film. the more industries that the film organisation converge with; the better because people will be seeing the films merchandise more.

financially converging with another industry is extremly important to the film industry because it is a financial income for them and this is one way they could make more money and all the moneyfrom people watching it. the more money they recieve the more money they can put into anotherfilm they choose to make or the sequel to follow on from a film that has already been published.


How might convergence affect the way audiences ‘consume’ films?

Convergence could effect the ways people consume films by making them want to buy other media products that relates, for example, if one plays a game, and there is a film of it, they might want to watch the film.
the audiences consume films because films can be brought on a verious media's such as bluray or dvd, depending on which one the audience buys the film on it sometimes the cost can diffa but also will depend on how they consume it; a dvd can not be watched on high-defenition, however a Bluray could be a better quality of vewing, if an audience watchs the film on a Bluray, or on Sky movies hd.

How might convergence affect the production, distribution, marketing and exhibition.

Shrek;


http://www.shrek.com/



'Shrek Forever After' (mainly known as Shrek 4) Shrek: The Final Chapter, and previously titled Shrek Goes Fourth is an upcoming American 2010 animated film. It is planned to be released in cinemas May 21, 2010 in the US and July 9, 2010 in the UK. Tim Sullivan will write the film, and Mike Mitchell will direct it. The principal cast members will all reprise their roles. It is also being released in 3-D and IMAX 3-D theaters.

This movie will be the final film in the Shrek series, following Shrek, Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third despite early allegations by filmmakers to make a fifth film. Like the first three Shrek films, the movie will be significantly based on fairy tale themes.


Directed by Mike Mitchell
Produced by Gina Shay
Teresa Cheng
(Executive)
Aron Warner
Andrew Adamson
Written by Josh Klausner
Darren Lemke
Ryan Harris (Supervisor)
William Steig (Book)
Starring Mike Myers
Eddie Murphy
Cameron Diaz
Antonio Banderas
Paul McCartney
Julie Andrews
Justin Timberlake
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography Yong Duk Jhun
Studio DreamWorks Animation
Pacific Data Images
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) May 21, 2010 (2010-05-21)
Country United States
Language English
Preceded by Shrek the Third