Case Study - London to Brighton - How to sell a low-budget British film

Click on the title to go to the Film London 'Microwave' site aimed at helping inexperienced film-makers get their films made and distributed.

This short video shows you how a micro-budget movie can gain critical and commercial success with a carefully thought through distribution and marketing strategy.

Year 12 Media Studies - Presentation on Convergence & Piracy

01. General introduction to the Film Industry - Convergence

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Year 12 Homework for Thursday 22nd September

lHWQ. What are the cons (for institutions) and the pros (for the audience) of digital film piracy?

lhttp://www.launchingfilms.com/who-gains

lhttp://www.fact-uk.org.uk/

lhttp://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/10022?page=1&step=10&viewby=category&value=16980

lhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/4968765/Tackling-film-piracy-would-generate-614m-for-UK-economy.html

Year 12 - Film Industry - How to make an intelligent blockbuster...

...and not alienate people

In this highly charged polemic, the Observer film writer and 5 Live critic tackles the big-budget producers for their cynical rejection of intelligent movies – and contempt for the ordinary cinemagoers who fill their pockets

Here are three absolute truths:

1. The world is round.
2. We are all going to die.
3. No one enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

Oh, I know loads of people paid to see POTC3 (as I believe it is known in the industry). And some of them may claim to have enjoyed it. But they didn't. Not really. They just think they did. As a film critic, an important part of my job is explaining to people why they haven't actually enjoyed a movie even if they think they have. In the case of POTC3, the explanation is very simple.

It's called "diminished expectations".

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