What was the impact for marketting and consumption from the following aspects of distribution for your film?

This is the poster of the boat that rocked, the bright colours and boldness of the poster attract many of the target audience, looking at this poster i feel that its aim is to attract teenagers from 15 and above, because of the background of it, Richard Curtis creates this theme of film, for example love actually, and other comedy films.

What was the impact for marketing and consumption from the following aspects of distribution for your film?

What were the issues for the production company during the production phase?

was it an easy shoot? if there were any difficulties what were they?

Q. Can you talk about some of the logistical problems of shooting on water? Richard Curtis: In fact, filming on the boat was fantastic because it’s such a fantastic set. It’s an actual three-dimensional set so everywhere you put the camera there’s some sky, sea, rust, funnel… all that kind of stuff. Also, the great thing about filming on a boat is it was quite close to what we were filming – here were 12 men of a certain age out in the middle of a boat with loud music smoking a lot so it made it quite easy.
The logistical problems, such as they were, would tend to be if you got in slightly stormy seas, the boat would drift dramatically back towards land. You would be in the middle of a take when a very loud alarm sound would go off and they’d say if we do one more take we’ll hit the rocks.
Then, of course, you have to stop and sail back out again 40 miles. So there were some problems with tide but all the Jaws/Waterworld stuff didn’t occur. I think the only problem was people arriving on the small boat did tend to get … I think January Jones in her scene – she may look like an angel but she felt like a dog. And I think Emma Thompson also found it a nauseating experience – but don’t use that quote.

this is what i found on the internet. answering the question was the writer himself.

The boat that rocked- What are the pre-production issues for the production company when making films?

Whose idea was the film? Did the idea start with the writer, or were writers brought in to develop a preconceived idea?
The boat that rocked was written and directed by Richard Curtis.

What are the issues with the genre of the film?
The genre of the film is comedy, but in some cases the target audience did not find it amusing and some say it is sexiest and rudely reflects on rock and roll.

Curtis hangs situation and character comedy on a homage to rock’n’roll. That would be fine if it were funny, but auto-pilot Curtis prevails.
This is one review i found on the Internet, reflecting on the film negatively.

Where did the idea come from? Was it an original idea, or perhaps a book frist, or TV series, or comic strip, or from some other source?
after looking a good ten minutes on the internet i could find no sign of any background to the film 'The boat that rocked' and found myself beleiving that the film was made from scratch, and had no background objects like books etc.

Who wrote the original script? did other people become involved in the writing as the project progressed?
Richard curtis the male that had written the story has also wrote the script to the comedy movie. There is three other people that hepled with the production of the film and they are; Tim Bevan, Elen Fellner, Hillary Beaven Jones.

How easy was it to arrange the financial backing to make the film? Who were the financial backers? Why?

Budget-
over 30 million
Gross revenue-
$35,166,683
This was all i could find to do with the financial side of the boat that rocked.

casting- who were the cast in the main roles and why? what other films featured the stars? what were the associations they bought with them?
Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Count,
Bill Nighy as Quentin,
Rhys Ifans as Gavin, Star DJ
Nick Frost as Dr. Dave, DJ "
Katherine Parkinson as Felicity, the lesbian cook
Tom Sturridge as Young Carl, Quentin's godson
Talulah Riley as Marianne, Quentin's niece
Tom Brooke as 'Thick' Kevin, Carl's cabin-mate
Chris O'Dowd as Breakfast DJ Simple Simon Swafford
Rhys Darby as Angus "The Nut" Nutsford, DJ
Will Adamsdale as newsreader John
Tom Wisdom as 'Midnight' Mark, DJ,
Ralph Brown as Bob 'the Dawn Treader', DJ, Carl's father
Ike Hamilton as Harold, radio assistant
Kenneth Branagh as Minister Allistair Dormandy (a loose parody of then-Postmaster General Tony Benn), who aims to shut the station down)
Jack Davenport as Dominic Twatt, a civil servant (his full name is only ever referenced in a deleted scene)
Emma Thompson as Charlotte, Carl's mother
January Jones as Elenore
Gemma Arterton as Desiree
Sinead Matthews as Miss C
Stephen Moore as the Prime Minister (Harold Wilson was Prime Minister in 1966)
Olegar Fedoro as the Rock Boat's helmsman

Who composed the film music and why was he or she chosen?
Richard Curtis: There are some anomalies, I would say. There are one or two songs we could never get and could never get to the bottom of why we couldn’t get to the bottom of them. We couldn’t get If Paradise Is Half As Nice by Amen Corner for some reason or other. And we wanted For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield but they decided it had been used too many times in too many ads or something. There was a Doors song we wanted which was way over a million dollars, so we couldn’t have that. There was some bargaining but we got most of what we wanted.

kidulthood research

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?
This would be risky for a poduction company to give money for the producion of the film, because the film has a certain target audience, this means the film want make as much money as any other films, for example 'Avatar' has a wide audience outlet. So if a prduction company would have helped out with th finance they may no have benifitted from it. so overall all the sunject mattr would have been a issue because it reflects on the audience which then reflecs upon how much money it makes from selling the product.

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?
two different companies gave money to the prduction to help with the finance, thse were both funded by the UKfilm council. One of which was 'Single Projects' this company gave the production £10,000 towards the fund. specialised P&A fund, gave £76,295 towards the finance of the film.

The Prints and Advertising Fund is designed to widen and support the distribution and marketing strategy of specialised films and to offer support to more commercially focused British films that nevertheless remain difficult to market.
The UK Film Council's Prints and Advertising Fund has an annual budget of £2 million which aims to benefit audiences by widening:
access to the range of films available;
opportunities to view such films across the UK; and
audience awareness of the range of films potentially available.


the asspiations of the singls project;
Facilitate new, contemporary projects that will be delivered in Bristol.
Enhance the year round programme of arts and cultural activity.
Encourage good practice in supporting and developing creativity.
Encourage risk taking and innovation in the arts.
Support excellence, develop new audiences encouraging participation in arts/culture.
Encourage and enable new and exciting artistic collaboration.
Support diverse work that represents 21st Century Britain.



Revolver Entertainment distributed Kidulthood

Although heavily promoted there was limited distribution of the film, why?

The reason for the limited distibution of the fillm Kidulthood, is because of the one big reason to why the film did not make alot of money, because the film is limited to its target audience, it was a risk to the distibutors. Prints and advertising fund aims to get as many prints of the film, to sell to as many cinemas, this is how the product makes company, but because the finance was on the low it meant that the film was only shown in selected cinemas, this leads to a loss in money.

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?

one of the reasons that the film would have made more money by DVD than cinema because it was only veiwed in selected cinemas. also because the film may be cheaper to buy than to watch.

Production of Harry Potter 1

Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone;
The distributor; Warner Bros
Release date; November 16th, 2001
Genre; Fantasy
Runtime; 2hours and 33minutes
MPAA Rating; PG
Production Budget; 125 million pounds


Grosses-
Domestic; $317,575,550-32.6%
Forgeign;$657,158,000-67.4%
Worldwide;$974,733,550

Warner Bros spent an additional $55million to market the distributed film.

Warner Bros also distributed to the following of few many films;
-Leathel Weapon
-Oceans Eleven
-Terminator
-The Lord Of The Rings

Harry Potter and the sorcerers stone

My Harry Potter research task.

Synopsis of my film; Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone is about a characters life, showing two wizards bring a baby to his uncle and aunties house, this boy has a scar on his head which makes him unique, he lives unhappily with his relatives and when he reaches his teen ages he recieves thousands of letters to tell him he belongs to a wizards school and must attend, more and more come through because his uncle avoids them, the family then is forced to run away thinking the wizards will not find them, but a friendly wizard finds them and takes the boy to his wizard school, were he makes friends, and is reconisged by everyone, the boy wonders why everyone looks at him and greets him in such odd ways, the friendly wizard (father figure to the main character) then explains that his mum and dad were murdered by a evil monster but but main character (Harry Potter) defended himself at such a young stage. The bouys memory comes back when his scar hurts, because this is the only harm he recieved from the creatute. The boy then attends a talented wizard school, he makes friends, but find many things suspicious and realises that something isnt right, once he notices bad things and a three headed gaurd dog, he is determind to find out what tis happening, he finds clues and suspects, teachers are curious of this young boy now. At christmas time Harry Potter recieves a visibilty coat this will help him get passed the three headed dog, Harry and his two best friends Herminey and Ron, then find ways to make the dog sleep so they can get past, they are in the room with the three dogs, and the three dogs are sleeping because of music, but they didnt set it up so this means that someone is in the gaurded place. Danger is ahead. They get in just in time, after waking the dogs, and now face trials to get through to the place they want to reach. This includes playing a game of chess, Ron then gets injured-herminy then tells Harry to continue, and so he does, he manages to defeat a proffessor who despises him, because the proffessor is a slave and is owned by the evil one who gave Harry the scar.

The Cast;
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Harry Potter,
Rupert Grint plays Ron Weasley,
Emma Watson plays Hermione Granger,
Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid
Richard Harris as Albus Dumbledore,
Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall,
Alan Rickman as Severus Snape,
Ian Hart as Professor Quirrell,
Richard Bremmer as Lord Voldemort,
Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy,
Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley,
Fiona Shaw as Petunia Dursley,
Harry Melling as Dudley Dursley,
Matthew Lewis as Neville Longbottom,
Warwick Davis as Filius Flitwick,
John Cleese as Nearly Headless Nick
Julie Walters as Molly Weasley,


This is one of the posters that came out during the advertisment of the first Harry Potter film.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3115057433/
The film trailor; another techneque to advertise the movie, film trailers are a unique way of selling each film, and attracting the audience.