What is a British film?

The king’s speech (2010)

• British historical drama directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. The films about King George VI who has to overcome his stammer, he sees Lionel logue an unorthodox Australian speech therapist. After his brother Edward VII abdicates he has to do a speech on the radio at the beginning of World War 2. it relates to British
• The main actor Colin firth is British, Helena Bonham carter is also British. However the other main character Geoffrey Rush is Australian. So they have a mixture of nationalities to make it appeal to a wider audience.
• Tom hooper and David Seidler are both British.
• The studios involved with the making of the king’s speech are see-saw films, bedlam productions and nickelodeon movies. The film was distributed by momentum pictures which is in the UK, paramount pictures (Australia) and the Weinstein company (USA).
• The film was released on the 6^th of September 2010 for the telluride film festival and then later released on the 7^th of January 2011 in the UK. The running time for this film is 119 minutes.
• The budget to this film was £8 million. The film grossed £3,530,000 over its opening weekend in the UK playing 395 cinemas, clocking a per screen average of £8,885.
• The UK Film Council, invested £1m to the making of this film.

127 hours

• A true story drama directed by Danny Boyle and the screenplay was written by Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy. The book “between a rock and a hard place” was written by Aron Ralston. The story is about A mountain climber who becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
• The main actor James Franco is American as are most of the other actors.
• Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy are both British but Aron Ralston is American.
• Genre of this film is a biographical adventure film
• The studios involved with the making of 127 hours are film4 productions and handmade films. The film is distributed by fox searchlight pictures(US), pathé (UK/France), Warner bros. (UK) and 20^th century fox (DVD).
• Release Date was the 7^th of January 2011 (UK) Filming locations for 127 Hours are ad feedbackMoab, Utah, USA Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Utah, USA
• The running time of the film is 94 minuets.
• The budget for this film is $18 million the gross revenue was $ 50,818,731

Another year

• A drama directed and written by Mike Leigh the story is about A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
• The main actors are Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen and Lesley Manville they are all British.
• The genre of this film is a drama.
•  The studios involved with the making of the film are thin man films, film4 and focus features. The film was distributed by momentum pictures.
• The release date of this film in England was the 5^th of November 2010.
•   The running time of this film is 129 minuets
• The budget was $8 million and the gross revenue was $17,318,865

Four lions

• A comedy/ drama directed and written by Christopher Morris. Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point.
• The main actors Will Adamsdale and Riz Ahmed are both British.
• The genre of this film is a comedy/ drama.
• The studios involved with the film are film4, wild bunch, optimum releasing and warp films. It was distributed by optimum releasing (UK) and drafthouse films (USA).
• The release date in England was the 7^th of May 2010
• The running time is 97 minuets
• The budget was 2.5 million and the gross revenue was $4,529,130

Made in Dagenham

• The Director was Nigel Cole and the Writer was William Ivory.
•  A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
• The main actors Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins and Andrea Riseborough are all English.
• The genre of the film is a comedy/drama/history.
• The studios involved with the making of the film were BBC films and number 9 films. It was distributed by paramount pictures (UK) and sony pictures classics (USA)
• The release date in England was 1^st October 2010
• The running time is 113 minuets.
• The budget was £5 million and the gross revenue was $9,038,485.

What is a British film?

The king’s speech (2010)

• British historical drama directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. The films about King George VI who has to overcome his stammer, he sees Lionel logue an unorthodox Australian speech therapist. After his brother Edward VII abdicates he has to do a speech on the radio at the beginning of World War 2. it relates to British
• The main actor Colin firth is British, Helena Bonham carter is also British. However the other main character Geoffrey Rush is Australian. So they have a mixture of nationalities to make it appeal to a wider audience.
• Tom hooper and David Seidler are both British.
• The studios involved with the making of the king’s speech are see-saw films, bedlam productions and nickelodeon movies. The film was distributed by momentum pictures which is in the UK, paramount pictures (Australia) and the Weinstein company (USA).
• The film was released on the 6^th of September 2010 for the telluride film festival and then later released on the 7^th of January 2011 in the UK. The running time for this film is 119 minutes.
• The budget to this film was £8 million. The film grossed £3,530,000 over its opening weekend in the UK playing 395 cinemas, clocking a per screen average of £8,885.
• The UK Film Council, invested £1m to the making of this film.

127 hours

• A true story drama directed by Danny Boyle and the screenplay was written by Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy. The book “between a rock and a hard place” was written by Aron Ralston. The story is about A mountain climber who becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
• The main actor James Franco is American as are most of the other actors.
• Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy are both British but Aron Ralston is American.
• Genre of this film is a biographical adventure film
• The studios involved with the making of 127 hours are film4 productions and handmade films. The film is distributed by fox searchlight pictures(US), pathé (UK/France), Warner bros. (UK) and 20^th century fox (DVD).
• Release Date was the 7^th of January 2011 (UK) Filming locations for 127 Hours are ad feedbackMoab, Utah, USA Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Utah, USA
• The running time of the film is 94 minuets.
• The budget for this film is $18 million the gross revenue was $ 50,818,731

Another year

• A drama directed and written by Mike Leigh the story is about A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
• The main actors are Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen and Lesley Manville they are all British.
• The genre of this film is a drama.
•  The studios involved with the making of the film are thin man films, film4 and focus features. The film was distributed by momentum pictures.
• The release date of this film in England was the 5^th of November 2010.
•   The running time of this film is 129 minuets
• The budget was $8 million and the gross revenue was $17,318,865

Four lions

• A comedy/ drama directed and written by Christopher Morris. Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point.
• The main actors Will Adamsdale and Riz Ahmed are both British.
• The genre of this film is a comedy/ drama.
• The studios involved with the film are film4, wild bunch, optimum releasing and warp films. It was distributed by optimum releasing (UK) and drafthouse films (USA).
• The release date in England was the 7^th of May 2010
• The running time is 97 minuets
• The budget was 2.5 million and the gross revenue was $4,529,130

Made in Dagenham

• The Director was Nigel Cole and the Writer was William Ivory.
•  A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
• The main actors Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins and Andrea Riseborough are all English.
• The genre of the film is a comedy/drama/history.
• The studios involved with the making of the film were BBC films and number 9 films. It was distributed by paramount pictures (UK) and sony pictures classics (USA)
• The release date in England was 1^st October 2010
• The running time is 113 minuets.
• The budget was £5 million and the gross revenue was $9,038,485.

lighting
　
key-This is the main light. It is usually the strongest and has the most influence on the look of the scene. It is placed to one side of the subject so that this side is well lit and the other side has some shadow. this is a 3-point lighting technique. you only have one light on the main subject.

Fill- This is the secondary light and is placed on the opposite side of the key light. It is used to fill the shadows created by the key. The fill will usually be softer and less bright than the key. you could move the light further away to achieve this. You could also set the fill light to more of a flood so that the light spreads over a wider area.

Back-The back light is placed behind the subject and lights it from the rear. Rather than providing direct lighting its purpose is to provide definition and subtle highlights around the subject's outlines. This helps separate the subject from the background and provide a three-dimensional look.

High-key-this bright and diminishes contrast. high-key lighting doesn't require adjustment for each scene which allows the production to complete the shooting in hours instead of days. The primary drawback is that high-key lighting fails to add meaning or drama.

Rim-defines the outline of your subject and can take an image from dull and flat to eye-catching and dynamic. this is like back lighting but is placed looking straight at the lens of the camera.

chiaroscuro-defines objects without a contouring line, but only by the contrast between the colours of the object and of the background. using chiaroscuro lighting characters can be defined without colours

How Has Expansion of Digital Media Been an Improvement For Audiences?
the expansion of digital media has been a big inprovement for audiences as people can now access films, tv programs and other in lots of different ways. people can now download movies straight onto there ipod which has increased sale as people can watch films on the go. one way which has grown in popularity is on demand tv this allows people to view shows of there chose when they want to watch them and you can also do this on phones and ipod now. also you can star series that you want to watch and they will come at the top of the page so that you dont have to look through the whole website just to fine the episode you are looking for this has change the amount of audience watching tv when the program is scheduled. people used to have to watch the program when it was on and couldnt watch it anyother time. being able to record the progams you want to watch and then view them when wanted on sky has lead to more audience and more people having sky.

Web 2.0
 To allow users to continue to interact with the page, communications such as data requests going to the server are separated from data coming back to the page. Otherwise, the user would have to routinely wait for the data to come back before they can do anything else on that page, just as a user has to wait for a page to complete the reload. This also increases overall performance of the site, as the sending of requests can complete quicker independent of blocking and queueing required to send data back to the client. some web 2.0 sites : YouTube, last.fm, eBuddy, flickr, blogger, reddit, skype, gamesnips, littlewiki.
Some advantages of web 2.0 are that it cost less, it is more flexibal in the possibility of choosing technologies, it has easier and faster access to information when and where it is needed, the integration of a variety of technologies in the teaching-learning activites.
Some disadvantages are then an internet connection is required, it leads to a low quality of the actual content, it gives everyone the opportunity to complain, thus creating a community without rules and it has limited security. is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing on the world wide web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Web 2.0 websites allow users to do more than just retrieve information. By increasing what was already possible in "web 1.0", they provide the user with more user-interface, software and storage facilities, all through their browser. This has been called "Network as platform" computing. Users can provide the data that is on a Web 2.0 site and exercise some control over that data.

Working Title Films

This is a British Company based in London. Founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983.  Radclyffe left and Eric Fellner another independent film producer joined the company. PolyGram was the company’s corporate backer. PolyGram Films was merged and sold to Universal Studios in 1999.

WT 2 is a subsidiary company and an independent film production arm run by Natasha Wharton and has produced films like Billy Elliot, Shaun of the Dead and The Calcium Kid

Working Title Television is a joint venture with NBC Universal and will be based in London and Los Angles.

NBC announce a new fashion reality series, it will partner with media studio electus to search America for the next top brand in fashion.

Random House Children’s Books and Jane Turnbull announced that Working Title Films and PeaPie Films have acquired the film rights to Trash, a novel by British author Andy Mulligan. Richard Curtis, a successful screenwriter will adapt the novel.

Trash is a contemporary thriller set in the third world which follows three boys making a living picking through rubbish mounds, until a surprise discovery sets them on an adventure against corruption and authority.

Production Note for Atonement

Adaptation

A classic British romance from Ian McEwan’s book. Atonement. This film was developed at Working Title, produced by Robert Fox, directed by Richard Eyre. The director, Richard, was busy with other projects and ‘handed over the helm’ to Joe Wright his debut 2005’s Pride and Prejudice earnt him a BAFTA Award among others. Films co-chairman Tim Belvan said “We needed a plan on making this exceptional new director’s next movie.” They brought Atonement from page to screen. He comments “In making a book into a movie, the story reveals itself to you as you make it. You question the structure and points of view.” He realised that realising the narrative would be an exciting filmmaking challenge.

Academy Award winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton had been adapting the novel – Wright explains “When I first saw the script it had departed from the novel so Christopher and I started again. The script was rewritten we stuck to the book as faithfully as possible.” The screenwriter confirms that that was the approach that worked best “We returned to the structure of the book. The novel grows in power as the story progresses.” Paul Webster rejoined Working Title and thought the book was Ian’s best. Joe Wright brought a vast visual imagination to the film and Christopher wrote a beautiful script.

Bevan recalls discussing the difficulties of bringing Atonement to the screen with having to have three actresses to play the same role  and the intertwining fates and noted  “ The film was going to be all about the detail a sense of  ‘ if only I’d have done this instead of that ‘.”

Hampton had a difficult job as it is a very interior novel and had to show what the characters are thinking using adaptations.