Working Title and Warp films

1. Who are working title?

Working title are a middle budget film company which make small to medium budget film.

Who are warp films?

Warp films are a small budget film company which make short low budget films.

Are they independent or part of a conglomerate?

Both are independent film companies.


2. How does the ownership of the company affect the budgets for film?

The bigger companies invest more money in the film’s therefore the film’s have better special effects, actors, props, etc. The more money a company invests usually means that the film is a hit or popular. Whereas smaller companies don’t have as much money to invest in films this causes the props, actors, special effects etc won’t be as good.

3. Create a list of films that both institutions have produced.

Atonement This is England
Billy Elliott Window licker
Wimbledon Dead mans shoes
Nanny Mcphee
Bridget Jones

4. Choose one from each list and compare the budgets for these films and how much they made.

Billy Eliot’s budget was $5,000,000 the profit was $109,280,263, whereas the budget for This is England was £1,500,000, and the profit was £4,914,209.

5. Now choose a Hollywood Blockbuster and research the budget.

We chose the film Transformers 2, and the film was given a $200 million budget, which was $50 million more than the 2007 film.


6. Where do Working Title and Warp Films get their funding from?
Working title gets it’s funding from Nesta, Warp films get there funding from the lottery.

7. In the case of Warp Films, how does the budget affect the genre they use?

They generally choose to create comedy or horror films as their is less risk of the film failing, as comedy and horror’s are easier to sell.

8. What is the main appeal of this genre? Give examples.
The appeal of these genres is that they provoke a reaction from the audience therefore they are easier to sell. Also they provide a better form of escapism.
9. Who are the target audience for Working Title and Warp Films?

The target audience for working title and warp films are tent pole; this means that they try to attract a variety of audience. They do this by having a variety of actors with different ages, sex etc.

10. What is the main genre of the films Working Title produce?
The main genres of working title are mainly big Hollywood films with well known actors.

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Preliminary Task Evaluation Questions

1) I worked with Josh Nwaozuzu on this project. We tried to share the work out evenly, making the decisons together, getting the camera etc.

2) We planned out our sequence with a storyboard that we designed in class before we did any filming, this way it makes it easier and faster for us to film. The inspiration for it came from a few examples we had seen and abit of our own imagination.

3) To fully complete this task, we had to use various technology. The video camera being the ovbious one and we also used iMovie on the Mac's. It's good fun to use as you can do almost anything editing wise.

4) Some of the things we had to think about before shooting was, who was going to be in the clip, where abouts we would film, what camera angles and dialogue would be used and at the final editing stages we had to make sure we had good continuity to make the whole thing run smoothly.

5) Our sequence was reasonably succesful considering that we shot it in a very short amount of time as the first time we shot, the tape had dropouts and didnt work properly. Next time we would make sure we have a working tape, and check to make sure we had the footage after each shot. However me and Josh worked well together and i think were a good team.

6) Now we have completed our first sequence, i can how things need to be done. Planning is very important and so is the person you work with, these two things have a big influence on how well you do in my opinion.