Working Title and Warp Films

Working Title and Warp Films

Institution and Audiences

AOs

Production Practices to appeal to audiences

Distribution and Marketing strategies to raise audience awareness

New technologies to help target specific audiences

Audience and how they challenge institutions

1. Who are Working Title- British film making company

Who are Warp Films- short film making company

Are they independent or part of a conglomerate?

They are a joint company, since 2008.

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

Increases the budget

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

Warp films- My wrongs

-dead mans shoes

-rubber Johnny

-scummy man

Working title films-

-Billy Elliot

-the boat that rocked

-atonement

-dead man walking

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

Billy Elliot- $5,000,000

Dead mans shoes- £723,000

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

The fast and the furious- $38 million budget

6. Where do Working Title and Warp Films get their funding from?

Grants, funding from other companies, and previous film profits.

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

If they don’t have much money, then they restricted as to what they can do, like lack of special effects etc.

8. What is the main appeal of this genre? Give examples.

Simple, good to watch

9. Who are the target audience for Working Title and Warp Films?

18+

10. What is the main genre of the films Working Title produce?

Drama