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Sunday, 22 November 2009

Warp Films homework

  1. How are Warp X and Warp Films different?
    Warp X is a separate company from Warp Films, It produces lower budget movies and co produces with warp films. Warp Films do bigger budget movies then there counterpart Warp X.
  2. In which year was each set up?
    Warp Films : 1999.
    Warp X :2001.

  3. List the films (including shorts) that each have produced, including box office and budget figures?
    Warp Films:

Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009)

The Taxidermist (2009) .

Four Lions (2009)

Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo (2008)

Crack Willow (2008)

"Fur TV" (2008)

The Archivist (2008)

Exhibit A (2007)

Dog Altogether (2007)

Grow Your Own (2007)

Dog's Mercury (2006)

This Is England (2006)

Scummy Man (2006)

Rubber Johnny (2005)

Dead Man's Shoes (2004)

My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117 (2002)

Warp X:

Bunny and the Bull (2009)

She, a Chinese (2009)

All Tomorrow's Parties (2009)

Hush (2009)

Donkey Punch (2008)

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2008)

  • Give precise details of the financial backing that Warp X receives, including one example of the production credits on a Warp X film?
    Warp x is funded by the uk film council, new cinima fund and film 4 as well as screen yorkshire and optimum releasing. They usually have between 400,000 and 800,000 pounds

  • What does the UKFC have to say about Warp X?
    The UKFC is the uk film council. they work with low budget moives. Warp X was chosen and some objectives are to develop a wide range of filmmaking talents, focus on cultural aspects of UK in film and Create many routes in British filmmaking
  • What can you say about the production, especially the budget, of Donkey Punch?
    They didnt spend much of the actors as they werent very famous ones, the boat was the biggest cost in the budget. and the location in the film is all set on the boat apart from right at the start of the film.

  • Look at, and note, the box office figures for This is England. Looking carefully at the US figures, what does this suggest about how the US audience/market perceived the film?

    The us film audiance are quite intrested in british culture so the reason this film was pretty successful in america is because it introduced americans to a unseen side of british culture.
  • Is there a Warp X website? If so, give details of what it features?
    http://www.warpx.co.uk/ contains information about films with a few bits of multimedias. they is a about me section and job listings.

  • Is there a Warp Films website? If so, give details of what it features?
    http://warp.net/films A lot bigger then the warp x website, contains trailers and alot more information..

  • Based on this, and your viewing of This is England, make a list of any points which suggest that Warp is a typical British film production company?
    Warp is a traditional company as it dosnt use big name actors, dosnt use
    global settings and huge special effects. and focuses on british cultures and settings

If Richard Curtis and Hugh Grant are arguably the most important creative figures for WT (although WT have also repreatedly worked with several other actors/directors), who would the equivalent director/actor(s) for Warp be?
Shane Meadows would be one as he has worked on Warp's biggest titles

Paddy Considene?

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