Ollie Johnson
AS/A2 Media

In his interview Shane Meadows talks about his directing/filming technique. He always uses a small budget and says that this makes the film more realistic and represents society better that using famous actors and stars. He says that some of the dialogue in a scene would be improvised and that a page script could become much more and that a ten page script could become much less. This improvisation again portrays social realism; a more realistic representation of society. Also he has a good relationship with the actors who he says are welcome to make changes to the script. In all of his scenes he uses natural lighting from pre-bulit sets and this again adds to the social realism of his films. When he has a larger budget to use on his most recent films he still uses the same techniques as with his earlier films and this has become his own unique style of film making.

1: Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London, England. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1982. It produces feature films and some television productions. Eric Fellner and Bevan are the co-owners of the company now. They are part of universal studios.

1: Warp Films, a sister company of Warp Records was set up in 1999 with funding from NESTA. It is based in Sheffield, England with a further office in London and has 14 full-time staff. They are independent.

Conglomerate- a group of small companies, brought together by a larger company which work together.

2: If the company is owned by a bigger company then they will have a bigger budget for there films.

3:

warp films:

· My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117

· Dead Man's Shoes

· Rubber Johnny

· This Is England

· Dog Altogether

· All Tomorrow's Parties

Working title films:

· About a Boy (film)

· Ali G Indahouse

· Atonement (film)

· User:Nayrouz Aly/Atonement

· Barton Fink

· Bean (film)

· The Big Lebowski

· Billy Elliot

· The Boat That Rocked

· Bob Roberts

· The Borrowers (1997 film)

· Bridget Jones's Diary (film)

· Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (film)

· Burn After Reading

· The Calcium Kid

· Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film)

· Catch a Fire (film)

· Chicago Joe and the Showgirl

· Chihuanhas

· Dead Man Walking (film)

· Definitely, Maybe

· Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur

· Drop Dead Fred

· Edward II (film)

· Elizabeth (film)

· Elizabeth: The Golden Age

· Fargo (film)

· For Queen and Country

· 40 Days and 40 Nights

· Four Weddings and a Funeral

· French Kiss (film)

· Frost/Nixon (film)

· Green Zone (film)

· The Guru (2002 film)

· The Hi-Lo Country

· Hippie Hippie Shake

· Hot Fuzz

· The Hudsucker Proxy

· Inside I'm Dancing

· The Interpreter

· Johnny English

· Land and Freedom

· Loch Ness (film)

· London Kills Me

· Long Time Dead

· Love Actually

· The Man Who Cried

· The Man Who Wasn't There

· Map of the Human Heart

· Mickybo and Me

· Moonlight and Valentino

· Mr. Bean's Holiday

· My Beautiful Laundrette

· My Little Eye

· Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

· Nanny McPhee

· Ned Kelly (2003 film)

· Notting Hill (film)

· Brother, Where Art Thou?

· Panther (film)

· Paperhouse (film)

· Paul (film)

· Plunkett & Macleane

· Posse (1993 film)

· Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)

· The Return of the Borrowers

· Robin Hood (1991 film)

· Romeo Is Bleeding

· Rubin and Ed

· Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

· A Serious Man

· Shaun of the Dead

· Smokin' Aces

· The Soloist

· State of Play (film)

· Tales of the City (TV miniseries)

· The Tall Guy

· The Comic Strip

· Thunderbirds (film)

· United 93 (film)

· Wild Child (2008 film)

· Wimbledon (film)

· Wish You Were Here (1987 film)

· A World Apart (film)

· The Young Americans (film)

4: Shaun of the Dead- £4million budget

Dead man’s shoes- £723,000 budget

5: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) is the current highest budget film at $300,000,000

6: Working title films get there funds from universal pictures and Warp films get there funds from being awarded £4.5 million from the UK Film Council.

7: The genre of Warp films are social realism as seen in ‘This is England’

8: They are more realistic then normal films as they are gritty and more realistic as they appeal to the British audience.

9: The target audience are british people as the film companies are british and the films are often set in britain.

10: The main genre of the films is romantic comedies.

For out preliminary film we were set the task of producing a short film with the following requirements:

• Someone entering a room through a door showing continuity
• Someone sitting down
• A conversation taking place

For this me and Ross decided to use the idea of a poker game. We made a storyboard planning out the shots we were going to use and then developed these and improved them.

Here is the final storyboard showing the rough position of the actors/camera and describing the type of shots used.

Our magazine follows most of the typical conventions of a magazine. It uses a simple colour scheme and a mid shot of a person on the cover. It also has a bar code, smaller pictures and cover lines. The picture on the cover has someone in the background which breaks the convention of having one person standing out from a background. The colour palette suits the target audience because its about lutterworth college and uses the colours that are used on the logo. The cover lines entice the audience because they make them want to read the magazine to find out more about the stories in the magazine and competitions that they could win. By making this magazine cover i have become more confident at using photoshop.

Our magazine follows most of the typical conventions for a magazine. There is a picture of people on the front and a mid-shot is used. Also is uses a colour scheme of only a few colours. There is a masterhead at the top and smaller pictures and cover lines at the bottom. It also uses many different layers. It doesn't break any conventions. The colour pattern suits the target audience as it uses bright stand out colours such as red and yellow that suit the audience for a rock magazine. The cover lines entice the audience by refering directly to the reader, such as '25 metal anthem you must own' and 'how to survive rock 'n' roll'. This makes you want to find out more and read the magazine. The Magazine appeals to regular readers because the masterhead with the name of the magazine is overlapped by the picture of the band. Although you can't see all of the name of the magazine regular readers will know what it is. I have learnt that to produce a successful magazine cover it must follow the most of the typical conventions for a magazine and must make an audience want to read the magazine. I have also learnt how to produce a magazine using photoshop.