Institution & Audiences

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.Working title are a British film production company who are based in London. It was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1982. They produce feature films and some television productions. It is not a conglomerate.
Warp Films is 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. It is a conglomerate.
2. The ownership of the company affects the budget of the film because if it is a wealthy company the film can be high budget and if it has not got a lot of money to invest the film is low budget. If the company has been invested in by other owners and lots of money has been invested there is more money for multimillion dollar films.
3. Warp films have produced films such as:
• My Wrongs
• Dead man’s Shoes
• Rubber Johnny
• Scummy Man (arctic monkeys video)
• This is England
• “grow your own”
• Dog Altogther
• All Tomorrow’s Parties
Working title have produced films such as:
• Pride and prejudice
• Notting hill
• Nanny McPhee
• Shaun of the dead
• Bridget Jones’ Diary
• The Calcium Kid and many more...
4. Working titles film bridget jones’ diary had a budget of $26 million, and made $ 282 million. It was very successful and a sequal was made.
Working title who produced This is England had a budget of $1.2 million, they made $315,000 profit.
5. The matrix had a budget of $ 742128461 and made a profit of an estimated $363000000.
6. NESTA provide funding for warp films and Universal invested into working title.
7. Warp Films budget affects the genre as they have more money so can use special affects and stunts, for things such as action films.
8. It is appealing because it looks realistic and can relate to problems in the world such as war. It is also exciting and builds suspense so the audience may find it appealing.
9. Warp and working title aim at a general audience.
10. Working titles main genre is romantic comedy.