Film Industry: Learner's response

Teacher's feedback:

• WWW: Your answer to Q3 is simply stunning- detailed, engaged, pertinent and a joy to read. This has all the hallmarks of an A* response and I think with some minor adjustments we will be working around that level.
• EBI: Q2 needs a little more specific focus on the CSP rather than general film market points.
• EBI: Keep an eye on written English : apostrophes and long sentences.
• EBI: Your Q3 answer probably deserves full marks but I wonder if you could address the other side of the argument in a little more detail. Where should the funding come from if social realism is important culturally but doesn't make a profit?

Marks received for each question

• 2/2
• 3/4
• 8/9

One strategy used to promote Chicken

• Small arthouse release followed by digital distribution - doesn't attract mainstream attention

A paragraph FOR Social Realism film production

Low-Budget films can still have commercial success, films like Bend it like Beckham manage to capture a niche british lifestyle and appeal to a global audience. The arthouse genre is critically acclaimed and niche audiences, globally enjoy indulging in raw and realistic films that lack the rose tinted perspective that many Hollywood films adopt as well as avoiding gentrified settings and especially british low budget movies, use iconography and the appeal of London as a city to reach a global audience. Heritage cinema, and social realist films create an awareness on important issues within our society, therefore their profitability should not be a barrier within their production. They have an important social impact and cultural profit and their profitability, or lack thereof is not a guaranteed outcome, the significance of arthouse cinema in a commercial industry is undeniable in our current cultural climate especially within Britain itself.

A paragraph AGAINST Social Realism film production

It is difficult to secure funding from the BFI and National Lottery, and the British public cannot afford to fund social-realist films due to the economic climate of Britain at this time. Although, social realist films are arguably important to British culture and our societal awareness and perception of taboo subjects, they are not a mainstream genre and their appeal to a niche audience is not always a success story. This means that funding these types of films can be a waste of money and resources especially when co funded films are much more profitable and with the British economy in the situation it currently is, it is an educated and realistic perception on social realist films. They are not profitable, though they are incredibly important, the BFI and National Lottery funds are not easy to secure and the alternative is donations, such as gofundmes and help from rich friends, which although handles the economic side of the films production, creates an elitist boundary within the film industry especially for working class or low opportunity filmmakers.