The selfish giant production breakdown
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Casting Amy Hubbard was in charge of the casting for The Selfish Giant. She has also been part of the casting for films such as Lord of the rings and The Hobbit Music Harry Escott was the composer for The Selfish Giant. He is also known for ‘Shame’, ‘Hard Candy’ and ‘Welcome to the punch’ Music is a key part of films as it helps to tell Director The director for this film was Clio Barnard. She is a British director of documentary and feature films. The reason that the institution might have chosen her as the director is because she won widespread critical acclaim and multiple awards for her debut, The Arbor. Writer The writer for this film was also Clio Barnard. The institution may have chosen her to be the writer for much the same reason as she was chosen to be the director. She’s had a lot of experience with filmmaking and the different aspects that go into it. She is a reader in the Film Studies Department and director of undergraduate studies at the University of Kent. She also designed Representing Actuality, a 12 Technological Convergence There was not a lot of technological convergence used for this film as it was an independently made British film. Unlike films produced by companies such as Walk Disney Pictures this film didn’t have a big budget and so technological convergence was not the main priority. Also the film was only shown in 35 different cinemas and so a huge Producer Katherine Butler -executive producer Lizzie Francke- executive producer Tracy O'Riordan – producer, also known for ‘The Queen’, ‘Of time and the city’ and ‘The arbor’ The Selfish Giant Genre The genre for this film is Drama. This is a successful genre in the industry. This can be seen by the number of awards this genre based film receives. On IMDB this Budget A lot of the funding for this film came from the BFI, it had a budget of £1.4million. The Selfish Giant made a profit, which is impressive when compared to other films such as The Lone Ranger, which was produced by Walt Disney Pictures with a budget Location There were two filming locations used in this film. The first was Willington, Derbyshire, England UK (power station) and Bradford, West Yorkshire, England UK (city) These Locations are roughly 2 hours away from each other so
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CastingAmy Hubbard was in charge of the casting for The Selfish Giant. She has also been part of the casting for films such as Lord of the rings and The Hobbit
MusicHarry Escott was the composer for The Selfish Giant. He is also known for ‘Shame’, ‘Hard Candy’ and ‘Welcome to the punch’Music is a key part of films as it helps to tell the audience the story and convey themes
ProducerKatherine Butler -executive producerLizzie Francke- executive producerTracy O'Riordan – producer, also known for ‘The Queen’, ‘Of time and the city’ and ‘The arbor’ that was nominated for a outstanding debut by Britsh Writer,Director or Producer at the BAFTAs
DirectorThe director for this film was Clio Barnard. She is a British director of documentary and feature films. The reason that the institution might have chosen her as the director is because she won widespread critical acclaim and multiple awards for her debut, The Arbor. She’s also been called out as a significant new voice in British cinema for her films.
WriterThe writer for this film was also Clio Barnard. The institution may have chosen her to be the writer for much the same reason as she was chosen to be the director. She’s had a lot of experience with filmmaking and the different aspects that go into it. She is a reader in the Film Studies Department and director of undergraduate studies at the University of Kent. She also designed Representing Actuality, a 12 week practical filmmaking course exploring the relationship between fiction and documentary film forms and language; helping to show her understanding in the writing aspect of filmmaking.
Technological ConvergenceThere was not a lot of technological convergence used for this film as it was an independently made British film. Unlike films produced by companies such as Walk Disney Pictures this film didn’t have a big budget and so technological convergence was not the main priority. Also the film was only shown in 35 different cinemas and so a huge distribution was not entirely necessary. Through the internet it would most likely have been advertised and this would have helped to gain more publicity for the places in which the film was being shown.
The Selfish Giant
GenreThe genre for this film is Drama. This is a successful genre in the industry. This can be seen by the number of awards this genre based film receives. On IMDB this film has 7.4 stars which is fairly high. It was nominated for the 2014 BAFTA Award for best British film.
BudgetA lot of the funding for this film came from the BFI, it had a budget of £1.4million. The Selfish Giant made a profit, which is impressive when compared to other films such as The Lone Ranger, which was produced by Walt Disney Pictures with a budget of $225-250million that ended up making a loss of between $160-190million.
LocationThere were two filming locations used in this film. The first was Willington, Derbyshire, England UK (power station) and Bradford, West Yorkshire, England UK (city) These Locations are roughly 2 hours away from each other so the expense of the shoot would have been much lower than if the distances were further.
