Arthouse Film Institution Research

Production: Independent film studios

1) Boyhood: IFC Productions, Detour Filmproduction.

It Follows:  Animal Kingdom, Northern Lights, Two Flints.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Focus Features, This Is That Productions. 

The Falling: X-Filme Creative Pool, BBC Films, Independent, BFI.

Lilting: London Film Productions, Microwave.

2) IFC Productions: Tale of Tales, Asthma, The Salvation, Time out of Mind, Outpost 37.
Detour Filmproductions: Bernie, Bad Mews Bears, SubUrbia, Before Sunrise.
Two Flints: I'll See You in My Dreams.
X-Filme Creative Pool: Hangover in High Heels, We are Fine, The Dark Valley, 4 Days in May
London Films Production: Sideshow, The Scarlett Pimpernel, Lady Chatterly.
Focus Features: The Zookeepers Wife, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Theory of Everything, Anna Karenina

3) IFC Films Success: Phoenix 
Detour Filmproductions Success: Before Midnight
Two Flints Success: It Follows 
London Film Productions Success: Lilting 
Focus Features Success: A Theory of Everything

Distribution: Independent film distributors

1) Scene 1: Audience is an important factor as it is based on their emotions. This can also act as a form of escapism since an audience would want to follow a story.

Scene 2: Films can have an impact on both commercially and socially with people's lives as they gossip about films. And how films try to target a mass audience.

Scene 3: Distribution is the most competitive business as they would need to make suer that an audience would enjoy the film and hope that it meets expectations for their audience. 

Scene 4: Distributors who have a connection with Hollywood or not has various ways to distribute films even with films made outside of Hollywood.

Scene 5: Studios would sell rights to the distributors. And then the Distributors would consider their target market for the content that they are about to distribute. And then they earn money from the film's earnings.

Scene 6: Distributors sign a contract with the producer, sales agents, or a studio for the rights that they hold to the film that they are distributing.

Scene 7: The distributors consider what to do with the film and judge what to do along the lines of experience from the director and the performance of the cast.

Scene 8: They try to find an opportune chance for the film to gain some success. They would go for who it is targeted at, what kind of film it is which could dictate what sort of cinema would suit it's genre which links onto where it should be distributed as it could be accessible to people on line as well as other formats such as physical discs. How it could be released which could mean the cost for it tom be distributed in cinemas so that they can estimate a good decision for the release of the film.

Scene 9: Methods that would be used to market the film. This would include techniques such as trailers, billboard adverts, posters, and exit polls which make paid screenings of the film to an audience who would give it a fair judgement and if the feedback is positive, then these can be spread through word of mouth or featured in their trailers. 

Scene 10: Licensing the film to the distributors is the last part and so they would distribute the film. The film would need to be classified by age rating in accordance with the BBFC and so they would do tasks such as  subtitling the movie for a foreign film as it should compensate for the large population of people who speak English. They would also need to make sure that they can get Box Office Returns as well to ensure the success of the film.

2)  Distributors: Focus Features: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotlesss Mind 

Universal Home Entertainment: Boyhood

The Weinstein Company: It Follows

Metrodome Distribution: The Falling

Artificial Eye: Lilting

4) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: £1,045,501 (UK)

Boyhood: $43,237,465 (Worldwide)

It Follows: $10,100,000 (Worldwide) (4 April 2015) 

The Falling: £359,082 (UK) (24 May 2015)

Lilting:  $1,567 (USA) (28 September 2014)

5) Curazon is the leading UK independent film distributor.

6) Arthouse films tend to take real-life stories which take a realistic take most of he time. They are also mainly narrative driven which would suggest that these films would be more focused on viewers who are vigilant. There is also some foreign films which are also an aspect of the arthouse genre which could be implemented in the short film.

Exhibition: Arthouse cinemas

1) Electric Cinema located at Notting Hill.

2) They would show Arthouse films However recently they have been screening some mainstream films. In comparison to Vue, they wouldn't show many mainstream films that revolve around action but rather are story driven.

3) The audience would generally be of an ABC1 audience as the venue has a luxury style in the theatre as well as having featured sofas rather than seats which could dictate the price being quite expensive.

A case study in independent film production: Film London and Microwave Film

1) It's a film and media agency.

2) Microwave Film funds films. They give development and mentorship support to all of the short-listed projects.

3) This is a competition thst could fund independent films if they would win.

4) 

Lilting

This film can attract viewers as itn has a realistic story and has a strong narrative that not many mainstream viewers would want to watch.

iLL Manors

This is based on a story of those who live in a low social class that could attract people into watching the film of their struggles and how they would cope with it. As well as this, they also include the story of gangs in London which could attract an audience od C2DE as it is a story that is based in their local area.

Shifty

This is quite similar to iLL Manors in both setting and theme as both relate to gangs. Therefore this would be seen as having a similar target audience. Their ideal audience would be C2DE as well since they are basing stories around their area. This could also attract a male audience as it has some action codes such as drugs that may interest a male audience.

5) What I've learnt is that in order to create a good story, I would need to present both sides. This could then make things more interesting and present the antagonist as a larger threat than in comparison to just having a single sided story. You mustn't add too much into the script as it may demotivate the actors who are portraying the clip as they may be confused as to how to act it. Therefore the script should have a concise structure that can be followed on by the cast.