Bradley Cooke-Catcheside

3112
Lutterworth College
25274

Working Title & Warp Films

Working Title
• Mike Gudridge
→ Screen International
• Tent-pole films
→ Big budget films
→ Massive audience
• 4 quadrants
• Males and females
• Young and old
• Cut backs
→ Recession
→ Effects sophisticated audience
→ Effects those who do not have the 4 quadrants
• Tim Bevin
→ Drama and thriller are more difficult to create
→ Companies prefer an easy or a “simple” sell; meaning that they would risk
some of the films not actually being produced
• Lord Puttname
→ Director of mid-range films with moderate funding
• Dependent of the stars that are employed and the endings to each film
→ Directed Chariots of Fire
• £15 million budget - half on actors and actresses; half on the
production of the finished text
→ Securitism
• Secures audience through the use of certain actors and actresses

Warp Films
• Shane Meadows
→ Director of low budget films
 This Is England

Working Title & Warp Films

1. What are Shane Meadows reasons for creating low budget films?
→ Meadows felt that too many people only watched films because of the actors
and actresses that appeared within them - not because of the actual film itself.
Meadows believed that if he had a larger budget, he would have employed
actors and actresses that that would have required him to have done so.

2. Where was the money spent on This Is England?

→ More money was spent on assuring that the film was finished to a suitable
standard then was spent on the actors and actresses that were used within
the piece itself

3. What was the biggest challenge whilst creating This Is England?

→ Finding a suitable set; most places that Meadows and his team looked were
too modern and would not have worked for the piece he was trying to achieve

K. Elger
03/11/2009
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4. How were these problems solved?

→ Meadows looked into using the Nottingham estate of St. Anne’s - a run down,
old-fashioned estate that looked as though it would fit right in the 1980s

5. How are the Shane Meadows’ techniques as a director different to that of

mainstream directors?
→ Meadows adopted a much more relaxed view on the creation of This Is
England; timeline and elements of the text were often altered and changed

K. Elger
03/11/2009