York Film Festival

On friday 9th november our media class went to york film festival. We went to 2 of the master classes, the first one being a presentation from Barry Ryan, who is head of production at Warped film. Over the past 10 years they have produced 18 films, 17 of which have been theatrically distributed, and 5 TV series. Overall they have won 6 BAFTA's. They hold one world record, for the most zombies in one place.

He went on to tell us about their future plans. Next year they will be releasing a stone roses documentary, Southcliffe, a 3 part drama, which shall be shown on channel 4. 71, a thriller which is in preperation (written by Gregory Burke and directed by Yann Demange, aswell as Destroyer written and directed by Tom Shankland.

He spoke about the effects of cinema, films at home, pirate copies and the power of supermarkets have on the company consumptions. The principal of the company is set by warp records/music which is an ever growing record labelling company. Their relationships with clients (music artists) are long term.

Warp films created the film 'This is England'. It sold 1.8 million in the box office and  180,000 saw it in the cinema. However the company think more people viewed it at home.

Each of their films is 30 days of preperation, 30 days of shooting, 150 days post which equals 210 days. 10 hours off work a day means 2100 hours per week. 18 films multiplied by 2100 hours comes to a total of 37500 hours of film making that the company has done so far.

Film economics

1 million at box office
- Exhibitors take 50%
-Distributors take their P+A which is 200k (because of promotions- posters and premiers)
-Distributor splits remaining money 50/50
-The film has to pay back all finance
-The produces get 50% of profit- still only making half of what profits are made overall

The second masterclass was a converasation between Danny Cohen and Mariayah Kaderbhai (mariayah interviewing Danny). He started the presentation by talking about how he has become a cinematographer. He initially did a social science degree then became a photographic technician, which after years of producing short films, lead him onto becoming a cinemaphotographer.

He spoke about how he