Working Title Films

Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London, UK. The company was founded in 1983. It produces feature films and several television productions such as Atonement.
Atonement is a British film with actors, director and was filmed in Britain (and a bit of France). 
It was a huge hit and won many awards; including a Golden Globe.


Pride and Prejudice is also a Working Title Film and the poster shares the same kind of layout as Atonement. Also, Kiera Knightley features in both and is a typical British actress.
The background in both posters are quite British landscapes as well. 


Here is some information about how successful Atonement was at the BAFTAS.


These are the questions we would like to ask Working Title Films: 
-Would you ever consider being involved in making a 3D film?
-Do you think that eventually 3D will take over from ordinary film?
-What is your favourite film made by Working Title?

How Englishness is Represented in Midsummer Murders

Midsummer Murders has been in the news recently due to the lack of racial diversity in the series; which has been running for 14 years and has not had any complaint in the whole time it has been aired until now.
The producer Brian True-May said this is a representation of a typical small English village in the country and that in these parts of England the racial diversity is lacking. In a lot of cases this is very true, many rural areas do not have people of a different culture living there, in some cases the citizens may have live there for their whole lives.

In the very first episode of Midsummer Murders it shows a quintessentially English village, filled with old ladies on traditional bikes, posh middle-aged men in motor cars, horseback riders and a farmer-y looking chap in a land rover. 

All the citizens in ‘Badgers Drift’ seem quite elderly, eccentric and nosey which is a stereotypical of an English person when being portrayed in television, and the accents they are given reflect the Queens; which to some foreign folk think all English people sound like. The register is very formal, even to friends, and the words they use all pronounced very well.

The houses in which these characters live in are quaint little cottages and old fashioned farm buildings – it’s a very idyllic looking location where nothing could ever go wrong; in the case of some English villages this is very true. The little lanes are surrounded by greenery and hedgerows, and are not wide enough to fit a bike and a land rover down – this suggests a very small population of the village and that the roads perhaps do not get used very much. If it was a very busy area a main road would be added.

Apart from the houses in the area is a small looking village shop and not a lot else, there are plenty of picnic baskets however – one of which the old lady is carry around on her bicycle.

Villages in England are very behind on the times, the decor in the houses is very out dated and the lady in the house is still using a dial telephone (next to it is a cup of tea which further fits the stereotype of the English) and when in the woods she is using a very old fashioned film camera – though this episode was shot in 1997 so we can’t expect too much from the technology.

Natural lighting is used throughout which creates an tranquil environment, the sound is largely diegetic using natural sounds such as birds chirping, leafs rustling in the wind and the bike rolling along the road. The only non-diegetic sound is the music which is quite cheery and summery, then it changes to a more eerie sound with more suspense which hints that something is out of place and all is not well in the perfect community. 

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is the 'second coming' of the internet, it is what it was originally intended for - to be used socially and it allows people to interact with others and put their own opinions out there. Facebook, myspace and Youtube are some of the biggest social networking sites in the world, and it is possible for anyone with access to internet to join these sites. 

The advantages of Web 2.0 is that everyone has a chance to voice their thoughts and information can be quickly distributed around the world. Sites such as Digg enable readers to either 'dig' something if they like it, or 'bury' something if they do not which gives the owner of the site more of an idea what the public likes. Many sites have been bought up by powerful companies to make more money, such as Youtube has been bought by Google now.

However the disadvantages are that anybody can post things on the internet and make up rumours, on sites like Wikipedia things can be altered by anyone, they have moderators but sometimes things slip through. There is also a huge struggle with copyright, because any one can upload things such as music and films, people can upload them for free and do as they want for them. But since Youtube got bought up by Google moderators have buckled down and are taking more control by getting rid of many copies of songs. 

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Game Show

For my game show it is a mixture of an assault courses and general knowledge questions, will be called Bamboozled and to win it you must get the fastest time in the course and the most amount of questions correct.
Production: This will be filmed in a studio for the quiz side of it, then in some country where health and safety is not so strict, e.g Argentina. It will be slightly like the Krypton Factor, but more entertaining and for a wider audience.

This could be converged by playing it online, making a video-game of it and playing it on such consoles as; wii, wii fit, xbox kinect, playstation move. Then you could play it online with others and compete, or play with others in your home.

Distribution & Marketing: This is will be distributed both online and on television to apply to a wider audience and so people who do not have TV (e.g students) can watch it too. Adverts will be shown on popular webistes such as You-Tube, Facebook and Hotmail. 


Technologies: The main technology that will be used for this are internet and television, as pretty much everybody in the UK at least owns one, or both. This way it could be spread around faster and easy, links could be given to people and they could play along at home.

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