York Film Festival

Warp Films: Crossing Creative Platforms...

This is England:
The makers of This is England weren't trying to move from Film to TV as they had always done TV, but it exploits another area of the market.

This is England made 1.8 million pounds at the UK box office and sold half a million DvD units which is relatively successful for a British film. The first episode of This is England '84 had 2.2 million viewers which is a large jump from a successful feature film to a T.V show.


Examples of Television Warp have produced:

• Fur - 2007
• This is England - '86 - 2010
• Midnight beast  - 2011
• This is England '88 - 2011
• Sky Arts - 2012
• Talking to the dead - 2013
• Midnight beast 2 - 2013
• This is England '90 - 2014/15
• The Last Panther

Examples of Feature Films Warp have produced:

• Dead Mans shoes
• This is England
• Grow your own
• Complete history of my sexual failure
• Donkey Punch
• Hush
• All tomorrows parties
• Bunny and the Bill
• She a Chinese
• Submarine
• Four Lions
• Tyrannosaur
• Kill List
• For these in Peril
• Made of Stone
• '71

Barry Ryan explained that when Warp worked on feature films they would employ people who worked on feature films, and wouldn't cross the cast who worked on television and feature films. There was no cross over.

This is England (Movie)

The following...

• Film 4
• UK film council
• Screen Yorkshire
• East Midlands Media
• The Works
• Optimum releasing
• Scale and Leaseback

All wanted some element of control over the film.

Warp invested 2.2 million on the film, which lasts around 1.5 hours.


This is England '86 (T.V)

• Channel 4 - Got to show it twice
• Madman releasing (Australia)
• Non-Stop (Scandinavia)

Warp invested 2.6 million to film 4 hours worth of episodes.

So to film T.V you get more air time for the money you invested than that of a feature film.



Cinematography // Creating the BIG picture...

1. Film Making is a collaboration, the atmosphere with a good working crew is incredible.
2. The technology isn't important, its about the idea and the effect of that idea.
3. Film as much as possible in order to gain experience, from this your cinematography skills will improve.
4. 'Cinema' is about creating stories and creating a 'magical world', cinematography helps create effect to the overall big picture and can make the experience more 'magical'.