X INDUSTRY3 Digitisation of the film industry

WARP

• Warp X and Warp Australia are subsidiaries of Warp Films
• Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee (Meadows, 2009)
• £48k budget and 5 day shoot
• Warp X
• Founded 2005
• Digital film studio
• Budgets usually between £400k and £800k
• Filmography

• UK Film Council
• Now BFI (British Film Institute)
• Encourages development in British film
• Uk Film Council and National lottery gave a fund to Warp X to produce digital movies
• A lot cheaper - each movie print was roughly £5k - now blu-ray, hard drive and streaming are practically free
• Benefits indies as it is a lot cheaper
• Usually movies do a US release before the rest of the world - Avatar (Cameron, 2009) challenged this and had a worldwide release at the same time.