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.

X INDUSTRY1 Factors that influence Box Office

WARP

• Why Warp can't produce any genre besides social realism and horror - (and comedy - 4 Lions -'suicide bomber comedy' 

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• Warp X makes lots of horror - similarity between horror and social realism - both lack CGI, IP, stars. Warp X doesn´t have access to a high budget and has to stick to these genres as they have a lack of budget.
• If they were bought by a conglomerate, they would be able to diversify to different genres.

WORKING TITLE

• Working Title have the budget to diversify into different genres. 
• They can use CGI and SFX for Sci-Fi genres such as in Paul

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• They also can afford IP such as the Bridget Jones franchise as it was originally a novel

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BILLIE ELLIOT 

• Outliar for Working Title - WT2 - low budget end - Psuedo Indie 
• Low budget and social realism (around $2m budget)
• Grim setting, accents, working class
• Appealed because of feel good ending - ties in with American Dream
• Warp don't usually have feel good endings

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