EMPIRE- British film industry output for british audience

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HOW HAS THE BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY MANAGED TO MAINTAIN A SUCCESSFUL, HIGH QUALITY OUTPUT FOR THE BRITISH AUDIENCE?(2001 - 2011)

The British film industry has maintained a high quality output for the British audience, The British film industry has done this by listening to what the audience wants. The British film Industry keeps upgrading thier technology to also attract the and maintain the high quality standard of films that the 21st century audience would expect. 
The British Film Industry has maintained a strong basis to produce films, The British Film Industry has done this through the main production company's around in the 21st centuray,these company's are very well known and they do produce what the audience wants and to the sufficient standards required to entertain the British public, they are also known to have the best links to the main distribution companys.

The British film industry contains such production companies as: 

. BBC films

. Film 4 productions
. Pinewood studios

. British Lion films
. Hammer film productions

These production companies manage to entertain the British audience by giving them a wide variety of film genres, for example the production company Film 4 actually mainly co-produce thier films, therefore they can then gain a variety of different film genres and therefore attract alot more attention than the likes of BBC film where they actually mainly produce the more marure and British films in terms of content.



The Most favourite genres

  

The British film industry has kept the keen interest of the British audience younge and old, by adapting to what the British audience wants, they have looked at the statistics, and they have then therefore grabbed the attention of the british audience and produced the two most favourite genres, drama and comedy films, they have done this due to demand over which genres have been very popular, within these two film genre's the british film industry has incorporated the British mis en scene, this is to attract the British audiences and keep them wondering and questioning there own experiences within the same atmosphere and the same mis en scene with the films.

A clear example of the use of British mis en scene is in the following comdy films(the second most popular film genre choice from public demand):

. About a boy
In the British produced film 'About a boy' (producers studio canal), this being a romantic comendy, there is clear indications of a modern and younge school boys life and the modern issues with bullying. In this film the producers have used a strong British mis en scene and turned it into a comic interpritation, this is to attract the British audience and allow them to relate thier own life towards the one's within the movie.

Here is a trailer of the film below, within this trailer you can see that there are uses of British mis en scene such as, the british police officer uniform, the british school uniforms and the british park scenery with a lake and the even more distinctive swan within the lake, this one swan links towards a stong British point, due to the fact that the queen protects these birds.

. Hot fuzz
In this British produced film called 'hot fuzz' there are clear indication of a comic take on the life of a modern British police officer.In this film the producers have used another stong British mis en scene and turned it into a comic interpritation, this is once again to attract the British audience and allow them to relate thier own life towards the one's within the movie.
are very clear indications of a British mis en scene again in this film, a clear example of this is the British police officer uniform, the classic british scenery in the background of the british terrace house gardens, you can see all of these in the following trailer.

 

. Run fat boy run In this British produced film called 'Run fat boy run', the producers have taken the romantic comedy and focused it mainly on the comedy aspect. This film uses alot of British mis en scene and alot of this would deffinatly relate to the average middle aged person. In the following clip you can see see that there are glimpses of this mis en scene, you can see such British mis en scene such as, the david bowie T-shirt that the main character where's, the london marathon scenery, the british terrace houses and the park scenery.

 

  

The British film industry has new technology now that we are in the 21st century and they keep upgrading this constantly.
Since the 1990's and to this present day, there was the transition from the old fashioned film opticals to the digital film enviroment, within this digital film enviroment the British film indusrty have been able to produce modern films with a modern day personality, therefore keeping the attraction of the British audience. They are able to produce these result using, special effects, cutting, colour grading and more post production tasks.

The British film idustry has always enjoyed an ambiguous relationship with America. From this relationship the Americans are comonly known and are ambitious to work with us in the UK, therefore our film distribution industry in the UK are overun and dominated by the US distribution companies.
In the UK there are five main distributors:
. United International Pictures
. Warner Brothers
. Buena Vista
. Twentieth Century Fox
. Sony

9/10 films seen in the UK are then therefore distributed by these American compies, and the British Film Industry have this at an advantage because America is geographically huge and Americans speak English therefore there is potentially huge linguistic access.
The UK's distibution team also appeal to the British audience because they digitally stream thier advertisments for the British films onto sites such as 'youtube' and 'facebook' therefore gaining the younger generations approvel aswell as the older generations approval.

Here is a link about the top 10 british films: http://whatculture.com/film/10-greatest-british-ensembles-in-film-history.php


Here is a link showing the British film realeased in 2001: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_films_of_2001

Here is a link showing the British film realeased in 2002: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_films_of_2002
Here is a link showing the British film realeased in 2003: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_films_of_2003
Here is a link showing the British film realeased in 2004: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_films_of_2004
Here is a link showing the British film realeased in 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_films_of_2005
Here is a link showing the British film realeased in 2006: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_films_of_2006
Here is a link showing the British film realeased in 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_films_of_2007
Here is a link showing the British film realeased in 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_films_of_2008
Here is a link showing the British film realeased in 2009: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_films_of_2009

Here is a link showing the British film realeased in 2010: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_films_of_2010
Here is a link showing the British film realeased in 2011: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_films_of_2011