Published on Oct 6, 2012 Here is my case study for the AS Film Studies WJEC exam. Fish TankA Case Study The film had a budget of 2 million pounds and was shot in 30 days. The UK Film Council partly funded the film, they gave £70,000.• It is unknown how much actors get paid for being in an independent film but there are 3 known ways in which it can be approached:• Pay the actors up front• Give Credit Only or Credit and a Copy of the Film• No Upfront pay, but Deferred pay on the backend per certain conditions.Independent film Directors tend to get less money than big budget Directors. It varies on each film. • Director: Andrea Arnold• Writer: Andrea Arnold• Producers: Kees Kasander, Lisette Kelder, Christine Langan, Nick Laws, David M. Thompson, Paul Trijbits• Andrea Arnold has previously directed Red Road (2006).• Christine Langan and David M. Thompson have previously produced The Duchess (2008)• Paul Trijbits has previously produced This Is England (2006) and London To Brighton (2006).

• Production Companies:• BBC Films• UK Film Council• Limelight Communication• ContentFilm• Kasander Film CompanyThe funding came from BBC Films and the UK FilmCouncil. • Distributors• Artificial Eye• Cinéart• MK2 Diffusion• Nutopia Entertainment• Syrena Films• Alta Films• Canana Films• Film1• IFC Films• Mongrel Media• SP Films • There is a trailer for the film it is featured on IMDB and YouTube. • There is more than one poster promoting the film. • As you can see the main character Katie Jarvis who plays Mia Williams, is the main image of all these posters. This is obvious she is the main selling point of the film.• The film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival on the 14th May 2009 and gained great word of mouth and reviews. It was also shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on the 21st June 2009. It has also been shown Karlovy Vary Film Festival (10th July 2009), Jerusalem Film Festival (17th July 2009), Motovun Film Festival (27th July 2009), Sarajevo Film Festival (18th August 2009), Telluride Film Festival (4th September 2009), Toronto International Film Festival (11th September 2009), Helsinki International Film Festival (19th September 2009), Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (25th September 2009), Pusan International Film Festival (9th October 2009)

, Warsaw Film Festival (10th October 2009), Mill Valley Film Festival (10th October 2009), Chicago International Film Festival (14th October 2009), Gent International Film Festival (15th October 2009), São Paulo International Film Festival (23rd October 2009), Vienna International Film Festival (28th October 2009), AFI Film Festival (2nd November 2009), Starz Denver Film Festival (19th November 2009), Stockholm International Film Festival (27th November 2009), Palm Springs International Film Festival (8th January 2010) and the Hong Kong International Film Festival (22nd March 2010).• The film got an arthouse release. • The tag line of the film is “Live, love and give as good as you get”. There are a few trailers that vary slightly that were released on the Internet and shown in the cinema.• Most of the websites I have looked at have given the film four out of five stars.• The film has been nominated and won many awards:• BAFTA Award (WON) for Outstanding British Film• British Independent Film Awards (WON) for Best Director Andrea Arnold• British Independent Film Awards (WON) for Most Promising Newcomer Katie Jarvis• British Independent Film Awards (NOMINATED) for Best

Actress Katie Jarvis• British Independent Film Awards (NOMINATED) for Best British Independent Film • As you can see these are all the festivals above that it was shown at. kata status kerenThis is one of the big ways independent filmmakers promote their film.• On the first opening weekend in the UK the film made £103,180. large saltwater fish tanks for saleThen it made £254,248 (20th September 2009), after it made £346,666 (27th September 2009), Lastly it made £413,266(4th October 2009). fish hatchery tanks for saleThese figures are for the first three weeks of the film’s release.best fish tank bottom feeder

Opening Weekend$32,619 (USA) (17 January 2010) (2 Screens)£103,180 (UK) (13 September 2009) (47 Screens)As you can see, seeing this film was set in Britain it wasshown at more screens,it is clear this film was given an arthouse release. fish tank sizes wizard101Didn’t exceed budget, but can make more money by putting it on DVD.best fish tank pump and filter Here is a condensed guide of how to make use of language to approach exam questions (Film) How are your three main texts of their ? 'Sin City''Sin City's . 'Sin City''Sin City' . 'Fish Tank' 'My Name Is Joe' 'Fish Tank' 'Sin City' Read the full interview here. "Tell your old man he's a ****" In Andrea Arnold’s film, “Fish Tank,” an unsmiling 15-year-old named Mia (Katie Jarvis), who lives in a housing project in Essex, in England, becomes close to the boyfriend of her uncaring mother.

The man, an Irish charmer named Connor, played by Michael Fassbender, gives her money and lends her his video camera so that she can tape herself dancing to hip-hop. It soon becomes apparent that the relationship between Mia and Connor is becoming dangerously intimate. Ms. Arnold shot “Fish Tank” in a raw, nonjudgmental and observational style with plenty of hand-held camerawork. The film, which was in the United States on Friday, is recognizably the work of the same unflinching filmmaker who made “Red Road” (2006) and “Wasp,” which won the 2005 Oscar for best live-action short. The consistent look and the working-class milieu of Ms. Arnold’s films align them with the three British directors most associated with social realism: Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Alan Clarke, who died in 1990. The difficulties in Britain of raising money to make films prohibits cohesive movements in the national cinema, and like other directors who have worked in a social realist style — including Gary Oldman (the actor, who directed “Nil by Mouth”), Carine Adler (“Under the Skin”), Lynne Ramsay (“Ratcatcher”) and Duane Hopkins (“Better Things”) — Ms. Arnold is something of a lone voice.

Her reputation as an auteur could come to rest on whether her films successfully harness her chosen style to express social themes, or whether they are merely anecdotes that look like Mr. Loach’s films. Ms. Arnold admits to being a fan of Mr. Loach, but is hesitant about making claims for herself as a social realist. “I guess I am,” she allowed during a recent telephone interview. “When people have suggested it, I’ve said, ‘Oh, am I?’ I know it sounds kind of mad, but I just get on and make my films in my own way as best I can. I’m not aware that I’m joining any group. I know that all the people that have made similar films in the past paved the way for me to be able to do it, and I’m obviously influenced by what came before, but I’m not that conscious of it.” How typical are your three main texts of their genre? 'Sin City''District 9''Fish Tank' 'Sin City''Sin City' "Hell is waking up every goddam day and not knowing why you're here" 'Double Indemnity''The Maltese Falcon'