Warp And Conventions - York 2015

We went to the Film Festival in york and went to presentations about Warp by Barry Ryan and Cinematography.

Warp
The presentation was presented by the managing director of Warp Productions, Barry Ryan. He told us about the different ways of producing and filming TV and Film. As we know Warp Productions filmed the film This Is England in 2005. The film then continued into TV. When Warp crossed over the line between Film and TV he mentioned that the technology is mainly the same, but a while ago people such as Warner Bros. were concerned if the two technologies were similar. Warner Bros were concerned when David wanted his own cast to work along side him, who had previously worked on TV. He also mentioned that creative control is another reason why there is minimal crossing into TV and Film. Both of the This Is England were Shane Meadows. However in TV it's mainly the same but you have to make the show around a certain time (52 minutes) and fit in advertisement breaks. Shae had far less creative control whilst filming.

 This Is England - Film

• Budget - £2.2M
• 18 Weeks to Edit
• 6 Weeks to Film

 This Is England - TV '86

• Budget - £2.6M
• 18 Weeks to Edit
• 6+ Weeks to Film

Warp productions went to channel four to get money and they were offered 500k, this wasn't enough so they looked at where This Is England was popular (Australia and Indonesia). So they went to MadMan Releasing (Australia) and Non-Stop  (Indonesia). In which they got enough to produce This Is England '86.

Cinematography

• On a typical set there will be one wide, one medium and one small camera.
• Film making is a collaboration, everyone has a job
• Film is still used a lot today, Spielberg still uses film
• Breaking the code - generally you never film a woman on a 16mm because they will look distorted, always a 35mm.
• Scripts important to make a smooth good film.
• Film as much as you can - experience is key Ianthe industry
•  The cinema is still important - want to feel the reaction of others around you, better than on netflix on your own, need to keep people coming to the cinema.
• Fuji film is good - ran technicolour out of business,

Convergence
Media Convergence-

• The Three C's: Computing, Communications and content.
• Combinations of Information Technology and Telecommunications network companies.

Two Primary Levels-

• Technologies: Creative Content has been converted to industry standard digital forms of delivery, through broadband or Wi-Fi.
• To be shown on TV, Phones, Computers and digital voice recorders hooked up to TVs.
• Industries: Companies cross the business spectrum from media to telecommunications to technology. These ca merge and become a new business all together.

Technological Convergence-

• Different technological systems to evolve and combine towards performing similar tasks.
• Previously separate technologies, that now share resources and interact with each other. Creating new efficiencies.