Working Title and Warp films

1. Who is working title?
Working title films is a British production company founded in 1983 whose parent companies include: BBC films and universal studies.
Who are Warp films?
A film company that creates short films, they have 16 staff and are supported by the national endowment for science technology and arts.
2. How does the ownership of the company affect the budgets for film?
By owning the film company you have total control over how the budget is spent and therefore can dictate what percentage of the budget goes where i.e. Mechandising,advertising,distribution,production costs, staffing levels.
If you don’t have complete control of the film company you are at the mercy of major share holders who can override the budgets and dictate costs that may not be your priority.
3.Warp films have produced: My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117 (Dir: Chris Morris - 2003)
Dead Man's Shoes (Dir: Shane Meadows - 2004)
Rubber Johnny (Dir: Chris Cunningham - 2005)
Scummy Man (Arctic Monkeys short film/music video)
This Is England (Dir: Shane Meadows - 2006)
"Grow Your Own"(Dir: Richard Laxton - 2007)
Dog Altogether
All Tomorrow's Parties (Dir: Jonathan Caouette & All Tomorrow's People]] - 2009)
Working title films have been responsible for producing many films including: about a boy,atonment.billy elliott,brdget jones, to name a few that have proved popular and successful.
4. choose one from each list and compare the budgets for these films and how much they made.

Warp films: the film ‘this is England’ had a budget of £1,500,000 and it grossed $8,069,240.
Working title films ‘about a boy’ had a budget of £20,000,000 and it grossed US$130,549,455.
The film about a boy was already a well established book on the bestsellers list and therefore already had an advertising advantage that coupled with the actors starring in the film added extra publicity. Hugh grant, who plays the main character, was already a popular actor when it was released. Film reviews are also an important factor dictating the success or failure of films.

5. The movie Jaws had a budget of $7 million and grossed $470, 653, 000,it also exceeded $100,000.000 in tickets sales. Factors that made Jaws such a success were: the director, Steven Spielberg who wasn’t very well known when this movie was created but proved his talent as a director and received many awards and good receptions from critics.

6. Where do working title and warp films get their funding from?
Working title receives funding from BBC films and universal studies depending on which project.
Warp films receive their funding from NESTA –the national endowment for science technology and arts which is a British company established by the government in 1998 to maximise the uks potential in creativity.