The British film industry

 The British film industry

1) Use our brilliant Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets)to find Media Factsheet #132 on British Film. 

2) Read the whole of Factsheet #132 British Film

3) Write a one-sentence definition of what makes a film British.

4) What is the difference between a Hollywood production context and production context of a British film?

5) When did the James Bond franchise start?

6) In terms of film censorship and graphic content, what began to change in British film in the 1970s and 1980s?

7) What groups are often represented in British film? Give examples of films these groups feature in.

8) What does the Factsheet suggest might be the audience appeal of British film?

3) What makes a film British is the film content and how this includes British culture. 

4) The difference between Hollywood production context and production context of a British film is that Hollywood production context means that most films are made by Hollywood studios, have high budgets, a heavy reliance on celebrities both in cast and crew and spectacle driven stories. However,  British production context consists will reflect British culture, can be large or small budgets and be character driven.

5) The James Bond franchise started in 1962. 

6) In the 1970s and 1980s there was a rise in sexual content, both the act of sex and sex linked to violence and also videos where filmmaking was becoming more accessible and more extreme content was being created. 

7) Groups that are often represented in British films are youth and women. The youth can be found in films like A Clockwork Orange, Eden Lake and Attack The Block. 

8) The audience appeal of British film may be identifiable British actors, British locations and most importantly the social theme - focus on class, social strife, education and more.