Big Talk Productions.

• Nira Park founded Big Talk in 1995
• Kenton Allen became Chief Executive of Big Talk Productions in September 2008. He is a multi award-winning programme-maker
• Comedy is, and always has been, the beating heart of the company, often overlapping and conspiring with other genres. Over the last 4 years, the company has expanded significantly and alongside it, so has the breadth and scope of the material being developed and produced. Big Talk’s credits include Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright’s cult TV series spaced, all of Edgar Wright’s films to date: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, and The World’s End. In addition, Greg Mottola’s Paul, written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost with Kristen Wiig, Joe Cornish’s critically acclaimed Attack the Block, the multi-award winning Sightseers, directed by Ben Wheatley and written by and starring Alice Lowe and Steve Oram.

Hot Fuzz - Case study

Top London cop PC Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is sent to the quiet Stanford, teaming up with  his witless partner Danny (Nick Frost). Some peculiar deaths start to take place and its not long until Danny's dream of seeing high action becomes reality. The two cops introduce big city justice.

• Writers: Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg
• Director: Edgar Wright
• Producers: Nira Park, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
• Main cast: Simon Pegg & Nick Frost
• Budget: £8,000,000 (estimated)      
• Opening Weekend: $5,848,464 (USA) (20 April 2007)    
• Gross: $23,618,786 (USA) (20 July 2007)  
• Production companies:Universal Pictures (presents)        
  StudioCanal (in association with) (as StudioCanal)
  Working Title Films (as Working Title)
  Big Talk Productions (in association with)
  Ingenious Film Partners (produced in association with) (as Ingenious Film Partners 2 LLP)
• Run time: 121 minutes

Fish Tank - Case study.

Writer/Director - Andrea Arnold.
Independent film, part funded by BBC films.
Additional funding: UK Film Council (Prints and Advertising Fund - £70,000, New Cinema Fund - £644,000 and Development Fund - £20,000)
Production budget- 1.8 million.
2010 BAFTA - best British film.
40 cinema screen  releases.
Main Cast- Katie Jarvis (Mia), Michael Fassbender (Connor), Kierston Wareing (Joanne), Rebecca Griffiths (Tyler)
Genre - Drama, Social realism.
Production - Kasander films, Arnolds film company.
Narrative - Feisty 15 year old girl, Mia lives in the rough part of Essex with her 'tart' of a mother and little sister Tyler. She had been thrown out of school and is aimlessly wasting her days away. Mia begins a peculiar relationship with her mothers new boyfriend Connor who encourages her love for one thing only, dancing.

Movie poster analysis.

The main colour running throughout the poster is white, this creates the theme of love, it connotes purity. Also, the actors names are in pink, this is done as its more of a feminine colours which gives the impression the target audience is females and that the genre is romantic.

The dominant image really draws the poster together. Typically, the characters are young and beautiful. You can tell through the body language that the characters are in love, the light in the background shinning on them emphasises their happiness.

The title ‘The Vow’ is central making it the main focus point aside form the dominant image,  again the title is white which connotes purity but it also stands out making it easy to read. Underneath the title is reads ‘inspired by true events’ this is cleverly done by the designer of the poster as it entices the audience to want to see the film. The page layout if simple yet effective, it gives the audience is clear understanding that this is a romantic film without giving to much away  as we don’t get an idea of the setting for example.