Friday, 9 December 2016

UK Production

High-rise

Budget: £6.1 Million (approx $8million)
Stars: Tom Hiddleston
           Sienna Miller
           Jeremy Irons
           mainly unknown actors because its cheaper to finance as more popular actors demand more money. with unknown actors you become more immersed in the film as you don't associate them with being actors - simply people within a film.

Genre: Social commentary dressed up as a sci-fi, based on an interlectual book, so aimed at more of an interlectual based audience. The director is renown for social commentarys, the director has a cult following due to his previous low budget films, indie audience.

box office- released film on all formats, streaming, dvd, cinema, box office was 79,887

production-film4, british film institute recorded picture

certificate- 15- not neccesarily aimed at 15, just in terms of violence

marketing- limited edition posters were created, from 5 influencial graphic designers, three trailers released, all without music to expand on the athmosphere of the film, created a short film analysis with punk student magazine talking about the book and the film

release- 18 march 2016- on all formats

reviews- when it was released it had gross reviews due to its lack of narrative structure, pretentious, then few months later they realised the importance of the film as a social commentary, they changed the reviews.

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