Production Context and Developing Countries.

Taken from the VLE but in my own words.


International Co Productions

You will find Co Production films made outside of the United States. It is where more than one production company from over the world combine there idea's to create a film, this is called International Co Productions. The good things about Co Productions is that there will be more money involved, more resources, it will reach a larger audience and it will benefit the time and distribution. The down falls are that there could be creative disagreements, cultural barriers, moving equipment around, language barriers and not being able to follow each-others rules. International Co Productions can work really well and can have higher quality productions through sharing the investment. The good things about International Co Productions are that they can access a desired location. They have the opportunity to learn from each other and have more access to available technology. On the other hand, the down falls are that increased costs of dealing with the government, loss of creativeness, loss of control, increased co-ordination and shooting costs. For example there's films such as 'inter-mission' which was produced in Ireland and UK. The film 'little Ashes' was produced in UK and Spain. 'Black Gold' was produced in Nigeria and USA.

Independent Films

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An independent film uses less than 50% of a major production companies money on the budget and is usually a mini production company filming it. You will find an Independent film is usually produced outside a major studio. Independent films can be nominated or awarded at films festivals such as Orlando Film Festival, Miff Awards and London Independent Film Festivals. Anybody can fund there own Independent film but it is the distribution that goes into making the independent film and making it well known so subsidaries or major studios can produce it. It is always important to at least have one famous actor or actress in an independent film so the audience would want to go watch the film. Which will then lead to a  wider range audience. The good thing about creating an Independent film is that once it has been shown at film festivals, there will be more than one distributor wanting to approach the film and produce it. On the other hand, it can be really bad. This is where they won't be able to make any sales for money but can still keep the money the distributor gives them.

Developing Countries.

Developing Countries is known as a third cinema. Films from Asia, Africa and Latin American is based on third cinema. The first cinema is Hollywood films and second is European Art House. Developing Countries started in the 1959. There is a famous documentary called 'La hora de los hornos which was and still is a third world cinema documentary. There was issues with independence and cultural identity when African tribes was seen in a horrible way but things have changed and now they show Ghanaian and Nigerian life in much more higher profile upper class and showing business man and woman. This is known as Nollywood. Its a high speed, low budget film industry. You can still find famous people in these type of films, the only trouble is that it can take a while for the film to get released in the UK.