On Thursday 5th November 2015, we went to the BFI Southbank, Waterloo to watch a talk by Rob Miller and fellow people in the film industry called 'Introduction to the Film Industry: A Level Study Day' The day involved speakers including: Rob Miller (Film and Media consultant), Faye Ward (one of the UK's most prominent young producers), Gareth Lowrie (Film Marketing) and Paul Ridd (Marketing and Acquisitions Manager at Picturehouse) I had such a good day and found all of it really interesting. I got to fully understand the difference between:
Mainstream Film- safe genre films that are distributed to mass, national and international audiences e.g Star Wars: the Force Awakens. Star Marketing and Science Fiction
Independent Films- films that have a more limited appeal to niche audiences. Independent films do not have access to extensive distribution networks. Ben Wheatley's 2015 film High-Rise is a useful British example with Spotlight (2015) as a good example of a US indie.
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