FILM PRODUCTION COMPANIES- Suitable for 'Loving Jennie'

FILM PRODUCTION COMPANIES- 'Loving Jennie'

'Loving Jennie' befits the genre of romance and the plot is very similar, to movies that have been done before. In order for us to find an appropriate production company for our opening, we filtered through our genre research (particularly the british romance films etc) narrowed the films down and checked the various production companies behind them and which ever one would be suitable for our film:

BBC Films is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It is considered to be an established company at the forefront of British independent film-making and co-produces approximately eight films a year. Also works in partnership with major international and UK distributors. BBC film like 'Fingersmith' also has the theme of homsexuality featured although situated in a totally different era, than our film.

Momentum Pictures (also known as Alliance Films UK), an Alliance Films company, is one of the leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and Ireland. With films like (some 2011 theatrical releases) 'Season of the Witch', 'Insidious', 'Hobo With a Shotgun', 'Limitless' and 'Justice'. Mainly horror and/or action.

Relativity Media (sometimes written as RelativityMedia and Relativity) is an American independent motion picture production and investment company based in West Hollywood, California. Relativity Media filmography include many of the genre in topic, romance, e.g. 'The Holiday', 'Love Happens', 'Dear John', 'Wild Child' and 'Made of Honour'. These films do seem like polished hollywood-styled films unlike our film which we dont intend to give this impression at all.


*Redbus Film Distribution is a British film company. They have distributed and produced many films for the UK, some becoming hits, such as Bend It Like Beckham, What's Cooking?, Cabin Fever, Jeepers Creepers and It's All Gone Pete Tong. The first film released by Redbus was Open Your Eyes. Movies like 'Bend It Like Beckham'

Big Talk Productions Ltd. (stylized as bigtalk productions) is an English film and television production company established in 1995 by Nira Park. The company, located in London, has produced films such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz; it is also known for its British sitcoms such as Spaced and Free Agents.

*Focus Features
With films like 'One Day (2011)', Jane Eyre (2011), It's kind of a funny story (2010), Something New (2006) Brokeback Mountain, (2005), its evident this company work majorly with romance/romcom films that, in my opinion, are very much unlike others. For instance, Academy Award-winning, 'Brokeback Mountain',  features a storyline that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West. Considering our films plot is centred around the same issue of homosexuality, we think Focus Features would be the best decision production company wise.


*Ruby Films
With their film catalogue including movies like 'Love + Hate (2005)', 'Love and Other Disasters (2006)', 'Tamara Drewe (2010)', it suggests 'Ruby Films' could be perfect for 'Loving Jennie' because of their audience base being similar to what we intend aswell.


Others Include:

Summit Entertainment
Gateway Films
Sally Head Productions
Film4


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GENRE THEMES: Homosexuality Film Examples

HOMOSEXUALITY- Film examples

Homosexuality is a theme often used in period dramas and they indeed share some codes and conventions with modern films.

Examples:

Affinity

-awkward and hesitant intamacy
- exaggerated reactions to touches (protagonists physical interaction)
- high emotions running
- close proxemics (eye contact/ personal space)

Fingersmith

- extreme close ups (especially when intimate- e.g face touching etc)
- eye contact
- minimal to none use of make -up
- delicate touches and embraces towards the protagonists
- use of a montage with clips showing the relationship progression of the protagonists

This simply gives an idea of the sorts of aspects we should be considering including in our film opening.

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GENRE THEME: HOMOSEXUALITY

GENRE THEME: HOMOSEXUALITY

Homosexuality in movies, from our research is generally represented either using negative stereotypes, like creating them to appear 'flamboyant' and 'colourful' or not portaying them at all. In films stereotypes act like codes that give audience a quick common understanding of a person or group of people- usually relating to their class, race/ethnicity, gender, and indeed sexual orientation.
According to 'Media-Awareness.com', 'Hollywood especially has a general culture and history of homophobia and majority of the time, films portrayals of homosexuals reflect this'

Baring in mind we intend our final production to be of 15 rating, to simply aid our group in representing a reasonable depiction of gay couples, we have researched films with similar themes to highlight how the characters interact with each other physically and show their intamacy.

 

Loving Annabelle

-the women are obviosuly attracted to each other but a sense of hesitation, which is common especially to the person who hasn't 'accepted' their sexuality, is evident.
-the physical interaction is delicate and slight touches but still creates an effect and strongly suggests the two women's bond and feelings towards each other.
- all the above is also common conventions in romance films generally.

Extracts like this really help us to understand how we can show our audience our characters relationship, sexuality and the significance of it in the plot, without making it too stereotypical or sanitizing the reality of it too much.