Tuesday 18 March 2014

A Field In England: Media Magazine Article

The media magazine article on “A Field in England” starts off explaining and describing the normal distribution tactics of big budget Hollywood films being $50 million dollars. Then it goes on to state the new method that this film has employed to increase the amount of people that want to watch it but aren’t able to make it to the art-house theatres, by releasing the film on multiple platforms, and enables them to watch it again on DVD/Blu-ray/VoD. There are statistics of major institutions, like Sony. Also, it goes to talk about the funding of the film from like the BFI’s lottery-financed film fund, which is approximately £23 million. The article also states that releasing the film on all platforms is the future of distribution and A Field in England gives a small glimpse into the future. The article has interviews from Anna Higgs, an executive producer. There are statistics of the films first weekend, where it made £21,399. Also, states the viewership on film for totalled 357,000. It also states that the film was a trending topic and that the sales on the Friday of DVD from Amazon and HMV. 

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