Release Date

Release Date

We have chosen the release date for our film to be Friday 14th of April because its is during the easter Holidays and therefore this will mean kids are off school so we hope that this will increase the gross overall and the gross during the opening weekend.

Director

Director
The director of our film is Frank Darabont. We chose this director because he has proven himself as a very successful director with directing films and series such as The Shawshank Redemption and The Walking Dead (2010-2011). His success in drama was vital  to us because that is the main genre of our film and some of his other works have been with films with small budgets. His success with films and series with different sub genres also attracted us to use him because it proves that he is not limited in one sub genre and is flexible.

Budget

Budget

The budget for our film is £3,500,000. We believe that it is suitable amount in order to make a successful film and our target in the opening weekend is £1,500,000 and we hope the final total gross to be £4,000,000-£4,500,000. We hope our multiple production companies will market our film successfully as well as organizing for our film to feature in at least two film festivals, which would hopefully lead to a positive critic reception and nominations for awards.  A similar film to ours is Bend It Like Beckham. It is an independent, British and a sports drama as it shows the struggle of an Indian girls dream to become a footballer but is held back because of her traditional culture. This film also had a low budget, which was only around £6 million.

Audience Profile

Audience Profile

As a football film, the target audience of the movie will be young male teenagers. The main reason being that most teenagers play football and always dream of becoming a footballer. Teenagers will be the primary audience as well as football fans. I would argue that the secondary audience of our film will be young adults. This is because the films' sub genre is drama, so they will take the film a bit more seriously compared to young teenagers who would mainly attend to the film because of its sports genre. I also believe that the secondary audience of this film would be young adults because some of the issues in the film could be similar to the things those people are currently going through/have gone through and thy cn relate to the character in the film.

Cast

Cast

Jack(Protagonist) - Tom Holland
Young JACK - Jacob Trembley
Selena (love interest) - Candice Patron
Mr Jackson ( Jacks P.E teacher) - Alan Shearer
Jeremy (Bully 1) - Miles teller
Kaan ( Bully 2) - Uraz Kaygilaroglu
Director/Producer - Frank Darabont (Tolani)
Costumes/ Make-up - Lindsey Pugh and June Brickman (Jack)
Editor - James Haygood (Kaan)
Music Advisor - Jason Alexander (Kallum)
Graphics Editor - David Carson (Kaan)

Genre and Similar Films

Genre & Similar Films
Our film fits in the genre of a drama and it fits under the sub genre of sport. We believe that it is a drama because the film includes scenes that focuses on issues such as single parenting, lack of financial support and bullying. It also includes romantic sub plot in which the protagonist has to choose between his girlfriend and his footballing career. Examples of similar films are;

• Goal Trilogy
• Creed
• Fight Club
• Moneyball
• Bend it like Beckham

Production Company

Production Company

Our film is an independent, British film and this means that there will be multiple production companies in order to generate the funding for the film. We chose these production companies because we believe that these will both fund and market our film effectively and successfully as well as helping us be successful at film festivals and at release. The production companies that we have chosen to produce our films are;

• Antenna Pictures
• Baby Cow Animation
• Creative England
• Grass Roots Media
• TVE

Release date

We have chosen the release date for our film to be on Friday the 14th of April. The reason behind this is because it is during the easter holidays which means that our target audience (teenage boys) will have more time meaning that the gross of the film will be higher than if it was during the school term.   This time period is also close to summer which is the time where festivals are taken place which means that it will have a higher chance of being nominated for film awards. As a group, we have hope that we we get nominated maybe even win an award.  This is mainly because, one of the main success of an independent film is to be recognised and actually feature in a festival. As well as this, many film critics will be at the film festivals and independent films also look for positive critic reception.