media studies- My Brother the Devil
1.
The budget of the film My Brother the Devil was
1million
2.
The director of the film is Sally El Hosaini,
she is a welsh-Egyptian writer and director also worked on TV at the BBC
3.
The production companies behind the film are
Rooks Nest Entertainment and Wild Horses Film they have only made 5 other
films.
4.
My Brother the Devil has won Best European Film,
Best Newcomer in the London Film Festival, Sundance, Berlin International Film
Festival.
5.
We haven’t seen any OOH advertising yet
6.
The different types of social media advertising
we have found are various Twitter accounts also Facebook accounts, we also
found self promotion and Tumblr blogs etc.
7.
Other online advertisements we found were on the
website of the production co.s and distributers.
8.
Verve Pictures were the distributers of the film
in the UK; it was set up in 2003. Low budget film distributors.
9.
The type of Synergy we found was that the film
used the song love, honour; respect by Joe Black this promoted both the film
and the song.
10. My
Brother the Devil was shown at few different local cinemas such as the Hackney
picture house, Brixton ritzy, Wimbledon and all local art houses
11. The
people that starred in the film were Said Taghmaoui, Fady Elsayed, James Floyd
some of them have been on TV before such as Holby but others are new.
12. What
we found out about the production of the film was that it was filmed in
hackney, but during the riots so they had to move the production to Wimbledon,
Many local people starred in the film also 1st time actors.
13. Because
of the interest generated by the film a cinema club was started at the local
community centre on the estate where the film was set.
