Research into Skillset

Skillset supports skills and training for people and businesses to ensure the UK creative industries, including film, maintain their world class position.
Their new film skills strategy A Bigger Future 2 addresses the training and education priorities for the UK Film Industry for the next 3 years and delivers funding via the Film Skills Fund (FSF) to train people who urgently need the professional skills which will help strengthen the UK Film Industry and their priorities include training in new technologies, improving business skills, developing creative talent, supporting new industry trainees, and health and safety skills which are all to ensure the future success and sustainability of the UK film industry.

Britain's film industry: Closing credits - comprehesion questions

• The British film industry is worth £4bn
• British films that won international recognition in 2011 were The King’s Speech, The Deep Blue Sea and We Need to Talk about Kevin.
• Fewer than one in ten films go on to recover their production costs.
• Warp Films’ biggest success was Four Lions which took £3m at the box office, won festivals and did well in Germany and France.
• Warp Films’ Mark Herbert believes that low-key, low-budget films should be supported as new talent has to be supported in making them so they can get to the stage where they can pull off making a blockbuster.
• Film critic Mark Kermode would change exhibition and distribution of British films.
• I think that the government should support British film makers with tax relief and funding, and I think the money should go to all varieties of film, commercially successful films that will reach a large audience as well as ‘culturally significant’ films that may only reach a small audience as both films effect the audience and the government in different ways and should both be offered the same opportunities and advantages.
• I think that given the current political climate or more specifically the economic climate it is likely that over the next few years the British Film Industry may begin to lean much more to making films at the more extreme ends of the spectrum - more affordable low budget films or massively expensive films that will definitely make money - but less of the films that fall inbetween these two definitions.
  
  
   

Uk Film Audience Research

Recommendations for major film companies based on statistics about the UK film audience ~

• The age range that visits the cinema most often and buys most DVDs is 7-24 therefore it would benefit major film companies to focus on this audience and films popular with this age group - animated children's films (like Shrek or How to Train Your Dragon) for the younger audience in that age range (7-14), comedies, romance or action films for the older audience up to 24. 
• The statistics also show that Asian, Black/African Caribbean, and Eastern European people living in the UK are more regular cinema visitors so perhaps films from a wider variety of countries rather than predominantly American and British films should be shown more often in UK cinemas.

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