This Is England Research

1. The production company that made this film is IFC Films
   • Big Arty Productions
   • EM Media
   • Film4
   • Optimum Releasing
   • Screen Yorkshire
   • UK Film Council
   • Warp Films
2. The director of this film is Shane Meadows.
3. The budget of this film was £1,500,000

4. Opening Weekend:

    £207,676 (UK) (29 April 2007) (62 Screens)

   Gross:

    $327,919 (USA) (18 November 2007)
5. This film made the 10th best reviewed film of the year.   The film appeared on several US critics' top ten movie lists of 2007; it was third on the list by Newsweek's David Ansen, seventh on the list by The Oregonian's Marc Mohan, and ninth on the list by Los Angeles Times' Kevin Crust. In Britain, director Gillies Mackinnon rated the film the best of the year and David M. Thompson, critic and film-maker, rated it third.^] The film was ranked fourteenth in The Guardian's list of 2007's Best Films and fifteenth in Empire's Movies of the Year.
6. The film website and poster tells us that it is a low budget film and looking at it , it doesn't seem anything extraordinary like an alien invasion, it is a story about something that actually happens and is real.
7. The film poster and website have images of a block of flats and graffiti everywhere so that suggests to us that it is a gang related film.
8. looking at the film poster and website, you can tell that this film is not for little kids because the age rating is 18, this is probably aimed for adults and mostly men because there is probably a lot of violence.
9. The people on the poster look quite rough and not well looked after, they also look quite poor because of their ripped clothes.

Notes on analysis

• why the colours
• what kind of peopple
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