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1. Industry research paper.
Film 4
Channel 4 is a British terrestrial TV channel, which is a commercial broadcaster and it funded entirely
by advertising, programme sponsorship, merchandising and overseas sales. Channel 4 is the owner
of digital UK channels including more 4, film 4, E4, and channel 4 HD. Channel 4 is not a television
production company as its broadcasting license prevents it from making any programmes of its own.
It commissions independent production companies to make its programmes or buy programmes
from abroad.
Film 4 productions are a British film production company owned by channel 4 Television
Corporation. The company is responsible for backing a large number of films made in the United
Kingdom. The first production was ‘Walter’ directed by Stephen Frears’ released in 1982. Film 4
productions were created at the inception of channel 4 in 1982.
Film 4 broadcasts films in standard definition free of charge. To access high definition of the channel,
viewers can pay subscription with virgin media or sky. In 1998 the channel was re-branded as film
four and became channel 4’s second channel.
The channel now has two spin off channels, one is Filmfour+1 and films four HDS which launched on
July 20th 2010 on virgin media cable television platform.
In order to make the public of the channels re-launch film four going free, they launched a huge
campaign directed by Kevin Spacey featuring well-known celebrities who advertised in odd ways.
The slogan of the campaign was “Films for free”. An example of the way they advertised was when
Judi Dench wore a red lobster costume (connotation the colour of the logo) and sung the words ‘film
four’. Also Ewan McGregor wore a tomato costume; Rhys Ifans advertised the channel by knocking
on doors and explaining to individuals.
This graph displays how the amount of viewers has
vastly increased since the relaunch of film four.
Film four doesn’t have a specific target audience as they broadcast films from a variety of different
genres. Due to this the audience is wide spread and aimed at the majority.
Tessa rodd became the controller of film4 in 2004 and head of TV drama for channel 4.
Channel four produce about 6 films a year and work along their subsidiary warp X. Less of the budget

2. is spent on distribution ad the films can be advertised on their own and parent companies TV
channels.
The have won 5 oscars in 4 years and 3 baftas in 2007.
Successful films include: Slumdog millionaire, 127 hours, four lions, this is England and trainspotting.
Film 4 work closely with specific actors and directors such as Danny Boyle, martin McDonough, Steve
McQueen, Peter Mullan, Chris Morris.
One film that film4 productions have produced is ‘’inbetweeners 2’
Inbetweeners 2 is directed by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris. Produced by: Christopher Young and
Written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris. The main actors within the film are: Simon Bird, James
Buckley, Blake Harrison, and Joe Thomas. The film was released on 6th August 2014 and runs for a
total of 96 minutes. The box office made £37,255,764 .
The inbetweeners 2 is a 2014 British comedy film and sequel to the inbetweeners movie (2011)
which is based upon the E4 sitcom the inbetweeners. It is about four school friends who meet up
again for a holiday in Australia.
The film beat the record of its predecessor for the highest gross on the opening date of a comedy in
the UK, WITH £2.75 million and ended its first weekend with a gross of£12.5 million, the largest
opening of any film in 2014; then remained on top for a second week.
It was originally intended to have an unambiguous ending to the television series, the unexpected
popularity and box office success of the inbetweeners movie lef to speculations over the possible
sequel. The rumours began in 2011 while the film was still in the cinema and it was denied by its
writers and actors. On 8th November it was announced that Iain Morris and Beesley that a script was
in process of being written and was at version O.5. on May 1st 2013 it was announced that although
nothing had been signed a sequel was in the planning stage possibly set in Australia and to be
released some time in 2014.
The director and writer Iain Morris was inspired for this film by his own personal experiences as a
high school exchange student in Australia’s gold coast which he described it to be “a place where
people go to get drunk.”
The Facebook page for the inbetweeners series announced on the 15th march 2014 that the sequel
would be released on the 6th august. On 9th may 2014 the teaser trailer was released in which the
characters drive through the outback and call an aborigine a ‘fire wanker’. A full length trailer was
released on the inbetweeners official Facebook page on 18th June showing more of the story line and
background.
The film premiered at Leicester Square, London, on 5 August 2014. In attendance were guests
including Beverley Knight and Union J. In Australia it was distributed by Roadshow
Entertainment and released on 21 August. The same company took the film to New Zealand a week
later.

3. The Inbetweeners 2 grossed £2.75 million on its opening day of 6 August 2014. By the end of its first
weekend, it topped the UK box office with a gross of £12.5 million, surpassing Transformers: Age of
Extinction (£11.7 million) as the largest UK opening in 2014; this however was less than the £13.2
million opening of The Inbetweeners Movie in 2011.It topped the box office for a second week, in
which it grossed £9.83 million. In its third week, it fell to second spot behind new release Lucy.
In its opening week in Australia, the film grossed $3.155 million in Australian dollars, topping the box
office and pushing Guardians of the Galaxy into second place. It fell to second place in its second
week, with Guardians of the Galaxy returning to top spot.