I, Daniel
Blake
Economic
factors including funding are extremely significant
to this independent British co-production. The funding bodies are the BFI
(through National Lottery Funding) and the BBC.
1. Consider the ways in which this film is
funded differently from many mainstream films, exploring Public Service
Broadcasting and the respective remits of the BBC and the BFI.
2. Make brief notes from each of these
websites. How does the BFI help filmmaking?
3. Discuss why vast financial profits might
be less important for practitioners working in this genre of film.
4. Who is Ken Loach?
5. It may be useful to explore Ken Loach
and his significance as a practitioner in British and Global cinema - how Loach
has been able to repeatedly secure funding for social realist films and the
extent to which the genre itself exists in its current form due to his work.
6. Consider the extent to which I, Daniel
Blake can be described as a mainstream product. Loach is a well- known and
successful figure in the UK and Europe but is his work mainstream? Does the
fact he is challenging governmental policy mean he is also challenging
mainstream opinions?
7. It might also be interesting to consider
whether there exists a pre-sold audience of Loach fans who are eager to watch
his films and the extent to which this gives him license to make films that
might not otherwise secure finance.
8. The trailer references the BBC, BFI and
the Palme d’Or. Discuss the extent to which these references suggest an assumed
education and level of media literacy in the target audience.
9. The trailer explores specific
governmental policy which also may suggest audiences will have an awareness of
political and social issues in the UK.
10. The only specific “star” identified in
the trailer using intertitles is the director Ken Loach. Loach’s work whilst
having broad appeal sits firmly within the niche of social realism and
candidates may discuss the extent to which the fans of his work are pre-sold
based on his name alone.
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