A powerpoint investigating the indie company of Patchwork Productions and their film Life Is Just

2. FILMS MADE
WMD
Life Just Is
Verity’s Summer
Dog City

3. LIFE JUST IS -
A PATCHWORK FILM
Pete, Tom, Claire and Jay are university
graduates having trouble making the move
into adult life. Beneath the hanging out and
the daily routines simmers Pete’s desire to
find a spiritual answer to life’s meaning,
Jay’s desperate need not to get hurt again,
and Tom and Claire’s ever increasing mutual
attraction. A thoughtful character drama, Life
Just Is, is a film about love, death, and,
most importantly of all, life itself.
The debut feature from writer/director Alex
Barrett, Life Just Is offers a fresh
examination of young adult life

4. PRODUCTION - FUNDING
• FUNDED BY - individual donations,
• Product placement
• Crowd funding –
• the collective effort of individuals who
network and pool their money, usually
online, to support efforts initiated by other
people or organizations
• Film funding companies- iFeatures , a
company looking for England’s most
imaginative and compelling stories from its
brightest filmmakers. Creative England led
alongside partners such as the BFI Film
Fund, BBC Films, and the Skillset Film Skills
Fund.

5. DISTRIBUTION
• Picked up by Independent Distribution
• They networked to find this placement , going to
conferences such as Power to the Pixel
• Joined organizations such as Film Specific who
help indie producers and production companies
distribute their product.

6. TECHNOLOGY
• Deliberately worked in trying to create trans-
media things, web-series or comic strip
accompanying main film to create backstory and
enrich the plot
• They discussed the idea that although this
synergy and technological convergence can
be expensive it can also be a money
spinner, if it successful. It was a lot of money to
gamble however so they felt that this could be
better dispensed on other areas of production.
• They didn’t want to just go across platform for
the sake of doing so

7. • Although they had good quality
cameras, these were hired and any
further quality was limited by the budget
that they had to spend
Patchwork’s
hired cameras
Time Warner’s
expensive self
owned cameras

8. AUDIENCES
• Thinking about
audience
response
• They realised
who they might
be
• Original no
target audience
• Rewritten to be
more targeted
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