District 9 case study



District 9

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District 9 was campaigned in 2008 in San Diego comic con. With August 14 2009, in North America they earned over $210milllion on box office. 


At the start Neill Blomkamp started to film ‘Halo’ they said they worked on it for 3 or 4 months but then the movie died. He then made lots of shorts of Halo and a lot of the things used in those shorts can be seen in District 9 


Scene from Neill Blomkamp short film 'Halo'
“We financed the development of it for the first six months independently… We wrote a screenplay that was more of a treatment than a screen play. We needed actors who could improve.” As you can see they have a lot of things needed to be done so they could get going and they didn’t get a lot of money right at the start.

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Scene from District 9 (google images)

The creator (Blomkamp) said that R&D would have been $50 million right there. So they set out work with digital creatures, lighting and compositing environments that are conducive to something photo real.

Blomkamp employed locals as extras in an effort to bolster the neighbourhood’s economy. 
Blomkamp hired as his lead sharlto Copley, a journeyman South African filmmaker and media figure with whom the writer- director has been friends since he was in high school









The budget:

  • The production budget – US$30million.
  • Blomkamp admitted the rental of military hardware for the film, helicopters and armoured personnel, carriers, accounted for the largest part of the projects overhead.

Comments

  1. JCoSS Media Dept10 October 2017 at 02:27

    Detailed research, well done! For revision, try to find out more information about the pre-production stages of this film and what happened in each of them.

    Mrs E

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