Moon Write Up.

Moon

The film Moon, a British film, was directed by Duncan Jones and created within a low budget of just 2.5 million pounds, to enable the film to be this cheap they managed to have the production take just 33 days over all, also by having a small cast it kept the cost down. Everything was shot in Sheperton Studio and before hand they had a week’s rehearsal before the big filming in New York. It was classed as the best British film in the past ten year in 2009 and won a Bafter for it.

Moon was advertised below the line market, and advertised at a comic book convention where you would usually associate the audience of this film to be. Also, he premiered the film at Nassa; a great place to attract viewers to the film as they relate in genres.  

By including Sam Rockwell in the film he as an actor attracted fan and particular people who will enjoy Moon as he is known for appearing in sci-fi films. Moon is an adventure sci-fi film which has a small majority audience as it is based on just one particular genre being science therefore out of the four quadrant diagram the main category that he focused his audience on would be the men over 25.

Another actor who is not present but heard in the film is Kevin Spacey who didn’t sign up or put his name on the film until after the film was produced to prevent him getting a bad reputation due to the film not being very good. However he did agree to be included in the film afterwards and overall it took them half a day to record him voice to add in as the budget need to remain low, he was still the highest paid actor in the film though.   

Duncan Jones is seen to be not very experienced as during an interview the man had to prompt him into what to reply with, also we see by his appearance of this as he doesn’t look very rich or smart and isn’t well known by people in and out of the filming industry. Another way in which Duncan reduced the cost of the film was by adding the sound on after the film was made, it was sent off for 1-2 days as that is all they could afford, where as normally the sound is added throughout.

Characters played multiple roles and in scenes where particularly the character Sam was needed the director got them to use ear pieces which included a recording of the previous character (still being him) in the conversation therefore he could record him responding in time making it cheaper. There is a scene where the two characters (clones) are playing tennis against theoretically, himself and this particular scene cost the most in the whole film.