Monsters Research

Monsters is a british film produced by the UK film production company Vertigo Films

on its opening weekend it made a total of $20,508 in the US and £348,577 in the UK and was shown ion a total of 167 screens accross these two countries, all of this was achieved with a budget of $800,000.

Director: Gareth Edwards

Cast: Whitney Able

          ScootMcNairy

Producers: Allan Niblo
                    James Richardson
Writer: Gareth Edwards

Target Audience

the certificate of the film Monsters was a 12A meaning no-one under the age was 12 years old was allowed to view the film without a parent/responsible adult over 18 years of age being present.

Cast & Crew

as this film was classed as a budget movie sometimes just seven of the cast and crew were transported around different locations in simply a van
     All of the scenes in this film were shot oppertunistically, the two actors were given the basic outline of  each scene, and then interacted with one another. there were only two real actors used in this film, the rest of the cast are not professional actors.

The film was shot entirely on location, and the locations used were all real. they were often used without permission or had been asked to be used in advance; all film extras were people who were simply passing by the location

Marketing & Distribution

The film was shown in:

• Edinburgh Film Festival
• Los Angeles Film Festival

along with traditional methods of marketing such as posters, the internet was also used to market the film with the use of an official website, and social networking (Facebook & Twitter)