The Film Industry and Cultural Heritage Collaboration

The film Industry and Cultural Heritage sector can be seen as two completely different media industries. After all the film industry requires writers, directors, producers, and someone sponsoring the finances, plus there are actors, camera crew, and people responsible for digitally enhancing. My cultural heritage industry focuses mainly on advertising and promotion of historical sites to gain tourist awareness, and the conservation and research of historical buildings. These two industries separately don’t seem to have much in common, but they can come together to create a fantastic product. There have been so many historical drama films produced through out the years that incorporate, of course the film industry and UK historical sites. The historical sites are used in the films as scene locations, and can be one of the most important aspects in film-making, because the locations draw the audience into the film making in more authentic.


http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/locations
http://www.bfi.org.uk
http://www.movie-locations.com/places/uk/london.html#london
http://www.film-locations.co.uk/phpBB3/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/apr/14/robin-hood-russell-crowe

In the future I can see these two industries working together and benefiting from each other even more then they are now. There is always going to be a need for period drama films, audiences’ can’t get enough of them, and the film industry knows this. Therefore the more films that are produced within the film commission concept, the more historical sites that are used, this then can generate more tourism and more profit for those historical sites.

Convergence is having a positive impact on these two combining industries. The more historical sites advertised in films means the more popular the site can be for tourists to visit. Plus with the World Wide Web at your fingertips researching historical sites and booking your trip is so simple now. With many historical sites the buildings can be damaged or not fully developed, with the advances in CGI and other digital enhancing techniques, these buildings can be restored for audiences watching the film.

Films collaborating with UK Historical Sites: