What does a production company do?
A production company is in charge of everything that goes on from the idea, right up to before the media is completed. They are in charge of funding all costs, wether they are below the line or above the line. They also control everything from filming to booking actors. Once the media is completed, the will sell it to a Distributor. One example of a production company is Pixar.
What is your idea of a film distributor?
A film distributor is the company that sells the final film onto cinemas. They will buy the finished product off of the production company, for an extremely large sum at a huge risk, and hope that there will be a large number of exhibiters that wish to buy that movie, for example, vue or odeon. An example of a film distributor is Twentieth century fox, or Universal studios.
Who might be the distributor for your film and why?
Because my film has an extremely small budget, it is not likely to have it's own premiere in London, full of celebrities and reviewers, this is because it is not going to be of a high enough standard compared to such films as Batman, because of the sheer talent and cost that has gone into producing this film. Therefore, there is a more of a chance of a smaller more independent company, such as Film4 to distribute our film, depending on the quality of our final media. Another option, is distributing our film on unofficial distribution places, such as youtube, because this product is something that would suit an environment such as YouTube, because of the large number of young film producers operate on YouTube, and this can be an effective way of creating money for your product on a more appropriate scale. Perhaps, our film would be successful in a film festival, and this could be an effective method of promotion.
Where would the money come from for a film such as yours?
Because our film is of such a small scale, we would have to show complete excellence in previous media in order to get the trust of an investing production company, as investing on a group of teenagers creating a film for the very first time, is likely to generate a heavy loss. Therefore it would be more sensible to use our own investments, and attempt to keep our costs as low as we can, because even though this limits our ability to do certain things, it means if our film was successful, we will make a greater profit, and we will also gain more respect for completing a top quality film on such a small budget.
Why have various people been named in your titles? Which jobs appear in your titles and in what order and how have you reflected this?
There are not that many people that were involved in the production process of our film, and we have not officially distributed it, therefore the credits only contain the names of the three people that contributed towards the creation of it. Me, Damian and Dean have all put our names onto the opening sequence, in order of contribution, firstly, was Damian, the 'Director', as he was in control of which shots we used, and other clip related choices, and Camera man, then, Me the 'Producer' as I was ensuring that everything we create was up to standard, and also the editor, then Dean, who was the actor and camera man. We included these names, as we felt that we deserved credit for what we have created.
How is your film similar 'institutionally' to others? Name some films which would be released in a similar way.
Our film being a school project-created film, makes it different from all of the others, but it can be compared to films that have not been released in cinema's, but have been shown on independent film channels. It mainly depends on the quality of our film, which determines the possibility of our film being backed and managing to fulfil or overtake our expectations. We believe that our film is institutionally similar to The Godfather, but just on a smaller scale.
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