A Production company is a company legally responsible for the physical production on new media, performing arts, film, radio or a television programme. The company is also directly responsible for raising funds for the production. The production company can either be a small company or a larger one, selling its products to a film studio or presenting it at a theatrical venue, or, in my case of film and television, it may be the studio itself.
Some examples are:
20th Century Fox
Heyday Films
The film distributor is the company or individual solely
responsible for the marketing of a film. Because of the enormous amount of cost
in money and time involved in distributing a movie, a distributor must feel
confident that they can make a sufficient return on their investment. Having
the backing of a major studio or well-known director or star can greatly
improve the chances of securing a good distribution deal. Independent
filmmakers often use film festivals as an opportunity to get the attention of
distributors.
Our film would be a low budget film and therefore we would not
easily find a distributor. A likely solution for low budget films would be to
screen their film at a film festival, for example, ‘Sundance’ from which you
may receive distribution offers.
Another option would be the ‘British Film Institute’ who is
keen to support UK distributors to help ensure that the best British and
specialised films connect with a wide range of audiences across a range of
platforms throughout the UK. They develop the export opportunities for British
films by providing funding to promote them at major international festivals.
Two examples of Low Budget Films which have become majorly
successful are, ‘The Blair Witch Project’ and ‘Paranormal Activity’. They are
both self-financed, have an unknown cast and no distribution deal prior to
production, just like ours. The Blair Witch Project grossed over $300,000,000
worldwide and Paranormal Activity broke that record when the original budget
was $15,000 and only $35,000 for The Blair Witch Project. This proves that,
with a good story, it is possible for any film to become successful.
The Blair Witch Project
Paranormal Activity
For our production we chose to use ‘Touchstone Pictures’
logo for the real production company as during our thriller research we found
that they were involved with a lot of the films we analysed such as, ‘Face Off’
and ‘Bringing Out The Dead’, then whilst researching Touchstone Pictures we
found that it typically releases films that feature more mature themes and
darker tones, therefore, we felt it fitted well with our film.
When creating our own production company logo we came up
with the name, ‘Nebula Productions’ as we felt that we could manipulate this
name in order to achieve a space theme with the font of the writing and add
some space-like effects to create motion within the logo as we had found out whilst
researching production companies that most of them had some motion within the
logo. We also felt that the black colour involved with space would be great as
a background to set the mood of the thriller by using white writing to show the
binary oppositions found within the move, e.g. Good vs Evil.
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