What does a production company do?
A production company creates everything from pre production to post production to create a product. They are also responsible for the financial side of the film but then pass it onto the distributor for the advertising side. Some roles which the production company carry out are, fundraising for the product, casting actors, scheduling, scripting, filming and editing,.
What is your idea of a film distributor?
A film distributor is a company who deal with the marketing and distributing of the product. They release the films to the public through the theatre or through home viewing on DVDs, Download etc.
Who might be the distributor for your film and why?
A distributor for my film could be Entertainment Film Distributors as they distribute low budget films. They are the top UK film distributors which could take on our low budget independent film. Youtube could also be our distributor as it lets people from all over the world to watch our film, freely, they could watch a trailer or the opening to the film.
Where would the money come from for a film such as yours?
Universal could invest in it after we have pitched the film, they could do this as they have taken on other romantic comedy such as love actually. The profits which are made, they would take a cut so overall they wouldn't have lost out on any money which they invested in. Universal, who produced Love actually would have needed to know if the film had a big potentional to create a profit before they invested in it as they couldn't afford to loose reputation for their company.
Why have the various people been named in your titles? which jobs appear in your titles and in what order and how have you reflected this?
In our titles we decided to name the three characters mostly seen in our sequence, along with the director, the screen play writer and the producer. We put it in order of the most important to the least important which was producer, director, screenplay, the main actor and support actors. We put it in this order as we thought that it was important to give credit to the most important people involved in the production process.
How is your film similar 'institutionally' to others? Name some films which would be released in a similar way.
Our film is similar institutionally to other low budget romantic comedies who dont have sufficient funds to advertise on a large scale and it has a conventional romantic comedy story line but it still has a mix of things which make it different from what's been released previously. Love actually was produced by Universal and this shows that this production company takes on romantic comedies and hoping if we did a detailed and professionally enough pitch, they would consider investment.
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