Production companies
Production companies help
to facilitate the making of, and distributing films and/or television programs.
Most often, the production company for films and television provides the money,
and thus sets the budget, and may also make decisions on what director, and
actors can be hired. Budget often makes other decisions possible or impossible.
A low budget film may not be able to be filmed in a remote location, for
example.
The company may also come
attached with certain actors, directors, or film editors and photographers.
Often this is especially the case when it belongs to a major studio, like
Touchstone Pictures, which belongs to Disney. Directors who have contracts with
Touchstone are more likely to be offered jobs produced by Touchstone.
Role of the distributor
A distributor is generally
an organisation who handles the theatrical release of a film in a particular
country as well as the marketing and circulation of films for home viewing
(DVD, Video-On-Demand, Download, Television etc). Often feature films have
different distributors representing them in different territories and different
distributors handling the home-viewing circulation.
For a low budget film like ours
the funding would most likely come from a government grant from the British
Film institute. The BFI invest £26m of Lottery funds per year to support film
development, production and distribution activity in the UK and the budget is
set to rise to £30m by 2017. Aiming to champion a breadth of bold and
distinctive film making across the UK, to nurture new talent and to back the
development, production and distribution of films that will enrich UK film
culture.
To fund out film the BFI would
provide us with the funding for the following:
· Feature film production, including
international co-production and completion funding
· Feature film development, principally
script development
· Talent development (including funding
for short films) via the BFI NET.WORK
· Feature documentaries
· Production company slate development,
via the Vision Awards
· Digital and cross-media activity
· Distribution of feature films in the
UK
· International sales of UK feature
films and other film export activities
The BFI would most likely involve
Film4, I believe this is the perfect choice as Film4 are often eager to work
with British led talent or with British content additionally they have a target
audience similar to ours (16-30, which would enable them to give us a clear
insight on what we need to do in order to attract our said audience. Looking at
low budget films by Film4 e.g. trainspotting, this is England both of which
turned out to be very successful films and TIE resulting in a TV series.
New line cinema logo
For our professional
production company we decided to use new line cinema firstly for aesthetic
reasons, we found the dark colours helped to reinforce the thriller genre, the
almost shadow affect again alludes to the theme of mystery and helps connote the
unknown. Secondly New Line Cinema are an established, professional company
renown for their successful thrillers such as the cell, seven, fracture, snakes
on a plane and many more.
White productions
We came up with the
name 'White Productions' as for us it was simplistic and had a professional
look about it in order to not distract from the actual theme, also it looks a
lot less amateur than if we were to attempt, perhaps make a logo with our own
drawings. The logo was done in black and white, this is suitable for our
production as the binary opposites connotes good and evil which is of course
suited to a thriller, the fact the eye is a woman's represents a femme fatale
character although typically villainous, if not morally ambiguous, and always
associated with a sense of mystification and unease; themes we deemed
particularly important in our thriller. The visual medium here bared
significance to the plot and connoting the good and evil important to our film
and the black and white also reinforced the binary opposites.
The titles
The titles we decided
to use are mostly overlay titles in a white serif font. They appear one by one
over the production in the bottom corners of the screen. We chose to use
overlay titles as they are simple and don't take too much time out of the film.
We felt that when researching into different thrillers, the titles used in 'The
Sixth Sense' were quite tedious to watch as they were slow, long and just
simple full screen motion titles with nothing particularly interesting or
intriguing taking place. We didn't want this to be the case without
production.The titles are overlay until the very last one which reads 'BABY' as
a full screen motion title. The word is white on a black background as the
colours act as a binary opposition for good and evil. This representation
would become clearer if we were to continue to make the whole film.
The opening credits
in our thriller mention each person involved in our production, each person in
our group had several roles so our names were mentioned more than once. The
opening credits are shown at the very beginning and list the most important
members of the production. They are now usually shown as text superimposed on a
blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the show.
There may or may not be accompanying music. Using overlay titles we introduced
cinematography first, followed by music then the editors, the producers lastly,
the Director and actors were shown this is because they are the most
important/significant to the film therefore by putting them last as you would
in a professional thriller they stay in the audiences mind as they were shown
last therefore stay fresh in the mind.
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