Evaluation - Question 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

 

A production company’s job is to oversee the creation of a film from start to finish. The production company of a film generally finds all the actors and filming staff (director, camera operators etc.). Production companies will accept the production of a film based on how successful they think it could be and therefore how much money they could make from it. They will provide the funding for the film if they think it is worth the money and the risk.

I think a good production company for our thriller opening would be Paramount Pictures as they are a relatively large media production company and therefore would be able to source some of the best actors and provide the funding the film would need to be distributed publically. Paramount Pictures also have a lot of existing thriller films that they have produced or partly produced such as Psycho and Shutter Island, this makes them very experienced in this genre and could therefore wield the best results. Paramount Pictures are a worldwide producing company and therefore would be able to gather the maximum audience for our thriller which would help pay back the budget.

Money is a big issue when trying to fund every type of film as there needs to be a big budget for films in order to get the right actors, props and settings as well as all the editing. Money can be gained from many places however if we were to produce the movie with Paramount Pictures they should fund the film as the production company usually pays for the production of the film as they are the ones who will be making the most profit from films they produce in the end.

Titles are a key part of any film as they stand to recognise everybody who has contributed to the movie and give the audience a point of reference to look up anybody who they would like to know more about such as actors and the other films they have stared in. Many different jobs appear in titles, first the actors in order of appearance then all the backstage contributors such as the producer, director, camerawork then all the makeup artists and costume specialists. We have added some titles showing the name of the film and the actors to our movie. This is common practise in films to credit everybody involved and to provide information of who was involved to the audience. We included them in ours to try and make it as realistic as possible and to provide information for the audience like a real film would. We have followed the order of trend by putting the actor’s names first followed by the backstage contributors. We set up our titles to have a specific cut-away to them where they filled the whole screen rather than having them at the bottom or top of the screen while the movie opening was playing. 

There are multiple other movies that may be produced in the same way as ours would be if they were to be distributed in the same way and be made publically available to everybody who wished to see them. An example of a film that has been produced in this way would be the thriller film Eagle Eye. This is a spy-based/governmental thriller film that was produced by Paramount Pictures in much the same way as I have described. All funding was supplied by Paramount Pictures and the whole movie was overseen by them from the early stages to the distribution of the film.