Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Paramount Pictures have produced many thriller films in the past, including: Snake Eyes, Carriers and Hard Rain; this combined with the fact that they are one of the biggest movie production companies makes them an ideal choice. Paramount is a subsidiary company of the conglomerate Viacom, it’s also the fifth oldest film studio and the last one to be based in Hollywood. A production company manages the filming of a movie from screenplay to release; its main concerns involve managing the budget and supervising all legal concerns. They are also held responsible for all the casting and should any damage come to the cast or set, it’s the production company who’s responsible.

Here’s our production ident, we have picked the name ‘JJCM’ as it is all of our initials; this reflects the simplicity of our production – our film features the typical overpowering male killing a damsel-in-distress; this idea is simple but effective, just like our logo. When our logo comes on the screen it also features some heavy, dramatic music; we did this to emphasise the fact that we are a company which would mainly focus on thrillers.

We drew a lot of inspiration for our logo from Hammer Films, the company responsible for films such as Dracula and Woman in Black. Their logo is very similar to ours as it is a simple bold font which also suggests they focus on horrors and thrillers. The name ‘hammer’ also suggests strength and the possibility of crime, this shows that our name has a logical meaning, whereas theirs has a more subtle abstract concept. As a whole our logo is very similar to theirs as both our companies’ share the same ideals as we both concentrate on thrillers. Funding a film like ours would be very difficult as most box office films have budgets of over £10m, so we’d have to find an investor to fund our project, or get a loan, however this would be very difficult considering the current economic climate. So we’re reliant on finding a film investment company such as UK Film Investment to fund our film, or we could try and find a distributor to fund it, but this would be difficult as we are new filmmakers and it would be a massive risk for them to invest.

 

To present our credits we wrote the names of everyone involved in our production on the train track boards; we put the name of our production first, followed by the actors, and then the crew last. We did this to reflect the importance of people’s roles in our production, with the actors being the most important. Once our film has been finalised and produced, we’d send it to the cinemas and they’d sell tickets to the customers to watch it, at the same time we’d also have to deal with advertising our film through the form of billboards, etc. once it’s finished at the cinema there’d be a gap of a few months before it’s released onto dvd and Blu-ray. This is the process that many big films go through, some examples are: Pulp Fiction, Batman, etc. movie distributors such as: Paramount and Disney also follow this same process in releasing their films.