EVALUATION

QUESTION 3

By Marcus Stamp

WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTE MIGHT PROMOTE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?

Casting

Budgeting

A production company plays an extremely important role in the initial organisation and distribution of a film. This includes

being responsible for raising the money that is needed to fund the production and finding a suitable director. The production

company also assists in:

Scheduling

Scripting

OUR COMPANY PRODUCTION LOGO

VORTEXPRODUCTIONS

DISTRIBUTION OF OUR FILM

The distributor of a film is a company that is responsible for the advertisement of a media product to the public

The company that distributes the film is responsible for the marketing and promotion of the film

The distributor must think of an effective method of how to distribute the product so it gets to the audience

The distributor also decides how many copies of the film will be made and then shows it to prospective buyers (such as cinema owners)

They must also decide on a date of when they will distribute the production

WELL KNOWN FILM DISTRIBUTORS

These are just a few of the popular film companies that distribute films

ORDER OF OPENING CREDITS Credits on a film are usually shown at the beginning

and the end of a film. Normally, the opening credits reveal the more important crew members of the production (for example, actor’s and producer’s names)

Closing credits in comparison to opening credits are much longer than the opening credits as they include every single crew members and the role they played in the production

For Our Production, we only included opening credits (since our film was only a short film). We listed the production company name, director’s name, camera person, editor, sound person and cast members.

The usual order is as follows: Director, writers, screenplay, produced by, music by, cinematography by

EXAMPLES OF OPENING CREDITS

Credits used in “Catch Me If You Can”

WHO WOULD DISTRIBUTE

OUR FILM? For my film, I would go to Film4. The reason as to why I

would chose this film company is because it produces and distributes films of their own as well as others.

Also, Film4 distributes the films produced by 20th Century Fox, as they are both owned by Rupert Murdoch, making it easier for them to be distributed and viewed by a wider audience.