Evaluation Question 3

As seen above, our Ident has a fairly high production value to it and in particular works well with the genre of our film, a Thriller. Many Thriller films will have similar production companies as that is the area they specialise in. We wanted to create a production company that looked both quirky and edgy, but seemed to fit with this idea; that they only produce thriller pictures and are not diverse, unlike companies, such as Twentieth Century Fox. As to why we chose the name, 'Paranoiac Productions', Charlie and I are not particularly sure. We were browsing the web ideas and happened to stumble across the word, 'Paranoiac' and we instantly decided that it would be the name of our production company. This is because it sounded edgy and thought it fit the mood and tone we were looking for in our film, 'ShadowMan'.
Essentially, a production company helps to create a film. They will aid with areas such as the money involved with a film, the casting, finding and employing a director and actors. A production company are also in charge of the equipment  that is used on set during filming and so will have to deal with broken equipment. They are also in charge of the actors safety and so are responsible for any injuries that may occur.



You can see above, an annotated clip of our film, informing you on who might distribute and exhibit our film. Many exhibition companies will be closely linked with distribution companies. We were testing out a few different titles and so explaining the different fonts that occur throughout.

Who might Distribute our film:

• Independent British Company, such as 'Vertigo', who have worked on micro-budget productions, such as 'Monsters' by Allan Niblo and James Richardson. 'Vertigo' are based in London and are the kind of company we would expect to distribute our film as they are known to pick new, up and coming thrillers. 'Vertigo' are undoubtedly a small company who aim their films at a british audience and nothing else. They vow to produce and distribute at least 4 films per year, meaning that our film would be something they could possibly be interested in. 

• Film4 would also be another distribution company that would distribute our film. They have distributed films to a British audience, such as 'The Inbetweeners 2' and 'Frank' starring Michael Fassbender. However, the big-budget feel to the Ident at the beginning of the film, might mean that a company, such as Film4 would be turned away from our production. 

Distribution:

• The distribution process is undoubtedly similar to exhibition in that it is split into Majors and Independents. 
• Majors are those affiliated to large Hollywood companies, such Warner Bro's who distribute 18.3% of the films we see nowadays and United International Pictures (UIP) who release films connected to Universal and MGM studios and have distributed 10.2% in comparison to Warner Bro's.
• These films are usually mainstream Hollywood blockbusters and so would not fit the style of our film in any way. Most of these companies will either be subsidiaries of even larger conglomerate companies or have branches into other countries such as the UK and even the Indiewood market, who interestingly produce more films than Hollywood per year. 
• The smaller more independent companies as aforementioned ('Vertigo Films') release a much wider range of films in comparison to the larger conglomerates and often focus on particular Niche audience's in specific countries, instead of aiming for a multi-international audience.
• Companies such as, Artficial Eye and Metrodome will distribute titles, which include Foreign Language films, Docu-Drama's and like our film, non-mainstream, cleverly shot independant  films. Artificial Eye have distributed independent films, such as 'Nymphomaniac' and so would fit our film perfectly. 

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