Tuesday, 21 February 2017

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

What do production companies do? 

Production companies produce the film. They are in charge of all the titles and making sure everything is included in the film that needs to be and making sure the film has been edited properly. With our film we had to make sure all this was done as we were the production company along with being the directors. We had to make sure all the titles were included and were in the right positions and make sure the film looked good enough to publish. The studio provides the money for the production company to produce the film.

The idea of a distributor and who that might be and why. 

Distributors are responsible for taking the product itself to market - for providing the audience with the content itself.  Today Netflix is a popular online content distributor and films like ours are popular with them as younger, technologically aware audiences, are downloading content on a range of multi-platform devices.  Netflix buys the rights to films from producers and them distribution takes place online.  Our film is also a low budget film, so selling the rights to them would be a sensible move because we will not make a loss. Netflix has a such a big audience people will be wanting to see our film and we would be guaranteed a profit.


Where the money came from for a film such as yours. 

It would be a low budget film is it was produced professionally. This is because there was no many elements included in the film that were that expensive. We did not need money to make our film look good, so we stuck to the basics and just made them look like they were produced by using an expensive budget. Also props and clothing would not be that expensive as they were just simple and basic as that was all we had to work with. This was enough for us to produce a good film that looks like its had an expensive budget.

Why the various people are named in the titles - which jobs appear in the titles and in what order and how have you reflected this? 

The people who are named in the titles tend to be the main characters that will be seen the most throughout the film. They are usually the actors/actresses that are very famous and well known. This is good for both the film and the actor/actress and they will become noticed for being in this certain film and if people are fond of these actors/actresses they will be drawn to come and watch this film. The jobs that usually appear in the titles are the people who produce the music, the producer, the director, production company, special effects eg props and make up, editor and the writer. Our film reflected this because we included all the main characters names in the titles along with having the production team, who it was directed by, the people who produced the music for the film and the special effects make up. This makes our film look like it was professionally made because we included most things that other films have.

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