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

What does a production company do?
A production company are the people that fund and produce the films for the film makers. They sell the makers films to a filming studio. The first logo that we created 'Wired Productions', was for our production company, we created it using livetype which is an application on Mac computers. It allowed us to create the font and the buzzing sound effect. We decided on the name 'Wired Productions' as Georgia already had a picture of barbed wire on her computer and the name fitted with the picture so we decided to play around with some effects and fonts and that's how we came up with 'Wired Productions'. 

The other production logo we created was 'Deluxe Studios', we created this using iMovie using a preset theme. We wanted to create a logo that was quite different to 'Wired Productions', we wanted 'Wired Productions' to be more edgy and quirky and we wanted 'Deluxe Studios' to be more professional which is how we came up with the name, Deluxe Studios. We decided to create two production companies as we are a small, independent, low-budget production we didn't think that we would need any more.

A film distributor is a company that is responsible for releasing films to the public. There are many ways in which this can be done and the distribution company has to decide the best way in which to do this to gain the right target audience. There are many ways in which they can do this, through the cinema, DVDs, television, the internet, downloads and more.

Because our film is a small and independent film with a low budget, it is not very likely that a big distribution company would be interested in distributing our film. It is more likely that small distribution companies that have more experience distributing low-budget, small, independent films. A company such as PlanetIndie which is an independent film directory, they distribute films from all types of genres, but they specialise in Indie films. Although this company would be good for distributing our films to an audience that we wouldn't usually aim for, it wouldn't be as successful as if we were to use a large film distribution company. Using a large distribution company would be more successful for getting our film distributed to a wider audience, I also think that because our film isn't typically 'Indie' it would be a problem getting PlanetIndie to distribute our film. Whereas, because teen drama is such a popular genre, a distribution company such as 20th Century Fox may be more interested in distributing our film as it appeals to such a wide audience. The film would most likely have to be funded by the BFI or the UK Film Council, as it is a small independent film it's unlikely that there would be sufficient funds to finance the film.

The credits for our film were shown at the beginning of the film but not in the first scene, they were shown in the scene in which Abby is walking to school. We decided to put them here as this scene is quite long and as it is after the dream scene it is where the audience are most likely to be watching. The credits came in order of importance with the main protagonist Charlotte Farrow first, followed by Harry Shakeshaft, Alice Moore and Ellie de Carle. The names of us are then shown, the director (Lydia de Blangy), producer (Beth Knights) and screenplay (Georgia Daly). There is no importance to these names and the titles that they are associated with as each of us in the group worked together on each part of the film. We decided not to include that many titles as the scene of Abby walking to school isn't that long and as our target audience is teenagers we wanted to show the most important titles to ensure that they were paying attention. The title of the film is then shown at the end of the credits, in a different colour to signify its importance.