Alaska-lily : Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

My production ident; "Brian's Brain Productions"

A world famous company that I have researched
"Universal"

I chose to call my production “Brian’s Brain” because it relates to how I managed to work and get the idea to my project because my granddad always told me to “use my brain”, he is always encouraging with my media work so I thought using that as my production name would always encourage me. The ident that appeared at the beginning of my thriller was a straight cut of the ident and I didn’t add any effect to it because I just wanted it to be plain and simple yet memorable because of the unique picture.

I looked at other production companies ident’s to see what the conventions of them are, and for ideas on how to set mine out. I have followed the conventions of an ident because I have included the name of my production and an image, however mine is not animated unlike the majority of other ident’s for example Pixar. Also unlike other ident’s that I have seen through research, mine is a drawing whereas the others are computerised images or photographs. This makes my ident memorable as it is different to the others that are already used, however it still does fit conventions so is easily recognised as an ident.

Production companies are there in order to sell market and produce films. As well as that the production company also help with the budget when a film is being created, they also help to produce the script and scheduling throughout the production. Production companies also are a part of commissioning which director and other crew members such as the camera work are going to be used in the production. Another role that the production companies hold is they get involved during the casting process for actors and what roles they will have in the production.

The rights to films would be owned by the production company that markets and distributes the film, each time the film is watched in the cinema or is sold either on Blu-ray or as a DVD, that Production Company would receive a commission. Advertising the finished film is also another technology that production companies use in order to make money for projects. The money that they earn from each film builds up and becomes a fund for another production and so on.

Paramount Pictures Production ident

“Paramount pictures” was founded in 1912 in Hollywood, Los Angeles. They are the fourth oldest existing production company; in 2012 Paramount Pictures had been in production for 100 years. I would choose Paramount pictures as the institute to produce and distribute my film as its audience is so wide spread meaning my film would be able to reach bigger audiences. Paramount pictures has set a standard in cinema’s and the way that films have been created throughout the whole world and as one of Americas oldest production companies I think it would distribute my film on a scale that wouldn’t be possible if I used a UK based company. Using Paramount pictures would reach a larger proportion of my target market in a wider spread manor. Paramount pictures is linked with the American media company “Viacom”, this would work to my advantage because the advertisements would be played on the channels on Viacom. This is important because without the correct advertisements a film would not be distributed as well or sold to the target audience. If a film is sold well to the target audience then other demographics gain interest as well.

The famous "Psycho Shower scene"
That paramount didn't want to produce.

Many films have been produced by Paramount Pictures, a number of those being thriller films such as Black Rain and Psycho. Paramount Pictures also market other genres of film such as Sci-fi, comedy, and horror. My production would work well within their company because they have experience with that genre of film, also because they produce a wider genre of films their audience market would be a lot more vast.

The experience that they have with working with thriller films would mean that they would have experience in that field being able to offer advice and expertise in that field. Also being based in such a well-known place (Hollywood) the typical home of film producing the audience would be at such a mass that my film should be successful. The links with the media company Viacom would massively improve the marketing rate of my film meaning it could reach its audience.

The end credit sequence of a film is very important, it is especially important to close it in the correct order. This is the order that a standard film would present their credits: