What is a production company?
A director or producer usually run a production company. The production company is responsible in funding and helps to facilitate the making of, and distributing of films or television programmes. Actors, directories, film editors and cameramen can sometimes came attached with the production company especially when owned by a major studio.
A good example of a production company is "20th Century Fox". They have been responsible for films such as Star Wars, Alien and Planet of the Apes. Shirley Temple and other famous names took their place as some of "Fox's" actors.
We decided on the name "Nameless Pictures" for our production company as we thought it then stood as no limit to the audience we attracted and can be applied to almost anything. This is because some production companies are renowned for a certain nature, e.g. commonly linked with horror movies.
What is a Distribution Company?
Film distribution is usually a company that is responsible for releasing the film to the public. This can be done either by theatrical, where they then organise for a trailer to be made, and decide what cinemas and where its distributed. This can also be straight to DVD releases though, in which case they take on more roles in doing things such as being responsible for dubbing or subtitling foreign films.
I would choose to distribute our film to Sony Pictures Entertainment, as they were responsible for the distribution of the James Bond films. Also it's a large company, as I think our title sequence would work well in mainstream cinema.
What existing films are similar to yours?
I would definitely say that the closest contextual reference to our film if the "James Bond" franchise. This is because of the secretive spy themes running throughout. Other films that could be compared are "The Bourne" franchise again for the same reasons. Another idea is that I think our title sequence "Double or Die" could work well as a franchise film.
Where would the money come from to fund your film?
To finance the film I would first approach a production company, or failing that, I would contact potential investors and propose to them my pitch.
Roles
Our first title to appear on screen is our production company name;
Next is series of names of our actors,
We then have our film title;
Followed by our list of crew;
Jae Jones was mainly the one responsible for editing.
The sound was recorded and adjusted/edited accordingly by Sophie Bill.
Sian Mitchell was responsible for cinematography and the overall miss en scene.
I was responsible for the developing the narrative along with producing a script.
Jae Jones was also responsible as the producer and so was required to supervise the co-ordination of everything.
Myself and Sian Mitchell were co-directors and so it was our job to direct the actors on what to do and make sure filming was going as desired.
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