Question 3 essay

3. What kind of Media institution might distribute your media product and why?

The production company we have created is ‘Inquisitive Productions.’ We decided to call the production company inquisitive productions because the film is a detective film noir thriller; this suggested to us that we needed to have a production company that would link well with the movie. The dictionary meaning of ‘Inquisitive’ is ‘having or showing an interest in things’ and because of this meaning it fit well with the film being a detective thriller. The logo is a police badge up instead of a standard police badge the badge reads inquisitive productions accompanied with a picture of a face with a top hat and magnifying glass. The reason for the design is we needed to find a production company that specified directly on promoting detective films and the logo was spawned from the stereotypical image of an old fashioned detective. We took inspiration from characters such as inspector gadget, who looks like the stereotypical detective.  The role of this production company is to be directly responsible for fundraising the production or this may be accomplished through a parent company, partner, or private investor. The production company will handle budgeting, the production itself, post-production, distribution, and marketing.

 

A production company is responsible for raising funds for the production and will handle budgeting, scheduling, scripting, the supply with talent and resources, the organization of staff, the production itself, post-production, distribution, and marketing. However, the production companies vary between films and the genre of the film also determines the production company that the movie has for example Walt

Disney Pictures is a production company that mainly focuses on children’s films for example they have helped produce films such as ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Muppets but would produce films for adults such as ‘Training day’ or ‘Goodfellas’.

The distributor that I will be selecting is Miramax films. I have decided to choose Miramax films as the distributor because Miramax film as are known for distributing independent films and have also distributed blockbuster films such as ‘Kill Bill’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’.  Pulp Fiction winning 1 Academy award and grossing $107 million and Kill Bill volumes 1 and 2 grossing over $180 million. Miramax have also gone one to produce blockbuster thriller films such as ‘Sin City’, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’. Miramax acquired and/or produced many films that did extraordinarily well financially.  Miramax have produced or distributed films with box office grosses totalling more than $100 million; it’s most successful title, ‘Chicago’, earned more than $300 million worldwide and many of the films produced or distributed by Miramax films have secured Academy award nominations or have resulted in Oscar wins. The company is currently based in Santa Monica, California and is currently owned by ‘Filmyard Holdings’ an investment group  after being purchased from Walt Disney studios in 2010 for $663 million. Miramax films target a predominately adult audience mainly distributing and produces thrillers, dramas, crime and black comedies. However they do distribute and produce comedies, fantasies and most genres.

I have decided to use Miramax Films as our production company because of their outstanding thriller catalogue. This would be the best decision because they have a lot of experience dealing with the thriller genre. Their demographic suits ours and Miramax have been able to produce critically acclaimed films such as 'Pulp Fiction', 'No Country for Old Men' and the 'Kill Bill' franchise. .  Pulp Fiction winning 1 Academy award and grossing $107 million and Kill Bill volumes 1 and 2 grossing over $180 million.  Due to this I believe it would be the best decision for our group to use Miramax Films as our production company.

A title sequence is the method by which films or television programs present their title, key production and cast members, or both. The order of job roles begins with:

Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Lions Gate, Universal, Marvel Studios, and Miramax.

The Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed the film (usually credited as "in association with")

The Producers name or Director's first credit, often "a film by”.

Starring actors

Order of key production cast members:

FILM'S TITLE, FEATURING, CASTING or CASTING BY MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER: SET DESIGN, COSTUMES or COSTUMES, HAIRDRESSER, MAKE-UP ARTIST, VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY, EDITOR or EDITED BY, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.), STORY or STORY BY, WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY or SCREENPLAY or SCREENPLAY BY, DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY

We have reflected this by including some of the casting members such as cinematographer, director, producers, music by, executive producer, set design and editor. We have done this because these are the jobs that we can identify with and these are the jobs the group carried out.

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