What is a production company?
The job of a production company is to be a responsible source to develop new ideas for new media, films, radio and television programmes. They could also have the responsibility for finding funding for the production to start taking place, this could be a small company that would like to sell its products to a film studio or could be a well-established studio itself.
The sole job of the production company is to create money for the directors so they can start filming and production their films, a good production company should be reliable and stick with the until its distributed. For our film we have associations with Kings Langley productions, this means that they have given a proportion of money to help use create our film.
Where does a production company get its money?
With the average Hollywood film costing around $300 million to produce (this information came from my pre-production documents) how do companies such as Paramount and Pixar afford such large sums of money without going bankrupt?
The job of a production company is to be a responsible source to develop new ideas for new media, films, radio and television programmes. They could also have the responsibility for finding funding for the production to start taking place, this could be a small company that would like to sell its products to a film studio or could be a well-established studio itself.
The sole job of the production company is to create money for the directors so they can start filming and production their films, a good production company should be reliable and stick with the until its distributed. For our film we have associations with Kings Langley productions, this means that they have given a proportion of money to help use create our film.
Where does a production company get its money?
With the average Hollywood film costing around $300 million to produce (this information came from my pre-production documents) how do companies such as Paramount and Pixar afford such large sums of money without going bankrupt?
The first place the look for money is from past films, a company such as Paramount will only produce a film if they think it will sell and bring in a large profit for them. An advantage of having a large distruption company distribut your film means that they have a large amount of experience within the market and would have great suggestion on how to improve your film. However if this was their first film or have not enough money left over they look into distribution and production deals, or they will find investors which will come together and give a large amount of money for a define purpose. However for production companies that are trying to produce a small British film it’s much harder to find a company willing to find funding, this is you can received money that comes from the national lottery and goes towards the UK Film Council. From the Council directors can apply for money, any films that are chosen will receive money for all their costs such as, script development, film production, film distribution and export and skills. Some examples of films that have used this award is How to Lose Friends, Alienate People and St Trinian’s. For our film we would look into applying for such a contract where we could be given money to help produce and improve scripts, story lines and skills. Another example of this is the BBC Film Network that production company that showcases British film Making, directors for new and upcoming films apply for grants. If your film is chosen for the grant then you will receive help with all aspects of your film for example, script writing, directing and how to make your film as successful as possible. 
What is a distribution company?
A distribution company can be a individually company or be part of a massive organisation such a Sony who have many subsidiary arm to their business. The distribution is the last stage between the films production company and a films exhibition, for film making the distribution referees to marketing of the film and it being shown in cinemas and later DVD releases. Its main focus when a film is to be distributed it to convince business such as Vue, Oden to rent of book each film, which is normally done through and exhibition where the film is watched and then contracts to be drawn up.
For our film we would like to take it to a film festival such as Portobello Film Festival held in London each year. We would take it to a festival that was focusing on the genre of our film and hope that a director would notice our film. If this happened and we got chosen then we would like our film to be released in the United Kingdom in as many cinemas as possible. In addition to this we would also try to get a company such as Film 4 to try and showcase our film on television.
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