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

What is a production company?
A production company is what provides the basic platform for films and other media. They provide the funding and equipment to help the project become complete. Our company we made is called Demi-Monde Productions we played around with different things but this related to the type of film we were making. Demi-Monde means a small isolated place, usually the 'underworld' type of city where criminals and the marginal all congregate. Our made up production company specializes in Film Noir and Neo Noir styled films, that is self funded by Movie Stars to help promote old movies and get younger generations emerged into old style film making, but attract it by making it so that teenagers can also respect this certain type of cinema.


What is a distribution company?

A distribution company sells the rights to Cinemas, Television Channels, Retailers...etc so that a film or type of media can get seen by the public. Their job is to make sure they distribute it too the right people in places where it will be noticed and seen. The distribution company might give it to the cinema, and ask for a certain percentage of a ticket payed by a customer. The bigger the film and distribution company, the bigger the release of the film. A major company, will get it distributed across the world, too many top cinemas I.E Odeon or Television Companies such as Sky (Movie Channels). Smaller Independent companies are for the smaller budgeted films, so these will be distributed to smaller cinema's more along the Art house type and not Big named ones. Then at some point the film could make it's way on the TV channel Film Four. Our Company Black and White Pictures is a small independent distributors to help get small budget films into Small Arthouse Cinemas and also available on sites like I Tunes, Love Film and Netflix. It main form of advertisement is using Viral Marketing, using Facebook and Twitter to help younger generations get more involved with smaller budget films.


Where would funding come from for your film?
As the UK Film Council has been forced to shut down, smaller budgeted films may never see the light of day. Most of the funding would come from Actors who want to help younger film makers in kick starting there career, or members of our group working on bigger projects to help fund our smaller film (Actors such as Gary Oldman have done this to fund own films, Nil By Mouth). Other funding could come from Film Four which shows movies from all different parts of the world and all types of budgets, so looking for funding from them could be a good help if we shared the rights and allowed them to screen our film on their television channel.


Some Film Four Funded Films...

• Trainspotting
• The Iron Lady
• Sexy Beast
• Slumdog Millionaire
• This Is England

Order of Titles that appear in our Opening Sequence

• Black and White Pictures - Our distribution comes first as they are the ones who have helped promote and distribute our film in all the right locations and done their research on what areas and who would view this film.
• Demi-Monde Productions - Our production team that helped find the funds and equipment so we could actually make our film.
• Highest Billing Actor - The star of the film and the lead role. 
• Other billing Actors - The rest of the main cast will now be mentioned until the next series of titles, no extras, just other key actors who aren't in a lead role.
• Script Writer - The one who has wrote the script for the film now comes after all the actors, they are the ones that brought the script to the table.
• Title of Film - Reminding the viewers of the title of the film, usually comes in around here.
• Sound and Editing - The people that pieced all the film together to bring it as a whole.
• Director - The director will come last, the one who directed the film and had complete control of how the film looked and what went on in Pre/Post Production and during the filming.