A production company is responsible for supervising the filming from concept to completion, and they hold the sole legal and financial responsibility of the movie as a whole.The production company has a number of responsibilities such as finding a director for the movie and the acting talent. Warner Bros. Pictures are one of the most popular production companies around and are know for films such as Lethal Weapon and the GoodFellas, both crime focused films.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
A distributor sends the production company's film out into the world for the public to watch. They decide where and when the film will show and they also promote the film.
There are a number of steps in the process of distribution. Firstly the distributors have to determine how many copies of the film to make. The film is then previewed to prospective buyers - e.g. cinema owners. The film is then sent out to cinemas shortly before it opens. The cinema then shows the movie and after people have seen it, it will get sent back to the disrtibutors and payment is agreed. However with smaller budget films, there are many more steps to be taken.
Lionsgate would be an ideal company to distribute our movie. They do not focus on specific movies or genres, and have a variety of films under their belts streching from Rambo to kick Ass. This makes me feel that our film is already at an advantage. As well as this they have many a film produced which does not have a huge hollywood budget, which in our case is great as our budget is near to nothing.
The money for our film would most probably come from donations from the public. Idealy family and friends would be the first place to start. However with enough advertisments we could perhaps get finacial backing from a creative investor with an ambition equal to ours.
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