Researching the Film Industry

Researching the Film Industry

Production

A production company is the most important job. They are responsible for the development and filming of a specific production or media broadcast.

They look over the script to see if it’s acceptable. Once a final script has been produced by the screenwriters they go to the 5 phases.

• Development-This is when the script is produced with the director.
• Pre-production- Actors and crew are hand picked by the producer, director, and casting director
• Production-it begins filming/
• Post production-It handles all the editing, musical score, visual effects and re-recording of the dialogue.
• Marketing-It’s also launched with the release of trailers and posters. Once a final film has been approved, the film is taken over by the distributors, who then release the film.

Some examples of production companies are:

-Warner Brothers Entertainment

- Lionsgate Entertainment

-Paramount Pictures

-Universal Pictures

The film industries creates many jobs which includes a director, a unit production manager, the studio executives, the assistant director, the casting director, the location manager, the director of photography, the director of audiography, the production sound mixer, the sound designer, the supervising sound editor, the sound designer/director of audiography, a composer, the production designer, an art director, a costume designer, a storyboard artist and a choreographer.

Jerry Weintraub

Jerry Weintraub is well known because he produced the film Ocean 11. This fits our genre because it has a very similar feel with what we want in our first two minutes. He has also filmed Happy New Year, The Karate Kid, National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation and The Karate Kid (2010 film).

Distribution

Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures and Lionsgate Entertainment are examples of film distribution companies. Their role is to release a film to the public and hopefully engages the audience to buy the DVD or see it in cinemas.

 I believe that our film could be distrubuted on the internet and later onto DVD, but mainly into cinemas as that it the most popular option.  An example for a distribution company that we could use would be Paramount pictures which distributed ‘The Italian Job’ which is an American remake of the 1969 British film of a team of thieves who plan to steal gold from a former associate who double-crossed them.

Examples of films and their distribution companies

The Bank Job

Produced by: Roger Donaldson

Distributed By: Lionsgate

Box Office: $64,822,796

Inception

Produced by: Warner Bros

Distributed By: Christopher Nolan

Box Office: $825,532,764

Inside Man

Produced By: Spike Lee

Distributed By: Universal

Box Office: $184,376,254 (Worldwide)

Marketing and Promotion

Magazine Covers- Magazine covers is a nice way to promote a movie by putting the main character up for a feature. This then will attracts the audience to see why they are at the front cover and to hopefully know what movie they’re going to be featured in.

Interviews- Actors appearing on a TV talk show to explain about the movies will encourage the audience to go see the movie itself to boost the ratings.