Media Institutions Research - Production & Distribution

In class we have been looking Into the media institutions of making a film.


The producer/production company is where the film get their funding and spending, their ideas for the script and the treatment and the organisation of the cast, crew and location.


Another institution would be the distribution. This is where they decide where and when to release to the cinema and DVD. The marketing of the film (publicity, promotion; trailer, poster, tv) and delivery to the cinema (the transportation to the cinema locations)


There are two types of studios
•Major Studio
•Independant


The Major Studio will have the money, resources, equipment to produce & distribute both roles.
They can reach audiences on a global scale. They also produce hollywood film or work with independent companies in Britain.


Independent studios have a small scale lower budget films. They rely on funding from major companies to release films.


British Film Funding have "equity investors" they give money in return for profit on completion.
They share the profit with the distributors. They also are helped by broadcasters such as Sky and the BBC.


We also looked at Age Restricting. With the bbfc (British Board of Film Classification) they decide the classification of each film shown in the UK (I.e what age you must be to see it)
They decide through a board of members who listen to the publics opinion on content.
They consider:
•discrimination
•drug use
•horror
•imitable behaviour
•language
•nudity
•sex
•themes
•violence


The more explicit, the higher the rating. An 18 allows the above and considers the adult viewing the film has the right to decide what they watch (within reason of the law.)


U= Universal
PG= Parental Guidence (may upset children under the age of 8 years old)
12= 12+
12A= under the age of 12 with an adult
15= 15+
18= 18+
R18= specially licensed cinemas & sex shops.




After much debate between our group and many contemplation's over what our production company to be called we came up with "A Non-Liner" because we had based our film with having a non-liner narrative. While editing, we noticed that the heels I was wearing while portraying Scarlett were broken, causing me to walk lobsided. Therefore the production company "A Broken Heel" was born! 

Major Studio

Independent Studio

We came to the conclusion that we want to produce our film using an independent studio, this would produce a lower budget film and then rely on funding from a major company rather than a major studio as major studios have money, resources, equipment to produce & distribute both roles.

We'd rather produce our film this way rather than doing it with no money (i.e publishing it on YouTube) because we felt we could make a better film this way. We also thought this way would be wiser than publishing our film to purchase by download (i.e iTunes) as from our audience research most people venture to the cinema.

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