AS Media Evaluation Question

1. What kind of media institution
might distribute your media
product and why?

2. What is a production company?
A production company essentially helps to create the film, it assists
with things such as budgeting, scheduling, scripting and casting.
The production company are responsible for finding a director who
sends your film out into the world for the waiting audiences to watch,
they choose the locations of where the film will show and how to
promote the film.

3. What is a distributor?
A film distributor is a company or individual responsible for
the marketing of a film, they may set the release date of a
film and the method by which a film is to be revealed or
made available for viewing, for example directly to the
public either theatrically or for home viewing, (e.g. DVD).
They take the role of marketing and are responsible for
promoting the film by advertisement methods such as
trailers and posters.
Examples include Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox and Walt
Disney.

4. Distribution for our film
Our distribution company name that we used was Warner Bros. We
used this company name as it is well known and has been used for
many other very successful films some of which are the same genre to
our film, examples include Fred Claus and National Lampoons
Christmas Vacation.
The logo for our distribution company (Warner Bros) is shown at the
start of our film to let the audience know who has helped with our film.
The audience may want to know who helped with the film because if
they have really liked films by the company and they hear that they are
helping with another film of the same genre then they might want to
see it, in this case anyone who may have enjoyed Fred Claus, they may
want to see Saving Santa as it has the same audience.

5. Our production logo
Out of our group, we created one logo each which
we could then use for the film production. We then
looked at each others and chose the best one. We
chose this one (Cascadas productions) as it had a
professional name and image, we thought it would
look best at the start of our titles along with the
image of Warner Bros.

6. Other distribution companies
Although Warner Bros would be suitable for our film as it would help it
succeed, the company may be too large therefore we could have used a
smaller company that is more suitable for our film. Warner Bros helps
with films for high budget where as our film has a low budget, a
company that may be more suitable because of this would be New Line
cinema.

7. Our titles
The titles of a film show the main characters
(actors names), other characters, producers,
writers and other important members. For
our film we have shown the distribution and
production company names at the very
start before any other names, this shows
that they are the most significant. We then
show the main characters names, then
followed by others. The image to the right
show the titles we used in our film.