A production company provides the resources and funding for films, television, and other media productions. It handles tasks like budgeting, scheduling, hiring staff, and marketing. Production studios logos are shown at the beginning of films because they financed and produced the work, making their inclusion a legal requirement. Popular production studios that frequently finance media include Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, Sony, and DreamWorks.

1. What are production studios and
why do we have to include them at
the start of films?
By Emily Smith

2. What is a production company?
A production company provides the physical
basis for works in the realms of the
performing arts, new media art, film,
television, radio and video.

3. What are production studios
responsible for?
• The production studio may be directly
responsible for fundraising for the production
or may accomplish this through a parent
company, partner or private investor. It
handles budgeting, scheduling, scripting, the
organisation of staff, the production itself,
post-production, distribution and marketing.

4. Why do productions studios have to be
included in the beginning of films?
• Production studios logos are shown at the
start of films to credit them, as they are the
sole provider and financer of the media
production. In other words ‘the people who
make it happen’. It is a legal requirement that
they be included and credited at the start of a
media production.

5. Popular production studios:
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Capitol Films
DreamWorks Animation
20th Century Fox
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Universal Studios
Paramount Pictures
Sony Pictures Classics
Warner Bros. Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Marvel Studios
Summit Entertainment
Lions Gate Entertainment