2. What does a production company do?
A production company provides the physical basis for works in the realms of
the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video. It
essentially helps to create the films dealing with things like budgeting,
scheduling, scripting and casting. The company will usually over see the
film throughout the whole process.
Which company would distribute my film?
Verve Pictures. I would have Verve Pictures distribute my film, it is an independent
company that specalise in the release of independent films in cinemas and on
DVD. From looking into them they seem like a very passionate company about the
discovery of new talent and are committed to the release of films that have
become lost in today’s multiplex culture. This is perfect for us as our film is about
a tabooed subject it doesn’t appear in many/any blockbuster films and if it does it
wouldn’t be given as many promotional opportunities as a film on a socially
acceptable topic perhaps. They have a 75% success rate from first time feature
directors which is also encoring and their films have won the BAFTA Outstanding
Debut Award ( for Kieran Evans in Kelly+Victor) along side other awards.
3. What kind of money would would our film generate?
I’ve had to put a lot of thought into this question as I think its really tricky to try and predict this
kind of thing, especially for our film as the topic is so controversial, we’re first time film
makes and its our actors first films too. I reckon that we wouldn’t make that much from it but
just enough to cover what we put into it.
what your film is similar to 'institutionally'
I would say that our film is simular institutionally to Enough that came out in 2002, only because of the
simularity in topic as they both are focused on domestic abuse. However, comparing the two in terms of
filming our work is completely different, our film is shot in a documentary style (hand-held camera)
whereas, Enough is done shot by shot. However, if I was to pick a film that shot wise is simular to our
work I would pick Paranormal Activity, it is also shot in a documentary form even though it isn’t a
documentary.
4. Who and Why we mentioned them in the
credits.
Credits in a film are very important they are a way for the people involved to get credit for
all of their hard work. We decided to do this as the first half of the opening as there
isn’t overly that much going on and the pace of the footage is slower than the second
half meaning they wouldn’t be overlooked and could be focused on as well as the film.
We positioned them on the left hand corner of the film so they were over the black
sides and put them in white so they stood out but didn’t take too much attention away
from the actual film. Typically at the start of a film the production logo will be the first
to appear so to follow the typical conventions of a film we placed ‘Broken Mirror
Productions’ at the start of our film we the proceeded to put the credits in order of
appearance as well as importance, we put Ollie Lavis as our first as he appears in the
first scene but is also the prominent one in our film he is in almost every single shot
then Ophelia Cidey as she is the second focus, because of appearance Same Flippance
got the next credit. Conventionally in credits the next would be the director so we
decided to follow that and put Lara’s name in then mine to follow with the editing. As
Lara and I over saw all of the other jobs together such as set and costume design we
decided to leave those credits out as it would be the same names over and over again,
however, retrospectively I think that we should have accredited the song writers for the
music we used in our film and when I do my A2 media piece I will ensure that I do
include them in the credits too as music is a very important aspect of the film so they
deserve credit for their work as well.
5. Credits in order.
• Broken Mirror Productions
• Starring Ollie Lavis
• Ophelia Chigy
• Sam Flippance
• Directed by Lara Faber-Johnson
• Edited by Millie O’Connor
