A production company oversees all aspects of filmmaking from pre-production through post-production and is responsible for the budget, script, actors, and ensuring a successful film. Terror Craze Productions is a new production company that chose its name to sound professional and indicate it is a production company. A distributor handles marketing, promotion, release dates, and distribution of a film to theaters and home release. For their small-budget film, Terror Craze Productions would choose a smaller distributor like Lionsgate in the UK to first release in art house cinemas then DVD, Blu-Ray, and on demand, in order to distribute the film cost effectively within their means as a new, small production company.

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

2. What is a production
Company
 A production company work on a film from pre-
production all the way to post production. They are
responsible for the budget of the film, the script, actors,
directors, and making sure that everything is in order to
create a successful film. They oversee all things
associated with the film and are also viable to any
damages caused.

3. Our production company
 Our production company is called Terror craze
productions, we came up with the name by putting
together different words such as horror, scary, crazy,
and ultimately finding that terror craze fits perfectly. The
reason why we called it Terror craze Productions is
because by saying productions it makes the production
company seem more professional and also ensures
that people know we are a production company. Our
company logo is a film reel as it links to making films
and also it looks very professional.

4. What is a distributor
 A distributor handles the marketing and promotion for films and
distributes the film being made. A distributor is able to pick a
release date for the film, also they are able to choose how they
want to exhibit the film to the public. An example is the distributor
might want to blanket release the film which means the film would
be released over hundreds of cinemas at once so that the film is
available for the whole public to watch easily. The distributor also
has to make sure that they are able to distribute the film after
being shown in cinemas to people at home. An example is
releasing the film on DVD or Blu-ray or for digital download and on
demand. This will allow people to see the film in the comfort of
their own home. An example of a distribution company in the UK is
Lionsgate. Lionsgate is a well-known distribution company due to it
distributing a lot of films in the United Kingdom.

5. Budget
 Our film due it being a small scaled film did not require much
funding to produce. Due to this we would need to go to any
banks or receive money from other places. An example of a
way to get funds for a film is product placement where you
feature a certain product in your film so that the company
are able to show off their product. An example is Mercedes.
Mercedes cars were continuously shown in the film Jurassic
world, this allowed the production company to get some
funding from Mercedes for having their product shown in
their film. In our production we were able to rent the
equipment needed to film for free and also our actors kindly
volunteered to participate in our film and did not get paid.
This enabled us to cut down our budget by a lot due to this.

6. Opening credits
 Our opening credits mention the Production Company,
the actors involved in the shooting of the film, who
designed the costumes, the cinematographer, who
casted the actors, the editor, the person in charge of
sound, and the director. The reason why we decided to
put the production company’s name first is due to them
being in charge of the making of the film. We included
everyone involved in the making of the film to make
sure that everyone was credited.

7. What media institution would
distribute your media product
 In our case we would have a institution such as Lionsgate,
the reason for this is because Lionsgate is a smaller
institution in comparison to one of the big six like Sony. This
means that they will be able to exhibit our product as we are
a small time production company. Lionsgate is based in the
UK and we would be looking to only distribute our film in the
UK due to cost efficiency and also due to us being a small
time production company we will not get many views if we
went global with out product. Due to being a small time
production company we would need to be wise with our
spending and distributing our product worldwide would cost
a lot of money, of which we do not have.

8. Institutionally similar films
 Due to our Production Company being new and
relatively unknown, we would release our film to small
art house cinemas and later to DVD and Blu-Ray and
on demand to save money. This will allow us to be able
to distribute our film and still not spend too much
money in the process. An example of a film which went
straight to DVD is, ‘One in the chamber’ made in 2012.
By releasing our film online it will allow many people to
watch the film as it would be easily accessible and also
allow people to watch the film in the comfort of their
own home.