The document discusses the choice of a production company logo and its significance in relation to the mystery/thriller genre, highlighting the elements of a red moon and a magnifying glass with a fingerprint. It defines production companies and film distributors, explaining their roles in funding, marketing, and scheduling films, and suggests potential distributors like Paramount and Columbia Pictures based on their portfolio. The document concludes with the importance of titles in film openings, detailing how they should be presented for visibility and acknowledgment of contributors.

1. Evaluation
Post 3
What kind of media
institution might
distribute your media
project and why?

2. Why have you chosen your production company logo?
I have chosen the logo because the red moon is a supernatural occurrence which
gives off almost a thriller type image. The magnifying glass represents crime and
mystery so fits in with my genre of mystery/thriller.
To ensure that my production company focuses on
mystery/thriller rather than just thriller, we’ve added
a fingerprint in the lens of the magnifying glass,
which is linked to crimes and thus linked to
mysteries.

3. What is a production company? What do
they do?
A production company is a company which work on developing the production of
new films, tv programmes etc. They also take part in the funding of the project,
marketing, scripting and scheduling.

4. What is the job of a film distributor?
Film distributors are responsible for marketing, funding, scheduling etc.
They also set the release dates for films and their age ratings (both cinema viewing,
trailers and dvd releases) and can be either an individual or a company.

5. Which film distributor would you choose
for your film and why? What other films
have they distributed that are similar to
yours?I’d probably choose either Paramount Pictures or Columbia Pictures because they
both distribute films in the UK and have helped distribute some mystery/thrillers or
simply just mysteries and/or thrillers.
Paramount Pictures have distributed ‘Shutter Island’ ‘Zodiac’
Columbia Pictures have distributed ‘The Bone Collector’

6. How would your film be funded?
My film will be funded by the National Lottery UK Film Council because they’ve
helped to fund other films created in the UK. They’ve been helping to develop and
promote the film industry in the UK, and support film makers capable of creating
entertaining work.
Choosing to fund my film using the National Lottery UK Film Council would allow us
to distribute our film in the UK.

7. Titles - Why do you need them? How have
you presented them?
Titles are needed in film openings so then the people that were involved in creating
the opening are acknowledged and not ignored.
The titles in the film opening were presented by fading in and out, but not all at once.
Each letter would fade in (and out) at different times until they’re all present and the
title could be read. The titles are both white and grey so they’re visible. The main
titles (e.g. ‘Producers’) are white and larger than the title that comes after, stating
the names of the people who took that role. The names are written in grey so they
can easily be seen as a separate title.
The fonts of both titles are very simple but match the theme and can be read very
easily.