Production companies are responsible for fundraising, organizing staff and production elements, and providing equipment to make a film. They deal with producing, marketing, budgeting, scheduling, and scripting. If anything goes wrong during production, the production company is responsible. There are many roles involved in a production company such as camera crew, makeup, wardrobe, directors, actors, and producers.

1. Production Companies

2. What do they do?
• Production companies are responsible for the financial
fundraising for the production itself. The company looks
over the film when it is an idea of completion.
• They deal with the producing of staff, organizing the
actors/singers/dancers. They also deal with producing of
marketing, budgeting, scheduling and scripting.
• They provide the equipment in order to make the
production/film, and are also responsible if anything
went wrong in the film.
• There are lots of different aspects to a production
company, camera crew, make up, wardrobe, directors,
actors and the producers themselves.

3. Logos.

4. Why?
• The reason we chose these logos is because we felt they fitted with
our genre ‘teen drama’ well. The logos of each production company
had connotations of calmness- the opposite to a teen drama, this
then created contrast and maybe some sort of comic relief before
the movie had even started.
• We also decided to look at not very big companies, ones of small
popularity. We did this because of how small our film opening/ film
would have been if it were sent to a film company and these are the
kinds of producers we would be working with. This felt necessary.
• We then went on to make our own production company and logo,
and stuck to the theme of calmness and a bubbly, water like feel. We
named our production company HMKB Productions because it
included all the groups initials in and was a good way to make us all
properly involved in our film opening.

5. What does a distributor do?
• A film distributor is responsible for sending out
the film into the world and allowing the
audiences to watch the film. They decide where
and when the film will be played out and also
promote the film with use of advertising.
• They decide how many copies of the film to make
and what cinemas/ other companies to sell it to.
• Once the cinema shows the movie a payment is
decided and the movie is sent back to the
distributors.

6. Why them?
• We chose the distribution company we did because we
knew it would be low budget and thought a lot about
finance and how we would afford it.
• We knew that it would show our film a lot and due to
advertising etc. it would be watched by a lot of audience
members.
• In the past Focus Features have distributed the film ‘One
Day’ which was released August 9th 2011 and turned out
to be a great hit with the audience. Although we knew
how much effort and money went into producing a
distributing this film, we took in to account the amount of
viewers we would receive. We thought it would be quite
well suited to our film and decided to go with Focus
Features because of this.

7. Funding?
• Our film would have been funded through
great sponsorships, advertising and
fundraising of all sorts. We would have
needed support from other production
companies and the public.
• We could have created apps, and websites in
order to get the public excited for the release
of the film.