Production companies are responsible for fundraising, organizing staff and production aspects like marketing, budgeting and scripting. They provide equipment and take responsibility if anything goes wrong. Some key aspects include camera crew, makeup, wardrobe, directors and actors. The document discusses choosing logos that create contrast with the "teen drama" genre. It also discusses forming their own small production company called HMKB Productions to feel properly involved. A film distributor is responsible for distributing the film to audiences by deciding showings and promoting through advertising. They decide copies to make and where to sell. Funding for the film discussed would come through sponsorships, advertising, fundraising and public support like apps and websites.

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.