Rayanne and Tanisha discuss the process of film production, distribution, and exhibition. They explain that their production company, Brownin' Studios, split production into pre-production and post-production phases. Brownin' Studios provided £50,000 in start-up funding and Rayanne and Tanisha fundraised an additional £250,000. They worked with the British distributor Metrodome for distribution since they have a relationship with Brownin' Studios. Rayanne and Tanisha hope to work with major American studios like Paramount and Columbia Pictures in the future to distribute their films to a wider audience.

1. Script
Rayanne- Hello I am Rayanne.
Tanisha- Hello and I am Tanisha
Rayanne- Today we are going to talk you through production,
distribution and exhibition.
Tanisha- Production is split into two sections. Pre and post
production.
Rayanne- pre production is…
Location scouting
Props/ wardrobe identification and preparation
Set construction
Special effects identification and preparation
Script locking
Production schedule
Reading through script with cast, director and other
parties
Tanisha- And post production is….
Editing video footage
Editing the soundtrack/ sound effects/ music
Adding titles and graphics
Adding special effects
Re-shooting certain scenes if required
Rayanne- Our Production Company is “Brownin’ Studios”, they
work hand in hand with Metrodome distribution. Brownin studios
is an ethnic production company that allows young people (16-
25) to produce their own short films. The production company
gave us £50,000 as start-up money; We then had to fundraise
the rest of money in order to produce the film.
Tanisha- In total we fundraised £250,000. £100,000 was spent
on production, £50,000 spent on advertisement e.g. poster,
teaser trailers and urban radio ads. The rest was spent on
producing DVDs. We gave the left over money to the performing
arts fund so other young people have the chance to do what we
done.
Rayanne- Our distributing company was Metrodome. A small
British distributor, we worked with because Metrodome and
Brownin’ studios are vertical integrated.

2. Tanisha- If we had the chance we would love to work with some
of the bigger distributors in America. Such as paramount,
20th
Century fox, warner brothers. We would also love to work
with Columbia which produced thrillers that had similar
conventions to us such as silence of the lambs.
Rayanne- In our opening we made are opening credits appear one
after each other in a flash to represent that we all had an
equal weight in producing the thriller.