A production company oversees the development, filming, financing, distribution, and marketing of films. Dreamcapture Films is a fictional low-budget production company created for this project. It chose its name to reference dreams and film capturing. The company's simple logo is inspired by Dreamworks and Paramount to signal it can make high quality films on a low budget. For their fictional thriller film, Dreamcapture Films would likely partner with Revolver Entertainment for distribution in Britain since it specializes in low-budget British films, including thrillers. Funding may have come from a small investor or a company that supports independent British films, or potentially from a grant from the British Film Institute.

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

2. • A production company is in charge of the development of
a film, and the filming itself.
• The production company choses writers and directors to
develop the film.
• A production company finances the project, although the
money may come from somewhere else (such as a
private investor or a partner company).
• Production companies can collaborate on films, and they
are also often part of or working for a film studio.
• Production companies oversee the distribution of the
films, and the marketing, as well as production and post-
production.

4. • We created the company ident for our production
company “dreamcapture films”
• We chose this name as it is a play on the word
“dreamcatcher” – capture relates to the capturing of
footage.
• We wanted our company to look like it made a variety of
styles of film as opposed to just thrillers. The simplistic
style of our ident shows that it’s a low-budget company,
but it can produce high-quality films. We took inspiration
for our ident from others, such as Dreamworks and
Paramount. The small stars from the Paramount ident
fitted with the word “dream” in ours, so we created an
animation using stars.

6. • A film distributor handles the marketing of a film. This
includes advertising and press coverage.
• Posters and other advertising tools are created, as well
as interviews with cast members on television and radio.
• The various cut-outs and other print work found in
cinemas when a film is showing are also produced by the
distribution company.
• Details like release dates, showing times and the size of
the screens a film is shown on is decided by the
distributor.

8. • We have chosen a British based distribution company,
because our film is a low-budget production that would
not be in demand internationally.
• Revolver Entertainment are British-based, and often
distribute low-budget British films.
• They have distributed many thriller films before, and even
the name of the company “revolver films” lends itself to
the promotion of a thriller film.

9. • Our film is likely to have been funded by either a small
independent group or private investor, or a company
wishing to promote low-budget British films.
• Some companies have various grants and funds
available for small independent films, including the British
Film Institute, which is funded by the lottery and has
various schemes giving funding to smaller projects. We
think this is the most likely way our film would have been
funded, as other companies may not want to take a risk
on a smaller film.