The document discusses various aspects of film production and distribution, including the roles of production companies, distributors, and funding sources. A production company provides the resources to create performing arts, media, film, television and more. The document gives an example of a well-known Hollywood production company logo and explains how a fictional production company called Lighthouse Productions created their logo and light effect. It also defines what a distributor does in marketing and releasing a film, and explains why the writer chose a specific small budget distributor called Dogwoof Pictures to handle their film. Lastly, it mentions funding as a potential topic.

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

2. What does a production company do?
• “A production company provides the physical
basis for works in the realms of the
performing arts, new media
art, film, television, radio and video.”

3. The production company logos and or
created and why?
On the left is a well know production company that is involved in making lots of
big Hollywood films, the one on the left is our ident that we made for our
opening scene. We also had a moving light effect that looks like a light house
going round, we thought this fitted in well because our production company is
called lighthouse production.

4. What does a distributor do?
• A film distributor is a company or individual
that does the marketing of a film. The
distributor may set the release date of a film
and the method by which a film is to be
displayed or made available for viewing for
example going in the cinema or straight to
DVD for home viewing.

5. Why you have chosen the distribution
companies you have to release your
film?
• Dogwoof pictures I have chosen this company
to distribute our film as it is mainly used for
small budget films and ones that will only be
discovered by a small audience. This is what
our film is.

6. How might your film have been
funded?
• I chose this as it specialises in small budget
films and this is what our film is so this
company is perfect for our film.