Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Production companies have many different roles during the production and distribution of films. Firstly, they provide the funding, which is acquired through parent companies, partners, or private investors. They also handle the budget, scheduling, scripting, casting, organisation of staff, the actual production itself, post-production, distribution, and marketing. Our production company is Burton Productions and our ident can be seen below (left). We drew the inspiration for the logo from other production companies such as Universal, whose ident (below right) also features a globe, suggesting their work has the ability to achieve a global reach.

  

The company we would select to distribute our media product would be EON (Everything or Nothing) Productions, who are best known for producing the James Bond film series. Although these films are more likely regarded as action films, the sub-genre of our opening is action thriller so we could incorporate some of the action-based experience of the company into our film. They also recently signed a deal with Columbia Pictures to develop thriller films outside the Bond franchise with budgets of up to £40 million to help establish more British writers, which is a good opportunity for new filmmakers such as ourselves. Another bonus of this production company is that it is based in the UK (London's Piccadilly, as well as operating from Pinewood Studios), which you could say is more convenient for both parties.

As we are not part of a large production company with a high budget, we would have to rely on outside investment to fund the production of a film such as ours. This could come from community donations or sponsors.

To decide who to name in the titles we researched the opening titles of some existing thriller films (such as Se7en), and decided upon this timeline:

 

The production/distribution companies were named first, as this is usually the case for most films, followed by the director and then the main actors. The main contributors to the mise-en-scene and editing process are named next, with the main title concluding the opening.