Industry ResearchBy Connor Redman

Director

Explanation

A director is the main person in charge of the direction subdivision from the production sector.

Example 

Tony Gilroy Director of The Bourne Legacy (Left) and James Watkins director of The woman in black (Right)

ProducerExplanation

The Producer’s role is to the production company and the Executive Producers who are appointed to supervise the production on behalf of the Financiers and Distributors. All in all, the Producer is the person who must remember what the central vision and goal of the movie is and to be fiscally and creatively responsible for that.

Example

Frank Marshall The Bourne Legacy and Ponyo(Left) and Simon Oakes The woman in black and The Resident (Right)

Screen Writer/Script Writer

Explanation

A screenwriter or scriptwriter or scenario writer is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media such as films, television programs, comics or video games are based.

Example

George Nolfi The Bourne Legacy and the adjustment bureau (Left) Jane Goldman The Woman in black and Kick Ass (Right)

Other Roles in production

There are many other roles in the production side of films such as:

Stunt Coordinator

Cast Coordinator

Runners

Film FundingPrivate Investors – Private investors fund film production by seeing an idea that they think will be successful and giving the producer funds to create the film for a return on the money they invested.

Lottery (UK) – The UK national lottery supports aspiring UK Film makers by offering funding to create their films with a budget.

TV Programs – In the circumstances where a television program ears a large amount of money they may decide to fund the creation of a film based around the television series.

Governments – This is when a government gives money to an individual to create a film maybe for a purpose such as to incorporate propaganda into the film or just to encourage the country to further there horizons In film, most French films are government funded.

Foreign Investors – Large foreign companies usually from America invest in other countries film producers projects because they think it will be successful and want some of the profit and or recognition themselves.

Major Film Companies in distribution

Warner Brothers

20th Century FOX

Walt Disney Studio

Momentum Pictures

Lionsgate Films

Pre Production

The Pre Production for

Production

Post Production

Film DistributionDefinition: The Process of sending the media product out to the target audience with the intent of gaining as much reception as possible.

Once the director has approved his final cut a preview screening is organized for the distribution company. The Distributor aims to make as much profit off of putting the film out there as possible.

Effective distribution is essential to the success of the film, if it is not shown in the right areas to the right audiences the film will have no interest and therefore be unsuccessful.

Film Distribution usually includes putting the movie in Cinema screenings and then later on onto Digital format copies.

Film PromotionDefinition: is the marketing of the film, the aim of marketing is to raise the awareness of the product and thus influencing the audiences to go and see the film or purchase products.

Popular techniques include, adverts, posters, billboards, teasers, trailers and promotional merchandise and yet after all of this Word of mouth is still by far the most powerful promotional technique going, not only as it is free but because it reaches the target audience directly.

The methods I believe to be most effective would be Word of mouth and trailers, trailers gat the audiences visual attention and starts them talking about it and then the word of mouth spreads the attention that the trailer originally gained.

Another example of promotion is Synergy, where two companies join together to promote both of their products in one this can be seen in Ice Ages work with McDonalds.