Question 3

What kind of media institution

might distribute your media

product and why?

Company name and logo

• Our company name is ‘Epidemic Productions’

• We decided on this name as it relates to zombie films, as the disease causing the zombies to be made usually turns into an epidemic.

• Knowing that our company would be strictly focused on making films of the Zombie – Horror genre we thought it would be good for the production companies’ name to be relevant.

Role of such companies

What does a production company do?

• Production company’s are responsible for hiring the

majority of staff, from actors to the director.

• The production company essentially guides the

movie from the start to completion.

• Another aspect of what the production company

does is providing money for the production and

setting budgets.

Who may the distributer be? Why?

• A distributer who may be useful for our production could be Warner Bros.

• Warner Home Video released the zombie film ‘I am Legend’ on Blu-Ray and DVD.

• As our movie is the same genre Warner Bros. may be interested in our production.

• ‘I am Legend’ was quite successful as they managed to make quite a high profit.

• The movie budget was $150,000,000 and 5 months after it was released it has a

gross of $256,386,216.

• Another distributer who appears to have an interest in zombie

films is Paramount.

• A more recent zombie horror, ‘World War Z’ was released in

2013, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

• This film was extremely successful by having a gross of

$202,351,611

Who may the distributer be? Why?

Where would the money come from?

• Use a real example

• Compare to our film

Titles

• What jobs appear

• What order

• How have we reflected this

00:05 – THE WALKING DEAD00:10 – Cast00:12 – Cast00:14 – Cast00:15 – Cast00:17 – 2 Cast members00:19 – 2 Cast members00:21 – Casting by00:23 – Editor00:26 – Production Designer00:28 – Director of Photography00:32 – Produced by00:39 – Executive Producers…3 people00:42 – Based on the image comics book created by00:45 – Written by00:48 – Directed by

Titles

The titles seem to start off with the main cast members, as we then see more than one cast members name at one time, suggesting they are not part of the primary cast.

However in films usually the titles start off with the distributer, then the production company, they address that it is a film by the director, followed by the main cast. Next is usually ‘Casting by’, then ‘Music by’, after that would be Costume Design, Editor, Production Design and Director of Photography.

Next all the different producers would be credited, including co-producers, executive producers and co-executive producers. Then the main Producer. Lastly the Director would be shown.

Name films which would be released in a similar way to ours.