This question has been the hardest one for me to tackle in all honesty because it has taken me a lot of research to do. I have done research into what production companies actually do and what their purpose is and what distributors do etc.
I considered doing a running commentary over the top of my video which would point out why I used and did certain things in the place I did in the video (not sure if that sentence makes any sense) but I feel like I will be able to go into more detail by writing everything up in more detail as I can talk more without having to rush.
Firstly, by definition (wikipedia), a production company is "a production company provides the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video." This means they handle things such as budgeting, scripting, casting, organisation of staff, filming, editing, promoting and distributing. Film distributors are the main people responsible for marketing the film. They might choose how the film will be shown to the public e.g. will it go straight onto DVD or into the cinemas? Film distributors also might be owned by production companies which makes it easier and cheaper for production companies to distribute their films as they wont have to pay anyone to do it.
This is my production logo. Myself and Dan called our production company "Tortuga" for one reason and one reason only.. we both like Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad is one of our favourite TV shows and Tortuga is a character in it who is a Drug Enforcement Agency rat who also works for the mexican drug cartel. We thought the name Tortuga would make our production company sound more small and independent compared to if we were to have called our production company a name such as "Worldwide Productions" or something along those lines. If I were to compare our production company with any other existing institution, I think I would say Tortuga would be similar to a production company such as Film 4. Film 4 has made quite a few small, independent films which have turned out to be massive successes, such as This Is England. They have now gone on to help produce films such as the oscar winning 12 Years A Slave. Film 4 also like to make social realism films, such as This Is England and they are very good at it as well. Our film opening is a social realism film and a thriller together so Film 4 would be a perfect production company to use if we were to promote our film opening to them. British film companies have a reputation of being able to make the best social realism films in the world and if Tortuga were a real production company, I hope that they would be able to keep up that reputation as well.
I have noticed a few films that are similar to mine. The first one being Project X. Project X (a film that I have mentioned in a few blog posts) is a semi-realistic comedy about 3 boys who throw a massive house party where thousands of people turn up and the house gets burnt down, things get broken and the police have to shut it down. It attracted millions and millions of teenagers to go and watch it and even inspired a few people to try and throw their own "Project X", many of them turning out to be flops and not work. I feel like the reason Project X took off as well as it did is because it was almost entirely about teenagers smoking, drinking, taking drugs, being wild and causing mayhem. It made people want to be there which is what I've tried to do with my film opening. I tried to make people who watched it want to go and party and get involved. Another film I think that is similar to mine is "I Know What You Did Last Summer". Again, I have mentioned this in another blog post but this is similar in the idea that teenagers are again drinking and having fun but they accidentally kill someone and for the months, they receive notes saying "I know what you did last summer" and turns out that the man they thought they'd killed, wasn't actually dead and then he kills them as revenge. (Sorry, spoilers.) Our film opening plot matches this because the guy who is dead is in the afterlife trying to work out why he was killed and who killed him so that he can kill them too and get his revenge. You can only work this out though by watching the whole film, if it were to be made.
I have clearly established that my film is a social realism film and a thriller through two ways. I have made it gritty and about real life issues such as drinking and drugs which is typical of social realism films throughout the party montage as everyone is drinking and dancing and doing illegal things. I have also established that my film is also a thriller by the end scenes of people waking up with blood on their hands before cutting to shots of somebody who has been brutally murdered at the end. The audience get to realise that something serious has happened and this wasn't just your average, teen party where everyone gets drunk.
I have included three names in my actors billing; George Lamb, Chloe Brock and Harrison Lowe. Obviously in every day life, these people aren't actors and they're just normal people but if my film were to be shown to the public, they would be upcoming actors who had been in a few TV shows as extras or had been in some very independent films which weren't distributed in cinemas etc. I chose to include these three people's names as these three are the three in the morning after scene where everyone is waking up. These characters are the character I did the profiling on in a few blog posts back. These three characters are the main characters in the film. There would be more if it were made feature length, however they would not be as important as these three so I included their names so that people would realise who they are as most people do not read the end credits after films carefully. I considered not putting actors billing at the beginning because then it would have made the whole movie more realistic as it wouldn't have seemed that there were any actors and they were all real people but I felt like it was appropriate to put their names as it fitted with the editing plan and it gave them recognition.
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