Evaluation Part 3

A production company will produce a film. They will have direct links to funding and the film's budget. For our film production, our production company is Drunken Elephant Productions - a very small company that our group have created (primarily for Youtube) but we have used it because it is very much so a small production.

However, we have selected Universal to be our distributors - to release the product, mainly because they are a trusted and well-established institution in the film industry, but also because they have a big influence in today's cinemas.

The funding for our film will have come from independent investors, and would be sorted out by the production company. As this was a small production - we did not have the budget, and the production company has been set up by ourselves and did not receive investment.

Only certain jobs were credited in the title sequence - the actors names. We did this because it is the most factors to the audience. Additionally, we did not include a director or producer credit, because these roles were performed by the group as a whole. Furthermore, it is more of a convention to include actors names (particularly comedy films - to establish the comedic actors) whereas unless the director is an especially household name (i.e Steven Speilberg) then it is not likely o be included at the start.

Institutionally, our films are similar to:

In terms of budget: Hello, Friend - the 2003 comedy short film had an estimated £40,000 but I would think it was actually probably less than this. I think if we had to produce the feature-length film, then a figure around this would be enough to do so.

In terms of location: the television programme Skins - set in Bristol, although it would be from a completely contrasting social group - our production being about nerds, and Skins being based around partying teenagers who do blown-out-of-proportion things.

In terms of cast size: Phone Booth - the 2002 film which revolves around Colin Farrell's character being controlled by a mystery caller has a relatively small cast and has a few main characters - Farrell, Forest Whitaker and Kieffer Sutherland.

In terms of where it would be released: Submarine - the recently-releseased coming-of-age film has been only released in a small amount of cinemas because of the budget that it had - the creaters have not anticipated it to be a mainstream success so are limitting expenses on having it distributed to all major cinema companies (to all of their major cinemas).