Evaluation Activity 3

The production company may be directly responsible for fundraising for the production or may accomplish this through a partner. Production companies are well-known for its variety of task-handling which varies from handling the budgeting, scripting, scheduling, cast and setting and the organization of staff.

Production companies are known for its own production (e.g. Lucasfilm Ltd. are widely-known for their production on the critically-acclaimed Star Wars series as well as the Indiana Jones series which they had also produced which led to its own exclusive video games etc.), post-production, distribution and marketing (e.g. Lionsgate Entertainment are well-known for owning the rights to the Hunger Games potential franchise and distributing the movie in the United Kingdom and United States of America.)

Production companies are often either owned or under contract with a media conglomerate, film studio, entertainment company, or Motion Picture Company, who act as the production companies parent. They can also be mainstream/independent production companies such as the production company examples which were provided above this piece of information -- Lucasfilm Ltd. and Lionsgate Entertainment.

A film distributor is a company or individual responsible for releasing movies to the public whether it is on the silver screen/on a theatrical basis or a straight-to-DVD basis/home viewing in general (e.g. T.V/Blu-Ray Disc viewing, Video-On-Demand viewing such as Sky Box Office).





For our Split movie, we would decide to go with the Momentum Pictures production company and this is due to the actuality that they were the same company that had produced a notable amount of BAFTA/Oscar-winning successes such as The King's Speech, Defiance and Lost in Translation plus we would have enough budget to be able to request for them to own the rights to our movie (or franchise if the Split movie is released to a lot of positive reviews from audiences and critics alike).

This is due to the fact that momentum Pictures is a one of the leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and Ireland and releases approximately 20 theatrical films a year which means that when marketing our movie, it would be more likely to be a success rather than failing with an independent company that is not really known to the British audience let alone any audiences overseas.

The film production company would usually appear at the start/introduction of the movie as it would establish which production company has produced the movie along with any other companies involved in the production, distribution or marketing or the movie which would then be followed by the list of cast names or just the opening sequence itself.

We had decided to utilize this approach due to the fact that we felt that it would have been more beneficial to formally introduce the audience, who would be watching the Split movie, to the production company followed by the New Cinema Entertainment company which would be followed by the opening sequence (with texts full of cast names appearing throughout the opening sequence.) This is due to the fact that a particular structure would need to be used when formally introducing film audiences to the people who have had an involvement with the movie itself rather than a random structure that would seem ambiguous.