Production companies

Introduction to production

To make a general movie, it comes with the challenges and the details to put it out. In the making of a movie you need to figure out how the movie will be financed and produced. The finance would go into hiring, casting, shooting, renting, working, planning and all cost that will be needed to make the movie.

There are many steps that goes into the production of a film and how the film is produced.

1) Development: That is the first step into film production, in this first step includes all the process that goes into the film, the ideas, the research, script, thinking, and all the development that will go into the film.

2) Pre-Production: After developing your ideas for the film you will go into the second step of production, pre-production. The planning of your film shoot start there, all your crews, and member that will be needed for the film will be established in this step of the production.

3) Production: The production of the film is where everything starts, this is where you start shooting and put everything you had planned in the previous steps into action.

4) Post-production: In the post-production is where you will will do any edits and add, remove any details that were needed for you film. In this step is when the audio and visual materials are cut together to create a film.

5) Distribution: This is the final step in the production, that is when the film has been edited, and it's ready to be distributed into the world. You would need to find a way to advertise your movie and find a company that would produce it, after these are done you would have your movie out and people would be able to see it, it would be in theaters, DVDs, and all kind of digital platforms. 

There are different companies that would produce it depending on the genre of your film.

 The Big 6 

This is 6 major company that commands about 90% production.

• Paramount pictures
• Universal
• 20th century box
• Warner bros. pictures
• Walt Disney
• Columbia pictures

The Indies

These are 3 independent major studio system that produces film.

• Summit Entertainment
• Film 4 production
• Icon production

The mini-major

3 leading independent majors that are coming up and getting more out there.

• Dreamworks
• The weinstein company
• Lions Gate entertainment

 My group members and I will be making a romantic-comedy film and so we have to learn and make research about film productions in romantic comedies.

Production of romantic-comedy

There are a lot of production companies and they usually specialize in the production of one film genre and with my research I've looked to find the production companies that specify in romantic comedies. The companies that specialize in romantic-comedies are Warner Bros, SK Global, Starlight Culture Entertainment, Color Force, Rom-coms pictures and Ivanhoe Pictures with, the one that would be more ideal for producing my film is Warner Bros pictures.

If I had to produce my film I would plan to produce it to a large studio and more preferbly one of the big 6 in the production company and it would be Warner Bros pictures because it is a huge production company who has experiences with romantic comedy and I think they would be the more ideal company to have my filmproduced by. 

The production company that produces my film would affect the kind of audience who see's it and how they engage with it, with Warner Bros. pictures it has grown rapidely and fast in the last centeries, it is a very popular production that most people know about, using it would influence audiences based on the way it represent it's beliefs opinions, stereotypes, and attitudes that would grab a audience attention and give them something to think about while watching the film. The production company also has to do with how the movie looks and all the things that would attract an audience to come and engage with that specific film.

With creating a film, you have to figure out a way to put your film out there and convince other companies that your film is worth financing, in other words, find a way to sell your film and make evryone's money back. To do so your film as to meet some requirements that would need to be met: The ideas, development finance, script development, packaging, financing, pre-production, production, post production, sales, marketing, expedition, and other windows. These will determine whether or not your film is worth financing with a production company and the answers to each of thee requirement will differ based on the production company that would would choose to work with. To sell the film productions will need to find ways to give it clout and high level attention to let other's know and be interested in the film and with the trailer of the film is how most of the marketing takes place because the trailer draw a lot of attention to other's and targeted audiences.

There are many type of distribution companies and some of the distribution companies that specialize in my genre are 20th century fox, Universal, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Paramount pictures, and Walt disney. These are some of the top distribution companies that specialize in romantic-comedy films and for my romantic comedy film 20th century fox, and Warner Bros would be a good match for my film. With the idea of my film, the story, planning and production they would be the good distributors to have my film distributed by.

Films can be exhibited in numerous ways and they are theatrical and nontheatrical modes of exhibiton and some films are put out there like directly to the public through a movie theater or TV, from personal home viewings such as DVDs, downloads, video-on-demand, Televison programs, broadcasts or movie theater. These are only some of the ways that films can be exhibited and through movie theater is the most popular way that films are exhibited and shown to the audience. For romantic-comedies they are usually exhibitted theatrically and some nontheatrically but for the most part they're exhibitted through a movie theater.

These are forms and some things that goes when thinking of the production of a film.

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