Film Chain

Film chain                                                                                                               

Production:

The early stages of producing a film are that the director needs to create a storyboard so that they know what their film is going to be about. Adding dialogue, casting, props and finally editing it so that it creates a film and screening the finished product before the film is released. Examples of main producers of films in America are 20^th Century Fox owned by 20^th Century Fox, United Artist Entertainment run by Cruise/Wagner productions and many more. The ownership of the studio might have a impact on what films the studio makes because for example if there was a big studio like the 20^th Century Fox them they would want to make a big budget Hollywood film as they are a big studio and there audience expects to see big films from them not a small independent film that no one is interested in from a big studio. A independent production means an independent film is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio.

Distribution:

Distribution means the process of moving a product film from its manufacturing source to its customers. The editor works with raw footage selecting shots and combining them into sequences to create a finished motion picture. Once all the editing id done it can be released to cinemas. It is hard to distribute films because of the cost in money and time involved in distributing a movie. Distributors must feel confident that they can make a sufficient return on their investment. Producers do not distribute the films as in the film industry there are certain types of jobs that are given to people. The traditional way of distributing a film is to create manifestos. By creating these everyone can find out what film is about to show on. A newer way of distributing a film would be that distributors use the internet such as social websites to make everyone see what the film is about. This is because now people use the internet often and they might now be into a manifesto. Film festivals are typically annual events. The most well-known film festivals are the Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival, the latter being the largest film festival worldwide, based on attendance. This is a good way to distribute films as everyone can get involved in the festival and t is a fun event to see what interesting films there are to see. It is essentials to have distribution part of the film chain so that it will help the film to become a better release. If there was no distribution then the film will have no publicity as no much people will know about it.

Marketing:

Marketing is the business of promoting and selling products. This includes advertising a new film. The difference between marketing and distribution marketing advertises and films were as distribution is the process of sharing a film to the audience.

Examples of marketing:

                          

Poster

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwwbhhjQ9Xk 

 Facebook page

Films in different countries are promoted in different ways. For example here and there posters of the blockbuster American film avatar. They are different because they are presented in a way were it would attract people in their country to watch the film. Some people might be attracted to the colour scheme of the poster, they might be attracted the stars of the film or they may be attracted because the like a certain genre of a film like science fiction films.

Exhibition:

Audiences can see films by going to the cinema, internet streaming, DVD, mobile phones, pay-to-view television etc. Boxoffice means where information on audience viewing figures and profits made on a film are gathered. A box office is useful to identify which film is successful because it helps the company to see if the film was popular or not by seeing which film sells out the most. The money is discussed between the companies to see who gets the money if their film gets big. Cinemas make their money by selling refreshments and tickets to customers. Cinemas usually do deals so they can make people go to the cinema rather than watching it at home. Ancillary markets are non-theatrical markets for feature films, like home video, television, Pay Per View, VOD, Internet streaming, and others.