Company name and logo:
We are called FNK productions, we did think of other titles for our company like 'scribble media' but we thought didn't have a professional feel to it, then we came up with FNK productions a while later. The 'FNK' part of the title was rather simple as it represents our groups initials. F for Faith, N for Nicole (me), K for Karlton. We felt that this put the professional feel we wanted to have on our name. I also felt that the name reminds people of other words so they may remember the production company. This is like the clothing company FCUK as it has the similar sounding to a word we all know and remember well.
Our logo was like a film reale above the writing of our name. I thought this went well as some of the well known film production companies have this. Disney, Bad robot, Dreamworld, Colombia Pictures. In our logo we use 2 or 3 colours that we thought went well together, we felt that the colours had to be well liked by a lot of people so when they see a similar colour they may have a cue to think of our logo.
What do production companies do?
Production companies are the companies that work together to make the film, the pre production, production and post production. There are different types of production companies, there are some that have a large ray of sections in the whole company which can also help with distribution and different sections of the production stage. There are also production companies that work together to produce the final production, this may be due to the companies not affording to do the pre production, production and post production. The larger companies that have lots of components are usually for the larger Hollywood blockbuster films that have more of the well known actors, writers, camera crew, etc. And they feel that the have a greater chance of getting more profit so could feel that the film would have a lot of success. The smaller production companies are usually the ones that support the indie films for niche audiences. These companies may not need to make a profit as some of them may be there to help new film directors like the BFI funds.
The idea of distributors and who that might be and why:
The distributors are the companies that get the film from pre production to the audience. This can be from publicity (posters, interviews, trailers, comics, CDs, etc.) to the cinemas that they are showed in if they are shown in cinemas. There are some films that don't make it into the big cinemas either because they don't have enough money in their distribution fund, or they decided that they don't want to make a profit from making the films, this could because they are film geeks and love the idea they could produce a film. Smaller niche films are also well known for being part of film festivals and being awarded film festival awards. Again this may be due to the cost, but could also be because of the directors wanting it to go to true film fans. The distributors are there to help the production have a good smooth change from being in the editing room to the big screen.
Where the money may have come from for a film like yours?
As our film is more for the small niche audience I feel that we would get our money/funding for the film from independent production and distribution companies as we know that we wouldn't be able to reach the larger audiences. This could be because we didn't follow some conventions of the action genre, especially as we set the fight scene in a homey realistic setting and in a quite locations which is different to the conventional action films that are set in larger cities such as, New York City, Los Angeles, London etc. We also wouldn't be making this film to have a profit if we were to get money, as we wanted to film this not just because it was part of our coursework but because we all have a love of film. This is like 'Hunt for Gollum' which is a well known film that had been made with £3,000 and with the chance of having no profit, as they didn't put it in the cinemas but had a free download and website to watch the film. As the group we decided that this would be how we wanted to distribute the film if we were to finish it. If we were to drake this film so that it was to break even or make a small profit we would ask companies such as the BFI funds and other smaller companies to help us produce the money that we need for the production to go further.
Why the various people are named in the titles - which jobs appear in the titles and in what order and how they have reflected to this?
We only have our three names in the final production, this is due to only us three being in the film and being the ones that have done the post production and pre production, the cameraman, the editing etc. We decided that we didn't want the job titles in the opening after we talked to those around us when we were editing. We also figured that if we were to put the roles and the people who did them would be very repetitive as we were all part of every manner of the film, when one was ill another did that role for the day, and we helped each other when we were struggling or when we needed advice and praise on what we were doing. I thought that we wouldn't have the full list on who was behind the camera helping produce the film at the beginning of the film as it could go on for a while as there is a lot of things that happen behind the camera that help make it happen. And this usually doesn't happen in the Hollywood blockbusters and indie films, so we made sure that we didn't do this either. At the beginning of the films we usually see the main actors who are involved in the films so we know who are seeing.
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