A production company provides help and stay with you during the process of making of your film until it is published. Production companies are often responsible for budgeting, scheduling, scripting, the organization of staff, the production itself, post-production, distribution and marketing. It is also important for the production company to find appropriate actors/actresses to play the roles.
Most production companies are either owned or under a contract with a media conglomerate (such as Sony, Warner Brother, or Universal), a film studio, entertainment company or Motion Picture Company. The production company of the film hold all the rights to the film, and sort out the legal terms, and contracts with the studio you are using and the music/background track you might be using in your film. If the production company is fully integrated (vertically and horizontally) the legal rights to use music will become easier as they might own the rights already. If they are a company like Sony, the production company of Sony already own their own brand of equipment, Sony music will have rights to contracted singers/artists, and Sony also have their own studios which can be used. This also helps the production company save money, as they wont have to pay for hiring the studio, and paying for the rights to use a soundtrack.
A film distributor is purely responsible for releasing the film to the public. It is then also down the production company or film distributor to market the film, and sort out the advertising and promotion side of the production. It is down to the film distributor to send enough prints of the film to the exhibitors (theaters/cinemas) and having an agreement of how long the film is to stay in the cinemas.
How would a low budget film get money?
Then it comes to money, there are a few ways a company like ours could get funded. As stakeholders in our company, we could all put in money from our own finances to fund the film. After the film gets released, hopefully it will earn more money that it cost, ensuring we would get a profit. If it did this, the original amount of money we contributed into the film we would be able to get back, and the extra money could be shared out as well, or put back into the company film fund for another film.
Another way the company could get money is by taking out a loan. This is often used to fund a company to make the film.
When creating our titles for our thriller, we did some research into what job titles were named in the other films. We did take into consideration which order they were in as well, and in what style. For example, the roles appeared in the form of 'Music by Max Brandon' and 'Costume Design by Angela Stevens' however the names of the actors had just their names, and did not say 'Actor-Matt Williams', but instead just said 'Matt Williams'. This gave more of a dramatic effect and made the film look more professional as other films also did this.
If we were to compare our film to any other film, we think it would be Inception. Although it doesnt have the psychological thriller genre, it is set out in the same way, and has the crime side of it. it is set in a busy city, which ours is also set in, and it has mostly men in.
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