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Monday 19 October 2009

Distribution Companies


The distribution influences the genre of the film, the budget of the film, and the audience they aim it at. The companies also produce the trailer and the success of the film, which at the end of the day is the greatest influence in the DVD market impact.

Optimim Releasing focuses on theatrical releases with the most recent being Army of Crime released in October 2009. From the acclaimed and award winning director of THE LAST MITTERAND, ARMY OF CRIME sees poet Missak Manouchian lead a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation.
It was screened on the 17th of May at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, it was later wide released in September of the same year. The film doesn't include any big names.



Paramount Pictures is a feature film production, video and DVD worldwide distribution company and produces programs for televison broadcast. It's most recent releases - yet to be released - are The Lovely Bones to be released in January 2010, and Case 39 which is also due to be released around the same time.







Case 39 uses a juxtaposition (an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast) to show the contrast between a good situation and turning it bad, and potentially horrible. I liked this film as it reminded me of what we are trying to achieve in our film.

Vertigo films is a UK film and media production and distribution company founded in 2002, with the aim of producing and distributing commercially driven independant cinema. Vertigo films are also a partner in the international sales company Protagonist pictures, a joint venture with Film4 and Ingenious Media. They have produced twenty seven films to date which has secured them a place as the leading UK low budget production company through a string of profitable films in the first six years.




The film, which saw Robert Carlyle take Best Performance award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June, will also screen at the Rome International Film Festival and has already made appearances at the Jersey International Film Festival and Cambridge Film Festival.



20th Century Fox was formed in 1915 and it is one of the six major American Distribution companies and has helped to create films such as Star Wars, Ice age, X-Men, Die Hard, Alien, Night At The Museum, Home Alone, and the Predator series which all of which are big, well known films, that most have become sequals and follow ons.

Friday 9 October 2009

Film Magazines

Our film is going to be British, low budget, and using non-actors and no special effects. As part of out coursework we have to produce a front cover of a film based magazine and a poster promoting our film trailer.


I have researched Sight & Sound Magazine which is a published monthly by the British Film Institute. Sight & Sound reviews all film releases each month including those with a narrow art house release, as aposed to the more mainstream focus of it compettitors.

The background of the front cover of Sight & Sound consists of just one image, which makes it less complicated and makes the audience focus on the main feature. The main title is bright and attractive, and makes it stand out. It is the same layout every month which continues the following audience.



Empire magazine is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer media. It is the biggest film magazine in Britain consistently outselling its nearest market rival Total Film and is also published in Australia, Turkey and Russia. It reviews both mainstream films, and art films.


Total Film magazine, published by Future Publishing is the United Kingdoms best selling film magazine. It offers film and DVD news, reviews, and features. It was launched in 1997 and is published every 4 weeks. It has major sections with screening films. Major releases recieve comprehensive coverage, with a star rating out of five, and the magazines own predicted curve. Also briefly mentioned are similar recomendations under ''See this if you liked..''. Smaller films recieve a concise review and rating. The end section is devoted to the current US and UK box office charts.


British Film Magazine shows all the British films that will be making the headline in the coming months. Its aim when it was first launched was to cover all the aspects of the film industry. However, the magazine company soon found out that there was too much to cover and decided to be selective with what they covered. The editor is Terence Doyle who aims the product at a 50,000 circulation, more than the trade titles but fewer than the 205,000 that Empire sells every month.

This would be a suitable audience to aim our film at. As I said before, out film doesn't include big named actors, and this magazine doesn't focus on the big budget films.

Sunday 4 October 2009



Unrelated is an English film released in 2007 and directed by Joanna Hogg.

The distributor is New wave films which was The work of certain French film-makers – Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut among them – who in the late 1950s and 1960s rebelled against conventionality, seeking instead a vital spontaneity. Their early modernist films proved to be hugely influential throughout Europe.

Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette (1928– ), Eric Rohmer and the others of the New Wave, often associated with the journal Cahiers du Cinéma, rejected the ‘literary’ style of the classic French film. They admired the American cinema, particularly the work of film-makers like Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and the B-film directors, but disdained the coherent narrative flow of Hollywood cinema.



DOGGING: A LOVE STORY

It is an English film with American Funding directed by Simon Ellis.

The distribution and production is Vertigo Films, a British company founded in 2002 who have the aim of producing and distributing commercially driven independent cinema. Vertigo have produced and distributed twenty seven films to date and secured the company's position as the leading UK low budget production company through an unprecedented string of profitable films in our first six years. From the huge selling success of Nick Love Films such as The Football Factory (the biggest selling independent UK DVD with 1.3M units to date), The Business and Outlaw, to the critical and award winning releases of titles such as Its All Gone Pete Tong (Best Film Toronto Film Festival/Best film HBO US Comedy awards) to the multi award winning London to Brighton and In Search of A Midnight Kiss.

This film is like ours because the camera shots aren't expertly done, and the editing is rough. It isn't done with a hollywood budget, and it won't be released in the cinemas. Ours will be the same. However, it uses the best shots