Production Film companies

Jan 18/12

L/O: -to know difference between mainstream and independent cinema

-to understand key terms-to be able to research films and know their production and distribution companies

Key Terms

• Production• Ownership• Mainstream cinema• Independent cinema• Distribution• Conglomerates• Major companies• Subsidiary companies

Quiz

• What are the stages of the film process you need to know?

Quiz

• What are the stages of the film process you need to know?

• FUNDING• MARKETING• PRODUCTION (pre, production, post)• CONSUMPTION– EXHIBITION– EXCHANGE

Starter

Review mainstream cinema vs independent cinema

What are they?1. Mainstream cinema is……….Some examples of mainstream cinema are….2. Independent cinema is……….Some examples of independent cinema are….

Compare similarities and differencesThe similarities between the 2 types of cinema are…..The differences between the 2 types of cinema are….

Mainstream vs Independent

• Read revision book 68-69 & 70-71

Major film companies (Conglomerates)

• 6 major film conglomerates dominate the UK film industry:– Buena Vista/Disney (largest)– Time Warner (Warner Brothers)– Twentieth Century Fox (News Corp)– United International Pictures (Paramount = Viacom)– Sony

• *They constantly change as companies buy companies all the time!!!

• These companies are called CONGLOMERATES because they have complete ownership (and therefore control) over all stages of creating a film (funding, production, marketing, distribution, exhibition)

• Roughly nine out of ten films seen in the UK are distributed by the above companies.

• As an extension read a little bit more about each on WIKI

Conglomerates and their filmsConglomerate company

Buena Vista or Disneyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buena_Vista_(company) (Own ABC network)

Time Warnerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner(Own Warner Brothers)

United International Pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_International_Pictureshttp://www.uip.com/ (Owners = Paramount, who are owned by = Viacom)

Twentieth Century Foxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Foxhttp://www.fox.co.uk/ (Owner = News Corp)

Vivendi & Universalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivendi = vivendihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBCUniversal = univeral (Owner = NBC Universal)

Sony Pictures Entertainmenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment (Owner = Sony)

Complete the printed chart…..

Production companies

• A production company may specialize in producing their in-house films or own subsidiary development companies

• Production Companies are either run by themselves or as a subsidiary

• Major Production companies often distribute films from Independent Production Companies

• (defunct) = no longer active

Subsidiary = side, secondary, lesser/smaller,

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_production_companies

Distribution

• Once a film has been made, distribution company (which may be same as production (conglomerate) starts to promote it (marketing)

• They are also responsible to distribute the film to cinemas/DVD etc

Large Production companiesLARGE• Pathe Pictures• Working Title 2 (Universal)• Lucas film• Dreamworks SKG & Animation• Paramount Pictures• 20th century fox (owed by newscorp)• Fox searchlight Pictures• Universal Studios• Focus Features (universal)• TriStar Pictures (subsidary)• Warner Bros Pictures (Time Warner)• Castlerock Entertainment (Time Warner)• New Line Cinema (Warner Bros)• Walt Disney Pictures (Disney)• Pixar Animation Studios (Disney)• Touchstone Pictures (Disney)• Marvel Studios (Disney)• Miramax Films (……)• Lionsgate Entertainment• Artisan (Lionsgate)• Dimension films (Miramax)

Small production companies

INDEPENDENT • Working Title (before owned by Universal)• Big Arty Productions• EM Media• Film 4• UK Film council• Warp films• Mother vision• Scott Free Productions• YouTube• Blumhouse Productions

Production Company Research Task

• You will research some films to find out:– production companies– distributing companies– Owners– budget and

• Use WIKI, IMDB or film website for research

• You can choose different levels in different colours– RED– YELLOW– GREEN

The films to choose fromLarger Films Smaller films Large and small

Must do 1 from hereMust do 2-3 from here

Must do 1 from hereMust do 2-3 from here

Must do 1 from hereMust do 2 from here

The Dark KnightThe Boat that RockedBilly ElliottStar Wars films

My Beautiful LaundretteFour Weddings and a FuneralThis is EnglandSomers TownFour Lions

Slumdog MillionaireShaun of the DeadLife in a dayParanormal Activity

The more you look at, the better you will understand the role of film production and distribution companies!

Complete the chart sheet

Homework

Set: Fri Jan 18Due: Thur Jan 24 Section B class blog = www.20122013cjmasmediasectionb.blogspot.co.uk

• Review section B class blog• Revise this PowerPoint (on class blog) 1) read once 2) read twice (remember the exam is tough because you have so much to remember!

• To complete both sides of the sheet (charts)• Revise previous PowerPoint’s/topics (key terms charts)