Question 3

Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

This is our production logo; we used the initials of our names (James Craig, James Parronchi, Connor Marshall and Matthew Bostock) because we thought that it lent the production a more personal and down to earth feel to it. 

We took inspiration for the title screen from companies like Regency, Future productions or Terror films that have a similar theme to their title screens. 

Production companies have the role of fundraisers for the production: namely coming up with the money to complete the production. They also handle the budgeting, scheduling and influx of talent and resources to the production.

For our production we were thinking of using a company like Regency to produce and distribute our full production. This decision stems from the number of Thrillers that they have produced that have similar themes to ours and that I personally think inspired some of the attitudes adopted in our production: for example the continuous sense of dread that hangs over the entire production. Examples of these thrillers are Tigerland and Falling Down.

We originally wanted to place our title credits on the sleeper tracks and have a pan shot of them to relate back to the theme of the film, however we were unable to follow through with that plan and we resorted to writing the titles on planks of wood and propping them up on the locomotive that was on site. The titles appear in the production at a very specific time: the names of the actors appear just before they are shown in the intro.

We used this technique to both introduce the characters and make it clear to the viewer who it was that they were observing on screen. We introduce first the actors, then the people that filled the various production, editing and narrative aspects of the production.