Assignment Part 1 - Task 1

Using information from the website above write a paragrapher (4 or 5 sentences) on the film industry in your own words.

There are six different components in the film company. Development, Production, Facilities, Distribution, Exhibition and Export.

In Development, before anything is decided, you must imagine your storyline and hire a scriptwriter to put your vision onto paper. How the characters look, how they act, what they do, where they live and their surroundings. The Producer will also help with this vision as they get copy write for the rights of the script from the scriptwriter and providing funds for the film by finding investors. Usually the production company mostly set up certain productions and then shut them down once they are finished (Once the project has been completed).

In Production, the film will be in the process of being made. This means that the project will start to be recorded on cameras and the actors or/and actresses will begin to perform whilst being recorded. More crew will be hired in this stage of filmmaking such as Prop Constructor/Manager, Assistant Directors, Stills Photographer, Picture editor and Sound Editors. The people that have been hired will arrive on set or the location on their call time. Actors however normally have different call times as set construction, dressing and lighting can take many hours and possibly days. But things such as set construction is normally set up beforehand.

In Facilities, the film will be edited by the editor. This stage takes much more time than the actual shooting of the film and can take many months as it must be completely edited, colour corrected, addition of music and sound but also ready for being sent into cinemas or out in DVD's. Once all this has been completed, the finished project is ready to be shown in cinemas and sent out into the media audience. Allowing them to view it.

In the distribution stage, the director will hire a distributor to market the film towards a target audience. A release date will be set by this time and the method in how to release a film is to be made available for viewing (e.g. Either sent directly to the public, theatrically, or for home viewing) or exhibited. However, a the person distributing the film may only be able to deal with particular products such as selling it as DVD'S, Blu-ray or even in a different country or market.

The Exhibition stage is the stage where the exhibition department provides the final piece to the chain in finishing the production to the target audience in filmmaking. Since there are a limited amount of formal training schemes in the UK, a larger cinema chain will offer in-house training as an assistant. The exhibitions stage also helps provide a vital service in this industry as it projects the appropriate impression onto the audience. Depending on how suitable the film appears it will draw people in to watch it.

As for the Exporting stage, this is where the film is advertised on billboards, bus stops, the advertising before a film in the cinema, DVD's, on the TV and many more. This is a way to draw in their audience and is very similar to the distribution stage.