A production company raises the funds for a film and it handles budgeting, scripting, the organization of staff, the production, post-production, distribution, and the marketing of the production. The film distributor releases the film and makes it available at the cinema and for DVD, TV etc. They also are incharge of the distrubution of film posters, trailers and advertisement. A media institution that would be suitable to distribute our production could be Miramax or touchstone pictures because they have distributed other films of the thriller genre before such as Face Off. Ours would need a medium budget and big companies such as Mirmax, as they have the money too help make a good, quality, well advertised film. Also their logos connote some common conventions of thrillers such as good and evil and life and death and also violence in the scratch marks on the touchstone picture logo and the sharp edges on the Miramax logo. Also the colours are black and white which connote good and evil and life and death which are common in most thrillers including ours. Therefore these media institutions could be suitable. Also Touchstone pictures produced and distributed War horse directed by Steven Spielberg and made $133,464,000 from a budget of $66,000,000.Opening credits: Contain the directors name; the main cast; editor; and camera work/ director of photography. The closing credits contain a more extensive list of all the cast and crew members. Our opening has the director, camera work, editing and also cast members: Louis and Tovia. The production company logo is seen during the opening credits. Binary oppositions are essential in thrillers, because there needs to be a distinct difference between the hero and the villain. Therefore these media institutions could be suitable. In our production I have used a Miramax Logo followed by our own suitable logo which also fits in with the thriller genre and binary oppositions included. Our Logo is in Serif font and has a eerie effect to go with it to highlight its semiotic meaning. In our production we use full screen titles, they appear between shots and tell you who stars in it, who filmed, edited and produced it. These make the production seem more professional and the effect of flashing adds to the thriller genre, they are also black and white, furthermore enhancing the binary oppositions within the context.
