The Film Industry

The Film Industry

Creating a Film...
The different processes involved between someone coming up with the idea for a film and it being watched by an audience...

4 Stages of a Film:
Production
Distribution
Marketing
Exhibition/Exchange
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- The studio, investor, or producer buys the right to the source such as an idea, book, or a story.
- A screenwriter converts this idea or a story into a script also known as an adapted or original screenplay.
- The script is edited and finalized by the same screenwriter or writers known as script doctors.
- Director, producer, editor, production designer, art director meet to make sure they're on same page.
- Script is storyboarded by illustrations to help directors, cinematographers visualize the scenes.
-  Costume designers create garments and accessories to help tell the story.
- Casting directors audition and or negotiate with the actors agents and decide on the cast.
- Location scouting, hiring crew, lots of logistics.
- Director oversees everything, works with producer. Takes storyboard and turns it into series of shots.
- Production design team create the overall visual feel and aesthetics, costume, make up and set design.
- Cinematographer oversees everything camera and lights related and helps with artistic decisions.
- Make up artists work with costume designer and director to make actors/actresses fit their roles better.
- Actors and actresses show their talent, hope for a nomination in leading or supporting role.
- Music editor works with songwriter to write the original song, and composer for original score.
Sound effects prepare what will go into final mixing. There are dialogue and sound effect editors.
- Sound mixers combine dialogue, sound effects, and music tracks to create the final soundtrack.
- Film editors cut and paste to make a 2 hour cohesive movie out of miles of film, adding visual effects.
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Production
- Development - Script is written and drafted into a workable blueprint for a film.
- Pre-Production - Preparations are made for the shoot, in which cast and crew are hired, locations are selected, and sets are built.
- Production - The film footage is shot.
- Post-Production - The film is edited: production sound (dialogue), music tracks.
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Distribution
- Describes everything between production (making the film) and how the film gets to an audience (people watching the film in cinemas/dvd etc.
- The film is screened for potential buyers (distributers), is picked up by a distributor, and a marketing and release plan are developed. The film is duplicated as required for distribution to cinemas.
- The business of getting films to their audiences by booking them for runs in cinemas and getting them there e.g. digital screens/reel films.
- It includes all of the financial deals done to get films shown and promoted.
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Marketing
- This is the business of creating campaigns to promote the film, e.g. posters, apps, television interviews.
- Press kits, posters, and other advertising materials are published and the film is advertised. Films are usually released with a launch party, press releases, interviews with the press, press preview screenings, and film festival screenings. Most films have a website and a trailer.
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Exhibition/Exchange
- The way people consume films, e.g. showing films in cinemas or renting/buying dvd's or downloading films, piracy.
- About how the audience see the film, box office intake, reviews, awards, etc.
- The film is released to cinemas for exhibition (or at this point occasionally straight to dvd, blu-ray, or direct download from a provider) in order to reach its cinema and/or home media audience. The film plays at selected cinema and the dvd typically is released a few months later.
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Conglomerates - A conglomerate is when two or more companies engage in a multi-industry company.
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Ownership and the film industry
The American film industry makes more money from international revenue ($30 billion) than domestic revenue ($10 billion).
Art House Film - serious, independent film, aimed at a niche audience.
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Research Task
Names of the Five Biggest Hollywood studios.

Universal Pictures
1) NBC Universal
2) Founded in 1912
3) Art House/Indie - Focus Features
4) Genre Movie -  Focus World, Gramercy Pictures, Working Title Films
5) Animation - Big Idea Entertainment, DreamWorks Animation, Illumination, Illumination Mac Guff, NBCU Ent. Japan, Universal Animation Studios
6) Other divisions/brands - Amblin Partners, Carnival Films. Makeready, OTL Releasing, United International Pictures, Universal 1440 Entertainment, WT2 Productions
7) US/CA Market Share (2018) - 14.9%

Paramount Pictures
1) Viacom
2) Founded in 1912
3) Art House/Indie - None
4) Genre Movie - BET Films, Comedy Central Films, MTV Films, Nickelodeon Movie, Paramount Players
5) Animation - MTV Animation, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Paramount Animation
6) Other divisions/brands - Awesomeness Films, CMT Films, Melange Pictures, Paramount Digital Entertainment, United International Pictures, VH1 Films, Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
7) US/CA Market Share (2018) - 6.4%

Warner Bros
1) WarnerMedia
2) Founded in 1923
3) Art House/Indie - CNN Films, HBO Documentary Films
4) Genre Movie - DC Films, New Line Cinema
5) Animation - Cartoon Network Studios, Wang Film Productions, Warner Animation Group, Warner Bros. Animation
6) Other divisions/brands - Adult Swim Films, Castle Rock Entertainment, Cinemax Films, CNN Films, Flagship Entertainment, Fullscreen, HBO Films, Hello Sunshine, Spyglass Media Group, Turner Entertainment
7) US/CA Market Share (2018) - 16.3%

Walt Disney Pictures
1) Walt Disney Studios
2) Founded in 1923
3) Art House/Indie - Disney Nature, A&E Disney Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, Hulu Documentary Films, NatGeo Films
4) Genre Movie - 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm, Marvel Studios
5) Animation - Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Lucasfilm Animation, Marvel Animation, 20th Century Fox Animation, Blue Sky Studios
6) Other divisions/brands - Buena Vista International, Fox Family, Fox Star Studios, Zero Day Fox, Walt Disney Pictures India, UTV, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
7) US/CA Market Share (2018) - 36.3%

Columbia Pictures
1) Sony Pictures
2) Founded in 1924
3) Art House/Indie - Sony Pictures Classics
4) Genre Movie - Affirm Films, Screen Gems, Stage 6 Films, Ghost Corps
5) Animation - Funimation Films, Madhouse, Manga Entertainment, Sony Pictures Animation
6) Other divisions/brands - TriStar Pictures, Destination Films, Left Bank Pictures, Sony Pictures Japan, Sony Pictures Family Entertainment, Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions, Sony Wonder, TriStar Productions, Triumph Films, Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing
7) US/CA Market Share (2018) - 10.9%