Life of a film- Research task

1. Recap-

• Production - Production is the creation of a media product, it also done in three stages:

1. Pre-production - This is where everything is prepared, for example: funding, the cast, the loaction, the rights etc.
2. Production - This is where everything is recorded.
3. Post-Production - This is where the film is edited and put together and sent over to distributors and exhibitors in order to get a profit out of the funding.

• Subsidiary - A subsidiary company is a company that is either controlled partially or fully. The name for the company that is controlling is called a parent company.
• Distribution - For the distribution, movies are sold to either a distributor in order to make DVDs for home cinema purposes or exhibitors so that people pay to see at the cinema .
• Marketing - This is not only part of the distribution, but it is to obtain the interest of the public and to do this you need to make press packs, banners, posters, trailers etc.
• Exhibition- This is how the media product is presented, for example HD, 3D, blue-ray, cinema etc.
• Horizontal Intergration - When a parent company owns multiple companies at the same stage of a film industry. It is a strategy used by a business or corporation that seeks to sell a type of product in numerous markets.
• Vertical Intergration - When a parent company owns multiple companies across different stages of the film industry. Vertically integrated companies in a supply chain are united through a common owner.

2. Your Film:
Working Title: Contraband

Brief Synopsis: Chris Faraday once smuggled illegal items or contraband into the country on freighters. He left that life behind, got married has a family and went legit. But when his brother-in-law got involved with Briggs, a drug dealer and when he blew a deal, Briggs demands restitution which he can't deliver. So Chris offers to find a way to pay him but the he threatens Chris' family if he doesn't deliver. So he gets on a freighter destined for Panama and he sets out to bring back some counterfeit currency. Briggs "goes to see" Chris' family. When Chris learns of this he asks his friend Sebastian to take care of them which he does. He tells Chris that it would be better to bring drugs instead of the cash.
Trailer: Contraband Trailer HD
Lead Actor Interview (Mark Wahlberg): Contraband Mark Wahlberg Interview



Warp Films: Four Lions

Brief Synopsis: Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces, Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that-while terrorism is about ideology-it can also be about idiots.
Trailer: Four Lions Trailer
Lead Actor Interview (Kayvan Novak): Kayvan Novak Four Lions Interview