What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
You already know the name and
logo of our production company, Pieker Pictures. The name is
just made up of our own surnames Piep and Iker, and as well as
the logo, which was really just meant to look quite nice, it
doesn't suggest a genre of movies the company might produce and
distribute.
A production
company, as the name suggests, produces the movie, which means
it has to organise the crew, actors, locations, props,
technology and everything else needed to make the movie.
Making our opening, we always
had a special product in mind we were aiming
for, which is the German series of crime films
"Tatort". It's on TV at prime time weekly with different
inspectors from different cities. We always imagined our movie to be
part of a series like this and not like a huge
Hollywood blockbuster.
The Tatort films are produced by local TV stations or small production companies working for them, so Pieker Pictures would probably be one of them.
The film are not promoted in a special way, the 'fanbase' knows when they're on TV, the only advertisement is on the respective TV station showing an advert saying which time the Tatort is on.
The money for the production comes from the TV stations producing the film and also from the German film funding company "Deutscher Filmfoerderfonds" which is about the same as the UK Film Council's Film Fund.
The titles in our opening appear in the following order:
- main title
- actor 3
- camera
- sound and music
- actor 2
- production
- actor 1
- editing
- written and directed
We started with the
title of the movie and then the least
important one and finished with "Written and Directed
by", which for us is the most important
one.
We left out titles like
costumes or make-up, as those really weren't
important parts of our opening and it would have been too
many titles in the end.
The names appearing are only Joelle's and
mine and two other actors, because we were only a group of two, so both
of us almost did everything.
