This is our film production company. It’s called Pumping Heart Productions. A company such as ours would produce low budget films in the thriller genre and distribute them around the UK, such as Coffee Films or Hammer Film Productions.
A production company puts money into a film production which allows the film to be made, and then distributes and markets it around the country, or depending on the size of the company, around the globe.
A film distributor is in charge of getting the film around and making deals in which the film can make a profit, such as dealing with the amount of money each cinema ticket to the film makes or which the price of DVDs for example.
Generally, in independent films, the money for them comes from the producers and/or Production Company. Therefore, all three of us paid for any expenses needed to make the film, such as props, but there wasn’t much we actually had to invest in. We generally had most things that we needed and didn’t need to buy much.
Obviously, some jobs were more important than others and the titles reflect this – the first few titles have the names of our Production Company, the screen writer, director, editor and producer, and then go on to list all of the people who worked on the film until the last scene which tells the title. Obviously the production company is the one of the most important factors as it presents the entire film. The following singular titled slides show the most critical people to the film, as without any one of them, the film couldn’t be made.
Films like Chris Nolan’s Following and Marek Losey’s The Hide have been similarly produced and distributed to our film Dead By Alliance. The films have been if not independently made, then at least made on low budgets compared say, the budget of the latest Hollywood blockbuster. Both films are also in the thriller genre, creating another parallel between Following, The Hide and Dead By Alliance.
