Production Company

A production company provides the funding, and helps to make and distribute films or television programmes. They provide the money and therefore set the budget, which will influence the director and actors for the production.

Most production companies have an ident which is a moving image, played before the film starts. This is to inform the audience of who the production company for that film is. These idents tend to be quite recognisable for the audience and they become quite famous. For example, Dreamworks with the boy on the moon or Metro Goldwyn Mayer with the roaring lion.













A list of the most famous production companies and the films they have made:

1. Walt Disney Pictures
- Snow White, Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp.

2. Dreamworks
- Shrek

3. Tristar
- The muppets

4. Paramount
- Transformers

5. Metro Goldwyn Mayer / MGM
- James Bond Casino Royale

6. Film 4
- Slumdog Millionaire

7. Disney Pixar
-Monsters inc.

8. 20th Century Fox
-The Fault In Our Stars

9. Universal Pictures
- Fast and Furious 6

10. Lionsgate
- The Hunger Games


Film 4 

Out of all of these production companies we have chosen Film 4 to produce our film.

Film 4 is a British production company which is owned by Chanel 4 Television Corporation. It is mainly produces films which are based in the UK. They produce quite "indie" films and tend to have up and coming actors in the films which they have put into production. Originally the institution was named Chanel Four Films or FilmFour International. The whole company was re-branded to become Film4 as we know it today . This tied in with the start of the television chanel which is also called Film4.  Then in 2002 the company had a huge budget cut which meant losing a large amount of their staff and having to become part of chanel 4's drama department. In 2006 the new name of "FilmFour Productions" was brought in to coincide with the re-release of the tv channel Film4.

Some of the high earning films that Film4 have produced are "12 Years A Slave," "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Nowhere Boy." These films helped to put Film4 on the map as one of the biggest and most popular production companies.

We have chosen Film4 as the suitable institue to produce our thriller as we are going for quite an individual and edgy feel, which is something that the films that Film4 produce do have in one way or another. Although the company does not have as high budget or as much mone available as the other production companies, from the previous films that have been produced by Film4 it is clear that the financial aspects is not as issue as the films that have been released under film4 have been of high quality and gone on to make high amounts of revenue.