Production, Distribiton, Marketing and Exhibition in the film industry

Production

There are three stages involved in producing a film. First of all, the pre production stage, the film must be planned and carefully designed. It starts off with an initial idea in the form of a story board where it will be developed. This is where the production team scout the location and characters for the film. The script is written and finalised by the team. Secondly, during the production the initial ideas are developed and shot with the scenery, props, characters, are used. During the post production then the film is edited, and special effects and music is added as part of the sound track.
 There are many steps involved when creating a film. The four main stages are production, distribution, marketing and exhibition.

Distribution: is the way films go out from an edit house to an audience. There are many ways such as:

• The cinema

• DVDs

• Blu ray

• Netflix/LOVEFiLM

Marketing:  is promoting and advertising a new film.
This can be done in many ways such as:

• Using trailers during TV advertisements and during the advertisements at the cinema
• Billboards, posters, bus advertisements

• Toys in Happy Meals to promote young people and their parents to watch a certain film aimed at young children. 

 Exhibition:  this is the way that audience can view films. Some independent production companies will not be able to show their films in the large cinema companies such as Cineworld or Odeon but do film festivals and small cinema firms.