Warp films

Warp films is an independent film company based in Sheffield, London and also has an office in Melbourne, Australia. 

Warp first started off as a record company however when it received funding from NESTA it decided to produce a number of short films.

Due to the company being independent and not as large as Warner Bros they have to adopt the horizontal method and will contact several different companies to deal with the production of each part of the film they are working on. 

Warp distribute its films through companies such as Optimum Releasing and over in the US, distributors won't be willing to shot Warp films in the larger and popular cinemas. Instead, they will be in the less attended cinemas and only shown at certain times throughout the day.

Distributing through Optimum Releasing allows for a better way of cross media converging as films on DVD were released under four strands: Optimum Releasing (new theatrical releases), Optimum Home Entertainment (new DVD and Blu-ray releases), Optimum Classic (DVD re-releases of back catalogue films), and Optimum World (new and back catalogue world cinema releases). The latter three appear to be still be in use, despite the company's name change.

Funding for Warp is also considerably low compared to that of Warner, with their largest budget film being '71 that cost £8.1 Million whereas Warner Bros invested over £1 Billion to the entire Harry Potter franchise, 

 

Recently Warp Films has produced '71 a British historical action film set in Northern Ireland despite being filmed across various locations in England such as: Sheffield. The film had to based in England because the story line focused on the Catholic- Protestant divide. This shows that Warps audience would be British, compared to companies such as Warner who wouldn't produce a film based on this story line because their films are applied to that of a global audience. '71 was received well by critics averaging 7.7/10 on Rotten Tomatoes. It also won best director at the British Independent Film Awards. The star of the film: Jack O'Connell won the Rising Star Award at BAFTA 2015, this shows that smaller production companies are gaining more attention and are capable of doing so.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount pictures founded in 1912 are one of  'the big six' film producers and film studios.

Paramount is known for producing several highly successful film series such as: Titanic, Transformers, Mission Impossible, Indiana Jones, Star Trek and many more.

Particularly the films I'm interested in are Paranormal Activity, Friday The 13th and  Jack Reacher. This is because they are all successful thriller films produced by Paramount and that is the genre of film we are going to be making.
Compared to Warner bros, Paramount are just behind with the number of Thriller films produced however in my opinion, I think Paramount are ahead in their terms of quality.






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Warner Bros.

I have decided to do some research into a production company to try and give me some insight and inspiration into how they work and try and give me some ideas along the way.

So, I decided to start at the top with perhaps the largest, most well known and best company: Warner Bros.
 Warner Bros was first established in 1923 by the four Warner brothers: Sam, Harry, Albert, and Jack. It all began when they acquired a movie projector and showed films to the people of a mining town in Pennsylvania.

Over the years Warner Bros have produced some of the biggest films, cartoons, and television programmes in history such as: Harry Potter, Looney Tunes, and Friends.

Warner Bros usually applies a vertical integration as rather than speak with lots of minor companies for different stages of production they usually have a department for each already within the company.

Marketing:

Warner Bros market their films through more expensive methods such as on the sides of busses, TV adverts, magazine interviews with the stars, and appearing on chat shows to promote an upcoming film.

The main way Warner Bro films earn their money is through the cinema, this may be because they once owned a large chain: Vue cinemas themselves. This gave them control over how well they advertise, long they play, and amount of times they show their own films compared to another companies.

Over the century, Warner Bros has produced some of the largest and most successful films in history.

Such as: Harry Potter, Batman, and The Matrix.

As of 2013 Warner Bros' revenue is estimated at $12.3 billion.

In recent times, Labour Leader: Ed Milliband has stated that media companies are slowly losing power as developments through the internet are causing rapid change in the way we consume news. Due to the fact that people are allowed to post as they wish online, media companies such as Warner are slowly losing their grip over what the public consume and news can be spread far quicker through means of online methods than it ever could by means of mail and newspaper.