Distribution & Exhibition

Mastering - where/how is your film going to be seen? (decided in pre production)

Export Settings

Video - Aspect Ration, frame rate

-if your filming for theatres you don’t want to be filming in high defintion

You should probably film in 4k or 6k and

Filming for screens, ipads, computers

-30 frames per second

-High Definition

Audio

EQ - leveling

Mono - one speaker, one direction

Stereo - left and right

Surround Sounds/5.1

Closed Captions -

Promotional Material - happens in production or post production

Publicity Packet - the audience is distribution companies or festivals, why do distribution companies want to take this film on, why do festivals want to show it.

-sent as a pdf

-teaser with film information, why do people want to see this film?

-personnel

-poster

-images, high res screen grabs that are evocative and action packed behind the scences 

-awards/reviews

Nutshell

this film meets this film

-two films that were successful at that festival.

Festival

-programmers want to sell tickets, they want people to show up

Film Freeway, what do we do with screenplays or films. Self distrubtion through festivals.

Laurels-

Distrbution - during pre production

-taking a product to market, selling it to theatres, streaming, VOD

Licensing - Yearly

-liscensing to a distrbutor and it’s a flat payment, 

Audience

-who is going to watch the film? something to think about while writing a screenplay or producing a film?

How do you break down audience? As a film maker you would want to hit all quadrants

Males under 25

Males over 25

Females under 25
Females over 25

There is different in where films get scene and films get sold. 

-Sundace are where films get sold. 

American Film Market

-a preproduction festival, a market where financiers will finance a film and also be guarnteed the rights to distrbution. 

Short films don’t get distributed. 

Private Equity

-invest in films and

-they pay for a certain part of distribution