REASEARCH: Institutional practices, finance, lifecycle of a short film, marketing and distribution, branding, narrative image

Our production is not suitable for big media industries. The production would be suitable for smaller London based industries as it introduces London Young peoples Culture which can be recognised by London viewers. British film market would introduce a film like mine as it is not suitable for an american blockbuster because it introduces many English forms and conventions. Also, to become successful in the American film industry you would need to be from a big producer and having famous actors which would draw in the attention of the audience because they have been familiarised by the media and press.

After researching many different film distrubutors I have the following:

20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century House
31-32 Soho Square
London
W1V 6APhttp://www.fox.co.uk/

Amber Films
5 Side
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
NE1 3JEhttp://www.amber-online.com/

Arrow Films Distributors
18 Watford Road
Radlett
Herts
WD7 8LEhttp://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/

RESEARCH: Semiotics, signs and signifiers and codes.

Semiotics is the study of signs and meaning behind them. In media this is used in order to leave the audience to come to their own conclusions through the thoughts they think from a sign.

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)

Ferdinand De Saussure

Saussure is a theorist who discovered semiotics in his study of linguistics. He found that signs included text, images and sound. Saussure believed that signs are made up of two parts:
• A signifier – the form which the sign takes
• The signified - the concept it represents













Charles Peirce


Charles Peirce - Philosopher


Peirce describes semiotics as the ‘formal doctrine of signs’ he said that ‘a sign... is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity’. He believes that everything is a sign as long as it can be seen to signify something. Peirce believes we think in signs.
• Semantics – the relationships of signs and what they mean
• Syntactic (syntax) – the structural relationships between signs
• Pragmatics – the relations of signs to interpreters
Information from link: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem01.html