Production Companies are essentially the people behind the films we see in cinemas today; they basically create the media for their audiences. Production Companies like Lionsgate, New Line Cinema and Paramount Pictures, as mentioned before, are regarded as some of the top producers within the film industry, especially in the thriller genre, therefore managing to gain their attention, from our Production, would ensure mass amounts of public and audience attention, as well as possible funding to perhaps make some of our scenes more aesthetically pleasing.

Being the Editor, it was my job to create the ident for our own Production Company we conveniently named "BCES Productions". The Ident I created represents our Private Production Company and a picture is featured below as well as other mentioned Production Companies

These institutions determine and control all the advertising for a film, this way they can branch out to different places in which they can attract their target audience for a particular film. Also, as well as advertising, these institutions market the film. The institutions take these jobs upon themselves so they can make the most money as they can basically, this continues for every film that finds its way into the institution.

For a big Hollywood film the Production Companies would most likely provide the funding for the particular film, but when it comes to much smaller films for example independent British films, they may need to look as well as these particular Hollywood institutions are not likely to fund them. There are various events and charities who will fund small films if they see potential in the film and can see it being successful; such places being the BFI's London Film Festival where it is possible to appeal for funding for your Production and obviously gain more publicity if you were to win an award. Jake Hume, a BFI speaker we have had the pleasure of meeting, is a good example of this. His film called Sixteen won an award at the BFI London Film Festival. If our group were looking to get our Production out there, we would perhaps use this Film Festival as a way of gaining attention and most importantly funding.

As mentioned before the Production Companies have their own small length clips before the film, as does the Director and Producers also associated with the film. Directors and Producers play big parts in the build up to the finished Production and have put tons of work into what is seen on screen, in our case the Opening Sequence of Ultimatum.

Bearing this in mind, I did look to the actual companies who have previously produced Thriller films in the past. One of the examples I used was Paramount Pictures as they produced Shutter Island, as I have already mentioned, which is one of my favourite Thriller films. I chose to look at this specific Production Company as produces high quality Thriller films which are very popular. Being as popular as they are, with a very iconic Ident, they are able to deliver films end on end with no shortage of quality, because of the special effects and multiple Big Set Pieces which occur throughout the films.

Being able to bring an audience what they want and like to see means the audiences keep coming back again for the next film, and this is where I drew my influence from. If our group were to produce a high quality Opening Sequence which was quite popular, then the audience would continue to return if we continued to make any other form of Productions. Another thing I picked up on which I have channeled into our own Ident, is the use of sound and simplicity other Idents from other Production Companies use. Production Companies are able to produce a memorable 10-15 second ident through the use of a memorable logo and through the music/sound they play, a specific example being 20th Century Fox that play the orchestral music, and this becomes memorable and iconic. I did this with our ident also, but instead of using orchestral music, I used a loud abstract noise which plays twice, and combined with the length of the ident, it makes it a very memorable clip.