Production Company research

What is a production company?
Production Companies are businesses who are involved in the making of multimedia (Performing Arts, TV, Radio, Film)

They do so by investing in the production via themselves or third party investors (bank loans, business investors), they also are tasked with handling the budget of the production, casting, scripting, time management, post production (if applicable), distribution and marketing of the production. As well as the production itself as a whole.

These are usually owned by media companies/conglomerates, film studios, entertainment or motion picture companies or a television network. This of course, depends on the medium of the production. For example a film production company would not be owned by a television network, but instead a film studio, entertainment or motion picture company(s)

These are often divided into mini conglomerates, also based on the medium of the production. However, as our production company is standalone and not owned by a larger company, this would not apply to us as the only medium of production that we make is film.

What do production company logos look like?
Here are a collection of production company logos to gain a feel of what we should make our logo like. Not identical or overly similar as to not break any copyright laws, and to also express individuality of our company.

I decided to collect specifically independent film production companies as we are exactly that.

Syncopy films (Inception) UK Independent

Lionsgate productions US Independent

The Tea Shop & Film Company (Anomaly) UK Independent

Unstoppable entertainment (AdULTHOOD) UK Independent

Heyday films (Gravity) UK Independent

Based on this, I hit Photoshop to create my Production company's logo:

I based the logo off of the original Ideas we had in our team talks (filmed on 30th of November), which I had created little draft versions of and put them on-screen. Here is the before mentioned video:

During the creation of the logo, I would constantly refer back to the ideas mentioned in the video and to the advice and opinions of my fellow team members, just to make sure that all was fine with them

Overall, I believe the logo suits the specialty of Thrillers whilst giving off the mood we'd like to have the most. I believe this logo is effective and professional looking