PR KIT/FILM DISTRIBUTION MEMORANDUM CONTENTS

STEP BY STEP :
Risk Statement- Project Summary -Creative Team-Timeline -the budget-market research-(film industry, the economy and film, future trends-history of independent distribution-what distributors do-we do everything to make the deal work-compare movies to others- by criteria and by objective financial analysis- using quantitative and qualitative reasoning

Table of Contents-

Risk Statement- a legal letter that covers all aspects of partnership and/ or investments.

Project Summary – A brief synopsis of the movie regarding the plot and characters.

Creative Team- All involved in the creation. List he director or producer, the cast, production staff, art direction, camera operators, sound operators and editor(s).

Timeline – from your FILMS’ Pre-production to Post-production by week

Preproduction- polish of screenplay, casting crew, location searching, allocate props- 3 weeks
4th week- most casting completed, commence rehearsals
6th week-financing complete, casting complete
8th week – have all crew, locations and props
Production
9th -10th week – begin editing and production
15 week- production complete
Post Production- 16th-25th weeks – editing
25th-30th weeks- sound cutting, music composing, score music
30-40 weeks – all editing completed

2 months after – pursuing a distributor, film festivals, foreign sales agent
Profits will be distributed after 6 months and continue to be distributed every half year

The budget includes monetary figures of – the story, copyrights, the direction, the cast, legal, production staff, art direction, the Set, makeup, camera operators, sound operators, transportation, locations, total production expenses, total editing, publicity, festival expenses, insurance.

Trend Indicators and Market research

• The Film Industry= it’s history- it is what sells itself
• U.S Admissions Growth from the MPAA – talk about where the film industry is now and how it has been in profit up until now.
• Talk about Film and the Economy
• Talk about how Film has been unaffected by the economical swings for the most part

Future Trends- We can project 2008-2016 profits by film medium outlets below in Millions of Dollars by using qualitative data from 2001-2008 below. Numbers are in the millions.

Revenue Domestic	2001	2008
Theatrical Rentals	4,405	9,021
Home Video	3,270	12,317
Broadcast Networks	596	816
Syndicated Television	141	146
Pay Television	1291	1866
Basic Cable	1420	2469
Merchandising/ Licensing	905	1298
PPV/VOD/DBS	433	3466
Hotel Airlines	70	119
Revenue International	2001	2008
Theatrical Rentrals	3279	5536
Home Video	5437	9617
Network TV/Syndication	2356	3527
Pay TV	2094	3090
Merchandising	1591	2420
PPV/Hotel/ Airlines	122	596

Then a History of Independent Film Distribution- Our history is in a blog post archive to prove your film in history will be successful.

Then a description of what the filmmaker thinks a distributor does to prove that the filmmaker is well informed about the industry.
Let the distributor know what acquisition executives do at a distribution company to get your film made and have a support staff to monitor and track the production, the end of the production and ticket sales from there.

Then what are we going to do everything to ensure a deal and we might even proceed without a distributor because of our success so far with audience attention (we don’t need you really) then if our movie sells big then we’ll know that the theater owner will move ours to a bigger theatre even if there is competition for a new movie. Independent movies like ours (Your film here) offer a big return on investment because they cost less to make.

Then income – budgeted actual and projected amounts by comparing other movies to what it might cost.

More to come..continued next blog