Thursday, 11 December 2014

Production Companies


Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. is an American film production company and division of The Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company. The division is based at the Walt Disney Studios and is the main producer of live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Studios unit. It took on its current name in 1983. Today, in conjunction with the other units of The Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Pictures is classified as one of Hollywood's "Big Six" film studios. Nearly all of Walt Disney Pictures' releases are distributed theatrically by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, through home media platforms via Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and through television syndication by Disney–ABC Domestic Television. This well-known logo is of the Disney castle. The castle comes across as magical and exciting for the target audience. Although the target audience is for small children, anybody of any age can recognise the castle.  The logo suggests the movies they make are fairy tales and are magical to watch. The fireworks behind the castle connote it is exciting and a special adventure. The fireworks show it is an expensive company.
Dreamworks
DreamWorks Studios (officially Dream Works II Holding Co., LLC) also known as Dream Works SKG, Dream Works Pictures, or simply Dream Works, is an American film production company which produces and develops films, television programming, and video games. It was also a former film distributor for its own and third-party films. It has produced or distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses of more than $100 million each. Currently, DreamWorks' films are marketed and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under its Touchstone Pictures banner.
The Dream Works logo features a boy sitting on a crescent moon while fishing. The general idea for the logo was the idea of company co-founder Steven Spielberg, who wanted a computer generated image. The logo was then made at Industrial Light and Magic. The moon suggests that as a company they aim high and that they are on top of everyone else.
20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation also known as 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Pictures, or simply Fox, is an American film studio and one of the six major American film studios. Located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio used to be a subsidiary of News Corporation, but now it is currently a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the world's second largest major film studio, after Warner Bros.
The company was formed on May 31, 1935, as the result of the merger between Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph M. Schenck.
20th Century Fox has distributed various commercially successful film series, including Avatar, the first two Star Wars trilogies, Ice Age, X-Men, Die Hard, Planet of the Apes, Night at the Museum, Taken, Fantastic Four, Alien, Predator, and the live action Alvin and the Chipmunks. Television series produced by Fox include The Simpsons, M*A*S*H, The X-Files, Bones, House, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Futurama, How I Met Your Mother, Glee, Modern Family, New Girl, and 24. The use of the spotlights suggests that the company and of good quality and the centre of attention when it comes to films. The use of the colour gold connotes power and strength as gold is associated with being the best. The sky is realistic looking and the statue of 20th Century looks animated which may suggest to the audience that it produces animated films aswell.
Warner Bros
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly called Warner Bros., Warners, or simply WB) is an American media company that makes film, television and music entertainment. As one of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California. Warner Bros. has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock Entertainment, DC Entertainment, and the former The WB Television Network. Warner Bros. owns half of The CW Television Network.  The colour gold within the shield suggests that they are a successful company of high quality,as gold usually represents the winner. The sky as the background suggests that they aim high and never give up until they come out on top.

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