3. what kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why
1.
2. Our film would be distributed by a major company because it mainly
follows the codes and conventions of a psychological thriller film. E.g.
Isolation. The codes and conventions I used will help produce a
psychological thriller film that will appeal to the majority of the thriller
fans. If it did not follow to the general form of a psychological thriller
film then a smaller company may distribute the film and it would not be
as mainstream.
A media institution that might distribute our media product would be
‘Anchor Bay Entertainment’ (even though it is in the US) because it
specialises in a lot of thrillers films like ‘’The Cat o’ Nine Tails, The
Walking Dead ’’ etc. They also markets and sells feature
films, series, television specials and short films to consumers worldwide.
This would help our film to be published all over the world and enable
other audiences to see our film too. Also, because it is in America, we
can get more publicity with our film. I could also get Weinstein company
(in America) to distribute my movie as they market the most popular
films such as ‘Iron Lady. This would enable my film to be marketed
around the world and hopefully be successful. The Weinstein is an
American film studio created by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005 after
the brothers left the then-Disney-owned Miramax Films, which they had
co-founded in 1979. Weinstein is popular for distributing award winning
movies like ‘The Iron Lady and The Artist’.
3. In the UK, the ‘Film
distribution’ http://www.launchingfilms.co
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could distribute my film as it is in the UK and
specialises in UK movie.
4. Filmdistribution is a British distributor of
independent films in the UK and Ireland for
various production companies; it is owned by
Nigel Green who started the company in
1978. Their first big success was the
successful horror Terror (1978) made by cult
filmmaker Norman J. Warren.
5. Film four could also distribute my film as it based in
the UK and has done well known films such as 127
hours and Slumdog Millionaire. This could help my
film to be well known in the UK and get good
publicity. Film4 Productions is a British film
production company owned by Channel Four
Television Corporation. The company has been
responsible for backing a large number of films made
in the United Kingdom. The company’s first
production was Walter, directed by Stephen
Frears, which was released in 1982.
We could also use our blog to advertise our media
and allow people to send a link to another person.
The blog is free to run, which means it is a very
efficient way to promote our media.
6. As our film genre is a psychological thriller, we found out that
many psychological thrillers were targeted towards people aged
18+ due to the explicit scenes. However we decided to target our
film towards a slightly younger age of 16+. The reason why our
group decided to stick with 16+ was because we researched other
successful psychological thrillers such as ‘Final Destination’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD_MAz96L70
7. and ‘Disturbing
Behaviour’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9zfBcp6AxA
and realised that it attracted interesting
commentary from the teenage society as young
as 16. Furthermore, these films did not include
any real explicit conduct in the film, it was
largely based on violence, deception, betrayal
etc. Also we aimed to attract an audience of
16+ because we wanted males and female of
our age to enjoy our film. 4