Thursday, 24 March 2016

Evaluation Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?


What is a distributer
Film distribution is the process of making a film which will be available to view by an audience, examples of well known distributers are Twentieth Century Fox and Optimum Releasing. There are six major distributors which are linked and involved with the hollywood studios. There are also a lot of  independent distributers which usually distribute small films made by indie companies

Type of Distributors:


Universal

Paramount Pictures

20th Century Fox

Sony Pictures

Disney Pictures

Warner Bros

What role does a distributer play
In simple terms a distributer sends off your film so that it can be watched in various places all over the world. They are involved and take charge of promoting the film and deciding where the film will be screened and when the screen will be released. The process of distribution requires a few steps. The first thing that distributers have to decide is how many copies of the film they think they will need to make. They then send off copies so that they can be watched by potential buyers for example cinemas. Once they have a list of cinemas which have agreed to show their film the distributers will send off the film to cinemas before the film is released. Once the cinema has shown the movie it will then be sent back to the distributors and then they will discuss a payment. For smaller budget films more steps are involved in the process. 

What genre is our film

Our film opening is a micro budget indie production. It is part of the action genre. Because the main focus of our film opening is a chase scene one film that we have taken huge inspiration from is Point Break (1991).  

How distributors market films
Trailers - all distribution companies will use a trailer to market their film, trailers are a very good marketing technique because they allow people to see a small section of the film and this can make viewers understand the film or gain interest. 




Websites - some distributors especially ones with big budgets will use websites as a way of marketing, websites will have extra information about this film and can often have interaction for the fans. Not every distributor will have a website for their film because its extra costs, this means you wouldn't find small indie films with websites.
An example of a film in our genre which uses a website: http://pointbreakmovie.com


Social Media
One way of marketing which can make our film more known is by using social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook. Every distributor will do this because promoting on social media is very cheap and in most cases free, it also means you can reach lots and lots of people in a very short space of time. This type of marketing will always be done by every distributor. This is an example of a twitter page from a film which is in our genre: 



Our production company basically had no budget for our film, we dint use any big well known actors which they was no money spent into paying an actor,we didnt use any special effects and the location which we used required no costs eg rent because it was all outside. Because of this it means a well known distributer for example 20th Century Fox or Warner Bros will have no interest in our film mainly because it doesnt fit into the style and category of being a big budget film. Big budget films would almost certainly require famous actors and a large amount of special effects.

Risk of not finding a distributor
If you dont find a distributor to distribute your film you can be left to distribute the film on your own which will be very difficult and in most cases unsuccessful. A few examples of self distribution are, the final member and crazy and theif. If self distribution doesnt work and we cant find a distributor then we would have to upload our production onto sites such as youtube and vimeo.

Because of what i just stated i think that our films production would be best suited for a low budget indie production company such as Warp films, Warp Films produced the film called 'Dead Mans Shoes' (2004) which had a small budget of £723,000 and went to box office, which avoided their film going straight to DVD and received a rating of 7.7. This company would be the best type to distribute our film because it can distribute cheaply on social network sites like Facebook and Twitter. Distributing cheaply like this would result in us being able to invest more money into creating a better film. Another way we could save money through distributions by downloading our film 'The Brief' onto hard drives which only costs £50 rather than if we put the film onto film reels which would cost £1000.

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