Evaluation Task 3 : What kind of media insitution might distribute your media product and why?

 05/02/15

Evaluation Task 3

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

In our thriller sequence groups we discussed and came to a conclusion that we would want our final film to based on a physiological thriller with a mid-budget to work with. We would have a British cast and film it in the UK, but decided in order to have a wider range audience over seas, it would be distributed with an American company. The distributor company in which we agreed would be a good distributor for our film is "Sony Pictures Classics" which is an "independent" film division of "Sony Pictures Entertainment". We decided on the this distributor for the following reasons:

• They have distributed films such as "Blue Jasmine" which links to our theme of psychological problems.
• This company have distributed and focused on thrillers before.
• Its a good distributor which focuses on the actors to dominate the films such as "Blue Jasmine".

  While researching into different film in which this company has done we noticed that they are all based on the actors playing the characters and the storyline rather than focusing on making the film into a high-budget distributed, tent pole movie which other American companies focus on. Recent films which they have budgeted have been "Blue Jasmine" with a high-budget of $18million and "Magic In the Moonlight" with a $16.8million budget. Looking into all of these we decided to base our budget similarly to the film "Black Swan" with a budget of $13million.






 We also analyzed how if our film had no budget then we could look into other possible ways which, staying as a low budget film, could include big name actors to attract the audience's attention to the film and be interested to go and see it. Also we discussed the possibility of including the film into an IMAX screening to give a variety of the viewings for the audience with 2D and 3D screenings but are aware that it may reduce the films serious and dark genre.




As well as "Sony Pictures Classics" as a possible distributor for our psychological thriller, another possibility of a good distributor for our film could be "Hammer Film Productions"which is an British film production company which mainly focuses on horrors and thrillers which would help to add to our dark element of our genre in our film. During their most successful years, this distribution company worked in partnership with the major United States studios, such as Warner Bros which could be a advantage due to their huge budgets in their films. This distributor would benefit us because:

• Running alongside their productions of horror films, Hammer also focus on producing low-budget psychological thrillers.
• They focus on adding dark tension to the genre's of their films and building tension.

                                                       
                                                        

Researching into different films distributed by these companies i noticed how they are very good in focusing on the building up of tension in the dark genres. An example of this is the 1965 British suspense film "The Nanny" where not being a horror movie, the tension and suspense in this film has been created to keep the audience intrigued to the actions on the screen which is what we are aiming for with our psychological thriller.