Wednesday, 6 May 2009

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

Our opening sequence is a London based film, so naturally British film institutions such as BBC Films would be a suitable distributor for our film. Popular films may be distributed abroad, however this type of film distribution is not really suitable for our media product. BBC Films are known for distributing many films, but one we found was similar to our product: 'Bullet Boy'. The mise-en-scene used made it adaptable for the audience, along with keeping all the typical conventions of the crime genre. When researching, we found Vertigo Films would also be a good distributor of our film, having distributed popular crime-based films such as 'Lock Stock' and 'Two Smoking Barrels' which is what our film tries to compare to. As both media institutions have distributed these type of crime genre films, I think they would be suitable candidates to distribute our film.
Depending on the type of film and its audience, certain films will be shown in specific cinemas. For example, our film is London-based, meaning it would be common for our media product to be distributed in the most obvious city: London, plus bigger and main cities in the UK. This is because our film has an urban feel interlinked with the crime genre we originally chose to go with.

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