Evaluation Q3

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

• The distribution of a film depends mainly on the audience, genre, and production pitch of the film; an all-star blockbuster i.e.’ The Avengers’ received a worldwide release, and extensive funding from the production company ‘Paramount Pictures’ this film was then distributed and bidded on by distributer's, from around the world, who would  judge whether it is suitable to sell the film to large or local screenings, so in England it was shown in the ‘Vue, Odeon or Cineworld …’ as  blockbusters have always fitted the conventions for mass audiences, regularly achieving a higher gross in profits. (image on right from Google image search)                       

                                                                                                                                      

• In contrast to an independent film, that would have a low budget compared, to big blockbusters. A film like ‘Drive’ which was funded by a few small production companies such as ‘Bold Films', 'Odd Lot Entertainment', 'Marc Platt Productions…’ these types of films who are bought by small distributers are shown in small independent cinemas; some are even exhibited at exhibitions and artistic cinemas, film festivals, or the Independent Film Channel. Although theses films do not have a lot of profit gross, distributers look out for them, as these are the films which can tend to receive acclaimed academy awards, and would be good films to have in their résumé. (both images are from Google image search)                       

• This is something I thought about when producing my final product; which media institution would best suit my film. Automatically I thought the representative for my media product would be a small budget company with a niche audience.                                                                                         However looking back at my previous planning stages, films in my like ‘Almost Famous’ and ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ which I analysed in my case studies, discovered that they have a fairly large production, my film would best suit the production Co. ‘Columbia Pictures’ as they have made similar films to the one I would pitch to them.  The audience for this would be mass, as the music represented in my media product was and still is a popular form of media (music from the 60s & 70s); which has expanded worldwide and is something distributes would be interested in.    

• My media product does not include any scenes which are offensive, discriminative, and does not portray any strong religious views which would be inappropriate, in certain countries.  Distributors such as; ‘Columbia TriStar Egmont Film Distributors’ and ‘Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’, these distributers can sell the film to many screenings in many countries and can distribute for DVD release.