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

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

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What kind of media institution might distribute your product

and why?

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Institution Research

• I conducted some extra research into other film production/distribution companies to build upon the research previously conducted.

• This will help me to gain a better understanding of which company would best distribute our media product, which would be quite a low-budget film.

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Film4 Productions

• British film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation.

• Thriller/horror productions:– Trance (2013)– Donkey Punch (2009)– Hush (2008)– The Imposter (2012)– The Scouting Book for Boys (2009)

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Vertigo Films

• British film production and distribution company founded in 2002.

• Productions/distributions:– The Children (2008)– Shrooms (2007)– WΔZ (2007)– The Escapist (2008)– Pusher (2012)– Spring Breakers (2013)

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Warner Bros.

• One of the world’s leading entertainment companies.

• Thriller/horror productions and distributions:– Se7en (1995)– Sweeney Todd (2007)– Contagion (2011)– The Fugitive (1993)– Inception (2010)

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Hammer Films

• Film production company in the UK founded in 1934.

• Thriller/horror productions and distributions:– The Woman in Black (2012)– Let Me In (2010)– The Resident (2011)– Wake Wood (2011)

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Film4 Productions - I think that Film4 Productions could potentially distribute our media product, because they have produced a few successful thrillers before, but no psychological thrillers with a similar storyline to ours. Therefore, by distributing our product it would appeal to the audience of the previous films in the same genre. Additionally, they normally produce quite low-budget films, similar to ours.

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Vertigo Films – this company could potentially distribute our media product, due to the fact they have distributed a lot of low-budget films before. The company are well-known due to previously producing and distributing popular films, but as it is not an extremely large company, it means that our media product would be well publicised and it would attract the audience we are looking for.

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Hammer Films - I also think Hammer Films could be suitable for distributing our media product. This is because they have produced very successful thrillers and horrors, such as The Woman in Black, and by distributing a psychological thriller such as our piece, ‘Deceased Memory’; it may attract members of the audience from their previous memories. Also, not all of the films are extremely high-budget, so Hammer Films are a possibility.

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Warner Bros. - I do not think our media product could be distributed by a firm like Warner Bros., due to the large scale of the firm and the high-budget films they produce, which are not similar to our piece at all. Despite producing and distributing films that fall into the thriller genre, they are not low-budget films, which is what would be important due to the small size of our production.

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• I strongly feel that our media product would not be distributed by one of the 6 major American film production and distribution companies – 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal and Warner Bros.

• This is because their films are high-budget and unlike our piece due to our small scale production, and we would be targeting the British audience, so a production and distribution company in the UK producing low-budget films would be much more suitable for distributing our media product.

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• I feel that either Vertigo Films or Film4 would be best for the distribution of our film and might potentially distribute it.

• The reason for this is that they are both British film production and distribution companies, so they could effectively promote the film to target the audience, whilst remaining quite low-budget. The previous films distributed by the companies are similar as well, and if we were to pitch our ideas to these firms then I feel the original storyline would be appealing.