Thursday 4 February 2016

Evaluation-Media Institutions

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

The development of technologies and the increase in social media users would aid the distribution of our thriller opening, as websites such as Netflix, Love Film, and YouTube etc. would allow us to broadcast our product to a wider audience. Also social media's such as twitter and Facebook would allow us to advertise and share 'Hidden', again, creating a wider pool of people for our product to reach. As a result in the increase of internet films being used over the original hard copies on DVD's, if we were to distribute our product, we would look more at advertising and distributing our product on the internet. 

Our thriller opening is a low budget production and has undiscovered actors, therefore our product would have a limited distribution as the standard isn't up to the quality of the more high end film productions. Optimum Releasing is a distribution company for low budget, British films. It has been involved with the distribution of films such as The Awakening (Nick Murphy, 2011) which is similiar to the type of film Emily and I created the opening to. This would be a good distribution company to approach as it distributes films similar to my thriller and my thriller meets the criteria required to be produced by Optimum Releasing.



A good way to broadcast our production is to enter competitions designed for the discovery of new or student film makers such as Emily and I. Other institutions that could aid the distribution of our product if we were to broadcast it would be schemes such as the British Film Institute who encourage and provide introductions to the film world for aspiring film producers such as myself and Emily. The American production company Quandary Productions could provide us with free promotion through social media, if we were to distribute our media product.