Evaluation Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute

your media product and why? 

The production company that you chose would be the ones responsible for raising the money to create the film and also fund your film (or may have connections with a larger company who could fund the film) A Production company is the company who makes the physical production of a film.. Our film, Dead Mans Alley has been made by myself and my group; 2012 Productions - our own production company. If we were to distribute our film, we would need to create a link with a distribution company who are for releasing films to the public.

Our media product, Dead Mans Alley is a Independent British Film, it would be distributed by a small distribution company like Big Talk productions, who have distributed British films such as 'Attack The Block' and 'Paul' (known for their black comedy), this would be the perfect distributor for our film due to having contacts in the film industry based in London, United Kingdom. And it would also benefit us as the films Big Talk have produced in the past have been similar to what our film is and aimed at the same audience usually associated with the films they produce.

Other ways that we could distribute our film is buy film festivals, an example of a film festival that could be used is Zero Film Festival. Zero Film Festival is the first and only festival exclusive to self-financed film-makers, this would be good due to the fact that our film has no budget and not known actors. A large distribution company would be Paramount, however paramount is a large budget production and distribution company with a lot of links with large cinema groups, distributing on DVD and TV on demand. Smaller distributors cannot afford the same things that the bigger distributors have to offer hence the reason they do not have links and are unable to return the huge cash return upon a distribution of a film, this is why they have smaller budgets. Paramount distribute films such as 'along came a spider' and 'van helsing', they would be unsuitable to distribute my film due to the fact as stated before that there is no budget and also not known actors/actresses.

New ways in which films are being distributed are through a wider range of Media more popular and associated in the modern day, such as on websites when browsing the internet there will be advertisements in the corners or on the top of websites promoting new films out, or when updating your iPod on the iTunes store there will be a list of the new films out available to watch or download, as well as the option of being able to order films that are in cinemas now to watch from the comfort of your own home just by ordering them off of your home broadband e.g Sky Box Office, Virgin Media etc