Question 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation question

Production

Film4 is a Channel 4 Television’s feature film division. Film4 develops and co-finances films and is known for working with the most distinctive and innovative talent in the UK, whether new or established. As our film is new and the opening is slightly different and abstract what an audience would normally anticipate watching we thought Film4 would be a good production company to have to support the film.

Other films produced by film 4 ‘Room’ with the budget of $13 million

‘Ex_Machina’ with the budget of $15 million and ‘12 years a slave’
with a budget of $20 million.

 

With the research the group carried out we estimated our budget to be $20 million. We looked at slightly lower budget films such as 'The Purge', 'The King's Speech' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' as well as the much higher budget films such as ‘American sniper’, ‘Superman’ and ‘inception’. We opted to have the budget at $20 million which is similar to the making of the 'The Conjuring’.

Distribution

Paramount

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor, consistently ranked as one of the "Big Six" film studios of Hollywood. It is a subsidiary of U.S. media conglomerate Viacom. Paramount is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America.

‘Transformers age of extinction’ $165-350 million, ‘Iron man 3’

$200 million and ‘Pain & Gain’ $26 million. Paramount often
Distributes American films with budgets starting from $20million
to $400+ million.

Exhibition

A film screening is the displaying of a motion picture or film, generally referring to a special showing as part of a film's production and release cycle. We estimated to show our film on 400 screens.

To target the British market we decided to make a competition to win a trip to the Cannes film festival and have dinner with the cast. For the International marketing we decided to make contrasting billboards around the imitate the split screen effect.

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