Task 3 evaluation
A distributor represents and advertises films globally to sell them to television networks, airlines, and other companies seeking short films. The filmmakers' product would mostly appeal to UK audiences as the reporter introduces the story in English. Small British film distributors use their websites, social media, downloads, and recommendations to share films. Scream Productions would be interested as the film is a thriller genre. The filmmakers considered Rogue Pictures and 20th Century Fox but chose lower-budget TME Productions due to their experience with similar films. National lottery funding was sought as it supports lower budget films. A low budget film has little studio funding, inexperienced filmmakers, difficulties marketing, and lack of resources.
Task 3 evaluation
- 1. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
- 2. What is a distributor? A distributor is an idivdivdual or an organsiation who represents films at festivals or markets so basically advertises them , around the entire world. They then attempt to sell it on the telelvison, airlines and other companies that want short films.
- 3. Is your film going to appeal to the UK audiences only? Our film will mostly appeal to the UK audiences , so people that can speak and understand english can watch it , as in the title sequence and the opening and end the reporter is English. It is important for the audience to know what the news reporter is saying , as it introduces the story line straight away , and you wont really understand the film properly if you don’t watch the sequence as it explains it.
- 4. Small British film distributors distribute films through the use of : - Company websites - Social networking - Downloading - Personal recommendation - Youtube or any other video realted website
- 5. Scream productuions would be a production company that would be intrested in our final product as the company produces mainly thrillers and scary films. The genre of our film is defiantly something that Scream productions would defiantly be intrested in producing. We choose the name Scream productions as we felt that the name really fitted well with the genre of our film and maybe gives the idea off to the audience that the film could make you want to scream at some points.
- 6. When choosing our distribution company we thought we would either choose Rogue pictures or 20th Century Fox as they distributed the films Taken and the strangers , which our film idea is inspired from. In the end we did decide on using TME productions, as it was a much lower budget and they have a lot more experience on lower budget films.
- 7. How would our film be funded? We wanted our film to be national lottery funded as they normally fund lower budget films.
- 8. What’s a low budget film? A low budget film is a motion picture shot with little or no funding from a major film studio. Many independent films are made on low budgets, but films are made with inexperienced or unknown filmmakers who also have low budgets. The disadvantage of having a low budget film is that they are much harder to advertise and have a lack of marketability.