Evaluation task 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media project?

What kind of media institution might distribute your media project?

Our opening title sequence consisted of a tense scene of a middle aged man surrounded by traps moving towards a door where his possible enemy was trying to attack him. The film has aspects of mystery and thrilling violence, the film has a various amount of media institutions the film could fit in with and could work with a medium sized budget. In terms of distribution the film is fairly universal meaning it could potentially be distributed to a wide audience across the world into different formats including theatrical, DVD and online services such as Itunes.

In terms of production films similar to our concept include 28 days later and I am legend, the companies that produced these films were DNA films and Warner Bros Pictures, however Warner Bros pictures is a company that specialize in high concept and high budget films for example on of their films (The Dark Knight Rises) had a production budget of $250 million, and even though our film could potentially work with having high concept features such as effects and actors, we think that it will work more effectively as a more medium sized budget and concept, still having features that will create a more effective film such as effects and fairly know actors.

 So we had a look into DNA films who were responsible for making 28 days later film, we saw they were capable of making film similar to ours such as Sunshine and Dredd with medium concept ideas and features, exactly what we wanted.

We did further research into the company and found out they specialize in medium to fairly high budget films aiming around 5 to 50 million dollars, we thought that somewhere in between this budget would be a perfect budget for our thriller, allowing us to add many aspects that would make it a hit, such as well known actors and better effects. Also they are clearly used to producing films about the end of the world with films such as Sunshine so choosing this production company will be productive and worthwhile.

In terms of distributions we have done some research and found a distribution company under the name of revolver entertainment which is capable of distributing films onto many formats in different areas of the world including the UK and the US. Revolver will be able to provide theatrical distribution across a wide range of cinemas across both the UK and US. Also they are able to publish the film onto different formats such as DVD and blu-ray making the film a wider release. I think this company will be a perfect match for our project as its not an independent film that only a small audience would watch, so we could project the film and appeal to a larger audience worldwide.