Evaluation: Question 3

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

The production company used for our thriller film was CANDI STUDIOS. It is a local film production company who sponsor low budget film mades by budding young film makers.

The distribution company used for our thriller film was HAMMER FILM. Hammer is a London based production subsidiary of Exclusive Media and a legendary British film brand.

Our film is a local British release for mainly the uk audience. In order to get major funding for our film, we would have to go to many film festivals such as Cannes film festival, to network with film companies who would be interested in our little film.




As a local british film, we would have cheaper production values. Special effects wouldn't be as lavish as those of hollywood films but would still suit its purposes. 


I think hammer film would be best suited to distributing our film since it is already london based and has produced/distributed many successful thriller/horror films in the past such as; The Abominable Snowman (1957), The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) and Dracula (1958). More recently Hammer Film has produced/distributed The Woman in Black which stars Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe. We could use this to our favour. As The Woman in Black gets bigger and more press, we could use this as a chance to advertise our film as well. With The Woman in black showing trailers literally everywhere, we could have a really quick 20 second trailer of our film straight after it. 

As well as advertising through The Woman in Black, we could advertise online using major social networking sites. Since Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr  and Youtube have become very popular over the last few years, we could pay a small few to advertise on these sites. 


After advertising, we would like our thriller film to be shown in local cinemas like, picture house, Cineworld and Vue. The most successful way to showcase our thriller film to our target audience would be to pay to show it The Screen on the Green. This cinema allows your to copy your film onto a dvd and pay to have a screening there. This way, through advertising we could let our target audience know about our film screening and then hopefully they come to watch it. If that is successful and the feedback is positive then we would be more confident to reaching out to bigger and better companies.