Evaluation Question 3

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

Our thriller is quite a mainstream film and was influence by other mainstream thrillers such as ‘House at the end of the Street’ and ‘Taken’ which are mainstream thrillers. It does have slight film noir aspect with the males playing chess gambling, over the life of a teenage girl, smoking and drinking in a dark room in smart suits which is part of the aesthetic and mise en scene of film noir. It could be considered for distribution by a conglomerate like Universal and 20^th Century Fox because it could attract a variety of audiences. I believe we have produced our film to be mainstream so we don’t limit our audience. 20^th Century fox distributed ‘Taken’ and films like ‘Jumper’ and ‘Taken 2’ which influenced our thriller film.

Our film would be most likely to be exhibited by a multiplex cinema such as Odeon or View because of the mainstream audience they attract. They exhibited the films that influenced our thriller such as; ‘Taken’, ‘House at the end of the Street’ and ‘Jumper’.

New technologies could offer new distribution opportunities for our thriller and attract a different range of audience. You tube and Social networking would allow adverts and pages that could be shared and seen by audiences that might not possibly see it otherwise.

 
Netflix is also a viable option because it targets people who possibly couldn’t get out to the cinema and it also shows thriller films which are similar to the thriller we filmed.

Being a film student may allow more opportunities for our thriller. This would be because we could enter it into film competitions such as student competitions and first time film competitions which could open doors for us as young producers and possibly open more distribution and exhibition doors for us.