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

Evaluation Question 3

Production Company

• The production company for my thriller film is CANDI Studios. CANDI Studios is a very small independent company as it’s the production company of the college. Thus explaining that every film that was made by the students has the CANDI Studios logo.

Distribution Company

• The distribution company for my thriller film was Golden Gate Film Distribution. I made up the distribution company for the short film which means that if it were to exist it would be a small independent company.

Why are they a suitable distribution company for your film?

• Our film is small so the distribution company can be small as well as it wouldn't’t require a lot of money to distribute the film.

• If our initial plan were to go for a UK release, we would have to try and get a budget from companies such as the BBC, BFI, the Lottery or private investors which have budgets ranging from £40 million and as low as £1 million.

Continued• With the growing social media sites like Facebook and Twitter

and the amount of attention they get its just a very useful tool and its free.

• Other advertisement websites that big movies use are YouTube, newspapers and posters which cost a lot of money.

• Our initial idea was to launch our film locally as it fits well with our target audience but it could see a national release.

• CANDI Studios will give our film a cinematic release, DVD release and a online release on Vimeo.

• With a different culture to Hollywood, Britain rely on film festivals to find someone to help with their film distribution. Digital screening is cheaper as its available on DVD and cinema, there is also a TV release on Film 4, BBC and online in Netflix.

Hollywood Culture• I think that our movie will not be suitable for a Hollywood

release as firstly the budget that we would get would not cover an USA release. Secondly we don’t have the American values which are typically shows as a happy family and people practicing freedom of speech among other things.

• Another drawback is that if we wanted to go for a American release we would have to release the movie in 35mm format as well as digital.

• It’s a shame that we couldn’t have any cross media convergence or any conglomerates as well as pushing our our budget up, it will get us free advertisement on cinemas, news papers .