Evaluation 3 Vertigo Films

I believe that Vertigo Films is a company which would distribute my media product mainly because they do low budget films and it is also a British film company. Vertigo Films is a British film production and film distribution company based in London.

What a Distributor does.

The film distributor can play a huge factor in a film's success.Distributors control the marketing and circulation of movies in theatre's and also home viewing. Distributors decide how much the film should be advertised (TV commercials, internet, magazine, posters, trailers, special promos, etc.) - this is crucial for the film because it gets the word out there and gets people interested in it. The distributor usually arranges industry screenings for exhibitors, and uses other marketing techniques that will make the exhibitor believe they will profit financially by showing the film.

Film distributors are more important for small, independent films because they are less known and usually don’t contain the big name stars that studio pictures do therefore it is crucial for the word to get out on them. This is why film festivals like Sundance are so important because that is where these films are bought by distributors.

Vertigo Films is the leading British Independent film production and distribution company Since being founded in 2002 by producer Allan Niblo and James Richardson, the company has produced 24 films and distributed a further 30. Vertigo's joint CEO's are also Rupert Preston and Nick Love. Vertigo has had a film in the top five most successful British Independent films of the year: in 2010 StreetDance 3D was number one and in 2011, Horrid Henry the Movie was fourth. Vertigo's initial production and distribution focus was on the previously untapped 'lads' market and its first film, The Football Factory, became one of the most successful British Independent films when it was released on DVD in 2004.

Monsters

Monsters was directed by Gareth Edwards and produced by James Richardson and Allan Niblo. Monsters is a good example to use as it is a blow budget film and it relates really well to my opening sequence. It was distributed by vertigo Films, Also the actors used in Monsters are not well known actors they are ordinary people and a couple. This relates well to my opening sequence because they are also ordinary people used who can relate to the audience and audience are able to relate to them. It is setting in a natural place there is nothing fancy. There fore I think that Vertigo Films would distribute my opening sequence.

Evaluation 4&5 Target AudienceMy opening sequence is mainly aimed at people around the age of 15-23 male or female, this is due to the character in film which is young, and has typical teenage problems and arguments with her boyfriend, therefore this age group would be able to relate to that character really well and feel any sympathy for her death and know what she is going through. This opening sequence is also to open peoples eyes about being out late at night on their own in unknown place.The characters I used are them self around the age of 16 reason for using this age group is because the audience can relate to their own age group. A male and female were used because this shows the audience what females and males go through so not only women would be able to relate to the female but so will the males, as males and females come in contact a lot at this particular age group.

My target audience

Classification 15

Reason main reason or my opening sequence being a 15 is because it contains a lot of strong violence, may contain use of weapons later on in the film. Also there may also be scenes of sexual nudity and sexual references which wouldn’t be acceptable for any under 15 year olds. Therefore I decided to best stick to a 15 as it’s a little to violent sexual, and has discriminatory behaviour further on in the film.The other reason is because the plots of film mainly relates to this age group and are able to have a better understanding of the film and relate to it a lot better than another age group would.

my opening sequence is a 15 rating classification, because it includes: • strong violence• frequent strong language (eg ‘f***’).• portrayals of sexual activity• strong verbal references to sex• sexual nudity• brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual

violence• discriminatory language or behaviour• drug taking

Audience FeedbackAfter I finished my opening sequence I shows it to a few people who are 15 -18 to get some feedback about what they think works well in the opening sequence.• Seannon Chambers 16: I really like the pacing of the girl walking through the woods it adds a lot of mystery and

seems like her heart may be racing.• Natalia Smith 15: I really like the setting of the film because it’s outside and you don’t know what will happen

because anything could happen it really adds a lot of suspense to the film.• Kyle Pitchman 17: When the girl all of a sudden stops works well but I think there could have been a more

dramatic and longer pause for me to engage a bit more, but when the guy appears behind and disappears is quiet mysterious.

• Adam Moorhouse 18: I really loved the ending because it was all of a sudden and made me jump quiet a bit, because I wasn’t expecting it I knew something would happen but I didn’t know what, I think that worked really well because i didn’t give to much away. It also left me hanging because I wanted to know what happened to the Girl!.

This feedback was very helpful because it showed me what worked well and what didn’t but the majority of the feedback was good, it shows me that I’ve given the right symbols of it being a thriller. The audience was feedback was b=very useful because I was able to improve it and make it more enjoyable for them to meet their expectations therefore it took on kyles idea and made the pause slightly longer.

Would you watch till the end? identifying the genre