Sunday, 17 February 2013

Question 3: What Kind Of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product And Why?


For our production company name we chose RawCut Productions.


We chose this company name as it is very unique and has a hard impact. The visual and the sound of the paper ripping is very distinctive and nothing else sounds alike it; this will allow people to instantly pick up and recognise our production company.

There are many distribution and production companies in the world that acquire many films  each year and create individual release plans for them. Production is the first stage and involves creating a high quality film from a certain narrative that will gain lots of interest and be popular to film watching audiences. Distribution involves acquiring a film from the producers and trying to make it reach the widest audience possible by selling it to cinemas, a film needs to make about 2.5 times what it costs to make so that it doesn't loose money. Film distributors will control:


  • ·         Promoting films (trailers, billboards, posters)
  • ·         Getting them into cinemas
  • ·         Getting them onto DVD
  • ·         Related products (merchandise, clothing )
Getting interest from film distributors is important as the larger film distributors you get interested the better they will promote and sell your film as they will have a lot of experience at getting films to the top of the film charts.


The movie institution most likely to distribuit our thriller movie in our opinion is Paramount Pictures as it has distributed thrillers such as ‘Transformers’ and ‘The Godfather’. Paramount pictures started distributing in 1910 so has a lot of experience with distributing films of many genres. Being one of Americas oldest media institutions and based in Hollywood it will have many connections and is definitely one of the bestly known film distributors  Being such a large distribution company they have a very large income so would be able to fund new upcoming films even films that might not make as much money as larger title films. 

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