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

Possible distributor companies to consider with an example of one of their films.

• Momentum

- Main films include: Tamara Drew, The Kings Speech, The Fighter, Limitless, Chalet Girl, Insidious, Dear John, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Skyline, The Rebound, The Young Victoria, Milk, Let the Right One In, Amelie, P.S. I Love You, Men Who Stare at Goats, Defiance.


- Momentum seems to be the favourite at the moment because of the range of different thrillers it has within its list of films.

• Studio Canal

- Main films include: Bridget Jones's Diary, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, W.E, The Awakening, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Bel Ami, Carnage, Mirror Mirror, Brighton Rock, Unknown, The Burma Conspiracy, Kill List.


- Studio Canal would be one of our main choices in distribution company because a majority of films they produce are thrillers or have thriller sub themes in them.

• Artificial Eye

- Main films include: Melancholia, A Separation, The Big Picture, The Hunter, Eros, Russian Ark, The Edge of Heaven, Offside, The Trial of Joan of Arc, The Tales of the Four Seasons, Zidane, Tales of the Four Seasons, Life is a Bed of Roses.


- Artificial Eye is not one of our main choices, this because it is an indie film company, only showing the films in selected cinemas and to very specific audiences whereas our film is more directed at the mainstream cinema chains like Empire, Vue and Odean. We feel like our film would be aimed at a bigger audience.

• Walt Disney Pictures

- Main films include: Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Tron, Peter Pan, Tangled, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Herbie, Tarzan, The Little Mermaid, Pirates of the Caribbean, Aladdin, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pocahontas, Toy Story, Iron Man, The Muppets, Sleeping Beauty, Up, Hannah Montana: The Movie, WALL-E, Finding Nemo, Hercules, A Bug's Life, Mulan, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Bedtime Stories, High School Musical. 


- Walt Disney Pictures is more a family based company whose films would appeal to a huge range of people whether they are lower class or upper class, or 3 years old or 93 years old. Our film is directed at a far smaller range of people, for example, the certificate for our film would be a 15, so it would not  appeal to anyone younger and would not be likely to appeal to anyone above the age of 50. Our specific target audience is from 16-30.

• Lionsgate

- Main films include: Saw Series, Disaster Movie, Bratz: The Movie, Killers, Kick-Ass, The Expendables,  Dirty Dancing, Rambo, American Psycho, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Abduction, The Hunger Games, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Safe, Good Luck Chuck, Why Did I Get Married?. 


- Lionsgate is more based around quite risky films to release mainly in the horror genre. Our film is not risky to release because it is a stereotypical thriller film that most companies would release.

• Summit Entertainment

- Main films include: The Twilight Saga, Man on a Ledge, Remember Me, Knowing, Sorority Row, Step Up, American Pie, Insomnia. 


- Summit Entertainment we decided were not right for our film simply because it just didn't fit with our film and, again, was slightly too mainstream.

• Warner Bros. 

- Main films include: 42nd Street, Harry Potter series, Sherlock Holmes, Final Desination, The Hangover, Inception, The Blind Side, Sex and the City, Orphan, Star Wars, I am Legend, P.S. I Love You, The Departed, 300, V For Vendetta, Corpse Bride, The Phantom of the Opera, The Excorsist, The Polar Express, Terminator, Scooby-Doo, Bait, Batman.


- Warner Bros. was one of our original choices because of its range of films and some films similar to ours. However, we decided Warner Bros. would be too big to get our film into straight away as it really only produces films with big stars in the cast and crew.

• Entertainment One

- Main films include: The Grey, The Twilight Saga, 50/50, An Education, Mirrors, The Runaways, The Howling, Alice in Wonderland, Closer to the Edge.


- Entertainment One, like Artifical Eye, was slightly too indie for our film and didn't have the advertising our film needed.

• 20th Century Fox

- Main films include: Titanic, Water For Elephants, Knight and Day, The A-Team, Avatar, X-Men, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Jennifers Body, Deception, Shutter, Walk the Line, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, I, Robot, Moulin Rouge, The X-Files, Romeo + Juliet, Independence Day, The Crucible, Mrs Doubtfire, The Vanishing.


- 20th Century Fox, like Warner Bros., was too mainstream and too bigger company for our film and would not fit our film just yet.

• Dreamworks/Paramount

- Main films include: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Uninvited, Paranormal Activity, Lovely Bones, Disturbia, Shrek, War of the Worlds, The Island, The Ring, What Lies Beneath, Saving Private Ryan.


- Dreamworks/Paramount was our second choice for distribution company. It has a good range of films especially in the thriller genre giving us a range of other films to have alongside ours as inspiration. However, we felt the company was ever so slightly too mainstream for our film.







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OUR FILM:
We have decided as a group to use Momentum Pictures for our video production distribution company. We have used Momentum because a lot of the genre's and storylines of other films they have distributed matches with our video production, also Momentum's main films relate to the thriller genre and has distributed some well-known films today. 

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