Evaluation Question 3

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your film?

With our film, we knew we were probably going to be aiming for a niche audience rather than mainstream. The content of our film was never going to be big enough to appeal to the wider audience as we did not have the budget or ability to incorporate any amazing CGI or practical effects that will be found in the majority of mainstream films to appeal to the audiences. Along with many other limits we had, we had to focus on producing an interesting, unique and compelling story that would attract a niche audience.

What Independent institutions would be the likely candidates for distributing our film. Likely candidates that we would chose are film 4 or an online distribution to secure the highest profit. Social media like Facebook and twitter through this we can reach a range of people in a very short amount of time and we would advertise the release of the film by creating our own website it would be cost effective easy to do in these modern day times. Our film could be compared to a field in England because they made as much profit as possible with making use of all sources of media available to them but because of our low budget this would be our only 2 formats we could offer. If film 4 were to distribute our film if it was successful, then later on film 4 could eventually distribute it into physical media. In the future this movie could have been so successful that the fan base around it wanted another one then we could make a sequel and possibly generate a series of crime movies connecting them all, or with the money we made make another film and because by this time our company would have a fan base we know we could make a profit out of it even if the next one we made may not be as good as the first. This all can eventually grow our production company and then turn away from independent films and make some mainstream ones, but if we have a niche audience it could prevent us from this success because when making and independent movie you don’t expect to make much of a profit.

Harvey Andrew