What Kind of Media Institution Might Distribute Our Media Product and Why?

By Ella Lane

What does a Distributor Do?

• A film distributed acts as a final agent between a film production company and a film exhibitor, often securing placement of the producers film on the exhibitors screen.

• It is either an individual company, a subsidiary company or an individual who distributes the media.

• The distributed secures a written contract• The contract states the total ticket sales to be paid to the

distributer• The distributer is responsible for the promotion and

advertising resources of the film and are also in charge of subtitling if it is a foreign film to ensure it is appropriate for viewers all around the world.

Verve Pictures

• We have decided to go for the film distributor Verve Pictures because we are independent film makers and that are working on a low budget and that means we are limited to our options of distributers. Verve pictures are a successful UK film distribution company that have a proven track record in 1st time film making having over 75% of their films being from 1st time makers.

• One of their success stories was Bullet Boy which made £450,000.

Bullet Boy • Insert Picture• Bullet Boy was a low budget independent film based around

gang culture in inner city London, Hackney where the film was set and local people contributed to the film.

• Giving that our film included reference to gang culture and will work on a low budget involving local people we thought it would be ideal to work with Verve Pictures as they have experience with this type of film and is proven to be successful.

• Verve Pictures advertised Bullet Boy in daily and national newspapers, tabloids and radio stations.

• We feel Verve Pictures will be a good company to use as it has a good track record with low budget independent films.

How Have We Shown This In Our Film?

• Insert Indent• We have shown that Verve Pictures have

Distributed our film product by using their logo at the start of our opening sequence. We wanted to present to the audience straight away what film distribution company we worked with at which is why we put it at the beginning and then we could carry on with the opening sequence.