WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTIONS MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCTS AND WHY?

By Jake Cook

As our film would be a British low budget film it would be most likely be distributed by a independent film studio. The British film institute (BFI), BBC Films and film4 would be the most likely to distribute/Produce our film because these studios are also relatively small and are British based.

It would be very unlikely to be distributed by one of the big 6 due to us being too high risk because we are not an established company.

As a low budget film we would most likely to use a simultaneous release; Releasing our film on many different platforms at once (DVD, Cinema, Online..)

By doing this we would hope to gain attention to the film via word of mouth, This would make people more interested and as it is available on most platforms people would be more likely to buy it.

We would also use a plat formed release along with the simultaneous release. A plat formed release is only showing a film in a few theatres (Art house or independent cinema) increasing the amount of cinemas showing the film as the marketing campaign gains momentum.

In reality we are going to distribute our film with the use of social media. For example, our film has been released on Youtube and we have used Tumblr & twitter; to gain interest and feedback from the film.