JR 6245: Evaluation Question 3

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

Our media product, film opening, is low-budget, uses off-the-shelf products and a skeleton crew which makes it cheap to make but of a worse quality than a higher budget film. With these aspects in mind it would be most fitting to be produced and distributed by Independent Film Companies. It would also be fitting to be distributed by a company that has specialised or previously dirtibuted films of the same genre that have been successful, in our case the Horror genre.

A fairly approriate production company would be Working Title Films as they are an Independent Film Company and though it has not made many horror films it has had experience in producing several in the past such as My Little Eye (2002) and Long Time Dead (2002).

Long Time Dead (2002)

My Little Eye (2002)



However, a successful distribution company that has had experience in distributing Horror films and low-budget films, also British films would be The Weinstein Company who have had succes in distributing Halloween 2 (2009) and Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009). Halloween 2 is of the same genre of our film opening and conveys similar generic techniques, although Lesbian Vampire Killers is a Horror Comedy it also involves similar Horror techniques through camera work and editing to create tension much like ours. 

Halloween 2 (2009)

Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009)

These two films, distributed from The Weinstein Company, represent our film opening in many ways and reinforce relevent generic features that are relevent to the Horror genre aimed at a target audience of 16-25 year olds. Features from these films such as how successful the films were regarding their generic purposes in creating tension and danger, by using a fast cutting rate and using a fitting soundtrack the audience is thrilled with the build up of suspense in enigma. Also, the nationality of our product is represented in 'Vampire Killers' which is important to us as even though it is British made it can still be distributed by a successful American company.

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