Thriller - Evaluation Question 3

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

 

The media institution that would probably distribute my product in its full length version would probabaly be the UK Film Council, who have distributed short films like Bulletproof (Aubrey Reynolds, 2006) as well as British made films like Into the Woods (Matt Taabu, 2008), a thriller set in the woods where a family of three encounter a stranger, which was filmed in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England in the UK. This would seem like a good distributor to use to distribute my product as it is a British institution and would therefore be more sensible to use rather than going for an American institution which would probably be more interested in higher budget films with a larger cast and a more high profile cast.

 

 

I also think that a good distributor to use for my thriller would be Film4, as they are also a British distributor, distributing films like Everyday (Michael Winterbottom, 2012), a thriller about a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife being shot, and it shows the course of five years, a few weeks shown at a time. These themes are similar to the themes that are used in my thriller as themes such as violence and crime are involved, as well as being filmed within Britain.

 

These distributors may distribute my product as they are smaller, British distributors who would probably be interested in it as they do distribute smaller films and they have distributed films with my themes and they have distributed thrillers in the past. I think they would be the good choice to use for distribution.