Question 3

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


Due to our film being of low budget, we couldn’t aim to get attention from companies like film4 and blockbuster because it was just simply impossible they would distribute our film because of the quality aswell. Doing research, I found some alternative companies that are willing to distribute my media product but at a small fee of 50 pound. At sourcewire.com, they offer you permanent coverage of our film which would increase our recognition over the long run. Not just once or every now and then, the websites viewers could constantly see our work which would help a lot, this gives us a small recognition in the world of media, the website may not be well known but at least some viewings will be seen by people that are committed to reviewing independent films.
Another website i found in my research of distributing my media was dogwoof, this media institution is the leading UK film distributor for independent films and often gets a huge audience coming to the website. If these could distribute my work, it would be a huge boost to the viewings as it is quite a recognised distributor, but because it is still unlikely these institutions will produce any of our work, we could self advertise. For example putting my work on all of our facebooks and twitters would attract over an audience of 1000+, hopefully some people would enjoy our work and share it with their friends which will create a bigger audience, also because my target audience are on my facebook page, sharing it with them would be the perfect idea to get a review from some of them to maybe help me when im making a new film in nearby future. Getting a media institution to distribute my opening would draw attention to every aspect of our work in the film, for example. If a huge company liked the way it was hired, they could ask us to help them edit something, which gets us noticed the bigger world of media and not just the independent side. If a distributor decided to place our film in a cinema, it would be during a prime time for my target audience, so weekends. This would increase our gross which could help making our next film more professional due to the lack of funds we had this time.
Another way to distribute films and get wide notice if its successful is film festivals, Locally the BMI at waterloo often host film festivals, if I could get a place and show it to the more successful independent media crew, they could share my project giving it more recognition.