Evaluation - Question 3

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

This is the idents for our film, as you can see we have chosen our production company as Creative media, the distribution company is Revolver.

Creative Media:
This is an independent production company, which is inspired by Creativity Media who have produced many films which are well known in the UK such as Anvuahood, Fast girls and Sket. So we felt that Creative Media would be interested in similar types of films and since our film is set in the UK and is a similar comedy film to Anvuahood, we as a group thought that this would be the best production company to make and help produce our film. There are however many restrictions when chosing a independent company to produce your film, because it is independt it means the production company does not have huge financial backing like the bigger mainstream production companys this means our film had a low budget which lead to less acess to high quality equiptment, we had to use smaller cameras and werent able to have expensive equipment so instead we used what was avaliable to us. There was also reduced access to expensive post production because of the fact it is a small independent company. Unlike films who are produced by big mainstream companies we did not have the ability to cast big famous celebrities to be part of our film so we had a very unknown cast and a very small crew. However having an independent company to produce our film does not mean that it is a bad thing, it means you are able to have artistic freedom to do just about anything with your film and take it in any direction you like, there doesn't have to be a happy ending in order to appeal to the mainstream audience as there is no big conglomerates to try and change your ideas.

Revolver:
This is an independent distribution company that we have chosen to distribute our film. This company is like our production company it is independent, this too me means that the distribution of our film will be limited it will not be worldwide like most mainstream films however it will have a small release in the UK, due to the low budget of a independent distribution company this means that the advertising for the film will be kept to a minimum there will be no cross-media convergence or merchandise for our film. Like most independent films with independent distribution we will have to rely on social media sites such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to help us promote our film as well as word of mouth.