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

The type of media institution that would distribute our product would more than like be British production companies, this is because it is based in Britain and the locations it has been filmed in you can associate with Britain e.g. a local park. Also our budget is very low, we only spent money on key props e.g. the lily etc. The timing for our film was obviously very compact and nothing in terms of timing for a Hollywood blockbuster and our special effects are minimal unlike Hollywood where they have the money to have top of the range equipment and technology, whereas we have basic editing tools and we are not professionals so our skills are basic, unlike Hollywood’s where they have the money to hire trained professionals.

Remember me and Ps. I Love You are films in which, to a certain extent are similar to ours. Remember me’s main production company and distributor is Summit Entertainment. Ps I love you is produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

These distributors and production companies are very big and well know and if we’re realistic we know they wouldn’t distribute our media product. We did some extensive research into what kind of low budget independent British film companies would produce or distribute our products. An option we could consider is Film4 Productions, who are owned by channel 4. They produced a lot of films made in the UK and most of them being low budget, e.g. Trainspotting.

Working Title 2 is another low budget film company who produced films such as Billy Elliott and Shaun of the dead; these might also be interested in our media product. Our film could be marketed in magazines that women read, advertisements on the interment and trailers.

Places we could market such a film such as ours are places such as New Market Films. Its could be hard to raise awareness for our film with no existing popularity, so social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace could be used to gain popularity and post trailers and posters, this would help us to post links to sites where our film can be streamed for fee’s and memberships etc. It would be best to market our film on the European film market because going worldwide would be very difficult at such an early stage. Also a good place to advertise would be adverts in womans magazines, although this could prove to be pricey and as we don’t have high funding this may not be possible.