Evaluation question 3

 

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

Due to the controversy of our key themes and the issues it represents as many people are against drugs won’t want to watch it as they believe it is wrong and that drug use should not be shown on TV or in films as teenagers often idolise characters and copy what they do just to be like them. So I think that we would have a great deal of trouble in finding a mainstream distributor to release our film, another reason for this could be our niche audience. Therefore an independent distributor would be more suitable and beneficial for us.

A good distributor for us would be ‘Metrodome Distribution Group’ this is based on the fact that they are open to the controversial issue in our film and genre.

I know this as from my research we discovered that they were the distributor for the film “Shifty”. “Shifty” was heavily based on the issue of drugs and the effects it has on the users lives and the lives of those close to them – this is pretty much similar to what we have tried to do in our film. Also this group were the distributor for the thriller “The Bride Of Chucky” which is based on psychological torture, murder, violence and horror. This films genre also matches the genre of our film as we have violence, death and both mental and psychological torture in the minds of two of our main characters Lola and Beth.

 

Also Miramax would have been a good potential distributor for us before they joined with Disney.  Disney bought Miramax in 1993 however the operators continued to run the company until they left in 2005. The films they distributed before 2005 were mainly thrillers and independent however you can see a few fairy-tale films such as Ella Enchanted (2004) which were clearly influenced by Disney. However after 2005 the Disney take over is clearly apparent as much tamer films such as Bananas in Pyjamas: The Movie (2008) and The Queen (2006) mainly been documentary films and fantasy. Miramax is also a large mainstream American company whereas our film is mainly aimed at a British audience and we have nationality issue of American teenagers and British teenagers being very different so a British distributor would be much more appropriate, also with them being such a large well-known company they may make changes to our film to suit their usual target audience meaning we would risk changes in the budget, settings and storyline of our film.  Therefore I don’t think that we could use Miramax as a distributor since the full Disney merge.

To conclude I think that ‘Metrodome Distribution Group’ is the most ideal possible distributor for our film. Due to the small budget which  means our film will more than likely not be affected or changed by them and they are more than capable of the job as they are experienced in dealing with the ideas, genre, market and conventions of our film.