Evaluation; Question 3

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

Our thriller 'Corruption' is a very stylised film noir inspired film targeted at a niche market. The opening of our thriller is slow and builds up tension very gradually through the use of music, lighting and camera angles/shot types. The costumes and mise en scene are quite traditional of an old school noir detective and a glamorous  sophisticated damsel in distress. The film is more aimed fairly middle aged, upper class people. These qualities make our thriller not mainstream, therefore companies such as Universal would be very unlikely to distribute our films as it is not their scene, they have distributed well known, award winning, money making extravaganzas such as Les Mis, The Bourne Legacy and Fast and Furious. 

Pathe however, is a UK based distribution company that has distributed similair style films. Non mainstream fairly slow films with noir style costumes and lighting such as The Black Dahlia which has some similar qualities to our film 'Corruption'. For example, the passive, helpless damsel in distress victim, with some underlying corruption and plot twists, all in a very old school, film noir style. 

Studio Canal is another UK base distribution company. They specialise in low budget, non mainstream, independent films such as Broken City, The Double and Under the Skin.

They also have a deal with love film that means there movies are promoted via Love Film. This would be suitable for our film 'Corruption' a low budget, non mainstream, independent film!  

The link with love film is a critical one. Modern times see's the increase of people watching films on demands from home via websites such as love film and net flix, this is mainly because it's cheap, quick and convenient. The amounts of people purchasing DVD's and visiting the cinema is decreasing rapidly over time. For this reason, my film being promoted on love film will make it recognisable amongst the public and more likely to be watched.

However, the vast proportion of cinema goers these days are the older generation. Our Thriller 'Corruption' will appeal to these types of people and will bring them into the cinema to enjoy the movie. For this reason our film should be played at Cinema City as my target audience is much more likely to attend here than other cinemas such as Vue or Odeon.