Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Task 3: What kind of media Institution might distribute your media product and why?

Miramax Films is an art-house/independent film production company that both produced and distributed films. Disney owns Miramax and this allows them access to better production and distribution facilities that would enable my film to have a better chance of success.
Miramax produces many thrillers such as ‘Gone baby gone’ and ‘Hollywoodland’ which have similar concepts to our film so perhaps Miramax would wish to make our film. Miramax also produced a film called ‘Happy-go-Lucky’ which is classed as a comedy-drama but there was a hint of thriller in part of the film when she gets stalked by her driving instructor which we took into consideration when choosing this company.
Our film in summary is about unlicensed taxi drivers picking up venerable woman who are taken to be sold on in the sex slavery trade. Our film focuses less on the actual gruesome nature of the abuse and more on the mystery being solved by detectives. This is perfectly encapsulated by ‘Gone Baby gone’ and ‘Hollywoodland’. We think that Miramax would be a good company to create this film because they produce similar films with plot stories such as kidnapping, murder and crime.
Our film would fit in with the ethos of this institution because they produce some low budget films also by first time directors, such as ‘Gone baby Gone’ which was directed by a first time producer-Ben Affleck and was a relatively low budget film.
Seeing as low budget films don’t have a reputation of receiving a lot of marketing to promote a film which isn’t very popular Miramax would probably market and make money out of our film by DVD sales.
Miramax don’t necessarily specialize in a particular genre of film seeing as they range from films such as ‘Kill Bill’ and ‘Hostage’ which are both considered as thrillers.
Seeing as Miramax produce a range of genre of films they would target particular audiences according to the genre. If they were to produce our film I would say they would choose a target audience of around 15-30 year olds.

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