Main Post 12.3 Question 3

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

Looking back at the films that influenced our production of the opening sequence, films such as ‘Easy A’, ‘Diary Of A Wimpy Kid’, ‘Catch Me If You Can’ and ‘Wild Child’ all of them successful big budget films made in and produces by large, well known production companies.

The role of the production company is not only to raise funding of a film, but to produce the film. Film production is everything from the initial idea of the film, shooting and then editing the film. With this in mind, we are aware that our film would not be produced by a production company such as Paramount; primarily because it is such large company so select the films that they make carefully. A production company such as Working Title also has an expectation to uphold, something that a film like ours is a risk in creating due to the story line. However, with this all in mind, I think that they might produce it as it is a popular genre and from our feedback, was a success in terms of creating the dramatic genre and our focus groups seemed very pleased with the outcome; as previously mentioned though because of the story line and themes in it there is a limited audience for this kind of drama. Having thought about all the options I think that a smaller production company would be more suitable for our film.  A small production company would still allow the film to be a success, but would avoid it being a risk for more multinational instutions such as Working Title.