What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Inward investment in the film industry is where
a group of companies (in the film/media industry) help to invest their money
and maybe services to a film that is going to be made.
For example, The Lovely Bones is a fine example of the type of film we wanted to create, despite one major difference. It is directed by Peter Jackson and stars Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon, obviously we wouldn't have enough money to pay such well-known actors, which could be seen as a good thing as the unknown actors we used, had no typecast. The Lovely Bones is a film about a girl who is raped and killed, but returns as a ghost in order to make sure the man that killed her gets his comeuppance. When watching the film, you soon seem to forget the star actors and immerse yourself in the sensations of the movie, be them good or bad. As we wanted to create this effect with our movie, which we feel we have done, we believe Film4 would help distribute and maybe help produce our film.
The media product that we produced was an opening sequence to a horror film targeted at young adults and teenagers. After finishing our project, we then thought about how and who we could distribute our film to. As it is has unknown actors and location, and it was a low budget film, we would be unable to ask huge film companies such as Warner Bros or 20th Century Fox. Therefore, we were interested to ask companies such as Film4 as they would immediately be linked to producing on TV's which would expand the viewing of our film.
For example, The Lovely Bones is a fine example of the type of film we wanted to create, despite one major difference. It is directed by Peter Jackson and stars Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon, obviously we wouldn't have enough money to pay such well-known actors, which could be seen as a good thing as the unknown actors we used, had no typecast. The Lovely Bones is a film about a girl who is raped and killed, but returns as a ghost in order to make sure the man that killed her gets his comeuppance. When watching the film, you soon seem to forget the star actors and immerse yourself in the sensations of the movie, be them good or bad. As we wanted to create this effect with our movie, which we feel we have done, we believe Film4 would help distribute and maybe help produce our film.
The media product that we produced was an opening sequence to a horror film targeted at young adults and teenagers. After finishing our project, we then thought about how and who we could distribute our film to. As it is has unknown actors and location, and it was a low budget film, we would be unable to ask huge film companies such as Warner Bros or 20th Century Fox. Therefore, we were interested to ask companies such as Film4 as they would immediately be linked to producing on TV's which would expand the viewing of our film.
Film4:
Film4 is a television channel available in the UK, Republic of Ireland and Switzerland that is owned and operate by Channel Four Television Corporation that screens films. As well as Film4, the company has two 'spin-off' channels of Film4 +1 and Film4 HD which would also help with the distribution. We decided that we wanted Film4 to distribute our film as a number of horror films that have been distributed by this company have had low budget films and fairly unknown actors, yet have become the most successful films of all time.
For example, The Shining has similar conventions to our film, unknown actors and a small budget and was distributed by Film4 to encourage it becoming one of the greatest horror movies of all time. It is intimate and you almost forget the star actors are in the film, which is sort of the effect we wanted to create. A film where the story and characters seem more important than the actors, themselves. We therefore felt it was appropriate that this distributor would do justice to our film.
More recently, Paranormal Activity 4 has been distributed by Film4 which shows that a similar film has been successful through the film company whilst having unknown actors, setting and a small budget to work with. This encouraged us to choose Film4 as a distributor for our film.
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