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

There are 6 main film distributors across the world that dominate cinema viewings, due to their wealth and power. These 6 companies are called, as a group, The Big 6. As individual firms, they consist of 6 different companies, being:

• Paramount 
• Warner Brothers Studios
• Walt Disney 
• Twentieth Century Fox 
• Columbus
• Universal

These 6 firms specialise in distributing blockbuster and world release films that contain lots of talented A-list actors and actresses, talented film and editing crews so that they can generate a lot of money from viewings. The genre of the film also comes into account for The Big 6, as different genres are more or less likely to generate more money. For example, an action blockbuster movie is more likely to generate more money than a romantic arthouse movie as more people are likely to pay to see the action blockbuster movie. Its is possible that one of The Big 6 would distribute the thriller film that we made, as despite not having any A-list actors and/or actresses in it the genre is suited to generate more money from viewings as it is a thriller film. Therefore people are more likely to pay to see our thriller film as they want the thrill and experience that comes from watching a thriller film.

However, I believe that a Big 6 distributor firm would not be best suited for distributing our film due to the lack of popularity in renounce in the actors used in the film and the crew behind creating the film was not a world class crew meaning it is less likely to succeed as a blockbuster film, and the lack of a budget.
Therefore I think a studio such as Vertigo would be more suited towards distributing our film.  Vertigo is a small UK based distributor that outsources small films based in the UK that are produced on a lower budget. The film Outlaw was also distributed by Vertigo and it offers the same connotations of disorientation, enigma and somewhat corruption that our own thriller piece offers as well. Outlaw is also set in Britain and was produced in Britain, again showing similarities between our own thriller and Outlaw.
Another distributor film that could potentially distribute our film is CinemaNX. CinemaNX was the distribution firm that outsourced The Disappearance of Alice Creed, a film that is very similar to our own in the way that it connotes evil and illusion and the target audience that is identified. Also since we took influence in creating our film based off of The Disappearance of Alice Creed, using the same distributor would make sense.