Evaluation Question 3

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

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A massive thing to think about when looking for a distribution company to distribute your product is the budget you have been working on. We have been working on a very low  budget project with no known stars in. It would be crazy to think a major company in the film industry such as Universal Studios would distribute our film as it's a massive risk for them.

From research we have found American companies such as Universal Studios are less likely to take the risk of spending money on a low budget film even though they can afford to do it.

Working Title (or Working Title Films) would be a lot more likely option, although it seems to have gone away from the ideals that it started on of using young and inexperienced actors and now also has a very high budget to use per film, spending up to £100m.


We then did more research into film distribuation companies that we may use if we produced a feature length film. As we had in our treatment I looked the film Wolf Creek. Wolf Creek had been produced on a small budget of $1m, which may be similar to ours, if ours was a feature length film. From there we found out that the distribution company for that film was Optimum Releasing, now known as Studio Canal UK since being renamed in 2006. Studio Canal UK is a subsidiary of Studio Canal a foreign based distribution company.

After finding that out we continued our search for a British indie distribution company, knowing from research that they are more likely to take risks and work with lower budgets. We then found a company called Vertigo Films which produces and distributes British films.
"Vertigo Films is a UK Media company founded in 2002 to create and distribute commercially driven independent cinema.Vertigo Films is a UK Media company founded in 2002 to create and distribute commercially driven independent cinema." Quote Vertigo Films