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Friday, 3 May 2013

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 3: Distributors

Distributors are the second area of the film business - 1. Production 2. Distribution 3. Exhibition 

My definition for distribution itself is the process in which the film is made available for public watching after the production process. This consist of making the film available for an audience to view, in the form of either the cinema - the top stage of distribution as some distributors struggle to get a cinematic release. A DVD release -  which can be a more realistic approach for a release for some distributors. And Through television.

Tailor-made, audience-focused distribution is, and will remain, vital to the prospects of individual films, and to the industry as a whole,whatever the medium or format in question. Every element of the communications and entertainment industry has been – and is – undergoing rapid change.The advent of‘digital’ in the cinema sector has not merely resulted in a change of format,with d-cinema succeeding the long-standing 35mm presentation, but it has had a transformative impact.Digital has remodelled the ways in which films are released,promoted and consumed,and it is reshaping the kind of entertainment centre that a modern cinema can be.
Source: http://www.launchingfilms.tv/pdf/fda_guide_2012.pdf

The genre for our film is Slasher, Title Name (Unknown). Our film is a very low budget indie film and there are no headline actors involved. However, the film does mirror some of the main slasher conventions which we have researched previously. To mention an example we plan to use a san seriff font for our title which is common in many slasher films such as Scream and Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Our film will be  similar to the film MadHouse.



Top Ten film distributors in the UK (2012)

1SkyfallSony101.0
2The Dark Knight RisesWarner Bros56.3
3Marvel's Avengers AssembleWalt Disney51.9
4The Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyWarner Bros40.8
5The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2EOne Films35.5
6TedUniversal30.3
7Ice Age: Continental Drift20th Century Fox30.1
8The Amazing Spider-ManSony25.9
9Prometheus20th Century Fox24.7
10The Hunger GamesLionsgate23.8

Source:http://www.cinemauk.org.uk/facts-and-figures/admissions/top-10-uk-films-2004-2012/

Skyfall Cover
Skyfall
Budget - $200m
Gross (Worldwide) - $981m

Distributors



The Dark Night Rises Cover
The Dark Night Rises
Budget - $250m
Gross (Worldwide) - £1.1b


Distributors



The Avengers Cover 
Marvels Avengers Assemble
Budget - $220m
Gross (Worldwide) - $1.5b


Distributors



The Hobbit Cover
The Hobbit
Budget - $180m
Gross (Worldwide) - $600m


Distributors







All distributors use marketing tools which is what we may plan to do for our film. These techniques are used to promote a film. These can consist of posters, websites, social networking and trailers to name a few.
Examples:

Scream Cover


Last House On The Left Facebook Group










Skyfall Website

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Cover














There seems to be repetition with all of the slasher genre posters, they mainly consist of dark colours and titles using a san serif font, this provides an exposition to the audience that the film they are looking at is going to be a horror of some sort for example if you compared the Skyfall cover with the Scream cover, the exposition from both would provide the genre signifier.

The distributers above would not realistically distribute our film, therefore i am going to look at more low budget distributers.


Eden Lake (James Watkins, 2008)

Eden Lake Poster
















Gross:

 $5,824 (USA) (2 November 2008)

Production Co:

 Rollercoaster Films, Aramid Entertainment Fund 
Distributers:




Donkey Punch (Oliver Blackburn, 2008)



Eden Lake Poster























Budget:

  $700k (estimated)

Production Co:

 EM Media, Film4, Madman Entertainment
Distributers:

Realistically i feel that optimum releasing (Studio Canal) would be the right distributors for our film because our budget is very narrow and they have distributed relatively low budget films before. 


The estimated budget for our film:

Our film is a low budget indie film so it is impossible to have a well known distributer to fund our project. However, our budget would be extremely low anyway. We have no such thing as providing an actors salary, funding large equipment ect.
The things we are planning to include that will  need funding consist of:

  • Laboratory Coat (1)
  • Fake blood
  • An ID
So in total our film will cost under £10 to be realistic therefore our film is a really low budget film

Marketing tools we could use:

Our film poster
Almost every film has a film poster which is why we chose to create our own. We anchored the slasher genre through our colour scheme with the red, white and black we also used a san serif font which is specific to our slasher genre.



Our trailer, again another marketing technique that all films use - not just specific to the slasher genre. We chose to make a teaser trailer to give our target audience a sense of anticipation for our full length film.


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