Year 12 AS Media Studies Evaluation Question 3 -What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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

2. At first we wanted to do an independent thriller opening but based on our
audience research we changed our mind and made a mainstream product
instead. Our film is mainstream as we have a simple narrative of the film,
and stick to the stereotypes of conventional thrillers such as: the antagonist
being a man and protagonist a girl. Psychological thrillers focus on mental
illnesses (mind) death, reality and perception and we have all the themes in
our thriller, we present mental illness and the mind are the focus of the
whole thriller, as all the things are happing in her head, reality and
perception is presented with her hearing voices and seeing things that are
not there. Both identity and death is presented by the stalker, as both the
audience and the main character don't know who he is, he killed Lucy's
parents and want to kill her as well.

3. So who would
distribute
our film ?

4. Universal
Walt Disney
Warner Bros
20th century fox
Columbia pictures
Paramount
We would like our film to be distributed
by one of the ‘Big Six’

6. An American film studio founded in 1912
Films include:
• The Birds (1963)
• Vertigo (1958)
• The Bourne Chronicles
• Lucy
Universal pictures would be a good distributor for our film as they have a
lot of thriller films. Universal pictures is also vertically disintegrated
meaning that they have connection with other companies that can help
us with our movie such as Universal Music Group.
I think they would like our film as they have released ‘Lucy’ which was a
massive success with a budget of $40 million and box office of $463.4
million. Our film and the film ‘Lucy’ are both psychological thrillers,
although the story line differs , there are so similarities of both of the
films, giving it a bigger chance of success.

8. American film production company
Includes Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Marvel Studios also
Pixar is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
Disney have their own music group
• Walt Disney Records
• Hollywood Records
• Disney Music Publishing
Films include:
• Ant-man
• Capitan America
• National Treasure
Although Walt Disney is know around the world and as evident from my research do have
thriller films, and their own music group, I don’t think that it would be a good distributor
for our film as they are mainly associated with animation and children films.

10. An American company that produces film, television and music entertainment, founded in 1923
Films include:
• Unknown
• Orphan
• Sphere
As Warner Bros produce their own film, TV and music means we get a wide range of equipment and
resources for disposition, and getting our film across to a wider range of audience, and onto
different platforms such as a TV programme as we already have the distributor and are working
with them.

12. An American film studio, distributor and one of the six major American film studios founded in 1935
Warner Bros. has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner
Entertainment Co., Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros.
Animation, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock Entertainment, and DC
Entertainment. Warner Bros. owns half of The CW Television Network.
Films include:
• The Revenant
• The Maze Runner
• Taken
• Die another day
• Chronicle
• Mr & Mrs Smith
20th Century Fox would be a good distributor of our film as they have a number of thriller movies
already, and because they have subsidiary companies means that there is a wide range of
institutions so we can collaborate with them.

14. An American film production and distribution studio of the Sony Pictures
Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary
of the Japanese conglomerate Sony.
Films include:
• Salt
• The Equalizer
Columbia is not my top choice for the distributor of our film, as their main
focus is on comedy films.

16. An American film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor
Films include:
• Vertigo
• Psycho
• Mission impossible
• Beverly hills cop
• Shutter island
• Transformers
As paramount have a big range of thrillers available they are a good distributor for our film, Vertigo and
Psycho are psychological thrillers, also they are both a production and distributor.

17. Our Distributor is
…

19. Out of the ‘Big Six’ distributors I have chosen Universal Pictures.
The reasons are as follows:
• Universal has a wide range of thriller films already out and some of them are the
biggest blockbusters out there including Jurassic World with a budget of 150
million USD and a box office of 1.67 billion USD.
• Universal Pictures have released ‘Lucy’, a psychological thriller that was also very
successful, because our thriller and ‘Lucy’ are similar in some ways, but do have a
different plot line, I think that our thriller would succeed if it gets distributed by
Universal Pictures.
• Universal Pictures are vertically disintegrated giving us the chance to collaborate
with other companies.