1. 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media project and why?
A production company helps to create films and assists with the budgeting, casting, scripting, and scheduling + many more. They
have to find a director and the cast for the film to kick off, they are involved from development all the way through to
completion. If an actor or a member of the team was to get injured they are responsible. Furthermore they also have
ultimate creative control. The institution that may distribute our media project would be Miramax Films, reason being that
they have distributed and produced a number of thriller films such as ‘Doubt’ ‘Extract’ ‘Cold Mountain’. The money for our
film would have come from government funding as we will be helping the community to stay alert and to always be on
guard at all time just incase something does happen, we will also get funds from the distribution company. I will also be
selling merchandise such as mugs, key rings, t-shirts etc to raise further costs The various people that are named in the
titles are Ibrahim Ghani, Chloe Pilgrim, Khari Patterson and a few actors, when the names come up it tells us in the titles
what jobs appear and what they did in the making of the film. We have done this so we can show our audience who is
involved and what part they played. So for me I was titled as the director and the producer of the thriller opening sequence
‘Lost Footsteps’. Our film is similar to the film ‘Kidnapped’ as three hooded Eastern-European criminals burst into a home in
Madrid, Spain, holding the family hostage in its own home, and forcing the father to empty his credit cards. I have watched
the movie trailer and it has some sort of similarities as it has one person being held hostage and kidnapped, this links in with
our thriller opening sequence as we also have people being kidnapped and held hostage. The film will run for 1hour and 40
minutes we do not want it to long as people will get bored and it will start to drag. The film ‘Taken’ also links is with this as it
is a thriller, the movie was distributed by ‘20TH Century Fox’ which is a very big distribution company, so if we are lucky it can
be distributed by them. Also Film4 can distribute the film as they make very good films, for directors who have a low budget.