A media distribution company like Warner Brothers would be well-suited to distribute our low-budget film product because it is a large, popular studio that could attract viewers. Production companies are responsible for funding and creating new media works, then selling them to distributors or studios. Distributors secure contracts with exhibitors to receive a percentage of ticket sales and may be responsible for dubbing or subtitling films for different language markets.

1. What kind of media institutionmight distribute your media product and why? By Group 014

2. What does a production company do? A production company is a company responsible for physical production of new media, performing arts, film, radio or a television program. The production company is responsible for the funding which goes towards the production, in most cases. The production company can be a film studio, however in most cases this is not the case, and they must sell the production to the studio.

3. Production Logos We decided not to use a production logo because we thought that the tension in our piece would be broken. However, here is an example of a logo we could have used.

4. What is a distributor? A distributor is a company which secures a written contract securing the gross amount of the ticket sales which are paid to the distributer from the exhibitor. Examples of large branch distributors could be Warner Brothers or Universal Studios The distributor may be held responsible for dubbing films in a different language, for example Japanese movies, or parts of a film where a different language is spoken.

5. Why we chose our distributor Similarly, we have not decided on a distributor but if we were to use one, we would have gone with a popular one to attract viewers such as Warner Brothers.

6. Low Budget Films Shifty is an action packed 24 hours in the life of a young crack cocaine dealer on the outskirts of London. The sudden return home of his best friend sets in motion a chain of events that see Shifty’s life quickly spiral out of control. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run and out-smart a rival drug dealer intent on setting him up. As his long time friend Chris, confronts the dark past he left behind him, Shifty is forced to face up to the violent future he's heading fast towards.