A film distributor is responsible for marketing and distributing a film onto various platforms like DVD, Blu-Ray, and streaming services. The document discusses choosing Summit Entertainment as the distributor for a film based on similarities to films they had distributed previously like Twilight, Divergent, and The Hunger Games in terms of target age group, genres of action and thriller, and BBFC age rating of 12A. By including the Summit Entertainment logo at the start of the film, its association with the distributor is made explicit to viewers.

2. WHAT IS A DISTRIBUTOR?
 A film distributor is a company or individual
responsible for the marketing of a film. This will
include providing platforms of the media for home
viewing such a DVD, Blu-Ray or onto an internet
sharing platform such as iTunes or YouTube.

3. CHOOSING A DISTRIBUTOR
 When deciding on a distributor for our film we wanted to
choose something that produced films with similar or relating
concepts to our opening sequence, therefore attracting the
audiences that would be interested in the contents of our film.
We brainstormed films which also contained similar aged
characters that consisted of storylines based around action
and thriller genres. We came up with twilight as a starting
point. We researched into the distributor of twilight and found
that it was summit entertainment.

4. SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT
 On researching into summit entertainment we also found out that they
distributed Divergent which enhanced our decision to choose this company as
it also contained characters similar to the ages of ours which including action
and at times elements of thriller. We also found that Summit Entertainment
was subsidiary of Lions gate which distributed The Hunger Games. All these
films complimented our decision to choose Summit Entertainment due to the
similarities between these films and ours. Elements we found in hunger
games that were similar to ours consisted of a chase scene this suggested
similar storylines and conventions of action which our movie also contained.

5. HOW BBFC AGE RATING CERTIFICATES
AFFECTED OUR DECISION
 In addition to the similar storylines, these movies
are also rated with 12 certificates in accordance
with the BBFC guidelines. Seeing as we also
decided to give our film a 12 certificate rating this
was looking like an appropriate distributor to
choose.

6. IDENTIFYING OUR ASSOCIATION WITH SUMMIT
ENTERTAINMENT
 To show that we were using Summit Entertainment as our
distributor we inserted the introductory logo into the start of
the sequence. This enables us to make our association with
the company explicit. On seeing this logo the viewers will be
able to make links and connections to other films they
associate with the company and are as a result able to identify
the company and make a judgement on the type of
movie/sequence they are about to see.