Natalie Skinner is choosing distributors and funding sources for her new film. She selects 20th Century Fox as the distributor because it advertises and releases similar successful horror films that appeal to her film's target audience of 16-24 year old girls/young women. She also chooses The Cavalier Film Funds for funding because it finances low-budget, mainstream films produced by others, which aligns with her small, independent production.

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

2. Distribution
A film distributor is a company or individual
responsible for the marketing of a film. They
may set the release date of a film and the
method by which a film is to be displayed or
made available for viewing by retailers or direct
to the end users or customers.

3. Production company
A production company is an organization which
creates films, plays, television or radio
programmes by giving them the funding and
essential equipment for the film so that it can be
made.

4. Our chosen distributer
20th century fox provides production facilities and services for film,
television and related entertainment industries. We chose to use this
distributer for our film because it advertises a variety of successful films,
including popular ones of our own genre, an example is of the new
horror film called ‘devils due’ which has a positive response from the
audience. Also it is one that could easily deal with our funding as we are
only a small scale film that has the potential of earning large profits
because our chosen target audience is one that brings in the most
money for companies. This is because 16-24 girls/ young women go to
the cinema more than any other group in society.

5. Funding
To fund our film we have chosen The
Cavalier Film Funds as its aim is to
produce story-driven and thoughtprovoking films with mainstream appeal
on a low-budget. The Company intends
to produce and finance feature films
with limited and controlled budgets, and
considers investment in films principally
produced by others. This is suitable for
our funding as our film is very low
budget meaning the use of this film
company will mean it can cohabitate
with our chosen producer.