Blumhouse Productions would be the most suitable media institution to distribute an independent horror film. Blumhouse specializes in distributing horror films across many genres, including franchises such as Paranormal Activity and Insidious. Other institutions like Hammer Film Productions focus on specific subgenres like Gothic horror and monsters, which may not match the criteria of an independent horror film. Blumhouse could provide funding to distribute the film to cinemas and platforms like DVD and downloads.

1. Question 3
What kind of media institution might distribute your
media product and why?

2. Institutions
A institution is company which
distributes film for the audience’s
consumption.
There are institutions like the British Film
Institute(BFI) and The uk film council
who funds and disperses films.

3. Horror institutions
There are companies that
distribute according to a a genre.
To distribute our film , we would
have to approach an institution
and pitch our film to which, we
could get funding for to distribute
our film to exhibition to cinemas ,
and distribution (dvd and
downloads).

4. Blumhouse productions is a horror
institution that has distributed horrors
such as ; Paranormal activity franchise ,
Insidious franchise, the visit , sinister
and more.
Hammer Film is a British film company
that produces and distributes gothic
horror films and is responsible for the
monster franchise , of dracula ,
frankenstein, and the mummy (the
original monster films).
Blumhouse would be more suitable
to approach ,as hammer films
specialises in monster horror and this is
not our genre and would not meet our
criteria , whereas Blumhouse does
many different genres of horror.