Evaluation – What kind of media

institution would distribute your media product and why?

By Harry Pennington

Research• For this part of the evaluation, I have decided to

carry out some research as to which film companies may distribute our film, and as it is quite low budget it is very good to know whether it would be able to remain so based on how the company sees our film in relation to others.

• Based on my research, I have listed 5 companies which could potentially be suitable

20th Century Fox

• One of the biggest companies in the world, they are famous for being one of the “big six” of the films industry (Along with Warner Bros, Paramount, Columbia, Universal and Disney)

Would they be willing to distribute our film?

• It is unlikely that they would even think about this, as our film was from a very low budget and would probably not be very well-received if the board of Fox found out, this was only included in the list as they are probably one of the largest companies ever.

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Would they be willing to produce our film?

• This one is not impossible. As we have a first-time director this seems like the most feasible company to go to for help. You would be very surprised if you found out just how many films were actually produced by them given the fact that they are not one of the big companies in any way.

• This Company is well known for helping finance and produce films for first-time directors or for independent companies. They are usually willing to help with smaller films and have produced a massive range of genres

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

• They are well known for being the main producers of the James Bond films, and were the producers of Get Carter – Which is very relevant as it is in the same genre as our own film

Would they be willing to produce our film?

• Because of the kinds of films they generally produce, it is more likely for them to help us as opposed to 20th Century Fox or Universal (Which I did not include on this list as it is very similar to Fox so would be pointless) and as they made Get Carter popular, it would not be impossible for our film to be considered (albeit if it was a significantly higher budget of film).

HandMade Films

• This is less well known than the others however it is exactly the type of company that we are looking for: They are a British company that was created by George Harrison of Beatles fame, that have produced crime films such as The Long Good Friday and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Would they be willing to produce our film?

• I have a feeling that out of the entire shortlist of potential companies I have chosen, this one seems to be the best choice. They are primarily British and based on our film it is clear that ours is 100% British and entirely crime-based which are exactly the qualities that would encourage HandMade to help with our production.

Columbia Pictures

• Another massive company. It is fairly obvious why this has been included in the list: They were the main producers of Snatch – The film of which much of our opening is based on. From this it can be seen that they are more likely to produce these kinds of films, exactly like ours.

Would they be willing to produce our film?

• As I said before, they produced Snatch: Our opening was going to be very similar to the opening to this film and with the changes we have made, it still seems like it could have been made by Columbia, which could hopefully get them to finance our film.