QUESTION 3 – WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT

DISTRIBUTE YOUR FILM AND WHY?

By Charlotte Chamberlain

BUENA VISTA

Beuna Vista is a brand name frequently used for divisions of The Walt Disney Company, the offices are located on Buena Vista Street in Burbank. BVS is a motion picture and television feature distributor in the United States. It was founded in 1953.

DISTRIBUTED BY BUENA

A lot of the releases include a variety of genres. They have engaged with well known actors and actresses. Buena do produce and distribute thriller/horror films but it seems they are also trying to reach out to new target audiences to increase their portfolios.

SIXTH SENSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG9AGf66tXM

Sixth Sense was produced and distributed by Buena Vista film Distribution company. This film was released in 1999 starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment. It is a psychological thriller that tests peoples minds.

I can compare my film to Sixth Sense as the main character has the ability to see dead people. In my film my main character; the mother has flashbacks of seeing the dead daughter therefore Buena know how to handle a film with this narrative.

MARKETING

Once again, there is

only a silhouette in

the poster, this keeps

the audience

intrigued. There is

light around the boy

in a humble sort of

sense with the

number 6, which is

obviously well known

for the devils

number.

Production Budget £40,000,000

Worldwide box office £672,802,292

Prints and Advertising budgets

£25,000,000

Humans have sixth

senses: Sight, Hearing,

Taste, Smell, Touch. As

this film is called Sixth Sense this insinuates

someone in the film have another sense… But

what is the sense?

THE INVISIBLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vKrk6hqFys

The Invisible is another film Distributed by Buena Vista. This film is a thriller revolved around a man who has to unravel the reasoning for his death. Produced and Distributed in 2007 this film is a remake of Swedish film, Den Osynlige.

This is simular to mine as the audience would not know the reason why the daughter died, and would have to work this out as the film went on.

MARKETINGBueno Vista released posters to keep the audience intrigued about the film, they have a silhouette of person in the centre of the screen.

“Life, death, and

something in-between”

allows us too be

intrigued about the

storyline and what will

go

on throughout the film.

Money spent on marketing

is important as this process is based around

attracting the target

audience to the film. By

having Buena Vista support this would result

in more finance for my film

and the marketing.

Domestic DVD sales £14,228,134

Worldwide Box Office £23,540,266

Domestic box office £20,568,319

WHY BUENA VISTA SHOULD DISTRIBUTE GUILT R IDDEN

By looking at the films that are distributed by Buena Vista they do distribute psychological thrillers therefore I believe because of this my film would be successful by being distributed by Buena Vista. I do feel like the thrillers are in a way similar to my film, they follow some of the same conventions such as the lighting and editing etc. In my opinion sixth sense is more similar to my film as its more psychological and tests your mind and pushes you to the edge of your seat. Because of this it may attract the same sort of audience towards my film and the same fan base due to the psychological thrill of the film.