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

A corporate sponsor get to see the pitch for films and then decides weather or not they want to give the funding to the smaller company to make the film. I think I would approach Warner Brothers as that would allow us to get to a bigger audience. They can help with the marketing and distribution side of films, like films such as Annabelle. Annabelle earned $84,273,813 in North America and $171,000,000 in other territories for a worldwide total of $255,273,813. This is the kind of profit I am hoping to make and Warner Brothers make a lot of horror films so I would hope they would take my film on board as they can distribute it through the cinemas that they own, the adverts and trailers they can get onto TV through the channels Time Warner own and others that they work with. They also can get money from the DVD release whereas if I released it independently it is very unlikely I would make any sort of profit.

2. How does your media product represent certain media groups?

The audience for my media product would be mostly 18-24 year old people. We chose this age range as we think they will be the ones most interested in  this genre. I think that they would like to see my film because it has elements of their lives that they would relate too - for example the film follows a punch of teenagers as they slowly get into trouble with a bad spirit which relates to the teenagers as they may know what its like to get into a situation that is hard to get out of.
I went onto Yougov and researched the film i based mine off - Se7en. It came up with this -

The first thing I noticed was that mainly 40-59 year old's seem to watch this film from east England. I am hoping that my film will appeal to this age range too because they understand that actions have consequences and like to watch films with people making this mistake.
In this film we have done both retold and challenged the stereotype of a bad spirit which may draw younger and older audiences. Because of the nature of the film we had to put the lowest viewing age at 18 which I think will draw in the 40-59 year olds as they will see it is made for an older audience.

Coursework Feedback

Research and Planning - 14

Planning and research work is complete and at times detailed. The work is proficient, with elements of excellence. The work into similar products is wide-ranging and detailed and the work into potential target audiences shows promise, although I would have liked to see more work on demographics here. There is some understanding of who the audience is through secondary research and even some primary research. The organisation of actors is excellent, with shot lists, storyboard (that needs updating to reflect the changes made) and props list etc. Overall there is a good level of care in presentation and time management was good.  

Main Task - 43

Excellent care and detail in the mise-en-scene, and also the use of props. The titles are in keeping with the genre and well positioned, care has been taken with choosing fonts etc. On the whole there is a good level of camera control, but on occasions this slipped and there are one of two issues with focus and camera wobble. The opening doesn’t necessarily set up the whole of the film, but it is clearly an opening and does clearly set up the main character and his intentions. 

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