Evaluation Question 3Laura White

What is screening at the Guildford Odeon?

From previously viewing what is currently showing at our local Odeon, I can understand that my genre type is not very popular in the late January of 2016. From my screenshot taken from the Odeon’s latest releases I can gather that there is a variety of genres, from romances to action to comedy.

The likelihood of my film finding its audience is low, gathering that hardly any thrillers are being shown throughout this time of year, I believe many factors contribute to this. Films can be released during a particular time period, for example romances are being released due to the event of Valentines day approaching us, making this genre very popular to a wide audience range. On another hand, comedy’s are very popular due to the ‘January blue’s’ people are not wanting to be scared or on the edge of their seats. They want something funny to get them through the month that everybody dreads.

It is unlikely that big chain cinemas, like the Odeon will show my small indie film at the moment, due to the genre and nature of the film. Like I previously explained people aren’t into this genre at this time of year. Also, these companies are looking for blockbusters, where as mine is just an individual film.

Film Festival- Portobello film festival Independent film festivals are demonstrated all around the

world, like shown here, London’s Portobello film festival also participates in these events; showing that these indie film screenings are very popular and wanted. Similar films to mine have been showed at this film festival, they have also won awards and have gone up since being in connections to this festival. They promote this festival through social media sites like Facebook, this is a good way of spreading the event as small independent film makers like myself can easily access the needed information about the upcoming festival.

This may not distribute my film as leading popular festivals like these may over look my personal indie film due to judges and critics who carry such high expectations in this industry.

Film Festival- Sundance After researching into film festivals around the UK, I

discovered Sundance festival. The genres of these are mostly a variety from being based around thriller, comedy, action and romance. Sundance is a very popular film festival, due to the range of genres they show, like the screenshot demonstrated below I can therefore see that my film may have potential, there are a lot of thrillers meaning thrillers may be their department. Due to the nature of the genres, my film may find its target audience, Although because of my film being an independent indie film, it may not fit in with the talent; Hollywood dominance may take over my film meaning it does not go any further than this film festival, or could be overwritten due to the other powerful films.

Independent cinemas -BFI London After analysing the genres, I understand that

independent cinemas are a lot different to major cinemas, due to the fact that they show a variety of genres, creating a wider audience; in comparison to bigger cinema companies they are so major that they have a very limited genre range.

BFI London, may screen my film as they show independent films that aren’t Oscar award winning performances, which mine happens to be. Therefore they show more indie films with varieties of genres, consequently giving me more of a chance to have my film shown through this company,

Independent cinemas -Reading Film Fest After looking further, I discovered ‘Reading Film

Fest” again like BFI this is another independent cinema, showing indie films. They show a range of genres, the one below is a very common genre. “You See Me is a brave, inspiring and empowering film that documents the essence of the human condition.” (See screenshot below)

Audiences for independent film companies like Reading film fest mostly consist of varied genres, meaning audiences receive enhanced experiences of different genre types; providing audiences with opportunities to develop knowledge and better understandings of different film genres.

This tells me that big cinema companies like Odeon like to limit their film choice, meaning they keep existing audiences. This means they only provide entertainment for only a small group of people, interested in that genre always being shown.

Thriller genre on TV

These three thriller films are all from Film4 schedule of films being shown, thrillers are very popular on this channel therefore showing that more people enjoy thriller movies.

Odeon cinema VS. Independent

The Odeon cinema is well known cinema, but unfortunately this media institution will not produce my indie film as its more low budget and mainstream. On the other hand, independent cinemas such as BFI London may consider showing my film as its more mainstream and indie.

Sundance VS. BFI I believe that my independent film would be more likely to be shown

at Sundance, because they show a lot of independent films with a lot of different genres, including mine. Thrillers are quite popular in this festival, possibly due to the audiences therefore meaning my film is more likely to be shown in comparison to BFI.

On the other hand, BFI are more Hollywood ‘esk’ meaning they don’t consider more independent films, if mine was shown it would possibly be lost in the competition, meaning my film would not grow or develop within the film industry.

BBC VS. Film4

The BBC shows are more friendly and family orientated meaning thrillers like mine, will not be shown on this channel. On the other hand, after research I found that Film4 are more likely to show thrillers. My film may have potential to be shown on here as it fits in with the conventions of the program.

Film4 will especially show these in the evening, whereas the BBC stick to more of a schedule due to various soaps being on around that time.

Overall… I believe Overall, I believe my film would be the best it

possibly could be through the use of Youtube, here I can post it freely and openly to the public and receive feedback, this enables me to develop on my film and make improvements ready for it to develop into the film industry and have more of a possibility growing further.

Youtube is also a good source of presentation as you get noticed by potential film makers, enabling good publicity and a variety of opinions. Also, this site is a good way of connecting and viewing; people from all countries can see and judge my film.