EVALUATION QUESTION 3What Kind Of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product and Why?

Different Places That our Film Could Be Shown•There are various places in which our film

could be shown, an independent cinema like Curzon, or high end cinemas that are dotted around the UK e.g. Cineworld or Odeon.

•Other places outside of the UK could be film festivals, for example the one in Cannes. This way a lot of people including directors would be able to watch our film and like it.

Our Local Odeon Showings

The most popular genre in Guildford’s movie showings is Dramas. This isn’t our choice in genre. There are a few violent films, but no thriller genres are being shown at the moment. This could be because there is only a small audience who enjoys thrillers

The amount of drama genre films (5) shows me that the type of audience in Guildford is people who like these types of films. Or in general, more people are enjoying dramas – more than thrillers, as there are none showing. Because no thrillers are being shown, means our film would be unlikely to be shown because it would only be a small audience which would be pointless as we need a big audience to watch it.

These films are also shown in The Woking Ambassadors Cinema except for “Room” and “Met Opera”. This shows that the small cinema company is able to show these high end films. There are some other films that they include on their showings unlike Guildford, such as “Grandma” and “The Good Dinosaur”. The Woking cinema is surprisingly showing one more film than Guildford’s Odeon. This shows there could be an increase of audiences there. Therefore there may be a bigger audience in Woking, rather than Guildford.

BFI - Southbank This is an independent cinema and these are the only films being shown today. “Carol” is a romantic drama, whereas “Grindhouse” (directed by Quentin Tarantino) is a horror. The other showings are international screenings. These small showings suggests that BFI is a small independent cinema.

These aren’t my genres, however we do have a hint of horror in our sequence, so that connects with “Grindhouse”. The difference between BFI and the Odeon, is that the Odeon shows more films with variety, and they are big high end films that people will want to watch. This is a old film, which means that this cinema might show a variety of films so it might show our film to go with that variety.

The Duke Of Yorks - BrightonThis is an independent cinema in Brighton. It has similar showings apart from “Hotel Transylvania 2”. This may be a repeated showing. They would have shown the up to date films to increase an audience to their cinema. There might not be any thrillers here because the audience in Brighton may not be for thrillers and may come more for dramas, so therefore The Duke Of Yorks will follow their audience’s interests.

However, they may only have two or more screening rooms because of how small the cinema is, which is also suggested through the amount of showings it has in a day, unlike the Odeon Cinema.

Cannes Film FestivalsAs it says above, it shows a lot of different genres. This is what went into competition last year. There are a lot of foreign movies meaning they are trying to probably get noticed by others. It includes martial arts to drama, to action genres – containing a range for a wide audience. This may be because they know their audience is varied so they will show these types of films to get them to watch it.

Cannes Film Festival 2015 Winners• Short Films category: UK – Rate Me (Comedy) &

Qatar – Waves ‘98 (Animated)• Feature Films category: Colombia, Venezuela,

Argentina – Embrace Of The Serpent (Adventure-Drama)

• Official Competition: France – Dheepan (Crime-Drama)

• Un Certain Regard: Iceland – Rams (Drama) These are just some of the winners from Cannes

last year. The main genre that won was drama. This might be because there is a growing interest in the genre.

Berlin Film FestivalAll of these films that won in the Berlin Film Festival were drama genres. As from Cannes Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival, it is clear to say that the favourable genre to win/watch is drama. All but one of these films that won are dramas. “The Pearl Button” is a documentary – very rare in winning at these festivals. There are no thriller genres, which means that it would be unlikely to be shown here because there were none shown this year. This could be because of the types of entries and they could have all been dramas because they understand their audience’s requirements.

What’s On Film4? (Sunday’s showings)I’ve screenshot all the films from Sunday’s screenings. As it is a Sunday, the children are home and are watching TV, so the TV company has to be careful on what they are showing – whether its adverts or the actual programme. This all stops by 7/8 o’clock as the children go to bed. This is when more scary films are available to watch. There is a the film “Taken”, which is a crime thriller movie, which is a film that children won’t be allowed to watch (from the violence, bloody scenes and swearing). The next film after that is “Mr Nice” which is a crime movie, possibly showing things that children shouldn’t watch (violent scenes and bad use of language). There aren’t many thriller films because they understand their target audience during the day – generally family. Until late at night the audience doesn’t really change. It only changes at night because the children have gone to bed, so therefore it makes it easier to show thriller type films for the adults/teenagers.

Independent Cinema vs Odeon Cinema•If my film was to be shown to an

audience, it would fit in an independent cinema because it wasn’t a massive budgeted film, unlike other films that have major hollywood actors in it – which would cost a lot to run. As an independent movie, it would be fitting to put it in an independent cinema. With a small audience, this could build if people liked it.

Cannes vs Berlin•If my film were to be shown to an

audience in these two different places, I think it would be shown at Cannes. This is because there is a better chance for independent films to be found and to win prizes. Therefore the film would be recognised easily. In Berlin, it is smaller and for less independent films like mine, because in Cannes, they do awards for young people to enter.

BBC vs Film4•BBC films shown are mostly children’s

ones, screened on the weekends, because on the weekdays it’s usually scheduled for the daily soaps, therefore it wouldn’t be shown on there. If it was between these two TV channels, it would definitely be Film4 as it has some independent movies shown, or films that are very small and aren’t popular. This is to build fame to these types of films – something like mine.

Where else?•There are competitions for young

students who have been making sequences and films. For example, Young Film Makers Competition. We could enter the film and possibly win. This is good for filmmakers like us to get noticed.

Realistically?• If anywhere it could be shown, would be on YouTube. It

could grow fame and get lots of people viewing it. Especially if it is good content. Otherwise, we could enter into competitions because they always like to find something original that could potentially be something big in the future. I don’t think it would ever be shown in the Odeon or Woking Ambassador Cinema because they are too big of a company to have very low-budget films to have our films shown, and they wouldn’t want to lose regular customers who watch the films they show. If they show something that a lot of their audience doesn’t like to watch, they may stop showing it so they don’t lose their audience.