What type of media institution might distribute

your media product and why?

For our film we decided to represent a small budget production company, we would want a maximum budget of about £1 million.

TMC productions

TMC is an independent production company who employs unknown actors creating low budget films in the hope of having great success and maximising profit.

We made this production company as we needed one to put in our titles and by creating our own company we had the power to to create an animated sequence at the start of our film that reflected what we wanted.

TMC productions

We decided to be a low budget production company through mainly our storyline. Our storyline does not require a great amount of money to achieve an effective and successful film.

Through research we have discovered films that have all been shot with low budgets, that have become a great success. Such films that we researched were films like John Carpenters ‘Halloween’ and ‘The blair witch project’ and of course our main film idol ‘Paranormal activity’ which was created for a tiny budget of just £15,000.

The Blair Witch Project  (1999) American horror film written and directed by Eduardo

Sánchez and Daniel Myrick. The film was produced by the Haxan Films production

company. The story of three student filmmakers who disappeared

while hiking in the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. The viewers are told the three were never seen or heard from again, although their video and sound equipment (along with most of the footage they shot) was discovered a year later by the police department and that this "recovered footage" is the film the viewer is watching

The Blair Witch Project

The film received a positive reception from critics and went on to gross over US$248 million worldwide, making it one of the most successful independent movies of all time.

It was created with a low budget of $60,000 creating just under $200,000,000 revenue.

The Blair Witch Project

Originally an independent feature film and given film festival screenings in 2007, the film was acquired by Paramount Pictures and modified, particularly with a new ending.

It was given a limited U.S. release on September 25, 2009, and then a nationwide release on October 16, 2009. $193 million. It is seen as one of the most profitable films ever made.

Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity’s success made us realise that because the budget was so low, the audience seemed to feel a relation to the film and it seemed more realistic, a great amount of fear can be created due to the audience.

The same effect happened with the Blair Witch project. The audience was told that the film was real footage from 3 students lost in the woods.

Because of this it creates a great amount of fear as it is more real for the audience.

The distributor that we chose to deliver our film was Film 4 Productions, this is a UK based company associated with channel 4.

Over the years they have produced many different films both medium and low budget.

Our distributor

We decided that our distributer would be Film 4 productions as they have produced many low budget successful films for example ‘Attack the block’, and we could imagine our film becoming a great success with them.

Film 4 is a successful production and has distributed over 100 films including ‘Attack the block’ and the recent box office success ‘12 years a slave’

In our film we have named the 3 main actors, Mark Mulcahy, Danielle Robert and Helen Mulcahy. all of these are not big names and are all new actors.

Because of this we decided not to put their names throughout the opening first 2 minutes as they are not big enough names to headline the film.