Question 3

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


Directory’s commentary
“A production company is a company that is mostly responsible for physical production of new media or film. The company may also be directly responsible for the raising of funding for the production. The company may be either a small company, (which would be independent, producing low budget films), or a larger one (producing mainstream block buster), selling its products to a film studio or in the case of film and television, it may be the studio itself. A coproduction is a theatrical presentation or film made by more than one company or a Conglomerate of multiple companies.
A film distributor is a company or individual responsible for releasing films to the public either at cinemas and theatres or for home viewing (DVD, Video-On-Demand, Download, Television etc.). A distributor may do this directly (if the distributor owns the theatres or distribution networks, which is less likely for independent distributors) or through theatrical exhibitors and other sub-distributors (most likely for British independent films).
The main fund provider for British film and especially independent films, similar to my own film which has a low budget would come from the UK Film Council which funds script development, film production, short films, film export and distribution, cinemas, film education, culture and archives, festivals and audience support schemes for these films. Since its creation it has distributed more than £160m of lottery money to over 900 films.
Ok there is a huge mistake which we have completely forgotten  to change, as which is when ‘Pathe Production Company’ present the film. We first used this just as a template to be changed later. Pathe no longer exits and we believe it wouldn’t be the ideal company to produce or distribute our film.
Throughout the blog we have used ‘This Is England’, as a case study as we believe that the film is somewhat similar to ours ,both creatively,  and  institutionally. As both films are low budget and both challenge and use, film conventions  in a original ways.
Our own production company that we have created is called ‘Red Hand Productions’, which is an small independent company that produces creative, original ideas to a mainly British audience on the most lowest budgets.  Many of it productions have won, British Academy Film Awards and British Independent Film Awards. This production company would have a £660,000 worth of budget for the film.
However if it were to be produced and distributed by real companies then our film ‘Turning Gates’, would be distributed by Optimum  Releasing , which is an independent company in the UK. It would also be produced by Film 4 Production company which is owned by channel 4 therefore the channel will take over promoting campaign on TV similar to the successful one of ‘Slum Dog Millionaire’. Another film production company that may produce our film would be Warp Film a creative independent company and Since its inception as a shop and record label in 1989, it has been a platform for innovative and boundary-breaking talent”

NOTE: To be recorded and put as voice-over for our video.