Tuesday, 6 May 2014

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



Evaluation 3 Script
Our production company, Paradox Entertainment, is directly responsible for fundraising for the production. It handles budgeting, scheduling, scripting, the supply with talent and resources, the organization of staff, the production itself, post-production, distribution, and marketing. Paradox Entertainment are a newly set up company and aren’t popular yet, their first distributed film being The Swan Song. The budget is relatively low compared to other Hollywood films at the quality of this one. This is one of the Unique Selling Points of the film. Even though it has a low budget the film would be able to gross a large profit. For example, The King's Speech had a low budget grossing a large profit even though it did not include any special effects although included traditional British heritage which the American citizens were interested in.

A film distributor is a company or individual responsible for the marketing of a film. The distributor may set the release date of a film and the method by which a film is to be exhibited: for example, directly to the public either theatrically or for home viewing (DVD, download, television programs etc.). The film will be distributed to most UK cinemas, and only a few in the US, I have chosen this to be so because the budget for distributing the film isn't high enough to distribute it everywhere, so for the first weekend, if the box office is high, the film will be distributed to the rest of the US. The money for our film has come from our own budgets, we are very confident with the box office of this film will hit a few million and will cover the spending. The film does not include any synergy, merchandising, special effects etc. so therefore I do not believe it could be a blockbuster film. I would market the film through viral marketing, creating facebook, twitter, Youtube pages, to create global awareness of the film and try and target a larger audience.
The opening credits list the most important members of the production. We chose to include these to mention all the important people helping us making this film possible and such a big hit. This included directors, producers, distributors and actors.
The King's Speech was similarly realised and distributed the same way as my film, due to low budget, no special effects, synergy etc. making around $414 million, suggesting our film can create the same miracle. Media ownership can effect how successful a film is, however tapping into audience trends can equally effect the success of the film.

The home of the James Bond franchise is EON(Everything or Nothing) production company. See-Saw films produced The King's Speech. I would be looking to bond these two together as EON is based on action and See-Saw films already have experience in making a low budget film into a big box office. Often two companies merge and work on films together, it can be a common occurrence as film productions try to succeed.

Friday, 2 May 2014

The steps of the opening two minutes

In this post I will be going through the opening two minutes, how we improved our targets set, and how we believe it turned out better:

Here we improved our titles, and added actors, turning into this:
According to my colleague, our editing software would not allow us to upload our final version, which included the director name, producer, editor and actor names. This let us down as we potentially could of achieved a higher grade than we can without the final version.