Evaluation activity 3

3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
    Originally we thought that our production company would be Warner Brothers, but then realised that protagonist pictures would be better for our film. Protagonist Pictures are based in the Uk and produce more specialised films. Our film could be considered to be specialise, because we are only emerging talent in the industry. Protagonist Pictures have also worked with a variety of different companies that all work more with specialised films. This companies include: film4, Vertigo films and ingenious media.
    A production company provides the physical basis for films and may also be responsible for fundraising for the production. It deals with budgeting, scheduling, scripting, supplying talent and resources, organizing the staff, the production itself, post-production, distribution, and marketing. Production companies are often either owned or under contract with a media conglomerate, film studio, entertainment company, or Motion Picture Company. These are the parent companies. Production companies can also be mainstream or independent.
    A distributor is responsible for the marketing of the film, when then helps to finance a film. For our film, our distributor would be the BFI because they could help to fund our film. Our film would pass the BFI cultural test, since our film is British, meaning we would get 25% tax relief on our film. The BFI also deals with more specialised films, like ours. They have also worked with Film4 just like Protagonist pictures.
    Our film credits and the order they appear are: production company; title; distributor; main stars; editor; cinematographer and sound editor. Our production company was Warner Brothers; the title was 'Fading fast'; our distributor was the BFI; the main stars were Sian and I; I was the editor; Ollie was the cinematographer and Sian was the sound editor.
    Some films that would be similar to ours Insituationally are: 'A girl like her'; 'Mean Girls'; 'Cyberbully'; 'Carrie' and 'Odd girl out'. These films are all about bullying in some form and most of them are set in secondary schools or high schools, much like ours. Even though these films are similar to ours, one difference is that on the whole they seem to be American.