what kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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

My product is an independent film made by our group, this is because we have a very low budget. Its made from scratch by our group with independent film actors and our movie will be played in an independent cinema like the electric cinema or the lyceum cinema because they always play local films that have low budgets but will earn a lot of money because they are made locally promoting local business whereas mainstream cinema’s look for the major Hollywood movies because its easy money. Hopefully after that our movie will be shown on public service channels such as bbc 4 or channel 4.

The difference between mainstream movies from Hollywood and ours is the budget, casting and the realism in the films. Our budget is way below that of a Hollywood movie so our casting is downsized to just a few characters and the acting wont be Hollywood greatness either however it will be pretty much realistic because its from unknown actors that live in situations like these pretty much day in day out.

To promote our film we would like to go to the British Urban Film Festival because it is one of the biggest film festivals in Britain and it promotes a lot of independent cinema work in and around the country, film festivals are also a good way for independent films to secure distribution. The other way of promoting our film is on websites such “YouTube” and “daily motion”, these websites will allow us to show our film as long as we split it up into small sections. We have uploaded our opening sequence on to Youtube (click here to view)  We could also advertise our film on “Facebook” and “MySpace” that are internet chat websites. These websites will allow our film to be seen and commented on and hopefully from then it will get screened on public television stations such as the BBC and Channel 4 but also community TV stations on freeview and cable services these show all the local products and nothing else, channels like these include channel Manchester.