Evaluation Activity 3

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Question: What kind of media institution would distribute my media?

Evaluation Activity 3

Transcript

Hello, this is Milo Fisher from QPCS, talking about my AS Media film ‘Lost Property’ 

In our film, my friend Matthew and I used Matt’s own production company name ‘TMAnimate’ as it represented a company made by young adults, making movies for young adults. For those of you who don’t know what a production company is: a production company funds and in essence, are the ones creating the film.

For example: BBC Films, Microwave films, and Film4, who we used in our film, are both a production AND distribution company, meaning they both fund the film and will fund the DVD manufacturing and broadcasting. Other distribution companies that focus on edgy British films are Working Title.

 

We chose Film4 because they are well known for distributing hard hitting British movies that aren’t afraid to take a risk, such as ‘This is England’ and ‘Four Lions’.  

The money would be funded from 3 different sources, our created production studios ‘TMAnimate’ and ‘IVECO films’. Film4. And the national lottery, as the majority of British movies made IN Britain tends to have lottery funding, movies such as ‘Shifty’.

Matt and I named ourselves for the majority of the credits, we were both actors, screenplay writers, and directors. We featured the main actor first when it came to naming cast, as he had the spotlight and it fit the codes and conventions of film openings. 

I chose to have Steven King write the story, as it would give hints to the audience that ‘all is not as it seems’ because that’s Steven Kings main writing style. We chose to have Christopher Nolan direct, because after directing movies such as ‘memento’, he would have the perfect idea of how the movie would work.

I think our film would be ‘Institutionally’ similar to the movie ‘Shifty’ or ‘Attack the Block’. As it features young male adult protagonists who, while at first supporting the typical working class stereotype, go against it as the movie goes on. 

Our movie is much like them as it will no doubt only find a niche audience and will not appeal to a large scale audience, definitely not an American audience, this is very much a British film.