What Kind of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product and Why?

What Kind of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product and Why?:

The role of a production company is to be responsible for the development of a film. The ways in which the production company does this is by raising funds for the production of the film or seek backing from other parties. This is because British movies struggle to appeal and have a smaller financial backing to big American studios who produce films that can attract the whole world.

Examples of a media institution that would distribute our film could be Film Four. Film Four is a production company that backs British movies. Examples of British movies that Film Four has backed and help produce include This is England, The Football Factory and Four Lions. Film Four would play the film they are distributing and give it loads of air time and a place on their website so it would get more publicity and get around by the word of mouth.

Another example of where films can get financial backing from could be the UK Film Council. The UK Film Council is the Government backed lead agency for film in the UK ensuring that the economic, cultural and educational aspects of film are effectively represented at home and abroad.

How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?


From the pictures you can see that our social group represents violence and a fast paced lifestyle. Also the clothes that the actors are wearing represents that our social group is not poor and treats there lifestyle as their jobs. The similarities that you can see between the two pictures are the dark clothing that is on the two main characters in shot are wearing. The dark clothing with the jackets zipped right up represents that they are more likely to be involved in trouble and come across more dangerous and the hostile environment in each picture shows this. Also the way the characters are portrayed in the picture comes across intimidating. In our picture our character is standing behind another intimidating him. Where as in the other picture the character is jumping out at the screen intimidating the audience.

Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task, What Do You feel You Have Learnt In The Progression from It To the Full Product?

Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task, What Do You feel You Have Learnt In The Progression from It To the Full Product?

I feel I have learnt a lot since the preliminary task and I feel I have improved on many of my skills. The skills I feel I have improved on include, camera skills, using the edit suite, key media terms and my overall knowledge of pre-production and post production.

In the preliminary task I did not film. So it was vital that in the main task I learnt the key camera skills as I had to film certain shots. The type of things I learnt was setting up the camera, how to film different shots and camera movement. I feel as though I successfully learnt all these skills and filmed to my full ability.

Another area I have progressed and learnt since the preliminary task was how to use the edit suite. In the preliminary task I tended to sit back and not take a lead role when editing as I struggled when using the edit suite. In the main task I learnt how to use the edit suite and took more of a lead role.

Also in my preliminary task we came across a lot of continuity error after we filmed and edited and because of the continuity error we had to film twice. In the main task we learnt from our mistakes in the preliminary task and came across no continuity error when we edited.

During the task my knowledge of pre-production and post production also improved. I now know all the stages and documents that need to be produces before filming stage by stage. Also I know the stages that need to be done after filming as well.

Who Would Be the Audience for Your Media Product?

Who Would Be the Audience for Your Media Product?

The audience that we are trying to attract is 15+ - 24 men as we feel this age group could relate to our film better than women. The reason for this is because when we put together our questionnaire the males who answered were interested in more fast paced action and drama films. Women however said that they liked more romantic and teen dramas. Also a group of men are more likely to attend the cinema with a group of mates to watch a fast paced, high action drama film.

From recent Box office statistics it is clear that this age group or more likely to attend the cinema to watch our type of film.

What Have You Learnt About Technologies from the Process of Constructing This Product?

What Have You Learnt About Technologies from the Process of Constructing This Product?

How Did You Attract/Address Your Audience?

How Did You Attract/Address Your Audience?

I feel the locations we used made our film more realistic and would attract to our audience. For example the tunnel where we filmed our drugs scene had graffiti covered on it and the surrounding area made it look like a rough area where drug dealers would operate. The lock-up where we filmed the dream scene added tension and atmosphere to the scene. We felt this would appeal to the audience because it well make the audience feel a sense of realism when they are watching our film.

We also attracted our audience by realising these images to get our audience intrigued into watching our film. The two pictures showed our characters in the lock-up and standing by the tunnel where we filmed the drug deal.