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

Within the Film industry there are many institutions which distribute and contribute to films made all over the World, ranging from World releases to small, not so famous and widely known creations.

A production company is responsible for supervising the filming from concept to completion, and they hold

the sole legal and financial responsibility of the movie as a whole. Furthermore a production

company must be included within the opening as they have a huge role in the making of the film, and are very important.

A film distributor is a company or individual responsible for releasing films to the public either theatrically or for home viewing (DVD, Video-On-Demand, Download, Television etc.). A distributor may do this directly (if the distributor owns the theaters

or distribution networks) or through theatrical exhibitors and other sub-distributors. In our position as creating a movie for theatre and then progressing to home viewing purposes, we would decide to put our film in cinemas or theatrical exhibits, to widen the popularity and knowledge of our film from audiences. Optimum Releasing, released Brick in 2006. This is a UK Distributor which released the film in a theatrical form, for theatre. Furthermore we would most likely use a company like this to release our Movie as it's from the UK and released the film Brick, one of our main inspirations.

Therefore I feel our movie would be distributed by more of a low profile company like our inspirations, Brick and Wallander. Brick was distributed by Focus Features therefore we have decided to include their logo within our opening at the beginning before the rest of the titles and thriller footage.

Where will the Money come from to fund such a film like ours?

• 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.
• The Film Fund is the production and development heart of the UK Film Council. They support filmmakers in the UK who are emerging or world class and capable of creating distinctive and entertaining work.
• They welcome applications for all kinds of film – from commercial mainstream to experimental, from genre movies to personal stories, from documentaries to animation to live-action fiction. Therefore our film would be welcome to apply for funding.
• They have £15 million a year to invest across the development, production and completion of feature films.
• Being supported by the UK Film Council means more than just being given funding. It means that our project would be assisted at every step of the journey by their team, who can offer advice and practical help with many aspects of developing and producing our film.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ We most probably would get funded from the UK film council, as our film would be a small, low profile UK movie, who they might be prepared to fund for.