Evaluation Question 3

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With the production and distribution company both being low budget independent films it means that are film does have limits (examples given above). I think the independent and distribution companies both fit the film as the film it very new and should not have such an investment into it as it would be a high risk for mainstream companies.




When we pitched we had used to different production and distribution companies, these wereWorking Title and Studio Canal.

The company which we have chosen to use as our producer are Working Title Films. They are a production company who focus on independant filming and have helped produce many films such as Love Actually and Atonement. As you can see these films are related to ours in terms of thier genre and target audience. They mainly focus on the younger generation as we do too and include genre such as drama and romance which our film is strongly influenced by. I believe they would also choose to produce our film as they would be interested in what we have to offer in terms on content. Even though this company is local and independent it is owned by Universal meaning that it has quite a high budget which may decrease our chances with Working Title wanting to work with us as it will be risky to invest a lot into something relatively new.



The distributer is the force which is in charge of marketing the film. The distribution company that we have chosen to use is Studio Canal. It is one of Europe’s leading companies in the market for co-production, acquisition, distribution and sale of international feature films. They are an ideal distribution company in regards to our film. Furthermore, seeing as our movie is independent and based in the british region with the target audience being british, it is an ideal company to go with as we will be able to easily reach out to our target audience. They have produced movies such as Johnny English which makes it a suitable and viable distributor. They even offer an extension of our target audience, if we wanted to go further than only marketing our film to a british audience we would have to opportunity to expand on this as they have links with Universal Studios which would allow for expansion. This distribution company is very similar to the production company which is what we wanted.



The reason why we didn't want to go with these production and distribution companies in the end is because both have a fairly high budget and our film was too new and had no background reputation to really allow us to use a high budget. I think the production and distribution companies that we went with were suitable for a film anyway as they were both independent and local which ment they had an understanding of the market. Also the high budget was not a must as we did not need any CGI or stars.