Distribution is the way in which a film is made available to the
audience. This includes marketing, in order to make the audience aware that the
film exists. The distribution platforms for a film include cinema, selling film
rights to television networks, DVD sales, Sky video on demand, Netflix, Amazon
Prime, Google play, Xbox live, Itunes, Spotify and YouTube. Cinema is where
films make most of their money however 9/10 films do not make it into the
cinema so most have to find an audience other ways. For a low budget filmmaker,
it is essential to go to film festivals as this is a way to find a distributor
to buy your film. Film festivals take place in London, Sheffield, Brighton, New
York, Berlin etc... Film festivals act as a meeting point for people to
have an opportunity to invest in films they like and think will make money.
When a distribution company buys a film, it'll be marketed, advertised, they'd create a social media campaign, get your film a certificate to be rated, and handle some press interviews. The film will then be pitched to independent cinema chains like Curzon. It is important to make the right deal with a distribution company, to maximise their profit. Distribution companies will take money off for advertising, digital platform fees and cinema. Therefore getting the best deal is important and low budget film makers need to decide if they want to sell all their rights to the distributor and make a small profit or cut a deal with them.
A big Hollywood company would like our film as it is a good thriller idea based upon a popular genre. A film that achieved success that is in the same genre is Scream, in which our film is very similar to.
It is unlikely that an American conglomerate would buy/distribute our film as it was made with an extremely small budget. Therefore, all aspects of the film would not be professional enough for people to pay any money to see
The actors in our film are unknown, meaning it won't encourage anyone to come and see it. For example, The Wolf of Wall Street was exceedingly successful mainly due to the fact that the main actor was Leonardo Di Caprio who is very famous and would attract people to see the film before they had even heard about the storyline. Also, this is our first film and we don't have any experience in this industry, therefore it is even more unlikely our film will be good enough for them to be interested in distributing it. As well as this, the unprofessional/ordinary location of our film being in an actual house and not in a studio makes it unlikely to be bought and distributed. Lastly,the camera and lighting equipment is semi professional as well as the costume being very normal and unprofessional. So, these factors all lead to the film not being good enough to become successful.
When we eventually post our film on social media and if it goes viral and gets picked up by a UK distribution company, we would definitely invest a little bit of money in promoting it nationally as well as adding a pre sold element to attract people to the film. A similar film where this happened is made by Vertigo and is called 'This Is Evil'. This film is very similar to ours because it is based around fear with little violence, and this film was promoted and distributed due to this concept. which is similar to ours.
When a distribution company buys a film, it'll be marketed, advertised, they'd create a social media campaign, get your film a certificate to be rated, and handle some press interviews. The film will then be pitched to independent cinema chains like Curzon. It is important to make the right deal with a distribution company, to maximise their profit. Distribution companies will take money off for advertising, digital platform fees and cinema. Therefore getting the best deal is important and low budget film makers need to decide if they want to sell all their rights to the distributor and make a small profit or cut a deal with them.
A big Hollywood company would like our film as it is a good thriller idea based upon a popular genre. A film that achieved success that is in the same genre is Scream, in which our film is very similar to.
It is unlikely that an American conglomerate would buy/distribute our film as it was made with an extremely small budget. Therefore, all aspects of the film would not be professional enough for people to pay any money to see
The actors in our film are unknown, meaning it won't encourage anyone to come and see it. For example, The Wolf of Wall Street was exceedingly successful mainly due to the fact that the main actor was Leonardo Di Caprio who is very famous and would attract people to see the film before they had even heard about the storyline. Also, this is our first film and we don't have any experience in this industry, therefore it is even more unlikely our film will be good enough for them to be interested in distributing it. As well as this, the unprofessional/ordinary location of our film being in an actual house and not in a studio makes it unlikely to be bought and distributed. Lastly,the camera and lighting equipment is semi professional as well as the costume being very normal and unprofessional. So, these factors all lead to the film not being good enough to become successful.
When we eventually post our film on social media and if it goes viral and gets picked up by a UK distribution company, we would definitely invest a little bit of money in promoting it nationally as well as adding a pre sold element to attract people to the film. A similar film where this happened is made by Vertigo and is called 'This Is Evil'. This film is very similar to ours because it is based around fear with little violence, and this film was promoted and distributed due to this concept. which is similar to ours.
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