Evaluation Question 3 - '•What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?'

My film is similar to Annabelle. Why? Because my film has used the typical conventions of a doll that is believed to be the cause of miss happenings and exposing the house my character lives in to ghostly figures and paranormal activity. Annabelle was distributed by Warner Bros. (New Line Cinema) Warner Bros are clearly interested in distributing horror films with typical conventions and nothing particularly challenging, its all very conventional.











My film is fairly conventional too and is not particularly unique. To create the film Annabelle it cost $6.5 million. This is a lot of money considering there are no real eye openers in terms of expensive effects or scenes. It’s all filmed in a friendly typical town with a typical family and all the effects or paranormal effects are mainly just green screened. My film contains similar effects such as the green screening however I have done the opposite, I have inserted figures into the footage where Annabelle producers have masked people put, to create the illusion to the audience that the strange events are happening on there own. My film would cost around £4.2 million. This is because my film is very similar in terms of effects, scenes, characters, props and mis en scene and Annabelle cost around $6 million, I have changed the currency as I have produced my film in the UK and it comes to approximately £4.2 million. My film should be released worldwide in over 30 countries.

 They all have the same release date and therefore I will release my film on the same date worldwide, this is because once the film is released it is venerable to piracy and therefore massively decreases film profit as people watch it for free at home. My film will be exhibited in cinemas in the countries, which Annabelle was most popular in (top 20). My films rating are going to be brilliant in terms of all time worldwide rating because the film Annabelle is 9^th worldwide lifetime and it has only been released for around 8 months. This is compared to films that have been released for around 5 years, which is brilliant.

Hollywood in 1920’s created a lot of horror films and basically created what we see today, they shaped the way horrors work and created the conventions, and since the 1920’s horrors have just been reproduced with the same conventions and very similar narratives. This is because the 1920’s in American Hollywood were believed to be the ‘Golden Age Of Hollywood’ and the audience wanted to see more of what Hollywood was producing. Therefore Hollywood created more of the same films more or less and the audience loved it.  Horrors were and still are appealing to the audience because of the old fashioned conventions and how they are linked in with the modern day storyline and how it relates to the audiences every day lives.  

How it works is my small production business 'RedFish' will request finance off the large distribution company such as Warner Bros. Once my business request the 5 million (maximum)off the large distribution company and then we produce the film, assuming we are granted the 5 million pounds of Warner Bros. They listen to the narrative, review a plan and assure the finance requested is reasonable and then the choose whether to grant. If they do then RedFish will produce the film and give it to Warner and Warner will distribute it to cinemas, sky store box office, advertise it etc. Then RedFish will get a percentage of the films gross profit, e.g. if the films gross profit is a billion pounds, then RedFish may receive 70 million.