Thriller Research Evaluation Question 3

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

Unless some film company/ conglomeration/ director got interested in our opening titles for the film idea 'Resonance' with a good contract such as Universal or anything of potentially american influence, I would try applying for a sum of money through some company like the UK Film Council (set up in 2000 by the Labour party to promote the UK filming industry) that may be interested in financing a unique concept film with a assassin pianist, or even a high end independent filming company would do, but distribution would depend on their connections with cinema chain
s and all. With the success of thriller films like the Woman in Black, it wouldn't be a bad idea to promote an idea like ours to boost the impression of thriller films and general films in the British industry.

This second option is probably better as it feels better to produce a British Film with only British financing I think, but this is becoming more and more rare and shouldn't be expected to happen with the money that can be made through a global conglomerate.

On the other side of the course where I've been studying the British Filming industry, I became aware of MultiStory which is a local micro-budget company that I believe would take on a film idea like ours that could possible reach the typically high concept values of popular, more mainstream British films in the cinema chain. A small advantage with making a micro-budget film is that we would be outside the mainstream cinema chain like Empire cinemas, and will be still able to show our product at indie theaters that would allow the production companies with actors to have a Q&A session afterwards with the audience, so they can talk to the audience in person.

Thanks to the world we live in, we could even post our film on YouTube as a way of distributing the product for free, unless it came to a point where you can get paid for how many times a viewer clicks YouTube advertisements from if our videos actually starting to catch on. The use of the tag function and posting information/ updates/ advertisements on social media sites like Facebook would be a great way of trying to get our product out there.

 If we had the expense and begun a micro-budget company, we would start by buying a domain name for a site, so that we could post what our company does, the films we do, have done, and are coming, list of cast members etc.

An alternative to making a bit of money from efforts made with producing the product would be to join a streaming service online (Distrify for example) like what the micro-budget company MulitStory has done with films such as Verity's Summer where you have a choice to rent or buy the film, which won't make a lot of money, but then in our realistic cases, it is better than nothing, and anyhow, it seems to be catching on recently with making small films viral so it would be worth a shot.