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

Well to start off with, we would set our hopes high, which a lot of films do, and aim for some of the biggest distributers. Due to the biggest film industry being in America, thats where any film would love to be shown, as thats where it would be best known. The first thought would be the Big 6 in America, which comprises of 20th Century Fox, Warner Bro's., Paramount, Columbia, Universal and Walt Disney. To be linked with any of these Big 6 would then give you the best possible links with the biggest distributers.

For example with Universal, if you had a contract with them then they would put you in touch with Studio Canal, which is the largest distributer for films across Europe. This would then largely help your film in being recognized as it would be distributed in the two largest film continents.

With Columbia, their distributer is Sony Pictures, which would also be very good as it would link you with the rest of Sony.

However, this would just be what we hope for, and not be being realistic. In looking for a film distributer, you would think of looking for a good Indie company based in the country you set your film, for example for my film it would be England. I would then go into detail about each company, then narrow down my search by looking at a genre distributer, for example Hammer Film Productions, which specialises in Horror films. The reason that this company would be very good for my film would be due to the specific genre in horror, which I have already mentioned and because they would know more about this than any broad distributers, as broad ones do not have specialities.

There is a large variety of Film Distributers for every type of genre you can think of, but the problem is finding the perfect one for your film, as it is hard to persuade a company to distribute for you, as it is a huge business.