Activity 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Screamfest Award

For our film, if we put it into the film world, we would expect it to start out in a film festival. One distingished film festival that would suit the film, Euphoria, would be the "Screamfest LA." It gives a great launch pad for a film to get to big cinemas or to DVD. The film festival offers $10,000 and a "Boost film making award," as well as other prizes to help with your film making carrer. It gives films a very good chance, for example, "Paranormal Activity," was a unprofessional made movie, but made $193,355,800 from a buget of $15,000 after winning the competion. A former competitor described their preview said they "had a great premiere screening and got positive reviews as a result." It gives good feedback to films and will helps the film makers bigger offers.

Another way we could advertise our film is in an independant cinema. One cinema that would be ideal for our particular movie is the "Curzon Cinemas," situated in London. They hold small budget films and show they to a wide audience. The cinemas are situated all around London and give movies a wide audience and get different reviews. "Curzon Cinemas," also hold film events to show low rated movies and have a small competitions. It could provide and opportunity for a film to be showed in a bigger cinema, if an investor went to the events or it was rated highly by people.

Suggested TV channel

To get popular support of the movie, "Euphoria," it could be broadcasted on the TV on channels such as "Film 4." I would think of this TV channel because "Euphoria," would not be a big movie and there are movies shown everyday on "Film 4," so there is a better chance of it being watched and a better chance of getting on the TV. This would raise the popularity of the film and could starts sales of DVD's instead of going into a cinema and it would lead on from winning a film festival of a film makers competition.

Another way we could advertise the film, "Euphoria," would be to enter it into a young writers competition. One possibility is the "Cinequest: Picture the Possibilities," competition which is held all over the world in New York, LA, Beijing, London, Mexico City and many others. It is co-hosted by inspirational figures and shared around the world and would be a great opportunity to meet other film makers and get reviews of the film and possibly put it into production.