Evaluation Question 3

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

Here you can see a mind map of all the options we have to distribute our media product along with the advantages and disadvantages. However we are not likely to use all of these methods. For instance, we are an independent and small film so we are more likely to use the microwave system with UK production companies. The reason we wouldn't use USA production companies is highlighted red under the USA branch. So all the options we would not use are those that either have too many disadvantages, those that would cost money and those that would distribute the thriller for free.
I have spoken about YouTube red, for those who do not know what this is, it is an addition to YouTube where they show videos which you have to pay for to watch. This payment is done as a monthly subscription

Now i need to compare our distribution to a real films distribution. I am choosing to compare with "Shifty"

Similarities - Both our film and Shifty both will use the microwave system. This is because this will provide support and low budgets. Shifty also premiered at the London film festival which got multiple UK production companies interested in distributing the film. We also plan to get UK production companies to help so our film can be in cinema. Furthermore, Shifty distributed their film on DVD/Blue-ray's and TV. We also plan to utilise these.

Differences - Shifty has distributed their film on the internet (youtube) and also in other con tries like Australia. This does not interest us as we want our film to be focused in the UK first and we wouldn't distribute online as we want to achieve some money to cover the costs of production and distribution