Distribution and Our Fim

Distribution “Film distribution is the process of making a movie available for viewing by an audience. ... For commercial projects, film distribution is usually accompanied by film promotion. When a film is initially produced, a feature film is often shown to audiences in a movie theater.”

Film distributors try to make a film is internationally well know and to get as many people to what it is possible. One a film is filmed, edited and complete, a distributor will begin to work on its release; they will secure screening as start a buzz around the film. Every film has a different plan as to how they get their film to their target audience. Some examples of film distributors are; 20th Century Fox, Entertainment One UK, Lionsgate and Studiocanal.

Distributor Interests in our FilmFilms such as Gone Girl, Before I Go To Sleep and Girl On The Train are similar films to ours as they are psychological thriller films. Gone Girl was distributed by many different companies for screenings around the world but their main distributor was 20th Century Fox. Before I Go To Sleep was distributed by 20th Century Fox and Clarius Entertainment. Girl On The Train was distributed by Universal Pictures. All of these films were distributed by major distributing companies and so we felt that because our film had the same style to it as these ones, that our film too could be distributed by a major company.

Audience Appeal I think our film would be appeal to a wide audience as it is not significant to one domain or social category so can be watched anywhere by various different people in a large audience. It can be watched by people in other countries such as America, not just the UK. We would want to create a buzz around the release of our film as the film itself holds a buzz of fear and tension for both the characters and the audience. We would release small teaser trailers leading up to a main trailer to pull the audience’s in and build their suspicions. As our film has a wide audience we would also aim to market in various ways to attract each demographic; through social media, tv, radio and more.