Distributer (Definition)
(This was taken from Wikipedia)"The distribution of a film (or movie) is the process through which a movie is made available to watch for an audience by a film distributor. This task may be accomplished in a variety of ways; for example, with a theatrical release, a home entertainment release (in which the movie is made available on DVD-video or Blu-ray Disc) or a television program for broadcast syndication and may include digital distribution"
Five Useful Hyperlinks
- http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/distribution/distribution1.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_distribution
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_distributor
- http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/distribution/distribution7.html
- http://www.launchingfilms.com/
Distributors are companies whose job it is to make sure media products (such as films, music and other commercial items) get a wide release and are available to buy. Their job is in advertising and persuading cinemas that their film should be shown.With our film being created on zero budget (also known as Indie) we would need to find a distribution company that wont be too expensive, so this rules out any big film companies for example Universal Pictures.
Taking the films i have analysed into account we have evidence that their is still a target audience for film of a slasher or a sub-genre of horror therefore we believe our film could fit into the market and be successful.
We could choose Warp Films as they are a UK based company and produce low budget films which are also very successful. Donkey Punch and Dead Man's Shoes are good examples of what Warp has produced, very low budget (compared to the Big 6) yet they can still make a good profit. However our film has a budget even much lower than this small indie company; therefore it does seem a bit too far away for us. Even with a budget of less than £50 there are still examples of films getting into cinemas with Colin; a £45 film which made it to the big screen, so it is a possibility this could happen to ours.
After research on the internet and from my own knowledge we found out that the best choice for a distribution company would be Optimum Releasing, giving the fact that we have no budget to work with. Optimum Releasing is a fairly low budget British Distributor company which is ideal for our film and would fit perfectly into this company. They release over 200 films a year and are one of the most prominent distributors in the UK independent film and world cinema market.
The genre for our film is Slasher, Title Name (Unknown). Our film is a very low budget indie film and there are no headline actors involved. However, the film does mirror some of the main slasher conventions which we have researched previously. To mention an example we plan to use a san seriff font for our title which is common in many slasher films such asScream and Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Our film will be similar to the film MadHouse.
Top Ten film distributors in the UK (2012)
| 1 | Skyfall | Sony | 101.0 |
| 2 | The Dark Knight Rises | Warner Bros | 56.3 |
| 3 | Marvel's Avengers Assemble | Walt Disney | 51.9 |
| 4 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Warner Bros | 40.8 |
| 5 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 | EOne Films | 35.5 |
| 6 | Ted | Universal | 30.3 |
| 7 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | 20th Century Fox | 30.1 |
| 8 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Sony | 25.9 |
| 9 | Prometheus | 20th Century Fox | 24.7 |
| 10 | The Hunger Games | Lionsgate | 23.8 |
- Sony more than doubled its 2011 share of 7.35% with an enormous 17.9% share in 2012, with 'Skyfall' accounting for half its total take.
- 20th Century Fox came in a close second with 39 titles hauling £191.2m for a 16.3% market share.
- Last year's number one, Warner Bros, fell to third with £147m, a 12.5% market share. £56.3m of this total was brought in by 'The Dark Knight Rises'.
- Overall, the UK box office grossed £1.172b in 2012, narrowly ahead of 2011’s £1.130b total.
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| Skyfall Cover |
Budget
$200m
Gross (Worldwide)
$981m
Distributors
- Columbia Pictures (2012) (USA) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures International (2012) (UK) (theatrical)
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| The Hobbit Cover |
Budget
$180m
Gross (Worldwide)
$600m
Distributors
- Warner Bros. Entertainment (2012) (UK) (theatrical)
- Warner Bros. Pictures (2012) (USA) (theatrical)
Friday the 13th (1980, Sean S. Cunningham)
Budget
$550,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend
Gross
$39,754,601 (USA)
AUD 2,202,000 (Australia)
$853,857 (Germany)
SEK 1,328,976 (Sweden)
Weekend Gross
Distributors
Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme)
Budget
$19,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend
Gross
Distributers
- 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2009) (UK)
- Orion Pictures Corporation (1991) (USA)
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All distributors use marketing tools which is what we may plan to do for our film. These techniques are used to promote a film. These can consist of posters, websites, social networking and trailers to name a few.
Examples:
Examples:
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Skyfall Website |
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| Scream Cover |
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| Texas Chainsaw Massacre Cover |
There seems to be repetition with all of the slasher genre posters, they mainly consist of dark colours and titles using a san serif font, this provides an exposition to the audience that the film they are looking at is going to be a horror of some sort for example if you compared the Skyfall cover with the Scream cover, the exposition from both would provide the genre signifier.
The distributers above would not realistically distribute our film, therefore i am going to look at more low budget
distributers.
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| Eden Lake Poste |
Eden Lake (James Watkins, 2008)
Gross:
$5,824 (USA) (2 November 2008)
Production Co:
Distributers:
- Optimum Releasing (2008) (UK) (theatrical)
- Weinstein Company, The (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
Budget:
$700k (estimated)
Production Companies:
EM Media, Film4, Madman Entertainment
Realistically i feel that optimum releasing (Studio Canal) would be the right distributors for our film because our budget is very narrow and they have distributed relatively low budget films before.
The estimated budget for our film
Our film is a low budget indie film so it is impossible to have a well known distributer to fund our project. However, our budget would be extremely low anyway. We have no such thing as providing an actors salary, funding large equipment ect.
The things we are planning to include that will need funding consist of:
Distributers:
- Optimum Releasing (2008) (UK) (theatrical)
- Magnet Releasing (2009) (USA) (theatrical)
Realistically i feel that optimum releasing (Studio Canal) would be the right distributors for our film because our budget is very narrow and they have distributed relatively low budget films before.
The estimated budget for our film
Our film is a low budget indie film so it is impossible to have a well known distributer to fund our project. However, our budget would be extremely low anyway. We have no such thing as providing an actors salary, funding large equipment ect.
The things we are planning to include that will need funding consist of:
- Laboratory Coat (1)
- Fake blood
- An ID
So in total our film will cost under £10 to be realistic therefore our film is a really low budget film
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| Our film poster |
Almost every film has a film poster which is why we chose to create our own. We anchored the slasher genre through our colour scheme with the red, white and black we also used a san serif font which is specific to our slasher genre.
Our trailer, again another marketing technique that all films use - not just specific to the slasher genre. We chose to make a teaser trailer to give our target audience a sense of anticipation for our full length film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Top Ten UK Film Distributors 2012
1. Sony: $336.4m (£209.9m) 17.9%
2. 20th Century Fox: $306.5m (£191.2m) 16.3%
3. Warner Bros: $235.5m (£147m) 12.5%
4. Universal: $219.3m (£136.8m) 11%
5. Walt Disney: $197.4m (£123.2m) 10.5%
6. eOne: $129.5m (£80.8m) 6.9%
7. Paramount: $125.8m (£78.5m) 6.7%
8. Lionsgate: $109.3m (£68.2m) 5.8%
9. Momentum: $82.1m (£51.2m) 4.3%
10. Entertainment Film Distributors: $59m (£36.8m) 3.1%
Below is a Vodcast or Our We Creating British Cinema. This links into the low budget film we have created which links into Warp as they create low budget films as they are an Indie Company who can not find fundings for films such as the "Big 6" do.
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