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

Taken and Memento are both similar films to our film opening, we have analysed the openings to these films and have looked at the distributors for both. Taken was distributed by EuropaCorp.Distribution, who distributed the film worldwide and 20th Century Fox distributed the film in the UK. These distribution companies are mass market american and EU distribution companies that can enable the film to get a large amount of audience from different markets overseas.

The media institution which would distribute our film would be BBC films. This distribution company would be ideal for distributing our film because they typically distribute low budget films. Some low budget films which BBC films have distributed include "Shifty" and "Bullet Boy". Both these films are aimed at the same audience as our film and therefore BBC films would be a suitable distribution company.

Film 4 also distributes low budget films and would therefore also be a suitable distribution company for our film. Film 4 productions is owned by Channel 4 and aswell as distributing low budget films, it also distributes some larger budget films such as Lovely Bones.