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

Vertigo films (uk) distributes many films of a similar genre and I think would be good choice for the distribution of our thriller.  Films such as; Shrooms, Monsters & Wakewood all use tension and suspense to keep there viewers interested, similar to what we have tried to produce. ‘Shrooms’ is a film closely related to our thriller as it uses the effects of the drug ‘magic mushrooms’  to create a host of mystery and confusion throughout to disguise the true reality and fatal effects some of these drugs can have other wise described as ‘a bad trip’.  Our film is based on an unknown; perhaps untested drug, that has unknown effects on the user, and shows how peer pressure and age can have a dramatic effect on the amount of people that decide to try drugs in their life. Our thriller focuses on what some of those unknown effects could be… in this case the fatal and mind destroying effects. We chose do our thriller in this way as it clearly shows how quickly things can go from good to bad as we try to get to the point by creating a worst case scenario in which we could portray these effects clearly. 

Vertigo films (UK) only distribute four films a year, so I imagine the selection process for which films they decide to move a head with is pretty tough, however our media product is only the beginning and with time and planning could be adapted and created into a full length media product that could prove very appealing to this distribution company. ‘The happening’ is another film that uses similar conventions too our own. Quick fast paced shots and the feeling of the unknown all come into both pieces as is common with the typical thriller genre. It was distributed by 20^th century fox which is one of 6 major film studies in America producing hundreds of films and TV shows. This company could also be used to distribute our thriller as it can guarantee large viewer ratings because it’s such a well known company. However again to use this company would be very expensive and prove unpractical to use as our institution.  I believe vertigo films would be a good choice to distribute our film as it has produced films of a similar genre in the past with great successes, is UK based and would be more suitable over large American multimillion dollar corporation. 

In my research I found that Film 4 productions were a far more appealing institution to distribute our film. Film 4 develops and co-finances films that deal with the most innovated talent in the UK.  The reason this is ideal for our choice of institution is that they are UK based and work with new or established producers meaning a higher chance of this company taking on our film. The other benefits of using film 4 as our institution is that it has a large viewing audience within the UK because it is a well known film institution. They show films everyday on there own channel and rake in a considerable viewer rating.