Task 3:- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

I think our film would be best suited to being distributed by a fairly low scale independent institution as supposed to Hollywood. After doing some research on British film companies I decided that the company ‘Red Films’ would be appropriate for the distribution of our product.

www.redfilm.co.uk/

By looking at the website I noticed that the company specialises in very abstract types of film which fits in with the abstract, obscure nature of our sequence. For example ‘Rufus’ which is one of the main filmed distributed by ‘Red Films’ tells the story of a boy with ‘a burning inflamed desire for anything red.’ Because our film is a psychological thriller we decided to concentrate more on the storyline and the feeling of suspense, rather than creating impressive visual imagery which we felt might possibly distract our viewers from the message we are trying to convey. When filming scenes which involved building a wall with bricks, we deliberately chose a plain black studio space in order to really enforce this idea of simplicity and minimalism. We also decided to use unknown actors as our leading roles. Again, this decision was made so that the audience could focus on the actual film rather than A-list celebrities. Furthermore, due to the slightly abstract nature of our sequence, from looking through the footage we got the sense that it might be well received in foreign countries such as France.