Who would Distribute our film??

Because our film is low budget production the company that would most likely distribute and produce our film would be either Vertigo or Warp. Since our film is a 1940’s noir genre our thriller would most likely be distributed into more art house cinemas like Warp films such as Submarine by Richard Arayoade and Tyrannosaur by Paddy Considine. Both of these directors were first time directors which proves that warp are willing to take chances on first time film makers which suits our situation perfectly and even more because they specialize in distributing and producing low-budget art house films. We also think that Vertigo would produce and distribute our films for many of the same reasons why we think that warp would also be good. Like Warp, Vertigo also takes chances on first time film makers for example just like Gareth Edwards who made Monsters and also similar to him who edited his film in his house while we edited ours in school. Another similarity between the two films is that we both used quite cheap cameras to film our films. Edwards using a 2000 pounds Sony EX3 and us using a 3000 pounds Sony NX5 digital HD camera.

The reason we didn’t choose a large company like Universal Studios or Time Warner to produce and distribute our film is because our film is very low budget compared to theirs and is aimed at a smaller niche audience where mostly their films are aimed to the global masses. Secondly we feel that these large conglomerates would also not produce our film because their main aim is to make money from the box office and sell on the merchandise of which does not suite our thriller very well. Our film would probably make more money through DVD sales and television more that anything else because our opportunities are limited because most likely bigger companies will not want to take risks on us. 

Vertigo is great because it specializes in films of our films genre and since Vertigo has a partnership with BBC and BFI this could really be a benefit financially and distribution wise for our film. Combining with other companies through cross- media convergence mean that we will be able to share the cost and perhaps get extra funding to spend more on marketing for our film. This then benefits us because it minimizes the risk by sharing the cost and help us also distribution wise because the BBC would be able to show it on TV which could help promote our film across the UK and Europe. For example having the BBC associated with the film The Kings Speech this helped sell the film to be distributed in the US because they consider it a worthy and venerable institution.