Evaluation Question 3

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

A production company is responsible for the development and physical production of a new media product. Therefore considering that me and my group members; Zak and Michayla were responsible for the development and physical production of a new media product, (being an opening scene)we could say that we have acted like prodcution company throughout this whole process of producing an opening scene.

A production company may also be directly responsible for the raising of funding for the production of this media product. Our budget was extremely low and we spent less than £10 buying any needed props for our footage that we filmed. However if we were to create a professional media product that was defined as 'category A;' meaning the film was made with entirely British resources, most of the funding for our media product would be supplied by the British film council.

Another role that a production company takes into account is finding a suitable instituion to distribute our media porduct.

A film distributor is an independent company is responsible for the marketing and circulation of movies in theaters, and for home viewing (DVD, Video-On-Demand, Download, Television etc). There are many respected, recognisable film distributors, some of these being;