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

Production Company

For our Final Product our group needed to create our own production company name and logo to use on our film. For this we created "SMITE PRODUCTIONS". The company 'Smite Productions was given a logo of an open hand that looks as if it has smacked the screen casing this white spray mark around it and looks to have stamped on the words 'Smite Productions'. Our group chose this name for our Production company as the 'Smite' company helps with the production of a select group of films. They choose films which they believe may not be so high budget but is hard hitting; films which have a depth to them.

In our group we had discussed what Distribution company we could use for our Media Project. It was important for us to carefully choose what Distribution company to use because different companies support different films based on the genre of a Film and whether it was intended for a Mainstream audience or a Niche audience. Our group initially decided that the best company to use for our opening was "New Line Cinema".

We considered this company because despite being very well known New Line Cinema Company has distributed for many independent films, some of which fit into the genre of a Thriller, just like our film which is a Psychological Thriller. Below are examples of some Thriller films distributed by New Line:

The Butterfly Effect (2004) A History Of Violence (2005) The Number 23 (2007) 

The appeal of New Line Cinema is that it distributes Thriller films and those films are more targeted towards a Niche audience based on the contents and storyline. Also the budgeting of films is an important factor to consider, mainstream films can receive extremely large budgets whereas niche films work with lower budgets.

However we had made the decision to instead go for a different distribution company, The Weinstein Company:

The Weinstein Company was another choice of ours that we chose over New Line because Weinstein distributes for more low-budget films, films that are not as expensive or very well known but are more to do with the content and the story as oppose to the Budget and the film being mainstream.

The Weinstein Company has provided distribution to some Thriller films appropriate to our project as well as branching out to different companies which would target the genre of film we look into. The Weinstein Company has distributed the film below:

Derailed (2005)