Question 3

When it comes down to distributing our film we will need a distribution company who have been successful in our genre of film. This is so we can be confident that our film will get the sales and views we want. When deciding the company we need to take into account the genre, films similar to ours and whether the company produces mainly low budget films of the British region. Some of the main distribution companies that we came across were Brain damage films, lion gate films and hammer films.

Instead of choosing just one distribution we are going to choose these two because we feel that this will increase our chances of our film being successful.

The reason i have mainly looked at companies that distribute low budget films was due to our film also being very low budget. As this is a school task we haven't had any money to create these film opening with. The setting was not paid for and we only used a school camera therefore our film opening is not of the quality of a high budget film would be. We also didn't have any big actors in our film, therefore they are unknown actors who would be included in high budget films.

Our first film company would be 'hammer films'. Hammer films are a company based in the United Kingdom. They were founded in 1934 and are best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. During the most successful years of the company they dominated the horror market and produced both well known high budget films, but mainly many successful low budget films. As they are a British company will benefit us because they will be able to relate to our film and give us any help that we may need. It will also be local therefore we wont have to travel far which could cost us a lot of money. Some of the films they have produced are; The woman in black, let me in, hands of the ripper, wake wood and many more. Some of these are higher budget than others but due to the vast majority of their films being low budget we can be sure that our film will be successful because of the films they have distributed through the years.

The second film company that we will choose is 'lionsgate'. Lionsgate is a Canadian-American film production/distribution studio and a division of Lions Gate Entertainment. The company was founded in 1962 by John Dunning and Andre Link and was based in Montreal. Although they may not be based in the United Kingdom lions-gate are a very well established company who have produced many successful films both high budget and low budget. Therefore we believe it will be good to get our film known in other countries and lions-gate will allow us to do that. Lionsgate have produced films such as; saw, alive or dead, the evil woods, the slaughter and many more. They have such a wide variety of films therefore we really think that this company will help get our film very well known, due to their success. 

We could also distribute our film through many different ways, without the help of distribution companies. One of these ways could be through a film festival. A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues. Film festivals allow a film company promote their film to a large number of people and get the film more well known without the need of getting it distributed by a company. As our film is a British film we would promote it at the British Film Institute in London as we feel this would be the most successful place for our type of film.

We would also do many different types of advertising, this is because as our film is a very low budget with actors no one will really will know, we will have to advertise to the public so they can find out about our film. We would do this through posters, leaflets, social networking and many other ways.

For our film company we made up the name 'Hanging Hill Productions'. The reason for this is because we believe it relates a lot to our film and the name is interesting and people will want to find out more about our company and the films we produce.