Tuesday, 23 March 2010

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

Characteristics of Hollywood Thrillers consist of stories and concepts that employ suspense in order to maintain interest, however, thrillers exploit that particular narrative quality as much as possible. Main characters in thrillers are placed in menacing situations from which escape seems impossible. Themes often include terrorism, political conspiracy, love triangles that lead to murder, etc. Often the heroes are ordinary folk who are drawn into danger unknowingly or unwillingly. More often than not, the heroes of these movies are men, but occasionally women take a lead roll (e.g. Linda Hamilton in The Terminator).
In Comparison to the stereotypical characteristics of Hollywood Thrillers, Our thriller depicts some similar traits such as the fact that the main character can be juxtaposed to be a woman ( as Elizabeth Carter is the protagonist of our thriller), our themes include student relationship towards each other that leads to murder, and our main character is placed in menacing situations from which escape seems impossible leading to her death, thus I think our film has the potential to be produced by the Hollywood industry if developed further and have a-list professionals star in it.
If our thriller was to be made my a Hollywood institution, Twisted Pictures would be a perfect production company to make our film as they have been very successful in the production of horror movies of this genre such as the most popular American horror movie franchise, the Saw series and over the last 7 years, has grossed over $900,000,000 with the success of their horror films such as , Saw III which grossed $163,876,815.
Lions Gate, and which was is of the most commercially efficacious independent film distribution company in North America due to success of other horror and thriller movies which it distributed in the last few years such as Saw IV, Transporter 3, My Bloody Valentine (3D) and The Imaginaries of Doctor Parnassus. Therefore these companies would be appropriate institutions that are likely to be interested in distributing and producing our media product as our film would only require a relatively small production budget around $1,200,000 which was the same budget as the original Saw movie in 2004, which eventually grossed over 100 times its production budget (approximately $103,096,345) .

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