Production Companies That Would Produce Our Film

Who would produce and distribute our film?

The target audience of our piece is teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19, specifically. With modern society becoming ever more reliant on the internet, and with illegal downloads becoming such a large problem for the film industry, we talked about making our film accessible legally through the internet. 

Our target audience falls into the age bracket of people that use online streaming sites such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Now TV, the most. Whether this be because a monthly membership to a site such as Netflix can equate to less than one cinema trip, or whether it be due to the convenience of being able to watch some of the latest, and most popular, movies from the comfort of your own home, we don’t know. 

After some research, we decided one of the production companies that we were most interested in producing our film was Film 4. We were attracted to Film 4 as it is well known for producing independent, low budget, British films, and as a result, have quite a large following of people that watch their work, as they have enjoyed previous pieces they have watched. Using a production company like Film 4 would make our film more appealing to an audience as they are a production company that is renowned for making excellent quality pieces, with interesting narratives. Additionally, Film 4 is also available on an online platform, which is fitting with how we wanted to make our film legally accessible online. Film 4 would also be a suitable company to produce our film, as from research we have conducted, they have produced a fair few films that are of the thriller genre.

After some discussion and some research, we came to the conclusion that we would be interested in using hybrid distribution as our method for distributing our thriller film. Hybrid distribution is when you keep the rights for your film, but sell them to different distributing platforms to distribute your product. This way you earn more money, as your are paid by the different distributors, than if you just sold the rights straight off.

We liked this idea as it meant that our film would be available to watch on a variety of platforms, and would then hopefully reach a larger audience than it might if on one method of distribution was used.

As a means to distribute our product, we would be interested in using a streaming site such as Netflix. This is not only because Netflix is a site that is regularly used by our target audience, but because it has been used as a platform for getting lots of independent films a lot of interest. For example, Netflix produces and distributes its own shows and films, which gain a lot of views through the platform. Additionally, a lot of British independent films have grown in popularity, and have reached a much wider audience than thought, due to the success of the platform, and due to the sheer number of people that use the platform. 

There were a variety of reasons that we decided that our film would be distributed using online platforms. Not just because that our target audience as regular users of streaming sites, but also because it would be more cost effective. For low budget, independent films, it is often unrealistic for them to be distributed in cinemas, as this costs a lot of money. Instead, the use of hybrid distribution, involving the use of online streaming platforms, would be far more achievable and cost effective.