Media Evaluation - Question 3 - Group

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

Universal Studios Successful Films:
1) Jurassic Park
2) Furious 7
3) Meet The Fockers
4) Fast & Furious 6
5) The Bourne Ultimatum

Warner Bros. Successful Films:
1) The Dark Knight
2) Hangover
3) Gravity
4) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
5) I Am Legend

We have chosen Universal Studios because of the fact that they are one of the big six film studios, keeping in mind so are Warner Bros. The main reason we chose Universal Studios over Warner Bros is because we believe that they had a lot more experience in the film industry, they were established in 1912, and as they started to produced their first few movies, the gained a mass audience and throughout the years they have earned a good reputation for themselves. They have had record breaking success with some of their films in terms of box office, such as Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park. We hope that with their status and reputation within the film industry it would help our film to be very successful too.

Some of the films they have produced matched our type of story and the action genre, such as the Bourne and Fast & Furious franchise. Although we are a small British production company we think the quality of our film has the potential to be a big success. Universal is the parent company of the British production company Working Title so we think they could also have the interest of working with our production company as we will be making films that are quite different from Working Title. Our film Dog Tag, and other films we will make in the future, will be more mainstream and would reach wider audiences and more men than women, which is opposite to Working Title. 

Being with a big distributer like Universal would also mean we would have access to a bigger budget, which we would require and better distribution deals. They have experience in marketing films which would help attract our audience in the UK and America. They would also be able to help after the film has been in the cinema as they are a company that is vertically integrated.