Distributors Research

Media Institutions That Produce The Types Of Film I Am Going To Create

Possible Production Companies

• BBC Films

• UK Film Council

• Shine

• Figment Films

• Channel 4 films

• Gunslinger

• Gateway Films (co-production)

• Cabin Fever Films (in association with)

• Creativity Media (in association with)

• Limelight Communication (as Limelight) (in association with) (presents)

• ContentFilm

• Kasander Film Company

Possible Distributors

• Verve Pictures 

• 21st Century Pictures 

• Arkles Entertainment 

• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 

• Image Entertainment

• MTV Netherlands 

• Movie Bank 

• Warner Bros. Entertainment Finland Oy 

• Revolver Entertainment

• Artificial eye

Distributors that especially appeal to me are UK Film council and BBC Films as these two british distributors are well known for producing good youth culture films such as Kidulthood and Adulthood, I believe they would be most likely to distribute our film if we ever did make it as our film has a very similar feel to that of Kidulthood and Adulthood. I believe our film would be able to live up to the expectations of the Kidulthood and Adulthood audience if it was made into a normal length film and distributed by either UK Film council or BBC Films

Audience Research Reply

We interviewed some of our peers asking the five questions:

• What are your expectations of the opening 2 minutes of any film?

"I should find out the main themes and a bit about the main characters"

"Know everything about what the film is trying to show me"

"Brief description (visually) of what's happening, the setting, the man characters"

"Set the scene- hooks you to the film"

• What are your expectations of the opening 2 minutes of a youth culture film?

"Find out what's going to happen, and how the film will develop"

"Get to the point"

"Show what area it's set in"

"Teenagers, walking around [...] in groups"

• Why do enjoy youth culture films?

"I can relate to them"

"I feel like I can relate to the problems the characters may feel"

"They are relatable to some of us"

"Teenagers enjoy watching other teenagers"

• How do you typically access films?

"On the internet"

"Download offline or DVD"

"Cinema or DVD"

"CInema is really expensive, so DVD or internet, peer to peer sharing"

• What is your favourite youth culture film?

"Kidulthood"

"Adulthood"

"Adulthood"

"(some mutterings with no real answer)"

What we did learn from our audience research was a lot of information we could use to make our film more appealing to our targeted audience. I realised that our genre of film really appeals to our age group, they enjoy seeing people their age in situations such as our characters Ceaser and Flo

Most people our age have watched the films like Adulthood and Kidulthood which our films is sort of inspired by, this means our audience was excited to hear about the genre of film we'll be making, we now know what are the expectations of our film from our audiences and we can work towards achieving these expectations

Audience Research

We asked a few of our peers the following questions:

1. What are your expectations of the opening 2 minutes of any film? 
2. What are your expectations of the opening 2 minutes of a youth culture film? 
3. Why do enjoy youth culture films? 
4. How do you typically access films? 
5. What is your favourite youth culture film?

Edited Storyboard

Ali (Ceaser)

                                                                        Kirsty (Flo)

Storyboard

These are our groups original storyboard ideas for kirsty's part in the film

Timetable

This is our timetable for filming and editing. I was the only one in our group without the same free periods as the others in my group so we had to take advantage of lunch and our media lessons

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
Period 1					Friday
Period 2	Editing
Period 3		Editing
Period 4			Filming
Lunch			Filming	Filming
Period 5				Filming

Final Song Choice

• After song proposals from each of the group, we finally came to the decision of this track because it reinforces our chosen genre, it puts the audience in the right mood. 
• The music reflects off of the lifestyle of the main character in our film
• The song comes in first at the opening titles and again when Kirsty puts on her headphones, giving off an impression that we can hear what she hears.
• The music can also be seen as foreshadowing since it is playing when Ali buys drugs and again when Kirsty is going to meet Ali.