Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 3

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

Our film is a niche independent film with some involvement from Fox Searchlight pictures. Because our film is such I would imagine that it would be shown at film festivals such as the Sundance film festival or Cannes for a while before getting a public release.

I imagine that our product could also be shown by some of the standard cinemas in the UK such as Cineworld, as well as being shown in smaller cinemas too. I think it could also get to some European cinemas, however I doubt that it would be shown much if at all in cinemas in the Americas or Asia.

The product could also be distributed internationally on DVD and Blu Ray, and if I were to have my way by digital download. DVD/Blu Ray/Digital Downloads could negate the issue of poor cinema going in some nations and help make some money.

Examples of institutions I could imagine distributing our product would be:

• The British Film Institute

I can imagine the BFI distributing our product as they have backed and distributed hundreds of independant films and also have been known to release DVDs.

• Vertigo Films

Vertigo Films are a company that has created and distributed independant films, one example of which would be Richard Ayoade's Submarine

• The BBC

I can see the BBC distributing our product too as they are a British company that has also distributed and funded many smaller films and also distribute DVDs.

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

As our media product revolves around one character, the titular Red, the number of social groups represented is less than plentiful, there are also not alot of representations of each. However Red herself falls into a couple of social groups.

Most obviously Red is a female. Females are often used as window dressing, they are usually very feminine and attractive and not very hands on. Females are also very commonly the innocent victim or damsel in distress. However Red is not the stereotypical film female, as young and innocent as Red may look outwardly her dark side completely goes against the stereotypical female, being insane and of malicious intent. Red is however also a victim though as the abuse she received as a child is what led to the development of her twisted alter ego. So on the whole females are shown to neither be dainty darlings nor stone cold femme fatales, balanced but by extremes if you will.

Another social group represented in our media product are the mentally challenged. There are two typical representations of the mentally challenged, there are the sweet but dim characters such as Forest Gump and the disturbed and creepy. I would say that Red clearly comes under the latter, as she has a murderous alter ego spawned by domestic abuse from her grandmother. 

Film Opening Update 8

Film Opening Update 8

I was given the task of finding a funding company logo to put in our movie opening. After researching online I decided on the Heritage Lottery Fund as it is located in south east England and seems more likely to fund a film like ours than others.

After downloading their logo, in class I decided to edit the colours to blend in better with the titles used in our opening so I changed it from blue/black on a white background to a darker shade of red on a black background.