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

To begin with I looked into some films that had similar storylines or styles to our thriller.

Taken (2008)

Our whole film idea is similar to Taken, where a girl is kidnapped from under a bed by Albanian abductors. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox, one of the 'big 6'  distributors, in LA, California. They've distributed some of the highest grossing films such as Avatar, Titanic and Star Wars to name a few. They produce high grossing films with high budgets. 20th Century Fox would be our ideal distributors because they are a powerful company and could provide us with the opportunity to be distributed worldwide with a huge audience to create maximum profit. We'd want a large amount of advertising to get interest in our thriller as well, and 20th Century Fox could do that.




Die Hard (1988)

Again, our idea has some shared elements with Die Hard, involving terrorism but in a company building instead of a hotel/hostel, hoping to teach them a lesson for their greed and taking money from them, with terrorism as a distraction. This is also distributed by 20th Century Fox, suggesting that they would be suitable for distributing our thriller.








In reality our thriller is likely to be more low budget, so 20th Century Fox may not be suitable for distribution. Tristar would be more likely to do it because they're lower budget but still have the opportunity to get our thriller to a wide audience. It would mean that gross is potentially smaller and the audience not as large, but they still have some power in the UK film industry and have had success with previous films such as The Call (2013). The Blair Witch Project (Artisan Entertainment) is an example of a film that had a lower budget of $60,000 but grossed over $248.6 million. Maybe YouTube would distribute our product because they have low budget films but have huge opportunities to create a large audience and lots of advertising as so many people use the site, with 3.25 billion hours of videos watched a month and 4,950,000,000 videos watched a day.



2. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Taken is rated PG-13, and I think our thriller would be rated similar because the intro is very violent, with death on screen and distress, so would be unsuitable for very young audiences. Adults over age 30 may not be very interested in our thriller becuase of the violent themes and young cast so I think it may be more suitable for older teenagers and young adults, ages 15-30.