Horror Film Distributors

There are several niche market horror film distributors. Such as,

Hammer Distributors

Brain Damage Distributors

Arrow Distributors

They cater for horror and its sub genres fanatics, re releasing classic films and special editions that fans can collect.
This is a key part of the film value chain and the home cinema market which is worth 3 billion pounds. What this means for a b movie horror is that by releasing your movie on dvd first and if it generates enough attention you can re release it in the cinema.

Marketing Terms and Questions

Define:

Acquisition: The purchasing of a product by a company from another company to increase sales.

Major Distributors: A large company in the film markets who distribute films to audiences. Often part of a conglomerate eg 20^th century fox.

Marketability:  The value potential of a product to customers and the benefits of this to the company.

Playability: The wholesale appeal of a film to a wide audience.

Questions:

When is the ideal time for a film’s marketability to be assessed by a distributor?

When a non commissioned film which does not have a distributing deal, sends in a copy of the film for a distributing deal, the distributors will assess then how marketable the film is as a business proposition.

When is the ideal time for a distribution deal to be in place?

Most big films will have a distribution deal in place before filming or even a script has been produced. However this ideal time is only in place if the director has a good relationship with the distributors or a concept has been sold to a distributor.

What government organisation co-ordinates the public funds available in the UK for film production?

Originally this was done by the UK film Council, now it will be handled by the British film Institute which is supported by the national lottery.

How many films per week are released on average in the UK?

No idea.

What generates more money in the UK for films?

Film Rentals.

When is a good time in the year to release a film aimed a young people in the UK?

August.

What is a distribution plan:

The logistics of distributing a film worldwide.

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Horror posters analysed

A2 Advanced Portfolio

Our brief for the year 13 AS media studies advanced portfolio is to produce a film trailer, film poster, a film magazine front cover and evaluate our work electronically of the production portfolio using a blog. The genre setting of this assignment is within the horror genre it can be a hybrid production eg spoof, slasher. The target audience demographic which we are aiming to appeal to is within the age catergory of 15-20. A film poster that symbolises our project is shown below

This film posters target audience demographic is the same of ours and was a spoof horror template for the industry and is still successfull to this day with scary movie 5 on release theatrically soon.

A film trailer is composed to sell the movie to audiences it provides audience with a tantilising glimpse into what the movie is about and can generate a viral marketing reaction if successfull. This should be the aim for our film trailer.