Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Film distribution and the distributors

The term film dristubuion means the distubuion of film this in turn can be sumed up as the information about a film that has been leaked to the audience in order to get them to want to go and watch the film.

A film distributor is a person who launches and distributs the film in the highly competitive market this person is supposed to make the film maintain a substanial stand in the market place as well.
this person is reasponsible for things like
  1. identifying the audience
  2. considering why poeple may go and see the film
  3. pursauding poeple to go and watch the film 
  4.  pursuading cinimers to show the film
  5. creating interest in the film
  6. estimating revenue potencial

The responses to these questions/tasks on film distribution must be Blogged. You can write the questions on the blog or blog the responses in the form of a report, complete with images and video clips where necessary. Use reputable sources, particularly the above guide, in order to respond appropriately. The title of the Blog post should be ‘Film distribution and marketing’.
  • What is meant by the term film distribution?
  • What does a film distributor do? 
  • How does reach relate to film distribution? 
  • What is meant by the distribution plan?
  • What is meant by the marketing plan? 
  • What is the difference between advertising, publicity and promotion?
  • Find a teaser poster, teaser trailer, main poster and main trailer for a horror film and put them on your Blog – who was the distributor and in how many countries was it released? Can you find how many screens it was shown in on the opening weekend?

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