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

A media institution is an established, often profit-based organization that deals in the creation and distribution of advertising, entertainment and information services. They are largely trans-national in nature but can exist in a smaller/national form. Examples of worldwide media institution would be; News International, The Walt Disney Company, 21st Century Fox and Time Warner.
As our media product is a psychological thriller that does not look very typically English or Hollywood like, we decided that we wanted to make it more of a foreign film with French money and input. However, we still wanted there to be some British flare to it as well. Hence, it is now a French and English independent film shot in France with a French director but with actors of both nationalities. We decided this would work as an idea because at the moment the latest psychological British independent film to have been made; ‘Rotten Tomatoes’ by Bryan Forbes, was made in 2002, this means that the last chart-topping psychological thriller to have been made in the UK was 8 years ago! With this in mind we thought therefore that our media product should be the one to change the monotony of the non-psychological thrillers we keep seeing. This is exactly what we plan to do, just in a quirky way.
By having a well-known British actress as our lead and all supporting actors being well-known French actors we would secure a higher audience demographic almost immediately. As well as this, the plot of the film will be one that both nationalities can identify with. Being that it is a psychological thriller, however, our main target audience is one of intellect; people who would be comfortable with thinking outside of the metaphorical box.
Knowing these facts we thought that the French film Distribution Company; Gaumont Film Company based in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France that has been in production since 1895 would be a good choice for the production of our thriller. In order to keep the British influence within the piece, however, we would like to include Big Ben Films as collaboration. It that was established in 1912, and in merging the two together we hope, to further the chances of a bigger audience demographic.
Though our film is an original production there is a film that follows some of our ideas; The Gift, made in 2000 by director Sam Raimi it tells the story of a woman with psychic powers who has visions that lead her to find the corpse of a murdered woman from the village where she lives. Given that our opening sequence is essentially a montage of visions from a girl’s past (or even future) this film does share a critical line of thought. However, with A-listers such as Kate Blanchette and Hillary Swank involved in the film it is obvious that The Gift was a Hollywood made film and so on this point the two films are very dissimilar.
Being an independent film, the budget would not be very high, however, neither would the cost of filming because we plan to film in cheap locations not using any hi-tech technology.