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

The genre of our film opening is thriller with elements of horror. The plot which I have in mind would follow has very strong conventions of these genres. The film would slowly uncover the story of why she killed someone, and this is like films I've seen during the research process of our film opening. Thriller and horror films are very popular, they are often showed at Odeon and Vue. For these reasons I'd say that the our film would have a mainstream audience. Although we challenge the conventions of our genre we stick to far more many than we challenge.

Maxim Media International represents over 150 quality independent horror titles featuring slashers, psychos, zombies, vampires, demons, and everything in between. I have seen, from looking through their catalogue, that their films are a lot more gory than we intend ours to be. However our film does have elements of horror so I think it'd be important to look more into the company. 

Through their horror film distribution channels they're able to reach the global entertainment market and have licensed film rights to nearly all major territories. Still, their key strengths remain North American DVD release and worldwide Video on Demand. Although they don't internally handle international distribution of their films, they have sold DVD releasing rights in many other countries. In terms of distributing our film I think that even though Maxim Media specifically license and represent horror films, they say in their submission information that they will also review films in the action, thriller, suspense, or drama genres. They aim to support independent films and their distribution is fairly wide so I think this would be a good company to distribute our film. 

Dreamworks Studio is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming. Although it doesn't particularly specify in distributing thrillers/horrors it has distributed box-office film The Ring. This is a big company and so could distribute our film globally. It is definitely a potential distributor but it doesn't have a very large library of thriller/horror films so it wouldn't be specialised in distributing our particular genre so we would chose Maxim Media to distribute.