Monday, 10 November 2014

Research - Possible distributor of our film

To decide on a film distributor for our film, we first researched various UK film distributors. One distributor we researched was Hammer Films.

About
Hammer Film Productions is based in the UK. Hammer is best known for a series of Gothic 'Hammer Horror' films. The company has also produced sci-fi, thrillers, film noir and comedies. In its most successful years Hammer dominated the horror film market, this is one of the main reasons why I chose to research this film distributor. Furthermore, Hammer Films had worldwide distributions and financial success. It has also had distribution partnerships with major US studios, such as the extremely successful Warner Bros. These are also reasons why we believe Hammer Films would be a suitable and beneficial film distributor for our film. Also, Hammer has made many horror films before, therefore ours being a 'Post-apocalyptic Horror' film, it will already have sufficient knowledge on how to produce, distribute and exhibit a successful horror film. Due to Hammer being an independent film company, they will deal with low budget films. This is suitable for our film due to our budget being low. Therefore, the equipment we use will not be of a low budget, but Hammer will be able to work with this as they have before with their other low budget films.

                                              Hammer Film Productions

                                          The Curse Of Frankenstein - 1957
                                                                  Wake Wood - 2010

The two above films are two films Hammer films has distributed. They both have a similar plot as they both are based around bringing the dead back to life, whom then go on to kill multiple people. This makes Hammer Films more suitable to distribute our film as they already have experience with films that involve the dead coming back to life, as our film is mainly based on the dead (zombies) this is a benefit for us.

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