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Evaluation Question 3: What Kind of Media Institution Distribute Your Media Product and Why?
Evaluation Question 3: What Kind of Media Institution Distribute Your Media Product and Why?
institution distribute
your media product
and why?
Jessica Peaty
Independent Film
Production company- New
Line Cinema
Major Production
Company- 20th
Century Fox
20th Century Fox, one of the big six major American film
studios owned by 21st Century Fox, is best known for
distributing the two highest-grossing films of all time,
Titanic and Avatar.
20th century fox distribute films such as; Ice Age, X-Men
and, Fantastic Four. The target audience for this
production company is teens, however subliminal
messages signifying context for the parents and children,
with mature, high class and high budgeted productions.
Although this company has the success of distributing the
two highest-grossing films of all time- 20th Century Fox This infographic is of the box office hits of
shouldn't distribute my company as it wouldn't benefit the
20th Century Foxs top 3 films of all time.
genre of my production (overall genre is animation and scifi) resulting in a niche audience, and for the companies
reputation to be destroyed. Sci-fi genres of are very
unrealistic to the eye of the audience, however has the
target audience are teens, this conforms the ideology of
the hypodermic needle theory as the teenagers are a
passive audience believing in what they see in films and on
television. This subverts my genre of a thriller, as it allows
connections between the demographic and
character/narrative to be made- linking to the Blumler and
Katzs theory of personal relationships and identity as they
will be building relationships between the characters in the
film.
Major Production
Company- Warner
Bros.
American Entertainment, Warner Bros., is one of the
major film studios- founded in April 4th 1923 by the
Warner Family. This company is one of the leading
distributers of entertainment programming to domestic
television markets.
Warner Bros. Film production list includes, Batman Vs
Superman, Harry potter and, Mad Max. The typical
genre of this production company is connoted to be
action and fantasy films.
Major Production
Company- Sony
Pictures
American entertainment, Sony Pictures, is subsidiary of
Sony and is an member of the motion picture association
of America. Sony Pictures has a worldwide networks in
which they distribution their different films, each different
network holds a different genre.
Sony pictures distributes films such as; Spider-man,
After Earth and, Goosebumps. These films share genre
of sci-fi and fantasy films.
This infographic is of the box office hits of
Sony Pictures and 20th century fox production companySony Pictures top 3 films of all time.
are very similar. They both have film productions that are
connoted with teen target audience- which can be linked
back to the hypodermic needle theory. Due to the
extreme differences between the companies genre of scifi and my production of thriller, signifies and even foreshadows the failure of the production on this network of
company. However has production company has
worldwide networks which distribute different genres
there could be a genre based network the will support my
production genre of thriller.