Exploring Media Distribution: Key Players and Strategies

1. By Harry Donnelly Question 3:What kind of media institution might distrubute your media product and why?What Kind of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product and Why? 1

2. What are Media Conglomerates? • Media conglomerates are usually huge media companies who own the production and distribution of a variety different formats of media, such as: • Film • Tv • Radio • Music • Games • Magazines/Newspapers • Books 2

3. Examples of Production companies: • The main production companies within the industry are as follows: • Universal • Paramount Pictures • 20th Century Fox • Warmer Brothers • Walt Disney Pictures • Pixar 3

4. What is Media Distribution? • The distribution of a film is the process in which the product is available to the audience. This can be achieved in a variety of different ways. Some ways are extremely costly, and some are free. 4

5. Examples of Distribution companies: • There are a number of different distribution companies but the following are the most well known out of them all: • Paramount Pictures • Dreamworks • Columbia • Touchstone Pictures • Metro Goldwyn Mayer 5

6. Our Distribution Company: • The distribution company we chose to use was Lionsgate. We chose this as they are a UK company so this money would have funded the British Film Industry. 6

7. Independents: • Some companies work outside of the huge corporations. Usually British productions are made by smaller companies who don’t have as much funds as the big hollywood chains but this way helps to keep the british film industry alive. Films made this way sometimes struggle to 1-2 million pound budgets and even sometimes don’t go into profit, or if they do, they’ll have to wait a while for the money to come back. 7

8. Film4: • Film4 is a british film production company who produce a large number of UK films. This company is owned by Channel4 whom are a significantly bigger company which is probably where they get their funding from. 8