Saturday, 15 April 2017

Task 10

What is film distribution?
 This is everything that happens in between production (making the film) and exhibition  (watching the film).

What is the distributors role?
A film distributor is responsible for the marketing of a film. The distribution company is usually different from the production company.

What is a distribution plan?


What is a P&A budget?
Production budget of Prints and Advertising (P&A)

What is the average cost of marketing for a big six film?
 From around $100 million to $200 million

What is a simultaneous film release?
Simultaneous release is the name given to an experimental new method of making movies available to consumers.
Traditionally, movies are released first in cinemas. A DVD release follows some months later.
Simultaneous releasing of a movie removes these windows: the movie is released to cinemas and other channels such as DVD, internet and television on or around the same date.

What are some main distribution companies 
•       Antidote Films.
•       Madman Entertainment.
•       Roadshow Films.
•       Paramount Pictures/Universal Pictures.
•       Lionsgate Australia.
•       20th Century Fox/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
•       Titan View.
•       Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

What is a target market audience? What is audience positioning?
A target market is a select group of potential or current consumers, which a business decides to aim its marketing and advertising strategies at in order to sell a product or service

All media text have a series of encoded signs and messages The audience decode these messages. Different audiences will decode them differently/Media texts and the industries are acutely aware of their audiences.

What is self distribution?

When you distribute the film yourself