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

The production company that we chose for our film is BBC Films. We chose them because they produce films that have strong British feels, which ours does with its British cast and London setting, and deal with serious, mature themes similar to those explored in our own film.



Below is a table of BBC productions that inspired us and prove that BBC could produce our own film. Please click to enlarge.

Production Budget

As a small British Independent film, that requires no expensive CGI or visual effects and is filmed mainly on location, a small budget would be appropriate. 

We loosely based our budget figure off of the BBC Films  2011 production 'We Need To Talk About Kevin', which had a budget of $7,000,000. I think that as we want more global appeal and recognition as well as London being the setting, a slightly higher budget of approximately $10,000,000 would be appropriate.

Distributor

We chose Summit Entertainment, a subsidiary company of Lionsgate, as the distributor to buy the rights to 'Shadow of your Past' as they have global reach and have distributed similar films in the past, such as 'P2'.