Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product

and why?

Mainstream

• Directed at a wide audience

• Produced by major film companies, meaning better financing, so more expensive actors and appealing o a wider audience

Pirates of the Caribbean 2

Example of a mainstream film:

Niche

• Low budget movie

• Directed at a more restricted audience

Derailed

Example of a niche film.:

Our final product

• I think our film is more directed at a mainstream audience as we have used conventions of ‘classic’ horror film.

• The films we textually analysed were all mainstream films, from these films we built up conventions and applied them to our own film

• Although low budget our film did use special effects and I think would be classed more as a mainstream product

Audience

• The type of audience we were aiming our film at is obviously mainstream but of an age range of about 15 and up

• We decided this on the grounds that most of the horror film we textually analysed were this age rating