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

The product that we have produced "The Magicain" is a movie a long the lines of a murder mystery, a plot which has to find the killer before its too late.

A media institution who I think would produce the movie we have made would be Fox Searchlight as looking at the recent films they have made:

• Slumdog Millionaire
• Wrestler
• Crazy Heart
• Never Let Me Go
• Conviction
• 127 Hours
• Black Swan
• Tree Of Life

just to name a few. The reason I have chosen Fox Searchlight is because looking at the movies they have made a few of them are period pieces, set in the 1950's just like ours, which have also been very successful, two examples would be:

• Never Let Me Go
• Tree Of Life

            
these two films have been very successful, with a non- high concept product like ours, but both films using bankable stars (Brad Pitt, Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightly, Sean Penn) this is why I believe that Fox SearchLight would be a great producer for our thriller "The Magician, as our thriller has the same key ingredients such as, narrative over action, bankable stars, a possible love interest in the story, making the audience believe that this is why the person killing my be after girls

Another reason that Fox Searchlight would produce our film would be because if we look at the:

• Black Swan
• Wrestler
• 127 Hours

                  

These films are thrillers but have an aspect of horror due to the fact of the level of gore it has in it, as "The Wrestler has a lot of bloody wounds and broken limbs, in the "Black Swan" we see a more physicalogical side to it, but there is still gore as she stabs another girl as blood goes everywhere, aswell as the scene where she pulls back the skin to her finger. "127 hours" has a large element of gore as we see him rip his arm off to get out of the rock; like ours will have as well due to the killings that will take place. These films are also based around a career, i.e. The Black Swan, The Wrestler etc. and the sacrifices and secrets of the industry, just like we will learn in our movie "The Magicain", as during this film you find out the secrets of the contraption he has created and all of his tricks that he performs. This is also where the movies correspond as "The Magicain" is a performer offering a service to the public just like "The Black Swan" and "The Wrestler".