What kind of media

institution distribute
your media product
and why?
Jessica Peaty

Independent Film Production company

New Line Cinema
This American film studio (founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye)
distributes films across the world to Canada, UK, Australia and
Zealand. After its success of, The lord of the rings film trilogy
that brought commercial success to the studio, it became
subsidiary to the well-known and highly successful Warner
Bros. in 2008. In comparison to other independent companies,
New Line Cinema grew and prospered to become one of
Hollywoods major film studios.

Some example of New Line Cinema films include; The hobbit,

The conjuring and Annabelle. These films listed are based
around genre that contain horror and thriller, this would allow
my production to easily fit into the ethos and genre of this
This infographic is of the box office hits of
production company.

New Line cinemas top 3 films of all time.

New Line Cinema could distribute my production as the target

audience would have an awareness and expectation of the
genre, due to previous film production of the company. Even
though this company is independent, its parent company is
Warner Bros. allowing them to support finically producing high
budget films, to bring more success to my production and the
company itself. However from being a independent company
and not being mainstream and as well known another
companies (such as Paramount Pictures) enigma can be arisen
from the lack of knowledge of this company; this links to
Barthes ideology of the, Enigma Code as this mystery will be
solved by the demographic watching the film.

Major Production Company- 20th

Century Fox
20th Century Fox, one of the big six major American film
studios owned by 21st Century Fox, is best known for
distributing the two highest-grossing films of all time,
Titanic and Avatar.

20th century fox distribute films such as; Ice Age, X-Men
and, Fantastic Four. The target audience for this
production company is teens, however subliminal
messages signifying context for the parents and children,
with mature, high class and high budgeted productions.
Although this company has the success of distributing the
two highest-grossing films of all time- 20th Century Fox This infographic is of the box office hits of
shouldn't distribute my company as it wouldn't benefit the
20th Century Foxs top 3 films of all time.
genre of my production (overall genre is animation and scifi) resulting in a niche audience, and for the companies
reputation to be destroyed. Sci-fi genres of are very
unrealistic to the eye of the audience, however has the
target audience are teens, this conforms the ideology of
the hypodermic needle theory as the teenagers are a
passive audience believing in what they see in films and on
television. This subverts my genre of a thriller, as it allows
connections between the demographic and
character/narrative to be made- linking to the Blumler and
Katzs theory of personal relationships and identity as they
will be building relationships between the characters in the
film.

Major Production Company- Warner

Bros.
American Entertainment, Warner Bros., is one of the
major film studios- founded in April 4th 1923 by the
Warner Family. This company is one of the leading
distributers of entertainment programming to domestic
television markets.
Warner Bros. Film production list includes, Batman Vs
Superman, Harry potter and, Mad Max. The typical
genre of this production company is connoted to be
action and fantasy films.

This infographic is of the box office hits of

Warner Bros. top 3 films of all time.

Even though the genre is signified as action and fantasy

films, a sub-genre includes thriller, allowing my
production to fall into this classification. However as this
isn't a explicitly thriller genre company is can cause some
enigma, which again links to Barthes theory of, Enigma
Code. This mystery and confusion may put off the
demographic from watching my production, therefore i
Warner Bros. wouldn't be the best production company
for my production.

Major Production Company- Sony

Pictures
American entertainment, Sony Pictures, is subsidiary of
Sony and is an member of the motion picture association
of America. Sony Pictures has a worldwide networks in
which they distribution their different films, each different
network holds a different genre.
Sony pictures distributes films such as; Spider-man,
After Earth and, Goosebumps. These films share genre
of sci-fi and fantasy films.
This infographic is of the box office hits of
Sony Pictures and 20th century fox production companySony Pictures top 3 films of all time.
are very similar. They both have film productions that are
connoted with teen target audience- which can be linked
back to the hypodermic needle theory. Due to the
extreme differences between the companies genre of scifi and my production of thriller, signifies and even foreshadows the failure of the production on this network of
company. However has production company has
worldwide networks which distribute different genres
there could be a genre based network the will support my
production genre of thriller.