Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Homework - 13/02/2014

Successful media products depend as much upon marketing and distribution to a specific audience as they do upon good production practices.” To what extent would you agree with this statement, within the film area.


Successful media products depend as much upon marketing and distribution to a specific audience as they do upon good production practices.” To what extent would you agree with this statement, within the film area.

Marketing and distribution is a vital part of the process of getting a film popular and well-known. Take a successful film such as Avatar and remove the marketing and distribution process and it is unlikely that the film would do as well do to lack of the public knowing about it certainly on a worldwide basis.

Marketing includes things such as merchandising, advertising and interviews with the cast and crew, all of which gets the film discussed world wide and gets audiences talking about the film before it has even come out in cinemas. With out this even the best made and highest budget films would not due as well.

The distribution of film is also a vital part in the process of a film becoming popular. After and during the film being marketed good distribution is key in order for the people who have seen the film to have easy access to view the it, with out good distribution such as firstly a lot of cinema showings and then DVD rental and sale any fan base built up will die down.

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