Our thriller opening has been uploaded onto YouTube allowing people to see the first two minutes and hopefully will attract my audience to want to see more. Our target audience ranges from 16-24 year olds, which most use the Internet quite a lot and also can be accessed through mobile phones. YouTube is a well known site especially for teenagers because it allows them to view trailers, music videos and video clips for free and easily YouTube being free is a bonus as not many 16-24 year olds would pay to watch our two minute clip. YouTube also allows people to comment/like clips, it also shows how many times the clip has been viewed, so we can see if our thriller would appeal to many people, then we can decide how to distribute our film further. Also YouTube allows embedded codes so can also be posted onto other social network sites. Therefore this would be good way to distribute my thriller film. On social network sites if there is an advertisement for our thriller it gives the chances for people globally to watch our thriller film.
As our films is independent and low budgeted, it would be best exhibited in Art House theatres, for example, Cinema City. Our films include locations around Norwich so it would appeal to audiences from the city. Also at Cinema City in Norwich the manager at the cinema decides what films to put on and what would appeal to people in Norwich and I think that our thriller would. British Independent films do well in countries in Europe and if exhibited through a company like Europa our thriller could be globally viewed.
For young film makers, short film competitions are a good way of getting films viewed. For example, Virgin Media Shorts, DepicT! and reed.co.uk are all looking for films and which are around 2 minutes long, so our thriller opening would fit this criteria. Some competition allow the top 12 films to be shown in cinemas nationwide which would help attract a wider audience. This would be another good way to distribute our thriller opening.
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