Distribution Research- Minding the Gap

A film about two friends that bond through skateboarding to escape their lives at home. This film was released on Hulu as a documentary and theatrically on August 17. Hulu used a film festival as a way to distribute their product. At the Sundance Film Festival the film won the "U.S Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking". I can incorporate this distribution method for my product by setting my film on public based sites or sites for films and grow my audience.

Distribution Research - A Star is Born

A Star is Born made over 350 million dollars globally. One of the many ways to distribute films is to go internationally. By doing this you are expanding your audience greatly and pulling money from not only all of United States, but Europe and other countries. Also with the film many songs were created but, one that got very popular was "Shallow". With this song already distributed into the public through media forms such as Spotify and Apple Music this film gets popular easily. I would include this method to post it up on you tube as a way to get my film out to the public and the world in general.

distribution research

The traditional way for film distribution is to represent each film individually and create packages to sell for the film. You have to have a lot of resources for the marketing and promoting expenses. Traditional distribution costs a lot of money, sometimes you aren't able to have limited releases to a movie theater. Its very important that you have a good agent that knows what they are doing for your film so you not only get the most of the money you are paying for an agent, but your movie. Everyone wants the most successful film and get the most money from it. i would utilize these strategies to find the best way to get my film out to the public. I would use my marketing plan and the ideas i created to market my product to distribute it to the public.

Marketing Plan

Based on my past research on marketing and advertising, there are a couple of ways to do this. I think the main way to market products would be social media. Social media is a very easy way to get your product out to the audience. Using social media channels such as facebook, snapchat, instgram and twitter it's easier to draw the certain audience interested into this film. This helps improve customer engagement. Another efficient way to market your product would be paper marketing. You can easily make brochures and paper signs, and hang them up around town. This way to word can be easily spread and people can find out about the film.