Evaluation #3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Hi, I'm Oliver Bridle and I am part of the group that created Hidden in Plain Sight for our media studies project.

Because of its setting and time period, many movie studios would likely pass up on a movie like this or at most give it a very small budget.

It may be seen as an obstacle to have a small budget but it helps in refining the dialogue and story more to distract from cost cutting measures.

For our movie, we would expect to have a small studio such as A24 to invest in the project, mainly because it’s a type of movie that wouldn’t usually be seen in cinemas in this day and age due to its slow pace and time setting.

A24 have released many small budget and risky movies including

• The Lobster
• Swiss Army Man
• Green Room
• Moonlight
• Enemy
• Room
• Tusk

These types of movies are all very different with some being strange cross-genre combinations.

To pitch this kind of movie a sort of taster short film may be made out of our own pocket so that the studio we would pitch to could get an idea of the feel of the movie before making a risky monetary investment.

Institutionally this film is similar to ‘Swiss Army Man’ because it is a niche movie with a high investment risk for the distributor, ‘Swiss Army Man’ made $5.1 million USD at the box office on a $3 million USD budget, a relatively small amount compared to blockbuster movie franchises with well-established fan bases such as movies from Marvel Studios owned by Disney, which can gross hundreds of millions of dollars.

We wanted to keep the title credits in theme for our movie, the film itself is primarily a mystery/thriller based in the 1970’s so we used mysterious music and a simple graphic for the intro reminiscent of 70s horror flicks such as ‘Friday the 13th’ whilst still using modern effects to contrast it.

https://youtu.be/xHuFfhtr9PM

For our title credits, we had everyone’s names shown seeing as there were only 3 cast members in the whole film, we used one title card for all of the names to keep the intro short.

Overall, through the use of many different effects, we got the desired look for our titles sequence.