Evaluation - Distribution

Distribution – Now that your short film is completed, how are you going to distribute it? What online distribution outlets can you submit your short film to? How do you go about doing this? What about film festivals, short film competitions. We want you to actually do this for real and provide evidence of this on your blog. Be realistic however, for example flying to L.A to enter Raindance probably isn’t going to happen!

Distribution is a key part of filmmaking as it allows people to access your film in a variety of different media texts. In this case with “Confined” we have utilized modern media methods to distribute our film for e.g. embedding videos to Blogger and uploading the film to a Vimeo channel. I personally believe there is a lot of potential with online distribution however as a group we have not yet received the feedback that we was hoping for. Social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace can also help promote our film. Millions of people use these websites daily. Social networking sites offer an opportunity to distribute our film to all these users. It is also a free advertisement that is hugely beneficial for young filmmakers in general and us as a group.

After researching about short film and short film festivals I feel that BBC film network is ideal for us as a group and the film itself. To send our film into this short film network that is based in central London, we need to apply for a contract sheet for copyright reasons. After the group has all signed the contract we can then send “Confined” to the BBC.

We also looked into sending our film into “Encounters Film Festival” This will be hugely beneficial for the promotion of our film as it will enable short film fanatics access to the film direct at the festival. There is a slight issue with “Encounters Film Festival” The issue is group funds as we will need to gather money as a group for an upload fee to join “Encounters Film Festival”