3) What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?

Our film would not be played on TV on channels such as Film 4 or on the BBC as it is not well known like it would need to be, to be played and have enough people watch it as the other films shown on those channels. 

The London Film Festival screens up and coming new films which have been professionally made using a full production team. This does not include us as we used an SLR camera and simple tripod with 3 people in our creative team to film and edit the opening sequence. For 2/3 of us it was also our first time creating an opening sequence for a film so we are not as experience as the other film creators who have their work shown at the London film festival.
Link to the London Film Festival: http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff

My local cinema is the Odeon in Guildford. As this is part of a chain of cinemas it only shows major new films that are shown all around the UK. For example, they are currently showing

Home Alone,

Life of Pi, 

Nativity 2,

Pitch Perfect, 

Rise of the Guardians, 

Seven Psychopaths, 

Skyfall,

The Hobbit,

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2,

The Wedding Video, 

Tinker Bell And The Secret Of The Wings

which are all well known, new films. Our film would be an amateur, low budget film targeted at people who enjoy watching films of the Psychological Thriller genre and would go and watch films alike ours often. For these reasons, our film would not be suitable to be played in my local cinema.

As psychological thriller films are not as common as comedies or rom-coms this makes it more difficult for them to be successful, therefore I don’t personally believe Bitter Youth would be appropriate to be targeted to show in local cinemas as the competition would be too strong for it to be successful. I believe that film festivals would be a common place for psychological thriller films to be shown as they will be viewed by many film critiques who will give honest and useful feedback on it.

I think that Bitter Youth would be shown at the British International Amateur Film Festival as it specialises in the type of film we have made (amateur). We would join the South Eat region of the organisation as that is where we are based but also near to London where there is a greater population that various other regions available. This film festival also would showcase our work to many people in the industry inside and outside the UK which would increase the amount of people who view our film.

Link to the British International Amateur Film Festival: http://www.theiac.org.uk/index.html