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Film Industry: Distribution: Learning Objectives

The document discusses film distribution and provides examples of unique selling points for three films: 1. The Golden Compass is an exciting fantasy adventure film set in a parallel world about a 12-year old girl who goes on a quest to save her world and ours. 2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an action film about Sam Witwicky starting college as the Decepticons target his mind to find a powerful object in Egypt. 3. Up is an animated film about an elderly man who ties balloons to his house and flies away, taking an 8-year-old boy on an adventure where they encounter talking dogs and rare birds.

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Film Industry: Distribution: Learning Objectives

The document discusses film distribution and provides examples of unique selling points for three films: 1. The Golden Compass is an exciting fantasy adventure film set in a parallel world about a 12-year old girl who goes on a quest to save her world and ours. 2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an action film about Sam Witwicky starting college as the Decepticons target his mind to find a powerful object in Egypt. 3. Up is an animated film about an elderly man who ties balloons to his house and flies away, taking an 8-year-old boy on an adventure where they encounter talking dogs and rare birds.

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Yr 12 OCR Media Studies

Film Industry:
Distribution

Learning Objectives:

1. To understand the three key roles of the


distributor
2. To understand and identify the USPs of films
Types of Distributor
• Major Distributors operate in a number of
countries worldwide.

• Independent Distributors operate mainly in


one country.
Major or Independent?
The Role of the Distributor
1. Acquiring a film

2. Release

3. Publicity
What will a distributor have to
consider once they have
acquired a film?
Unique Selling Points (USPs)
The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass is an exciting fantasy
adventure, set in a parallel world where people’s
souls manifest themselves as small animals,
talking bears fight wars, and children are
mysteriously disappearing. At the centre of the
story is a 12-year-old girl, Lyra, who sets out to
find and rescue her best friend, Roger, and ends
up on an extraordinary quest to save not only
her own world, but ours as well.
Transformers:
Revenge of the Fallen

A youth chooses manhood. The week Sam Witwicky


starts college, the Decepticons make trouble in
Shanghai. A presidential envoy believes it's because
the Autobots are around; he wants them gone. He's
wrong: the Decepticons need access to Sam's mind to
see some glyphs imprinted there that will lead them to
a fragile object that, when inserted in an alien machine
hidden in Egypt for centuries, will give them the power
to blow out the sun. Sam, his girlfriend Mikaela, and
Sam's parents are in danger. Optimus Prime and
Bumblebee are Sam's principal protectors. If one of
them goes down, what becomes of Sam?
Up
A young Carl Fredrickson meets a young adventure
spirited girl named Ellie. They both dream of going to a
Lost Land in South America. 70 years later, Ellie has
died. Carl remembers the promise he made to her. Then,
when he inadvertently hits a construction worker, he is
forced to go to a retirement home. But before they can
take him, he and his house fly away. However he has a
stowaway aboard. An 8 year old boy named Russell,
whose trying to get an assisting the elderly badge.
Together, they embark in an adventure, where they
encounter talking dogs, an evil villain and a rare bird
named Kevin.

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