1. EVALUATION QUESTION 3 -WHAT KIND OF
MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT DISTRIBUTE
YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND WHY?
Jasmine Masih

2. OUR FILM
Our film is a psychological horror, our
storyline is based on the protagonist „Leena
Wilkes’, she is a university student, an has
unfortunately lost her mum in a tragic car
accident, but now that she has died, „Leena
Wilkes’ is now having Hallucinations of
someone always watching over her and gets
freaked out every time she's alone.
“Young, happy and full of life, but not for
long. In her last year of university, Leena
Wilkes loses an important part of her life.
She now thinks she's alone …. But is she?”

3. INSPIRATION
The film “Orphan” which is distributed by Dark
Castle Entertainment is a psychological horror
movie, it is about a girl called "Esther", she has been
adopted from an orphanage home after a couple has
a miscarriage and sees no hope but to adopt a child.
But the couple are unknown of what "Esther" has
been through and what problems are awaiting with
her presence in the family.
“A husband and wife who recently lost their baby
adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent
as she claims to be.”
The “Orphan” was also an inspiration for our own
film poster and storyline. We decided to use a simple
picture for our main image on our film poster like
the “orphan”. And on our main task storyline we
decided to use a university student rather than a
younger child because we thought our
target market will be more wider. We also thought
that instead of using a typical orphanage child we
decided to make a contradicting unusual opening
sequence by our protagonist already having
recently lost her mum but she is old enough to live
on her own, so the opening would be the after life of
this consequence for her, this would make it
more interesting and scarier.

4. MORE INSPIRATION
Our film was also inspired by “Dark
Water”, which was distributed by Touchstone
Pictures. This is a story about a mother and
daughter who move into a new apartment and
get haunted and see signs of distress.
“A mother and daughter, still wounded from a
bitter custody dispute, hole up in a run-down
apartment building. Adding further drama to
their plight, they are targeted by the ghost of
former resident.”
This film was also inspirational to us because it
was based upon a mother who had split up with
her husband and because of her daughters school
problems they have moved into a new apartment
and are facing consequences of someone always
taunting them. Another way it helped us was, to
get the exact picture we wanted for our own film
poster.

5. LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Lions Gate Entertainment is a North
American entertainment
company. The company was
founded and formed in in
Vancouver, British Columbia, on
July 3, 1997. Lions Gate
Entertainment have released
many films since their
recognition for e.g. America
Psycho, High Tension and even
The Hunger Games and Twilight
Saga: The Breaking Dawn. Lions
Gate Entertainment is the most
commercially successful
independent film distribution
company , and is the seventh
most profitable movie studio.

6. COLUMBIA PICTURES
Columbia Pictures, is an
American Film production
and distribution studio. It is
one of the leading film
studios in the world. The
studio, founded in 1918 as
Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales
by brothers Jack and Harry
Cohn and Joe Brandt.
Columbia Picture has
released many films since
1918, films include:
Misery, Buried and have
recently release Texas
Chainsaw in 3D and also Evil
Dead.

7. OUR PRODUCTION COMPANY -
DARK CASTLE ENTERTAINMENT
Dark Castle Entertainment was
formed in 1999. Dark Castle
Entertainment's name pays
homage to William Castle, a
horror filmmaker from the 1950s
and 1960s. Dark Castle
Entertainment has made a total of
$708,965,912 since they have
started releasing horror movies.
They have released many horror
films. Film‟s Include: House on
Haunted Hill, Ghost Ship and
Orphan.

8. WHY WE CHOSE DARK CASTLE ENTERTAINMENT
The main reason we chose Dark Castle Entertainment to be our production
company was because they specialise in the genre of horror and also they are
well known in their sub genre of psychological horror films, for example they
have released “Unknown” and “Orphan” which made a total of $78,337,373
for the company.
Instead of choosing a well known production company like e.g. Warner Bros
Entertainment, which produces a varied genre of film, we decided to choose
a more complex one. Dark Castle Entertainment doesn't release too many
films a year but they release one or two a year, because of this Dark Castle
Entertainment makes more money because people await for a year to see the
finished film, but on top of this the film gets promoted and advertised on a
high scale. I think this fits in really well with our film production because it
would mean that our film will be known to be a horror film because Dark
Castle Entertainment only releases horror genre film‟s. Also Dark Castle
Entertainment released the film “Orphan” in 2009, this was an inspirational
film for us because it helped us to form a storyline for our own piece of
work, this was another reason we chose this particular company.