Tuesday, 27 December 2016

'Heartless': Case Study

I have looked at the case study by the BFI on the film 'Heartless' which was released on the 24th of May 2010 and is distributed by Lionsgate.

I found points in the case study about their audience such as ' they found there are almost 600,000 self-confessed horror fans on Facebook. Lionsgate’s digital marketing targeted audiences across Facebook, by interacting and engaging with the audiences by polling ads and encouraging them to be interested in the film 'Heartless', also to get them talk about the film through Facebook. The social media site allowed Lionsgate to massively target  people in terms of interests, age, gender, music taste so they was very little wastage in the advertising'.

However, when the film was released 'it performed below expectations, with a total gross box office of around £3,000, but the release strategy for ' Heartless' was a multi-platform one, and noticeably
performances were seen across DVD and Video-on-Demand. The DVD release achieved sales of 9,500 which was in-line with forecast.'

With mine and Sophie's music video, we can interact with the audience by using a poll and talk about it to our target audience to get them to watch it. 

Below is the link to the full case study done by the BFI of 'Heartless':