Film Marketing

Like in many other industries, marketing is one of the key elements of movie business even though many speak against the usage of the term marketing in film. Before the film makes it into the movie theaters, it goes through several stages, starting with development, funding, production, post production and ending with distribution. Each of these phases presents different challenges but in all of them are pieces of film marketing. In my master thesis, I am searching for features that characterise the film as a product, according to marketing theory of product development and product life. I will examine marketing theoretical approaches and search for parallels with marketing strategies of film producers