By Mitchell Hall

What is a film institution?

A film institution is often an established profit based organization which works towards the creation and distribution of a media product as well as advertising the product on a often substantial scale. The media institute will provide the budget for the movie if they agree with the idea after reading a script of the movie. The huge budget which films have been granting in recent years has led to huge improvements in movie props and scenes as well as improvements to animations such as CGI.

Major production companies likely to produce my product.

Out of the 5 institutes I pictured on the previous slide I believe that the most likely institutes to produce my product would be either Universal Studios or Lions Gate Entertainment. The production wouldnt be made by Warner Brothers as they are more recognised for creating films such as Harry Potter which is directed more as a family film rather than an 18+ certificate thriller movie. My product also wouldnt be distributed by Paramount Pictures as although they have been known to make all kinds of films our film may include too much gore for the company to distribute as although they have created horrors and thrillers such as the likes of Paranormal Activity and The Devil Inside ; They are only an age rating of 15 as they manage to connote the violence whilst showing very little gore on screen. Sonys Columbia Pictures also wouldnt be a smart choice of institute to distribute my product as they also arent very experienced in creating movies similar to mine. Although they are known to give a substantial budget as seen in movies such as Skyfall and White House Down.

Lions Gate Entertainment

Formed in 1997 Lions Gate Entertainment have quickly risen to become one of the most successful institutions in the world. Drawing in a revenue of over $2Billion in the financial year of 2013 and known for creating high budget movies such as The Expendables and also creating highly popular academy award winning movies such as The Hurt Locker. Lions Gate have created films from many genres and an example of a thriller which they have produced would be Saw which is an example of a very gory thriller which similar to our film aims too punish those who have committed adultery, drug abuse and other offenses. As well as this there is Texas Chainsaw 3D which is also a very gory horror/thriller, the key character in Texas Chainsaw 3D , Leather Face has various physical as well as psychological defects which will mean that Lions Gate would have a great knowledge of how to create a strong representation of a psychological problem in our main characters mind.

Universal Studios

Founded in 1912, Universal Studios has become one of, if not the, biggest film institutes to ever exist. In the financial year of 2011 Universal turned a $4.23billion profit, Universal Studios has become more than just a film institute with their own theme parks in Florida and California. Universal have been behind many different award winning productions. With recent thriller movies such as The Purge and The Thing and also The Wolfman. Their work on The Wolfman would be extremely useful to our movie as the main character shares similarities to my main character. The Wolfman cant control his inside emotions nor psychological wellbeing, this is mirrored in my own main character as he is shown to be torturously in conflict with his mind. However, The Wolfman and The Thing are too fictional whereas The Purge involves less creativity and ideas shown through this can be adapted into my movie in order to create more tension and in order to really drive the thriller genre to our audience.

Major Production company

I think that Lions Gate Entertainment would definitely be the best production company for my movie as they are more better known for producing thriller movies than other companies and their experience will be highly useful in creating my product.

Independent production companies likely to produce my product

Film 4 Production is an independent production company owned by Channel 4 Television Corporation, it is in association with the channel Film 4 and is a British company responsible for a large number of films. They have been in coproduction of very highly credited low budget movies such as the biographical movie 127 hours. This movie shows that although they are a small independent company with a low budget they carry a high reputation and are capable of getting major producers such as Danny Boyle who produced multiple award winning movies such as Slumdog Millionaire. In the movie 127 hours Boyle uses various techniques in order to make the audience show a huge amount of sympathy towards the main character, he also puts the audience in the characters shoes by using different effects in order to make the audience feel the disorientation of the character through the shots used.

Another independent production company

Founded in 2007 CBS Films is a American production company which is a division of The CBS corporation. They aren't highly known for making pure thriller movies but make many hybrid genre movies of horror thriller or action thriller. A horror thriller which they produced is The Woman in Black, although the movie is more conventionally a horror, the producers excellently build huge amounts of suspense throughout the movie and furthermore are clearly capable of getting a very highly credited cast as they were capable of getting Daniel Radcliffe for The Woman in Black. The list of high profile actors carries on with actors such as Dwayne Johnson in Faster and Jason Statham in Mechanic.

Independent Production Company

Out of Film 4 and CBS I would chose Film 4 Productions as they are capable of getting highly respected directors who will be capable of creating a highly effective vision of my product, such as Danny Boyle who has frequently worked with Film 4 Productions.

Overall,

If I could pick one of the 2 production companies out of Film 4 and Lions Gate I would chose Lions Gate Productions as they are much more experienced at creating movies in the thriller genre. Also previous movies which they have created have various techniques which could be mirrored throughout my product to make it as effective as possible, and finally they will have a much bigger budget in order to create the movie.