Institutions

By Phoebe Hall

Insidious V Dark Shadows

Question 1• What are the main institutions used for the film?

Insidious

Insidious Dark Shadows• Insidious is made by a low budge unknown brand

Film District whilst, Dark Shadows is made by the renowned High budget film makers Warner Brothers Pictures

Question 2

• How much money was used to produce these films (the budget)?

• Insidious Budget: $1.5milllion• Dark Shadows Budget: $150million

Question 3

• How much money was made from each of these films?

• Insidious box office: $97,000,000 • Dark Shadows box office: $245,500,000

Question 4

• How well known are the production companies for both the high-budget and low-budget film?

• Film District was not known before they made their successful film Insidious which got them known in the film business.

• Warner Brothers is one of the big six and is known globally and made successful films like Harry Potter.

Question 5

• List the differences between the high-budget film and the low-budget film in terms of the institutions.

• The institution of Warner Brothers spend a lot of their high budget on special effects, cast and directors.

• The institution of Film district spend a lot more of their money of promotion and trailers because they’re less known.

Question 6

• List any similarities that exist between the high-budget film and the low-budget film in terms of the institutions?

• The similarities between these high budget and low budget film institutions is that they spend the majority of their money on the production of the film.

Question 7• What other films has the production company

made? Were these as successful? Why/why not?Low budget• The most of the Film Districts films were made

after Insidious (2010) because this was their big break into the movie business. But they made films like Looper that was very successful having a budget of $30million but having a box office of $176,000,000. The reason it was successful because it had a unique storyline that come across in the trailer.

High Budget

• Warner Brothers have been a distinguished movie company for many years and have made one of the most successful Franchises of all time Harry Potter. This film had a budget over the 8 films of 1 billion and had box office earnings of 7 billion. Why this was successful I think is because it took people to a magical place which had never been done before also it established itself well over the first few films so people wanted to come back.

Question 8• What genre of films does the company usually

produce? Is this important when considering who could produce your film? Why?

• The genre of film Film District usually produces is normally action based like Olympus Has Fallen and Looper.

• Warner Brothers produce a variety of different genre films but mostly Action, Horror and Comedy with films like Dark night, The Orphan and The Hangover all of which has been successful in some way.

Question 9

• What audiences do each of the institutions aim to appeal to? Is this reflected through their film choice, or does this vary?

• These films both aim to appeal to a male or teenage audience as Film District produces films in the genre of sci-fi and action like Evil dead and Looper. Whilst Warner Brothers spend most of their money on action films as there most expensive films are action like Superman and Inception. These type of films generally would appeal to males or teenagers.

Question 10• Which institution do you feel outperforms the

other and could claim to be more successful, considering your research? Explain your reasons?

• Obviously Warner Brothers have been an established power house since the 1970’s and continue to produce successful films. But considering Film District is not nearly as established as Warner Brothers it had a sharp incline to a well respected film company with a series of successful films like Looper, Insidious and Olympus has Fallen.