Institution Research

During the institution research, I looked at the films I have been using as guidelines and have been including in my other research such as certificate and target audience theory.

       Taken was distributed by 20th Century Fox. This is one of the many companies that we use for our film as it makes the specific sort of genre we want to make. 20th Century Fox have created many films within the action/drama genre so ours could fit. Taken was produced by:

·         M6 Film

·         Canal+

·         TPS Star

·         M6

We have a variety of production companies we can chose from, this is very beneficial as we can decide later on which one will look better when we start shooting and editing the opening two minutes of our film.

Ransom is another film similar to ours which I previously looked at. This film was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures. We can't use this company due to the fact it no longer exists and Walt Disney Pictures has taken its place and they usually make films targeted for children. This does not link to our genre so we won't be able to use it.  Ransom was produced by Imagine Entertainment, Touchstone Pictures and Icon Productions. Imagine usually makes more some children and more relatively upbeat films so this may not be the right company for us. The majority of Touchstone films that are produced are dramas and other darker themes. This could be another distribution possibility for our film too. Icon usually makes thrillers and dramas. This is partly similar to our film (genre: drama)

The Hunger Games was distributed by Lionsgate Films. Lionsgate is mostly known for action themes which could be a good possibility for our opening. The film was produced by Colour Force, which is an independent company that usually makes movies out of books, since our film isn't a book, we will not use this company.

       Other companies that we could use include, Universal Studios, New Line Cinema or Warner Brothers as they make a range of different films from different genres. Paramount pictures could also be good as they make a lot of dramas.  Furthermore, we could also use Millennium Films and/or TriStar because they have made films such as Faster and Stolen and Olympus has fallen which fit in successfully with the film we want to create. I think it would be very suitable if the production company we choose (or at least one of them) is Tri-Star because they were the production company of an action drama film named Colombiana which is along the lines of what we want to create. Colombiana was also created from the writers of Taken which is the film we are using as inspiration/ guide.