Institution Research

Institution Research 

When researching whether LIONSGATE is suitable for our opening two minutes I realised they produce similar films, as we're trying to make a supernatural horror I had to do a lot more research than expected, however LIONSGATE make more horrors than supernatural horrors but that means they are well known in that market sector for brilliant horror films, they have produced amazing horror films such as: The Last Exorcism (2010), The Possession (2012), Saw 1/2/3/4/5/6, and The Eye. LIONSGATE have produced some amazing horror films but we don't feel as if they should produce our opening two minutes. 

Dimension Films is well known for producing the Scream films and also the Scary Movie films (which I love) but until further research I discovered they also produced The Amiytiville Horror (2005), Halloween II (2009), Piranha 3D (2010) and Dark Skies (2013). My teammate Shanie and I are horror film fans and so to have our film produced by Dimension Films would be ideal, I personally love the films that LIONSGATE have produced so it was a tough call but we believe we have made the right choice. 

Twisted Pictures is an American independent production company, mainly creating films of the horror genre. As twisted pictures has mainly produced the SAW films we feel like its the wrong production company for our film as it's not a gory horror but a supernatural one, so we will not be using Twisted Pictures for our opening two minutes.

Twentieth Century Fox's most popular film franchises include Charlie Chan, Star Wars, X-Men, Ice Age, Die Hard, Predator, Alien, Planet of the Apes, Home Alone, plus TV shows such as Batman, M*A*S*H, The X-Files, Cops, The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad!, and 24. 20th Century Fox don't usually produce horror films and during my research I couldn't find any big horrors produced by the company and so we will not be using 20th Century Fox for our opening two minutes. 

Universal Pictures aren't really well known for amazingly scary films and during research I found the psychological thriller Hannibal which Universal Pictures, I also found two of my all-time favourite films while researching, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, these films aren't scary they're borderlining gory/comedy/slapstick entertainment, which is unfortunately not what we're hoping to accomplish as much as I love the films, we would like our films to be on a different horror level than they are and so we will not be using Universal Pictures for our opening two minutes.