Institution

In today's lesson we learnt about institution and independent vs mainstream films. We leanrnt about the 'Big Six' production companies in the film industry and some of the famous films that they have produced: Below are a list of the films we looked at.
                              
Many people conclude that most important people involved in the film industry are the distributors. Distributors are important because they are the people who actually work towards screening the films in as many cinemas as possible. Disytributors make their way round the cinemas and try and promote their films in order to get them played on the big screen.  
Cinemas such as Odeon, Cineworld and Vue don't actually make a large profit from the ticket sales, however they tend to pick the big films to be played and use up the most amount of screens that it can. Cinemas make their money through the sale of the additional treats they sell such as popcorn and a drinks. Cinemas know that the more popular the film is, the more people are going to want to come and see it, hence the more tickets that they sell, the more popcorn they will sell and the more money they will make. 

Independent film makers are continually finding it difficult to get their films on the big screens across the country. This is due to the comparison between mainstream film makers and the independent film makers, films produced by mainstream film companies will always be more popular as independent films are unheard of before.

The are also production companies called 'Mini Major's'. These include Lionsgate, MGM and Dream Works.

Lions gate	MGM	Dream Works
Hunger Games	Robocop	Home
Saw	Creed	Big Hero
Twilight	Also co-productions with some of the Big Six production companies such as Paramounts – ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’.

September is a bad month for films this is because it is just after Summer and just before Christmas, therefore not many film companies come out with big films.
October to February - Critically acclaimed films come out. Christmas time is when the big blockbuster films come out.

We went on to design our own logo if we were to have our own film production company. Here is my design. I used big bold white letter to contrast the dark background which highlights the company name.

I made this design for my logo as the bright colours contrasting with the dark nature of the background highlights how my institution will be producing films of all different genres, ranging from horror to comedy films. The reason i used a brightly coloured tree as the main feature of my background was due to the research i had done about the other film production companies such as Paramount and DreamWorks as they both include nature themes in their recognisable logos. The big bold white letters 'CM' resembles my initials so the viewers instantly recognise that the film that is being shown was made by my production company. The letters are relatively big therefore stand out and would be able to be noticed from the distance, creating a memorable logo in peoples minds. Although my initials are in the bottom left corner of my logo, due to the size of them, i do not feel as thought the image in the background overshadows the text as it is relatively dark and the first thing i see when i look at this logo is the text.