Institution

Below are the notes on institution which I made in class:

The audience of films is between the ages of sixteen and twenty four years.

Arguably, the most important people involved in film are the distributors, this is because they are the people who actually end up getting the films in the cinema. They will go round to individual cinemas and ask for the films to get displayed which they are with. Although the cinema will not get much money from the film, cinemas will mainly choose to pick large films to be played in the cinemas and use up the most amount of screens. This is because cinemas make their money from popcorn and they know that the more popular the film is, the more people will buy popcorn, and therefore the more money they will make. This is why it is really hard for an independent film-maker to get their film to be displayed in the cinema, compared to a mainstream maker, because it will be less popular in the cinema if it is by an unheard independent film company, compared to a large popular one.

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 around this time. From October to February is when the critically acclaimed films are out. Around Christmas time is when the big blockbuster films come out, for example; Spectre, Star Wars and the new Hunger Games are coming out this Christmas.

There are six big companies which are film makers, these are called THE BIG SIX and they include:

Sony - The walk, Pixels, Fury, The Amazing Spiderman 2, 22 jumpstreet.

Warner Bros - Magic Mike XXL, Get Hard, Gravity.

20th Century Fox - Fantastic Four, Taken 3, Gone Girl, Night at the Museum.

Paramount - Turtles, Area 51, Mission Impossible.

Disney - Inside Out, Avengers.

Universal - Ted 2, Straight Outta Compton.

As well as The Big Six, there are also other companies which are big, but not quite as big as those six, these are called MINI MAJORS and these include:

Lionsgate - Hunger Games, Saw.

MGM - Robocop, as well as corporation with Big Hero 6.