Film Studio

For our title sequence, we needed to look into a suitable film studio to add to our title sequence. To do this, we had to first gather what we already know about our film, by looking at what genre we are doing, the type of audience we are targeting and other factors that needed to be taken into consideration. 

Firstly, we decided to look into film studios that cater for the genre of horror. We found two suitable studios which were Lionsgate Pictures and Hammer Films. We first evaluated the websites of both companies, to try make an early assumption of what they are like. We looked at Hammer Films first. There website looked like this:

Straight away, we noticed it was definitely a horror film studio. The colour of the background connotes death and danger, which are usually associated with horror/thriller films - all the films listed on their website were horror films. We also recognised the film that is being displayed on the homepage, as the successful "The Woman In Black" which is most definitely a horror film, that made a reasonably good profit. This made our impression of the company positive, and made us realise they are successful. The one thing we noted as negative, was that there website seemed really simplistic and plain, which made us think that they are not as popular as other film studios, and that they may not be able to cater for our budget for our film.

We then moved onto Lionsgate Pictures, whose website looked like this:

Again, just like the website for Hammer Films, we noticed that the website had a horror type theme, due to the dark grey clouds as their background. Also, just like Hammer, the film being displayed is a horror film, but this time around, this film is a well known franchise that as had tremendous success throughout the years, and has had many remakes as well, meaning that people want to see this film. We also thought that this website came across as more established, and made Lionsgate seem a popular studio - which it is. We browsed through the films, and saw a few huge films like "The Hunger Games" meaning this studio may be able to give us the amount of money we would need.

After viewing both websites, looking into the films they have made and their box office success', we have decided that we would like Lionsgate Pictures as our film studio for our film "Hypnosis". The reason for selecting Lionsgate, was due to the fact that they appear to be higher in the studio rankings against Hammer, and they featured more well-known films meaning they have more success. Also, our we felt like Lionsgate would be able to cater to our budget for our film, whereas we felt Hammer might not be able to do so.