Institutional Research

Institutional Research

We have been tasked with researching studios that produce films of the same genre of the film we will be making so I researched companies that produce action films. However, when I was researching action studios I realized that almost every major film studio has done several action films so trying to research a single studio that only made action films became difficult finding a studio that specifically made action films so I will talk about the studios who produce lots of action films but don't mainly focus on them.

Firstly, I'll talk about Sony pictures they are a American entertainment company and one of Hollywood's major film studios and produce many films. Looking at the films they have produced I can see a lot of major Action films these include the X-men film series, The Amazing Spider man 1 and 2 and the Men in Black series and all of these were very successful and our beloved by many. What this tells me is that the studio has a great reputation as a majority of their are a huge success also while looking at the films they've produced I can't really see many recurring actors or directors accept for large film franchise like x-men so it only be normal to have the same actors in them. (such as Hugh Jackman who is known for playing Wolverine in the X-men series).

Another, popular film studio i'll talk about is Marvel studios who are known for turning their comic books into films which are very popular. A good thing to point out is that most of their films are part of the action genre and they so they contain similar conventions to my groups film opening. Also superhero film franchises will normally have recurring actors playing the same roles as fans will immediately recognize the actor in the film. This can be seen with actors such as Robert Downey Jr who is known for playing Tony Stark also known as Iron Man.

I have also been told to research the BBFC otherwise known as the British Board of Film Classification These are the people who give films age ratings depending on their content with their ratings ranging from U for universal (everyone can watch it) all the way to 18 (Restricted 18 is different to 18 because it's for films which contain pornography). I believe that my groups film opening would be in the 12A (12-Adult) section as we don't plan on using loads of bad language and a majority of the opening will be a chase sequence so there won't be loads of over the top action. However we have chosen 12A instead of 12 because we want our film to be enjoyed by a wide range of people which includes adults so we will include content (small fight sequences) which they will enjoy.