Institutional Research

For my institutional research I have chosen to do universal studious. Because they have made some good films in the past and seem very inspirational to work from or for. Also Universal is world wide so making a film could be published or made anywhere in the world.

Universal is one of the six major movie studios in the world. They were made in 1912 and were founded in New York (April 30, 1912) by a man called Carl Laemmle. On may 2004 universal studios the controlling stake in the company was sold by Vivendi to General Electric, parent of NBC. The resulting media super-conglomerate was renamed NBC Universal, while Universal Studios Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. They have been making movies since they began and still are till this day.

     They make money by having made all these films, they have studios were you can go visit and have theme park in America based on some of the films they have made.

Our film is based around comedy’s such as Shaun of the dead, Jonny English. Humor with the twist of dark, scary zombie moments like resident evil and 28 days later. Lots of movie's based around two of these genres are in the universal studios list of films. I think the opening movie will look professional in the best way that it can. Clean cuts, good makeup, and clothing. I believe our film would be good for them, because it has two genre based in it and a huge range of age views watch these type of films-because it would be British based.  

     while being made, the company might seem intrigued with a British film and pay for it and publish it over the globe. Due to their review on it and if we could meet their standards.  

     The money we would need wouldn’t be a lot. Due to that fact we would be shooting in out location In Britain. We would have British cast, makeup, est. the budget would be cheep because we could all work together. We would need around £500,000 or less, due to the actors we get, and their standards. We could get fresh ones out and see if they do a good job on the film.

     The type of music that the audience of a media consumer of this film will depend on which side of the genre they prefer more. If they are on the comedy side, it will be things like Rizzle Kicks, Maroon 5 or Christina Perri. However if they are on the side of horror/ zombie, they may prefer darker music such as Enter Shikari or Metallica.
The type of TV programmes that I think my audience will watch may vary from things like comedy (Stand up) to darker ones like Black Books. Comedy is the main point as not many TV shows follow dark themes however Day of the Triffids is an example of an army of things taking over.

      Finally the type of websites will mainly be social networking sites such as and twitter as they are the in thing at the moment and most people use them.

what I have learnt from this task is:
* Its best to do research on a movie comany before you start production
* You need to think about the imporants things, such as money and all the other piece's that fit around that
* Location if also a key factor to make sure you have the setting already there and wont hassle producers and comanys in the process