The Film Industry

In class today we began to look at film companies and major companies which produce a majority of the blockbuster films. At first we looked at 'The Big 6'. These are the enormous multimedia companies who can afford to produce high budget films with special effects, as well as low budget films. The Big 6 are:
  1. 20th Century Fox
  2. Paramount
  3. Walt Disney co.
  4. Universal
  5. Warner Brothers
  6. Sony
You also find Mini Major film companies which also have film franchises but are never going to be as big as the other six. These include companies such as, Lionsgate and MGM.

I then looked at how much low budget and high budget films are. We found out that a low budget film is classed as anything up to $2 million and a high budget film is around $150 million. The higher the budget of the film the more it is going to cost the cinemas a lot to show it. This is due to the production costs so the company charge the cinema to show it. This means that the cinema then has to take most of its profit from the food and drink which they sell and therefore cover the showing costs.
There is also a 'film year' that occurs, so that means that you can predict when certain types of films are going to be released into the cinema.
  • Mid October- February = Academy Awards Nomination Films
  • Half Term- Christmas = Christmas Films and other Children Films
  • Easter- Summer = Big Blockbuster Films
After looking at the typical film year we begun to concentrate on how the audience, ourselves, consume, understand and watch films. These were my answers:


The final part of our lesson today was us creating our film industry's logo. I called mine 'Top Hat Productions'. In this I used a upside down top hat as the 'T' in Top and a black bow tie as the line that crosses the 't' in Hat. Here is my logo:



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