Institutions and audiences

We started a new topic for the exam "Institutions and Audiences" in the first lesson we did a class survey and came to the following conclusions

1. Almost all the films we watch are american made

This is because they are bigger companies in comparison to our British companies and they have much bigger budgets with there films, this is also why British film companies are partnered up with american ones when making a film normally for publicity.

2. we watch films in lots of different ways.

compared to how people used to watch films we have a very broad choice

• TV
• Cinema
• Download
• Youtube (Or other video sharing sites)
• DVD
• Skybox office (or other TV film channels)

3. More genres, hybrid genres.

this is because people dont want to watch the same kind of film over and over so mixing genres and having more genres allows people to keep enjoying films

4. Audience is in control of how, when and where they watch there films.

We did the survey by each filling in a grid that had the headings Film, Certificate, genre, where watched, pro's, Con's and British or American? after we had all filled our grid's in we fedback and put it on the board to so we could see the four points above.

on my own grid i did 8 films heres some examples:

Tranformers 2

• Certificate: 12
• Genre: Action/Fantasy
• Where watched: Cinema
• Pro's: Big screen, good audio
• Con's: No control, disturbances,
• American made

Dark Knight

• certificate: 15
• Genre: Action/Sci-fi
• Where watched: Cinema
• Pro's: Big Screen, Good audio
• Con's: No control, disturbances
• American made

Kung Fu Panda

• Certificate: PG
• Genre: Comady/Animation
• Where watched: DVD
• Pro's: Control, speical features
• Con's: Waiting for release, costs money, may break
• American made