Choosing a Film Studio

We needed to choose a film studio to produce our films. We looked at popular horror film production companies that also produce similar films to ours. We needed it to be right for our genre, target audience, style and themes. We did some research and found that Hammer and Lionsgate were popular horror film production companies and decided to look at those two. We looked at their portfolio of films and their websites to see whether they would be suitable. 

Firstly we looked at the Hammer Films website:

We liked the look of the website straight away as the colour scheme is dark, with black, red and white colours in it, which were our theme colours. It looks quite eery and creepy straight away which identifies it at a horror film production company immediately.

The film 'The Woman in Black' was shown on their website, which we had all heard of and knew made a fairly good profit when it was in the cinema. We looked for other films that we recognised but the other films weren't as recognisable and we'd never heard of them, which started to make us think this wasn't the right film studio.

We looked at the Lionsgate website afterwards:

We immediately liked this website as it was also dark and eery and had a huge advert for 'Texas Chainsaw 3D' which, is a very well known horror film franchise. This gave us a good impression immediately. We looked into other films that Lionsgate had produced and there were some big names like 'The Hunger Games'. That film, even though wasn't a horror film was a massive hit at the cinema, meaning this production studio would have the sufficient budget for our film and would be able to get it a lot of public attention. This is a perfect advantage as we need a lot of promotion going into it as we have decided on a cast of unknown actors. Overall we decided to choose Lionsgate as our production company as we believed it would be able to provide us with the commercial success we hope for, because it is much more a well known company.