2. What is a institution?
A institution is a company that disperses a media product for audience consumption.
We are looking for a suitable institution to use for our opening.
With research we found that the most popular institutions where…
Film 4 20th century fox Universal pictures
Paramount Warner brothers
Background information
Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel Four Television
Corporation. The company has been responsible for backing a large number of films made in the
United Kingdom
Film4 did not originally focus on broadcasting blockbusters, but nowadays broadcasts many
mainstream Hollywood films. The channel frequently has themed nights or seasons in which
a number of films centred around one genre, director or actor are shown. As Channel 4 also
owns a film production company, Film4 Productions, it shows many of its in-house
productions.
Occasional non-film (but film-related) programmes are also shown.
Wherever possible, films are shown in their correct aspect ratio. No digital on-screen
graphics are superimposed. Under UK broadcasting rules, it was able to screen most films
unedited and in earlier timeslots when it was a subscription channel, but these concessions
were lost when it became free-to-air, and more adult material is now confined to after the
9pm watershed. Some films are also now edited to make them suitable for pre-watershed
screenings, a decision which was criticised by viewers on the channel's now defunct internet
forum.
3. Channel 4 is a publicly-owned, commercially-funded public service broadcaster. We do not
receive any public funding and have a remit to be innovative, experimental and distinctive.
Channel 4 works across television, film and digital media to deliver our public service remit, as
outlined in the 2003 Communications Act and most recently the 2010 Digital Economy Act.
Channel 4 was launched on 2nd November 1982 with a unique business model, under the
Broadcasting Act 1981. We are funded predominantly by advertising and sponsorship, but unlike
other broadcasters such as ITV, Channel 4 is not shareholder owned. Channel 4 is a statutory
corporation, independent of Government, and governed by a unitary board made up of
executive and non-executive directors, who are responsible for ensuring that Channel 4 fulfils its
remit and delivers its financial responsibilities. Non-executive directors are appointed by OFCOM
in agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. This system ensures our
not-for-profit status; that we are held accountable and that all profit generated by our
commercial activity is directly reinvested back into the delivery of our public service remit.
In addition to the main Channel 4 service, our portfolio includes E4, More4, Film4 and 4Music,
as well as an ever-growing range of online activities that includes channel4.com, Channel 4's
bespoke video-on-demand service 4oD and standalone digital projects. Through its film arm
Film4 Channel 4 is also a key supporter of British film making talent.
As a publisher-broadcaster, Channel 4 is required to commission UK content from the
independent production sector. We are a major investor in the UK's creative economy, working
with around 300 creative companies from across the UK every year and investing significantly in
training and talent development throughout the industry.
4. Film 4 produces a variety of genres which does include possessive horrors,
they show some of the most popular possessive horrors.
Film 4 show cases a wide-range of British made films and international films
that come from all over the world.
Film 4 is partnered with warp x films where they challenge British and
international films a creating new ones for a lower budget, with the
intention of expanding the niche audience, this would be good because
we would want to have a low budget to produce our film.
Film 4 is well known throughout the Uk, we hope that our film would
attract the interest of many of our target audience members.
Often British productions are made by smaller outfits like Warp Films, working with
Film 4 or the BBC to try to secure extra funding and help with distribution. Often films
made this way struggle to get more than £1 or £2 million budgets and consider a
success to break even, with DVD after-sales included. We hope that our film would be
able to challenge this.
An example of a film that went on to do well:
Small Independent Low Budget British Film:
Genre: Social Realist Drama - ‘This is
England’
Budget £1.5m, takings £1.5m.
Institutions: Warp Films + Film 4 +
various small UK media companies
5. Gadgets to watch films on:
Smart phones
Portablle game consoles
Laptops
Dvd
Illigal downloads
6. What about Channel 4 films, Film4
Productions and films you own – why don’t
you make those available to watch for free
online?
We rarely own a film entirely because we work
with producers and other funding
partners who are looking to recoup the cost of
making the film from selling the right to view
the film, either in the cinema or online. But
don’t forget that of course the Film4 Channel
allows you to watch these film for free on
scheduled TV, whether we’re screening a
Film4-backed film or not.
Why do you show adverts in the middle of
the films?
Channel 4 supports itself solely via advertising,
programme sponsorship and commercial
revenue, which enables the channel to be seen
as widely as possible. Knowing that our
audience cares about film, we are sensitive
about where we place our advert breaks.
http://www.film4.com/faq
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began transmission on
2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly
owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the
station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public
body established in 1990, coming into operation in 1993. With the conversion of
the Wenvoetransmitter group in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became
an entirely UK-wide TV channel for the first time.
The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United
Kingdom in addition to the television licence-funded BBC's two services and the single
commercial broadcasting network, ITV.
9. These are some of the
possessive horror films that
film4 has released.
These possessive horrors that are shown on film 4 share similar characteristics
to are possessive horror, and are popular possessive horror films. In result our
possessive horror will fit in, and will fit into the horrors that are shown on film
4 so our would be a good possessive horror for film 4 to show.
10. Why?
We chose Film 4 as our institution because it fits the
needs for our opening. As film 4 has produced possessive
horror films that share similar characteristics as our
possessive horror opening. We want to extend the genre
and get it more known, furthermore film 4’s main
audience is teenagers which is our target audience so we
believe that film 4 would be idyllic to show our film. Film
4 is also a popular channel, so we hope that are film
could become successful and get the viewing intended.
As you can see from our research/evidence that film 4 is a
perfect option for our opening, and for what we are
trying to achieve.
