1. Low budget V high budget
institution comparison and
analysis.
Megan Larner-Hoskins

2. What are the main institutions used
for each of the films?
Paranormal Activity
Paramount Pictures
Avatar
20th Century Fox

3. How much money was used to
produce each film?
Avatar cost approximately $280 million for the
production, plus marketing costs.
Paranormal Activity reportedly cost only $15,000 to
make.

4. How much money was made from
each of the films?
Avatar has grossed over $2.05 billion in worldwide
sales.
Paranormal Activity has grossed more than $80
million.

5. How well known are the production
companies for being known?
20th century fox is also recognised for popular films such as
‘Titanic’, ‘Ice Age’, ‘Rise of the Planet Apes’.
Paramount pictures is recognised for making films such as
‘mission impossible’, ‘iron man’ and ‘Kong Fu Panda’.

6. List any similarities that exist between
the high-budget film and the low-budget
film in terms of the institutions
Both institutions are both well known around the
world and produce all of the infamous movie you
know.
Both have huge amounts of income because of this.

7. List the differences between the highbudget film and the low-budget film in
terms of the institutions
20th Century Fox mainly produce films for the younger
age, such as ‘Kung Fu Panda’, however they do often
produce some action films like ‘Planet of the Apes’.
In comparison to 20th Century Fox, paramount
produces lots of action/horror films for the older age
group.

8. What other films has the production
company made? Were these as
successful? Why/why not?
20th century fox made films such as Titanic which was
highly successful
Paramount pictures has make films such as Kong Fu
Panda which was highly successful for the young
children group and have gone on to make sequences
to the first one.