The document compares the low-budget film The Blair Witch Project and the high-budget film The Hangover in terms of their production companies, budgets, box office earnings, and target audiences. The Blair Witch Project was independently produced for $500,000-$750,000 by the little-known company Haxan and grossed $248 million worldwide. In contrast, The Hangover had a $35 million budget from the major studio Warner Bros and grossed $467.5 million. Haxan typically produces horror and thriller films for audiences 15 and older while Warner Bros produces a variety of genres targeting those 18 to 34.

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Institution Task

2. The Films
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3. Low budget – The Blaire Witch Project
S The Blair Witch Project grossed $248,639,099 worldwide.
After reshoots, a new sound mix, experiments with
different endings, the film's final budget ended up
between $500,000 and $750,000, this is a very small
amount of money to produce a film compared to other
films that have been produced in the past.

4. High Budget – The Hangover
S The film budget eventually cost altogether to around $35
million and ended up grossing $467.5 million worldwide.

5. Production companies for each
film- The Blair Witch Project
S The Blair Witch Project was produced by a company
called Haxan, who, before The Blair Witch Project came
out, were virtually unknown. However after the rapid
success of The Blair Witch Project the company became
increasingly popular.

6. Production companies for
each film – The Hangover
S The Hangover was allegedly produced by the company
Warner bros known worldwide. By having the Warner
Bros as the production company for the film they already
had an advantage to begin with when producing because
of the finance they could access to begin with.

7. Differences and similarity
between institutions
S Haxan are different to Warner Bros in a variety of different
ways, first of all their budget. Warner Bros are one of the most
famous film production companies and therefore have access
to a huge budget, whereas Haxan aren’t as well known and
don’t have the finance like Warner Bros.
Haxan Warner Bros
Founded in 1998 Founded in April 4, 1923

8. Other films production companies have produced
and what typical genres they tend to use
S Haxan - The production company also produced the Fox TV
series FreakyLinks, and the feature films Altered (2006),
Seventh Moon (2008), and Lovely Molly (2012), along with the
forthcoming Exists. They tend to follow the pattern of producing
films that are horror or thriller genre based.
S Warner Bros – Over the past century Warner Bros have
produced a variety of different films for example, recently they
produced Project X which was a successful comedy film. They
have also produced a variety of action films including on of the
popular Batman films ‘The Dark Knight’.

9. Target audience for each
production company
S The target audience for Haxan company would generally
be people aged 15 and above as that’s what most of their
films are rated as.
S The target audience for Warner bros generally varies as
they have created a mixture of different genre films.
However it has been stated that their target audience is
people aged 18 to 34.