INSTITUTIONAL AND FILM

CLASSIFICATION RESEARCH

I have incorporated Twisted Pictures company in my trailer. The reason for my decision is because they are one of many big names in horror movies. Although other companies have experienced in Horror, this company in particular is well known and has a successful reputation for the genre Horror. Twisted pictures is an American independent production. The company was founded in 2004 by Evolution Entertainment's Mark Burg, Oren Koules and Gregg Hoffman. They are best known for producing the Saw film series.

TWISTED PICTURES

Another institution that has focused on the genre horror, is Hammer productions. Hammer films is a film production company based in the United Kingdom, which was founded in 1934. The company is best known for 'Gothic Hammer horror' films made from 1950s till 1970s. They also produce thriller, Sci-fi film, film noir and comedies and later on they produced television series. Furthermore Hammer produced the film like the Curse of Frankenstein, Dracular and The Mummy.

HAMMER

Universal studios is an American motion picture studio owned by Comcast and is one of the six major movie studios. Universal pictures was founded in Loss Angeles in 1912 by Carl Laemmle and is the oldest American movie studio still in production today. In addition, it owns a collection of TV shows such as – NBC universal distribution

Universal studios have distributed a number of Horror films such as ‘The Wolf Man’ directed by George Waggner and based on a script written by Curt Siodmark in 1941.

UNIVERSAL

20th Century fox film production was founded in 1935 as a result of Fox film corporation funded by William Fox. The studio is currently located in Los Angeles with the owners being News corporation which is owned by Rupert Murdoch.

20th Century ‘s most popular films include Avatar directed by James Cameron staring Sam Worthington. Another film is Night at the museum directed by Sean Lavy starring Ben Stiler and the star wars films.

20TH CENTURY

Lions gate entertainment corporation is a North American entertainment company. The company was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 3 1997 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, california.

An example of a horror movie produced by this company is ‘The eye’ The eye is a 2008 supernatural horror film staring Jessica Alba.

LIONS GATE FILM

FILM CLASSIFICATION

Universal – This means universal for all. In other words the content is suitable for all ages therefore the majority of footage under this category is based for younger children so the content must be appropriate.

PG- This stands for parental guidance, this is because some scenes

may be unsuitable for some children.

The 12A sign means that an adult must accompany any child under the age of 12 seeing a 12A film at the cinema. No one younger than 12 may see a 12A film in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult. The sign 12 refers to DVD’s, videos and blue-rays.

No one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. No one younger than 15 may rent or buy a 15 rated video.

This sign means that no one under the age of 18 may see an 18 film in the cinema. No one younger than may rent or buy an ‘18’ rated video.