Media Institution

Media Institution

Media institutions are different companies that produce or co-produce different products from films to TV's.

I have chosen to look at the company Summit Entertainment. 

Summit Entertainment LLC (formerly Summit Entertainment LP) is an American film studio and a subsidiary of Lions Gate Entertainment headquartered in Universal City, California with international offices in London.

Type	Subsidiary
Founded	1991
Founder(s)	Bernd Eichinger Arnon Milchan Andrew G. Vajna
Headquarters	Universal City, California (US HQ) London, UK (International HQ)
Key people	Rob Friedman Patrick Wachsberger
Products	Motion pictures
Parent	Lions Gate Entertainment
Website	summit-ent.com

History  

Summit was originally founded in 1991 by film producers Bernd Eichinger, Arnon Milchan, and Andrew G. Vajna, initially to handle film sales in foreign countries. Summit later expanded into producing and co-financing films in 1995, and started fully financing films by 1997. Summit officially launched in 1993 by Patrick Wachsberger, Bob Hayward and David Garrett under the name Summit Entertainment LP as a production, distribution, and sales organization. Among the company's early successes was American Pie, which Summit distributed outside of English-speaking territories. In 2006, it became a fully independent film studio, Summit Entertainment, with the addition of Rob Friedman, a former executive at Paramount Pictures. The new company added major development, production, acquisitions, marketing and distribution branches with a financing deal led by Merrill Lynch and other investors giving it access to over $1 billion in financing.

Films

After a string of flops including P2, Penelope, and Sex Drive, Summit finally found success in November 2008 with the release of Twilight, a teen romance about vampires based on the best-selling book of the same name by Stephenie Meyer that made $408,773,703 worldwide. In the spring of 2009, Summit released Knowing, the company's second movie to open #1 at the box office and made $182,492,056 worldwide.

In November 2009, Summit released the sequel to Twilight titled The Twilight Saga: New Moon, also based on the popular novel by Stephenie Meyer, breaking box office records in its first weekend, grossing $142,839,137 in three days and posting the fourth all-time best weekend box office figure behind Columbia Pictures' Spider-Man 3 ($151,116,516) and Warner Bros. Pictures'The Dark Knight ($158,411,483) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($168,550,000).

On June 30, 2010 Summit released the third film of the Twilight series, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. It broke a midnight screening record of over $30 million and set a one-day Wednesday record of $68.5 million but failed to surpass the one-day tally of $72 million set by New Moon. It became the first movie in the series to cross the $300 million mark domestically.

Other films for Summit include Next Day Air ($10,027,047 US box office), The Hurt Locker ($16,400,000 US box office) which garnered Summit its first Oscar-winning Best Picture), the animated film Astro Boy, the teenage horror Sorority Row ($11,965,282 US box office), the low-budget Push ($31,811,527 US box office), the dismally-attended Bandslam ($5,210,988 US box office), Letters to Juliet ($53,032,453 US box office), and the sleeper hit RED ($87,940,198 US box office), which was nominated for a 2010 Golden Globe in the Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musicalcategory.

In 2008, Summit ranked 8th place among the studios, with a gross of $226.5 million, almost entirely because of the release of Twilight. In 2009, Summit ranked 7th among studios with a gross of $482.5 million.

This company has been involved in comedies, romances, family cartoons, horror and different kinds of thrillers. This company would suit our production as it is a successful and well known company, it has produced many films which have had so much success they get nominated for Golden Globe awards. 

I think it would be a good company to Produce, market and distribute our thriller as from looking at the previous successes, and having watched them all myself,i would know this company could effectively make our thriller a successful film that everyone will watch.      

Questionnaires for the audience (15th november)

Questionniare

These pictures are of the questionnaire we are doing as we need to know the basics of  a demographic audience.

Results

The final production logo

The logo is hand drawn by me, it has the letters LRS as it is all of our names.

Choosing Demographics

Demographics

 

 

 

This is from a PowerPoint where we had to decide which group we were going to aim our thriller opening at.

 

 

This is the group we have specifically chosen as it is more suited to our type of thriller opening. Because we have chosen this it doesnt mean that other demographic groups wont look at it as well. 

Choosing which Psychographics

Psychographics

We had to chose one of these to aim our thriller opening at, as they are the different auidence types. We chose the explorers as it means the people who watch it will have a more open mind.

Lily shot list

 

Lily shot lists

 

This is a picture of the rough ideas for our shot list.

 This is also the rough ideas.

These two pictures are of the final shot list, in order and the props, costumes and make up.

Continuity

Continuity

Moleskine Bags in Hyper Stop Motion from Moleskine  on Vimeo.

This film shows continuity as it shows us the changes, from the stack of books decreasing to the last book left gets flicked through with different pictures. 

This shot shows us how the books are slowly decreasing, it is a series of shots played quickly to make it look like it has been filmed, which shows how it continues as it flows well. It shows the simpleness of the start of this film. The shots match the music as it is a sort of moving music which helps with the books decreasing.




This shot shows us the change of location but it also shows the still decreasing of the books, because of the change in location it shows us that as it is on a work bench that inside the books is some sort of idea. The shots again still go with the music but at this point to music picks up speed almost like something is working faster, like someone thinking. 

This shot now shows us what the film may be about, it shows us the design of something. The music is light and fast. It shows how the shots can continue as it flows instead of  any cuts.  









This shot makes it clearer what the film is about. It shows us the flow of the pages being flipped through the book. It is showing the slow building of the idea, from simple designs to more detailed ideas. 








 This shot shows how the idea is building into something more then just simple drawings. The music is now faster as the idea is growing into something more realistic.