Institution

High budget vs low budget films

Low budget film: Paranormal activity  
Paranormal activity is a low budget film and is a thriller. Paranormal Activity costed $15,000 to produce. Paranormal activity made $193 million profit for their production company Paramount. A low budget film focuses on the advertisement and acting quality of the film rather than on the film itself. Paramount's Famous and Successful films: Iron man, wolf of wall street, Area 51, Top gun, The avengers, titanic 3D, Footloose.


 High budget film: The dark knight rises
The dark knight rises is a high budget film and is a action film. The dark knight rises costed $250 million to produce and made $433 million profit. It was created by the following production companies Warner Brothers, Legendary pictures, DC entertainment Inc. and Syncopy Inc. This highlights that the film is a high budget film because of the amount of distributors and production companies used. A vast amount of money was used to create the amazing special effects in the film and for the advertisement. The film costed more to produce because it uses one of the production companies from the ‘BIG SIX’ and because it was distributed by four different companies. The warner brothers is a very well known production company and normally produces thrillers and action films.

 Similarities and differences
The low budget film ‘Paranormal activity’ only uses one production company where as the high budget film ‘The dark night rises’ uses four, this shows that there was more work put into to creating the high budget film. The low budget film created more profit. The was a massive amount of special effects used on the high budget film and there was only a small amount of effects used on the low budget film.
Both production companies for the films tend to produce action and thriller films. ( Warner Brothers, Paramount).

Which is more successful? 
I believe that Warner brothers is more successful as tit has produced more films and is one of the big six, it is also well known and has a strong fan base. Warner brothers has more experience compared to paramount whether advertising, distributing and creating films.
Although paramount is quite successful as well especially in the film ‘Paranormal activity’ as the profit is vast.