Institution research

I am looking into the institutions that put out films that we all see or hear of, I will do this by looking at all stages of there process from shooting the footage to editing and promotion of that film and how they get people to see there trailers, film posters and how they get the films featured in magazines.
First I will look at Film4 Productions which in class of movie studios is listed in the Lower tier independents. It is a British based company of channel 4, and has worked with many bigger production studios in the past, and created great British films. They are a fairly new company, and there first production was put out in 1982, recently they have worked with Dreamworks studios and 20th Century Fox.
Other independent filmmaking is Guerrilla filmmaking which is characterized by low budgets, basic number of crew and using whatever is available as props. They normally shoot there scenes in real locations without any warning or permission from the owners of said locations, this is because they do not have the budgets to get permits or build sets. there has been a rise in guerrilla filmmaking in recent years as digital movie cameras have become cheaper and smaller with better video quality. also when it came to editing films there are many affordable movie editing computer programs from basics like windows movie maker and imovie, to better software like Adobe After effects, and Apple’s Final Cut Pro and Studio.
Giants in the film production industry are 20th century Fox Film Corporation, which is a Hollywood studio, and considered one of the big six major American film Studios. The studio is a subsidiary of the media conglomerate owed by Rupert Murdoch. When Rupert Murdoch took over it gave the company financial stability and allowed them to expand and cast bigger/better actors and hire better film crews and was able to expand and become extremely profitable for News Corp.
MGM are another of the large corporations providing movie on a international scale with a long list of top rate Hollywood movies under its belt and during world war two was the dominant motion picture studio in Hollywood. Also it and 20th century fox probably have the most recognized logos with them being the roaring lion and the 20th Century Fox logo and fanfare with the searchlights. the Bond film are probably the most successful series of films produced by MGM and with the current economical climate they have had to post pone the next film along with many others and some cancelled, due to not having sufficient funds and great profits on films. companies like these face many problems in the modern world with illegally downloaded films which cut there profits massively.