When researching into the institutions that produce teen drama films, we compared four films, two British and two American. Through watching each of the films title sequences we found clear differences between the British films and the American films. The title sequences showed that "Mean Girls" and "10 things I hate about you" (American films) had more then 25 credits each, whereas "My brother the devil" and "Beautiful thing" (British films) each had below 21. These statistics tell us that usually most mainstream films have the money to include more factors into their film and contracts are also made before films to ensure who gets into the credits. In both "Mean Girls" and "10 things i hate about you" they have a main Production company, again whereas "My brother the devil" and "Beautiful thing" have more than one (Beautiful thing has four production companies). This is necessary for independent films as they need a number of different production companies to fund their films in order for them to make them, mainstreams films can afford to have one production company.
When looking into the budgets for each of the films, the american films were funded around $16/17 million each and the British films had less than £1 million and in return "10 things i hate about you" received $53 million worldwide and "Mean Girls" a Staggering $129 million worldwide. However for the British independent films "My brother the devil" only received £1.2 million and "Beautiful thing" 3 million. Through looking into these institution, we can see that mainstream teen films have a bigger audience then independent teen films, this is due to the budget and the conglomerates that own the big production companies that fund them.
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