Research into institutions

During the research into institutions, we looked at two films which were American, and two which were British. From our initial research on title credits, we concluded that the two American films (10 Things I Hate About You and Mean Girls) had much more credits than the British films (Mean Girls - 26 credits, 10 Things I Hate About You - 28 credits) whilst the British films had around 10-15 credits each. We came to the conclusion that the Hollywood movies were high budget, and the British films were low budget therefore more money could be spent on having more people in American movies in the credits.

During our research on budgets, we found out very similar things as we did with the credits' research. The Hollywood movies simply had more. Whilst the budget for 10 Things was $16 mil and the budget for Mean Girls was $17 mil, whilst the budget for the British movies was under $1 mil each. Furthermore, the Gross budget was very high for the American movies (Mean Girls - $129 mil Worldwide, 10 Things - $53.4 mil Worldwide) and also very low for the British movies, even though Beautiful Thing made $3 mil.

We concluded that 10 Things and Mean Girls were mainstream movies, and that Beautiful Thing and My Brother the Devil were independent movies.