Thursday, November 1, 2018

NEW TOPIC: Film Industry



Media Products exists to get money(Movies, Videogames, Tv, Magazines, Newspaper, Social Media)

Film Industry


    Image result for the big 5 studios
  1. The Studio System: A method of film production
  2. Production: The process of making the film
  3. Distribution: Giving out the media product to the audience
  4. Conglomeration: Is the process of conglomerate being formed, a conglomerate is a corporation consisting of a group of businesses dealing in different products or services.
  5. Vertical/Horizontal Integration: When companies buy other companies
  6. Digital Technologies:
  7. Regulation: The rules and restrictions that studios must follow to make a film
  8. Convergence:
  9. Exhibition: Showing it off

The internet has completely changed the way in how the film industry works, effecting its distribution and exhibition. The internet provides information, communication, entertainment, shopping and more
Google has additionally helped as it provides searching for content more easily.

Streaming videos has completely changed the way we see films.

David Hesmondhalgh- The cultural Industries

Horizontal Integration: When companies buy other companies in the same sector/level
 (Disney buys 20th Century Fox)

Vertical Integration: Where a company buys "up other companies involved in different stages of production and circulation" Essentially companies in different sectors/levels
This can cause monopolisation: 

Vertical Integration is very illegal in the UK.


Universal Pictures


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