Monday 30 October 2017

The Film Industry

The Film Industry
Introduction

purpose of any media product= to make money!

'Classical Hollywood Narrative' refers to several typical characteristics that typified film making ideology

-emphasis continuity (the audience always knows where they are)
-temporal continuity (audience always knows in what order the events happen eg. flashbacks are clearly signposted)  
-realistic (must not make reference to other filmic or popular texts) 

The Studio system - 
Production - how something is produced, the making of the product 
Distribution - handing it out 
Exhibition - showing or displeasing 
Conglomeration - group of businesses dealing in different products eg. Disney channel, Disney land, Disney merchandise 
Horizontal integration - where a company buys other companies in the same sector to reduce the competition for audiences eg. Disney buying Star wars 
Vertical integration - where a company buys up other companies involved in different stages of the production and circulation eg. producer buying up actors, cinemas ect 
Digital technology - anything that involves a computer to function 
Regulation - rule that has to be followed
Convergence - coming together of different media mediums 
Company Ident - the distributors or producers logo 

Digital technology: mobile phone, digital camera, computer, scanner, printer, 


Traditional way in which film is distributed is in the cinema (theatrical theatre)   

Theory 14, Theory 12


how have things changed????
how are things now distributed???
social media -connection between fans and stars
                      -advertising
                      -conversation abou film 
Pirating- mega share/pirate bay/put-locker
recording films -blue ray/DVD/ Videos tapes
Streaming sites- net flicks/youtube




Universal Pictures 

Universal Pictures (also referred to as Universal Studios or simply Universal) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.[2] The company was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour, and is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States, the world's fourth oldest after GaumontPathé and Nordisk Film, and the oldest in terms of the overall film market











    















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