Film industries

What is the purpose of any media product? to make money

The studio system - method of producing/ making films e.g Disney

 Production - creating/ process of making something  

 Distribution - sending it to people/ cinemas - giving out a media product 

 Conglomeration - 

 Vertical/horizontal integration - 

 Digital technologies -

 Regulation - the rules and restrictions a media product must follow e.g. age rating

 Convergence -

 Exhibition - showing the product

 Technological developments that have affected the ways in which film distribution and exhibition have been effected in the last two decades.
- The internet has completely changed the way the film industry and world works.
- Google
- YouTube 
- Streaming services (Netflix)

Draw-backs of internet for producers is the illegal websites that put them up for free.

Key Theory 14 - David Hesmondhalgh - The Cultural Industries (he didn't invent these ideas yet he studied the cultural industries)
- He pointed out ways that hollywood studios made money

 - Horizontal Integration = where a company buys other companies in the same sector to reduce the competition for audiences 

 - Vertical integration = where a company buys "up other companies involved in different stages of the production and circulation" 

 - Monopolisation 

 - Conglomeration = "A conglomerate is a corporation that consists of a group of businesses dealing in different products or services"
Conglomeration is the process of a conglomerate being formed. 
Universal and Disney are examples of a conglomerate = they make films, have theme parks, have hotels etc. 

 Researching Universal Pictures and Legendary Pictures

 Universal Pictures = 
- Universal Pictures is an American film studio, owned by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal, and is one of Hollywood's "Big Six" film studios. 
- Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California.
- Distribution and other corporate offices are in New York City. 
- Universal Studios is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). - Universal was founded in 1912 by the German Carl Laemmle , Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour.

 Legendary Pictures
Legendary Entertainment is an American media company based in Burbank, California. The company was founded by Thomas Tull in 2000 and in 2005 concluded an agreement to co-produce and co-finance films with Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures.










































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