- Disney
- General Electric (GE)
- Viacom
- Time Warner
- Sony Entertainment
- News Corp
Sunday 27 April 2014
Key terms examples
Key terms examples
Conglomerates: The Walt Disney Company
Consumption: Buying a dvd
Convergence: cross media convergence i.e Working Title using their parent company to gain access to more things
Distribution: A cinema buying movie prints
Exchange: DVD/Blue-ray
Marketing: TV adverts
Media Ownership: Big companies buying smaller companies
Proliferation: Social networking
Web 2.0: Blogs, wikis
Consumption: Buying a dvd
Convergence: cross media convergence i.e Working Title using their parent company to gain access to more things
Distribution: A cinema buying movie prints
Exchange: DVD/Blue-ray
Marketing: TV adverts
Media Ownership: Big companies buying smaller companies
Proliferation: Social networking
Web 2.0: Blogs, wikis
23rd april
prosumers - someone who makes their own movies
global and national market place
websites: boxoffice mojo - UK & USA
digital screen network
- cross media convergence - include in case studies - what company is it?
- how do they use technology? ( in all stages i.e apps/social media)
- how do the films appeal to a British audience?
- own experiences of consuming a film? what do you know about a wider patten of an audience?
more 45+ year olds are going to the cinema than younger people. - younger people more likely to download them.
bfi.org - statistical year book 2013 - first few pages
skyfall - page 9
in 2012, percentage of over 45's = 36%
more movies for older audience i.e Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
LOOK FOR FILMAS APPEALING TO THE OLDER DEMOGRAPHIC THIS YEAR
ages 15 - 24 has fallen significantly (from 31% to 25%)
UK films share of global box office = 15%
-funding - UK film council, lottery, bfi
- small island
- more niche films
- VOD (video on demand)
2012 UK cinema admission = 172.5 million
UK box office £1.1 billion = top 100 films earned 92% of total gross 547 films competing for box office
warp films = british
Tyrannosaur
A Field in England
British films
generally social realism genre
'kitchen sink' genre - British New Wave 1960's
- Britains richest gift to world cinema
global and national market place
websites: boxoffice mojo - UK & USA
digital screen network
- cross media convergence - include in case studies - what company is it?
- how do they use technology? ( in all stages i.e apps/social media)
- how do the films appeal to a British audience?
- own experiences of consuming a film? what do you know about a wider patten of an audience?
more 45+ year olds are going to the cinema than younger people. - younger people more likely to download them.
bfi.org - statistical year book 2013 - first few pages
skyfall - page 9
in 2012, percentage of over 45's = 36%
more movies for older audience i.e Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
LOOK FOR FILMAS APPEALING TO THE OLDER DEMOGRAPHIC THIS YEAR
ages 15 - 24 has fallen significantly (from 31% to 25%)
UK films share of global box office = 15%
-funding - UK film council, lottery, bfi
- small island
- more niche films
- VOD (video on demand)
2012 UK cinema admission = 172.5 million
UK box office £1.1 billion = top 100 films earned 92% of total gross 547 films competing for box office
warp films = british
Tyrannosaur
A Field in England
British films
generally social realism genre
'kitchen sink' genre - British New Wave 1960's
- Britains richest gift to world cinema
26th March
hybrid genre - more than 1 genre together e.g. romcom
- Conglomerates - put a lot of money into movies.
- Synergy - using their own companies to distribute/produce movies
stages of a films life:
- production
- distribution
- exhibitiom
- Lionsgate = mini-major - 2007 most successful mini major
- Weinstein company - MGM
film rights and watchmen
indie
warp films, film 4, icon, summit
Vertical and horizontal integration
Synergy and cross media
vivendi, universal make a movie
Digital technology
- Traditionally, films were made up of images printed on to acetate negatives.
- Then "spliced" together to form a reel.
- movies no longer analogue
Production
- cameras are a lot cheaper
- better quality
- high quality film production is now far more accessible to anyone
- can store, transmit and retrieve a huge amount of data exactly as it was originally recorded.
Memory cards can be re-used
Footage can be viewed immediately
Production time cut and costs
More flexible than analogue
easy to edit - computer software i.e final cut, avid, premiere
more highly critical and demanding as an audience
- simultaneous screenings
- huge increase in 3D screens since digital
Silent films
Silent films
- technology to synchronise film and sound did not exist until 1923
- piano player/organist would play where the movies were being shown
- films started as short clips and progressed to long films in 1915
Films, urbanisation and immigration
- big, diverse, ethnic groups
- progressive era - theatres being built
1927 - Roxy theatre - America
- Both sexes and ethnicities could mingle
Birth of the nation - 1915
- racist
- director said he was showing views of the time
Modern film industry
- after the war - for entertainment and distraction
British film market dominated by American products
Heliography - start of camera/photos by Joseph Niepce
joined Mande Daguerre
Photos darkened when you looked at them (light sensitive)
Hershel said to put it in hot salt water
1839 Daguerre saw french government - his inventions = gift free to the world
First hand held camera developed during the civil war - mass produced by Kodak
Industrial revolution
Thomas Edison
Kinterscope
Kintegraph
Charles Francis Jenkins - 1894
smooth motion pictures
public viewing
phantomscope
Cinematographe
- Paris 1895
- Lumiere brothers
- Way to make films
- Invented projection
joined Mande Daguerre
Photos darkened when you looked at them (light sensitive)
Hershel said to put it in hot salt water
1839 Daguerre saw french government - his inventions = gift free to the world
First hand held camera developed during the civil war - mass produced by Kodak
Industrial revolution
Thomas Edison
Kinterscope
Kintegraph
Charles Francis Jenkins - 1894
smooth motion pictures
public viewing
phantomscope
Cinematographe
- Paris 1895
- Lumiere brothers
- Way to make films
- Invented projection
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