- 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
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