Film

Industry and Audience

Film = Industry only 

Radio = Industry and Audience 

Video Games = Industry and Audience 

Film Industry - Creating a Film:

- Ideas 

- Study decides who produces 

- Storyboard and scripts 

- Film the shots (production) 

- Editing 

- Trailer, billboards, social media, posters, brochures, adverts 

- Premier, focus groups, testing the film 

- Distribution - shown in cinema 

- DVD, Netflix 

4 Stages of Filming:

1. Production - development, pre-production, production, post-production 

2. Distribution - how film is distributed 

3. Marketing - posters, apps, television, interviews 

4. Exhibition/Exchange - the way people consume films, e.g. showing films in cinemas or renting/buying DVDs or downloading films

Primary aim of production company:

To make a profit = good business 

They will make money = Having a distribution plan, marketing and promoting a film 

Conglomerates - is when two or more companies engage in a multi-industry company 

Ownership types:

Horizontal integration:

Vertical integration: When the production company has ownership of the means of production, distribution, exhibition of the film by the same company as they receive all of the profit.