The film imdustry

2 hour exam: 1 part/1 hour = industry/audience - film (industry), radio, video games (industry and audience)
Both questions 15 marks

A life of a film:
1) Production = Development - script written and drafted into a workable blueprint
                          Pre-production -  preparations are made for the shoot, in which cast/crew are hired
                          Production - film footage shot
                          Post-production - film edited; sound, dialogue, soundtracks, sound effects
2) Distribution = film screened for potential buyers (distributors) includes all the financial deals done to get films shown and promoted
3) Marketing = advertising the film E.G posters, apps, television interviews
4) Exhibition = how the producer get it into cinemas / Exchange = way you watch the film

Conglomerate = when two or more companies engage in a multi-industry company

Ownership = all about the different film companies owning each other and proving each other with many ideas for films and finances major companies own others (small companies) within the industry in order for more films to be produces. Types; Horizontal intergration - when the production company expands into other areas of one industry. Vertical intergration - when the production company of the means of production, distribution and exhibition of the film by the same company as they receive all of the profits