C1- Films Flashcards
Industry- What is distribution?
Delivering media products – including promotional and marketing materials - to audiences
Industry- What is a conglomerate?
A large media company that owns other smaller companies
Industry- What is a subsidiary?
a company owned by a larger ‘parent’ or ‘holding’ company
Industry- What is Horizontal Integration?
When different companies producing and selling similar products join together (or a company expanding by buying up other similar companies)
e.g.- a company expanding in the POST-PRODUCTION industry ONLY
Industry- What is Vertical Integration?
A company expanding by taking on different stages of media production (such as a film company owning a distribution company, or a streaming service making its own film or TV content).
Netflix making Netflix Originals
Industry- What is diversification?
A company expanding its operations into new and different areas of the industry
Industry- What is Buzz Marketing?
When the audience promote a media product through word of mouth on social media (the most cost effective means of reaching wide audiences)
Industry- What is Hegemony?
Reflection of Western Society
White Heterosexual male
middle/upper class
notes on Black Panther
-female empowerment is deomnstrated throughout the film
-Oakland, CA is represented as a poor place, quite rough, and in contrast to Wakanda, which is represented as advanced and futuristic.
-side roles wearing more normal and less regal clothes
-use of props to signify the T’Challa is the king
-mystery connoted through visual codes for the secret club
-usage of an Asian coutnry for filming to help get movie screened in different countries.
-use of colour and props to signfiy things, semiotics, white for purity and one-sided window for interrogation.
Notes of I, Daniel Blake: representation and stereotypes
-quite working class, works for their own house and possessions, doesn’t get anything handed down to them.
-job centre staff that aren’t helpful, alongside the benefits woman.
-mother gives up food fore her children, act of selflessness
-represent poverty in an area due to long food bank queue
-represents food bank workers as kind and respectful, showing people are ‘human’.
stereotypes used are those of a grumpy, angry old man, and a greiving widow. Also they subvert the stereotype that job centre staff aren’t helpful, Anne.
Theory: Pleasure of genre for audiences
Emotional pleasures: the emotional pleasure offered to audiences of a genre films are particularly significant when they generate a strong audience response.
Visceral pleasures: Visceral pleasures are ‘gut’ responses and are defined by how the film’s stylistic construction elecits a physical effect upon it’s audience. This can be a feeling of revulsion, kinetic speed, ot a ‘roller coaster ride’.
Intellectual puzzles: certian films genres such as the thriller ot the ‘whodunit’ offer the pleasure in trying to unravel a mystery or a puzzle. Pleasure is derived from deciphering the plot and forecasting the end or the being surprised by the unexpected.
What is film production?
The filming: gathering raw materials
What is film distribution?
-Working with cinema, production companies, ratings and trailers.
-At-home releases
-country availability
What is film circulation?
Keeping it popular
