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A media industry is any historical or current media industry, e.g **Hollywood film industry** • movie(media) industry aspects could include such things as:

commercial considerations, market demands, industry practices

__ key words for film industry __

studios, oligopolies, mergers,technologies,marketing,industry structures,distribution diversification, the high concept film, Synergy,seriality,star power, Digital Technology

product placement, revenue streams, clearing house concept, Popcorn Cinema, Pacts, Stars, Net and Gross, Box Office, Lobby Groups, Regulations

key words Synergy ( read on below )and convergence

__Media business synergyWalt Disney. circa 1940 read your Disney overview PDF__

Synergy in a technical context is a relationship among the parts.

Media production becomes a system rather than an industry producing one-offs in large corporations. Study this model. Steven Soderberg has concerns about the domination of for he is known for "one offs". How does a film director manage to make films if HOLLYWOOD is only producing block-busters? Not everyone wished to work for the Disney Corporation.

Such debates about scale and domination shape discussion of the economics of cinema today. There were moguls in the early era of HOLLYWOOD. There was a renaissance of independent directors in the late 1960's. A student may look for shape and patterns in the industry post 1980( when James Cameron cam on the scene with the Terminator). Wonder about the 'relations' amongst the parts of commerce, ownership, distribution,exhibition. Are the mogul formats of the early 20th century still a model? Is the Disney conglomorate one of these?

Here is a PDF on Conglomorates

See the html page below from the New York TimesStephen Soderberg speaks out

commercial movies are made for consumption. So, continue to think about Audience. Who is the audience for cinema now?

The study of media industry and media audience today is a study of hybrid practices and outcomes.

Your key vocabulary.
 * || Look up the blockbuster

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/business/as-hollywood-leans-on-blockbusters-the-flop-looms.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 || government and industry regulations and standards, key personnel, technologies, industry structure and ownership.

Studios have been shifting their resources toward what are variously called blockbuster, event, or tent pole movies for years — the big-budget movies intended to help studios make up for their less profitable films. Discuss.

first, start looking up the vocabulary and do a read about a case study

A Corporation The Walt Disney Company. Go t http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company Disney now focuses on two kinds of films: (1) Pixar animation, Marvel comics, and remakes of pre-existing Disney projects and (2) “event” movies capable of producing lucrative merchandising, tv series or theme park attractions. If you want to make films about recognizable human beings, Disney is not your primary destination. Stars Think about what stars do.eg. Will Smith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6anpCwPT9qA&feature=related

read more here

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009695

a film is a product of business relations. key figures are: 1) - the backer - the backer finances a project

There were traditional backers.

As more independents enter the cinema market there are different methods of financing