Film Industry Important Definitions

- Vertical integration - describes a style of growth and management control. Vertically integrated companies in a supply chain are united through a common owner. Usually each member of the supply chain produces a different product or (market-specific) service, and the products combine to satisfy a common need.
- Horizontal integration - the opposite of a strategy where a company creates or acquires production units for outputs which are alike - either complementary or competitive. One example would be when a company acquires competitors in the same industry doing the same stage of production.
- Synergy - this means to work together and it means for companies to work collaboratively to create lots of different products branched off from the initial main idea.
- Cross-media Convergence -this is the process by which a range of media platforms are integrated within a single piece of media technology.
- Technological Convergence - this is the tendency for different technological systems to evolve towards performing similar tasks.
- Media Ownership -
- Distribution -
- Exhibition -
- Proliferation -
- Conglomerates - A media conglomerate, media group or media institution is a company that owns large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and the Internet. Media conglomerates strive for policies that facilitate their control of the markets around the world.
- Consumption - Media consumption or media diet is the sum of information and entertainment media taken in by an individual or group. It includes activities such as interacting with new media; reading books and magazines; watching television and film; listening to radio; and so on.The amount of media consumption among individuals is increasing as new technologies are created.
- Exchange -
- Web 2.0 -

Production Companies

Warp -  an independent film production company based in Sheffield & London, UK, with a further affiliated company Warp Films Australia based in Melbourne, Australia. It was initially created with financial support from NESTA and had a remit to produce a number of short films. This production company produced one of my favourite movies "Submarine".
Working Title - this was founded in 1983 and is also a UK production company. It has grown a lot since its initial creation. It has produced a lot of really popular movies such as "The Boat That Rocked", "Hot Fuzz" and "Bridget Jones' Diary".

Media Consumption - The Big Six

The big six are:

-Disney

-GE

-NewsCorp

-Viacon

-Time Warner

- CBS

Film Process

- Production - how the company funds the film, how and where are they filmed?
- Distribution - how does production companies get their films seen. How the film physically gets to the cinema, how is it marked?
- Exhibition - how the audience sees it, also exchange of films.