I thought by making a glossary of terms from the Film Industry it will remind me each time if i forget and help me remember, these are mainly what i collected from the BFI Film Festival.
Production: the physical film making process (the UK film industry is stereotypically more production led, the US distribution led)
Distrubution: getting films out to audiences and paying for the advertising and marketing. To understand commercial success, the role of distribution is crucial.
Exchange: audience film consumption on a range of platforms, e.g Cinema, DVD and streaming....
Multinational Conglomerate: large organisations whose business interests are global, utilising synergy and convergence and also cross media ownership- apart from Disney, all of the 'big six' film distributors are owned by multi national conglomerates.
Monopoly: where one company dominates the market. Netflix are currently dominating online film distribution
Oligopoly: where four or more companies dominate the market e.g the big six
The Big Six: the studios that dominate film distribution and form the oligopoly of ownership (owned by multi national conglomerates)
Globalisation: where films are distributed around the work through elaborate cross media marketing net works.
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