As media studies: Homework

Production:

It involves an original story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition.

 It involves a large number of people, and takes from a few months to several years to complete.

Distribution:

There are many different ways that films can get from the edit house to the audience such as:

¨     Audience watch it in the cinema

¨     Find information about it on the internet

¨     Online movies

¨     Word of mouth

¨     DVD’s

Marketing:

There many different types of marketing films can be sold in a number of ways to different audiences for instance:

¨     Theatres

¨     Television and radios

¨     Internet: film reviews, social networking e.g. Twitter

¨     Print: paid advertisement in newspapers, magazines, inserts in books, and posters

¨     Pirated DVDs

¨     Online illegal streaming

¨     Trailers

Exhibition:

The different ways we engage with films today are:

¨    We watch them in the cinema

¨    At home online movies

¨    Rent/buy DVD’s online or in shops

¨    People sell illegal copies of films- pirated DVD’s

¨    Theatres

¨    TV- movie channels

Farha Osmani