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2. Synergy & Cross Media Convergence
• An example of this:
• Vivendi Universal make a film in Universal Studios.
• It releases the film’s soundtrack on Polygram, one of
its record labels.
• The tracks can be bought online at MP3.com, one of
its internet companies.
• The film can be downloaded on Vivendi Telecom
phones.
• The film is then shown in its Odeon cinema chain.
• Owning all of these assets makes it cheaper for the
producer to make, distribute, market and exhibit the
film, thus maximising profit, enabling the studio to
keep making big budget films.
• A win-win scenario for Hollywood Studios...
3. Film & New Media Technology
Advances in new media
technology have made it
possible for anyone to make
films and showcase them on
the internet on sites like
YouTube.
We can now also watch films
on phones, games consoles,
digital TV on demand.
We can also see state of the
art SFX on giant screens in
3D.
HOME CINEMA?
FILMS ON THE MOVE?
OR IMAX 3D?
Digital T.V
Satellite ( Sky) Digital Terrestrial (Freeview) Cable (NTL)
5. Technological Convergence
Gadgets to watch films on:
• Smart-phones (iPhone etc)
• MP4 players
• Portable Games Consoles
(PSP etc)
• Laptops (Airbooks etc)
Multimedia devices, films at
home:
• Games Consoles (Xbox 360,
PS3 etc)
• PC (via DVD, BluRay, il/legal
downloads)
• Home Cinema (Plasma TV /
Projector + digital TV)
6. Q2 – Overview: The Production Cycle
You are expected to know what happens
in each of these 4 stages of a film’s life:
1. Film Production
2. Film Distribution
3. Film Exhibition
4. Film Marketing
Choose genre, director, stars,
SFX, & film it!
£1000 Film reels produced &
sent to as many cinemas as
possible
Get film into multiplexes & TV
deals
Advertise the film as widely as
possible (Synergy?)
7. Industry Overview
Hollywood
Studios
(US)
Workin
g
Title
(UK/US)
Indie
(UK)
Budgets
average $30m
Budgets average £1m
Budgets
average
$100m+
British Films, have low to
modest budgets, make
modest returns. British films -
stuck in a rut…
US films out of Hollywood have
massive budgets, which
generate massive profits - a
cycle of self-sustaining profit.
The main British success
story, Working Title now
has US cash to finance its
films.
8. Industry Overview - Examples
• Small Independent Low Budget British Film:
Genre: Social Realist Drama - ‘This is England’
Budget £1.5m, takings £1.5m.
Institutions: Warp Films + Film 4 + various small UK media
companies.
• Successful UK Studio: Working Title
Genre: string of blockbuster Rom-Coms:
‘Four Weddings & a Funeral’ budget $6m, takings $244m
Post-Universal take-over ‘Love Actually’ budget $30m, takings
$244m.
Produced 100 films, but several non Rom-Com flops.
• Successful US Blockbuster Film(s): ‘Star Trek’
Genre: Science Fiction / Action
Studio: Paramount: massive marketing campaign – budget $140m,
takings $280m+.
• Successful US Blockbuster Film(s): ‘Avatar’
Genre: Science Fiction / Action / Romance
Studio: 20th Century Fox: massive hype, digital, 3D,
massive budget $300m, massive takings $2.7bn.
• + add your own case study films & studios.
• NB: ‘Paranormal Activity’ as Indie case study...
