2. * Conglomerates is a group of businesses that own a lot of money to
put towards film productions.
* Marketing their own films is also possible through all of their
subsidiary companies.
* This is a practice, known as Synergy.
Multinational media companies own:
* Film studios
* TV stations
* Record labels
* Magazines
* Newspapers
* Book
* Internet platforms
3. * Producers can also work outside of major
studios.
* British producers are made by smaller outfits.
For example: working with film 4 or BBC to get
extra funding & help with distribution.
4. * There are five major distribution that dominate media
ownership of the film industry that are in the UK. These
are:
- United international pictures
- Warner bros
- Buena vista
- 20th century fox
- Sony
* The different types of institutions are:
- Independent companies
- Television companies
- Government bodies
- Co-productions with Hollywood studios
5. * Two or more types of media coming together are called:
Media convergence.
* Different elements of a company working together are
called: Synergy.
* The process of which an increasingly smaller number of
companies own media outlets are called: Concentration of
media ownership.
* Companies which produce two or more types of different
media are called: Cross media ownership.
* A large company which owns a range of smaller companies
are called: Conglomerate.
* Smaller companies owned by a parent company are called:
Subsidiary.
* A market that is dominated by a smaller number of
companies are called: oligopoly.
