Sunday, 29 September 2013

level 3 media


Creative Media Sector L3




Radio:
The radio was created in the 19th century and invented by David E. Hughes.


What does the Industry do?
The radio industry broadcast’s a range of things to people such as music, news, comedy and in some cases competitions for people who call in.

Advertisers: In the radio industry one of the main sources of income is advertising because many people listen to the radio so through this companies can advertise their products with just audio.

How many people are employed in the industry?
The radio industry has been growing over the years more than terrestrial TV and with that growth many employees are needed towards maintaining systems, operating equipment and talk during broadcast. Up to now the radio industry employs more than 22,000 people, but it all depends on what radio station you are on such as BBC, Radio 1 or Smooth.
Sponsership: In all parts of media sponsership is very important becuase sponsership is just another form of advertisement, but through sponsership the brands of products are being adverised more which means people will by more of said brands products. such as when you sponser a drink brand on a football team.
Name of the companies that make up the industry.
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->BBC: entertainment radio
<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->SMOOTH: commercial radio
  • ·         CFM: Is community radio 

  • Television Industry:
      A Short History: In the 1920's the television was made in america and used for commercial proposes to begin with. The television has become the common place of business in most rooms. as the years progressed televisions were bought in England and cartoons, films and animations were made to keep people interested.
      The Nine Major companies are BBC, ITV, FIVE, CHANNEL 4, S4C, UTV and SMG.
      Key facts:

Others

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1CELEBRITY JUICE (THU 2204)ITV21.30
2FAMILY GUY (SUN 2201)BBC 31.18
3LIVE FORD SUPER SUNDAY/#SOUTHAMPTON V WE (SUN 1530Sky Sports 11.12
4FORD SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL-LIVE/#EVERT (SAT 1701Sky Sports 11.12
5BAD EDUCATION (TUE 2202)BBC 31.10
6MIDSOMER MURDERS (SAT 2104)ITV31.05
7THE YOUNG MONTALBANO (SAT 2100)BBC 40.96
8FAMILY GUY (SUN 2223)BBC 30.95
9DON'T TELL THE BRIDE (TUE 2102)BBC 30.91
10FOYLE'S WAR (SAT 1901)ITV30.91
11NEW GIRL (TUE 2101)E40.88
12XTRA FACTOR (SUN 2059)ITV20.88
13FAMILY GUY (TUE 2303)BBC 30.87
14FILM: SHREK (2001) (SUN 2038)BBC 30.86
15FAMILY GUY (TUE 2326)BBC 30.83
      Overview of the sector: Today Television is changing and becoming more challenging. The industry is dominated by the nine major broadcasting station and many less known broadcasting companies.
      The Size Of The Sector: there are 850 production companies that work independently.
      How many people it has employed: 55,800



      Film: 

A Short Story: The film industry has existed since the early 19th century and has evolved from moving pictures on wind up camera to making its way on the big screen in places like Hollywood or on your TV.
Key Facts: The film industry is comprised of multiple fields of work such as production, pre-production, casting and camera operating.Film: The film industry is mainly known for many genres such as Drama, Sci-fi, horror, comedy, action or thriller. Mainly comedy and dramas are the some of the most popular kinds of films in the industry because they make the people laugh and maybe cry such as most drams like James Cameron’s The Titanic. There are at least 400 permanent film companies but this depends on things being worked on at any time. 
Overview of the sector: The film sector contains many industry, such as film directors, writers, animators and producers, and the film industry contains more than 400 million film companies.
Producers: They are the one who provide the money in order to make films and make sure it is made into a budget so that the money is spent efficiently.
Directors: The director is the one who organizes the film and its entirety.
Writers: They write out the scripts and storyboards towards the film.
People employed: 27,800

Downloads: In the film industry many people download movies and episodes of television series so they can watch them for free instead of legally buying the, but in the case of iTunes people pay and download songs and movies legally.
The Cinema box office: the cinema box office allows the film industry to find out how many people have watched their films and then they add up the amount to tell how much the film has made based on ticket sales.



  • Fox
  • Dream works
  • MGM
  • Disney and Pixar
  • Universal Studios
  • Paramount
  • Warner Bros  

  • The Size Of The Sector: The film industry has a large sector that stretches from filming to equipment and camera operating.


    Publishing:
    A Short History: The publishing industry as a business was made in 1911 when the 1911 encyclopedia came out and gave more knowledge to the public.
    Key Facts: Magazines are another form of publishing as well and may have a bigger market range as it holds news on current events like newspapers, but also have local gossip on most people (mainly celebrities) and there social lives. Or some magazines hold activities for young kids or adults such as crossword puzzles or some might contain self-tests that can be done at home through a series of questions like a home personality test or a match making test but through the interactive media age most people can now look up such things online. Also people can get magazines with political interests such as the next election on who is winning in there election campaigns or how far ahead they are in business or these magazines can even include most updates on recent updates in technology or scientific work.  
    Overview Of The Sector: The publishing industry has many industries involved with it such as TV's choice (magazine), The Times and various other published work.
    The Size Of The Sector: The publishing Industry spreads to many corners from the written word to the internet. It has many forms such as Newspapers, magazines, books, directories, mailing lists, journals, news agencies and all sorts of other services that concern public information. Magazines and book companies like listed below.

    1.     news of the world (now shut down)
    2.     The daily mirror
    3.     DC comics
    4.      Marvel comics
    5.      Evening Gazette
    6.     Northern echo
    7.      The Times
    8.      The sun
    9.     Daily star
    10.      Daily telegraph
         


    How Many People It Employs: 195,000 people. Newspaper sector employs 51,000, 50,500 are employed in magazines and journals, 12,000 in other services and 33,000 in the book publishing industry.

    Photography/photo imaging:
    A Short Story: The photography industry 
    Key Facts: The photography industry has 8,7000 companies and 68% are freelance.
    Overview Of The Sector: photos can be placed in many parts of media such as websites, magazines, photo retail, picture libraries, picture agencies and manufacturers.
    The Size Of the Sector: The photo's are usually taken for magazines, catalogs and websites mainly used for forms of advertisement.
    Argos catalog
    The Times
    And various other brand.
    How Many People They Employ: The total workforce for photography is about 43,100 employees.

    Games:
    Short Story: The game industry started in the 1960's and in the 1970's the games industry expanded to putting games in video arcades like the PAC man games and Donkey Kong.
    Key Facts: In the 1980's the game industry exploded with the releases of sonic the hedgehog and various Mario games.
    Overview Of The Sectors:With the massive growth in its audience and incredible advances in technology and creative possibilities, the games industry offer a wide range of interesting career opportunities. But as with the other sectors, there is competition for jobs at all levels and candidates who have a good knowledge of how the industry works have a much better chance of getting in and getting on. 
    definition of it risks quickly becoming out of date.
    There are many game companies such as NintendoSega, EA games, square enix and many others in the image below.

    Franchise/formats: As a series grows more popular the people who made it expand on the franchise such as DC comics or Marvel.

    Merchandise:Many companies even game companies make merchandise based around the characters of games so they can sell them for more profit. they are usually like figures, cards, or even music.The Size Of The Sector: The game industry sector are in many such as concept design, editing and the many focus groups that are called in to test it.

    The game industry has many brands and companies such as Nintendo has produced any games such as the Pokemon series that is still going on with its recent releases Pokemon x and y on the Nintendo 3DS.

    Sega has had sonic the hedgehog that has rivaled Nintendo Mario for a long time now. EA sports has created many sport games and has even created the harry potter pc games. Square Enix and Disney have combined their characters and various story lines to create Kingdom Hearts that has gone on for nearly 11 years now.
    How many people it employs: 10,000.









    Animation:

    Key Facts: The animation industry in the UK stretches across many sectors around the UK. Animated content is found on television, films, adverts, website and games.
    Overview of the sector: the UK's animation industry is made up of a workforce that stretches across the creative media industry.
    The size of the sector: The animation sector has many companies that make many animated shows and commercials such as listed below. 

    •      Fox
    •     Nickelodeons
    •     Disney
    •     Marvel studios
    •    DC Comics Studios
    •     Studio Ghibli
    •     Warner Bros entertainment
    How many people it employs: 4,700
    Advertising:
    Key Facts: Advertising is an important part of the media industry because without it we would not have anyway of selling products or creating awareness of said product.
    There are many advertising companies such as
    the entire sector makes at least 6.2 billion a year.
    how many people employed: 17,000
    Interactive Media:
    The companies have at least 22% of local media business and have at least 43,000 people working for them.
    How many people employed: 40,000

    Public ownership:
    Is where all people own it and are allowed to use said product towards what they think and therefore are not blocked off from said product.

    Private Ownership:
    Private property is the property of one or few people such as a persons home that is private property.
    Advantages and disadvantages of the BBC license:

    Cons: The BBC cannot justify the license fee for multiple channels, multiple platforms and others things as well. they offer channels that some people don't even want. people download shows and watch them later to avoid paying the fees on BBC.

    Pros: Numerous channels with different variety of shows then the mount your paying.

    TV licenses: The people who pay the bills for a TV license are the people who are over 18. the TV license costs 145.50 and for color it costs 49.90, but there is a reduced fee of 50% for people at age 74 or those who are blind, but if you do not pay the fees you have to pay a 1000 pound fine. if you watch live TV online you still have to get a license for it. the BBC license is shared amongst its services such TV and radio.

    Television Subscriptions: Many people who work for broadband advertise the televisions quality through subscriptions in order to attract new customers to their brand.

    DVD Rental: Some shops such as blockbusters rent DVD's to the public for a limited time to watch them which has lead to a sustainable profit until web streaming.

    Sponsorship: In major sporting events many teams advertise things in the media such as sky which is broadcasted through sky or advertised on the uniform as a symbol of sponsorship.

    Globalization: This is when a company spreads out internationally due to increased trade and culture exchange.

    Conglomerate: This is a company that expands in to mutiple companys in media and other buisness.
    list of conglomerates: Bertelsmann
    SE and Co. KGaA
    CBS corporation
    British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc
    Liberty Media
    News corporation
    Time Warner Inc.

    Merger: This happens when a large corporation absorbs a little corporation or when two big company's merge together.

    Takeover: This occurs when a company is bought out by another company which then controls it.

    Vertical Integration: When a company expands business in other area's and different points in production.

    Horizontal integration: This occurs when a company produces products that are similar to other lines of products.

    companies: I will use Disney as an example. Disney makes at least 39.759 billion a year, it was founded in 1923, it has 166,000 employees and is shown by multiple media channels such as ABC, Disney channel and Hyperion books. the companies chairman and CEO today is Bob Iger and the senior executive VP and CFO is Jay Rasulo.

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