AS Media Studies Reading Week Task Institutions and Audience

AS Media - The Film Industry

TERMINOLOGY
Task: Below are some of the key terms that
you will need to use in your exam response
for this unit.
1. For each of the headings, find the correct definition. Use the meanings on
the reverse of this hand out to help if you cannot find a definition.
2. Create a hand out that notes down the key term and the corresponding
definition.

1. Media
2. Audience
3. Box office
4. Conglomerate
5. Media consumption
6. Patterns and trends
7. Audience behaviour
8. Media ownership
9. Media practice
10.
Technologies
11.
Production Planning (pre-production),
editing (post-production).
12.
Distribution
13.
Marketing and exchange
14.
Institution
15.
Local
16.
National
17.
International or global
18.
Hardware
19.
Content
20.
Platform
21.
Convergence
22.
Cross media convergence

filming

and

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23.
Synergy
24.
Technological
convergence
25.
Tent Pole Film

MEANINGS
Task: Below
are some
definitions to the key terms overleaf.
Match them to the relevant term on the previous page.
throughout a whole country i.e. Britain or America
films and other media products
equipment, machinery and devices used to make the film

Films, film trailers, adverts, posters and online

material are some examples of media in the film
industry. They are ways of communicating information
to an audience. It can be factual information or for
entertainment
a mega company made up of a number of smaller companies
worldwide
selling the film to companies ready for exhibition
It is the process of making a film and everything that goes with it
attracting and showing the film to an audience
similarities and re-occurring common factors in box office data
people who watch the film whether individually or as a group
where information on audience viewing figures and profits made on a film
are gathered. Its the money the audience pay to see the film at the cinema
added up. The commercial success of a film is mainly judged on its box
office figures.

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throughout cities or towns i.e. London or

Brighton
audiences watching a film, looking at a poster or listening
to an advert on the radio are some examples of media
consumption. It is the process of audiences taking in (viewing
or listening to) media products
electronic and digital equipment for example computers, cameras and
digital projectors
the film industry and the companies that form the industry
Who, what, where, when, how and why audiences view films

where content is exhibited or shown, maybe the cinema, a games console or

a smart phone.

Provides the money! The conglomerate or companies or

people responsible for producing and releasing films
The way films and media products are made

when two or more things come together to form one

thing
A term usually applied to a big Hollywood studio film. A big, mainstream,
blockbuster film that producers anticipate will make huge profits to help
sustain or prop up studios despite possible losses on other projects

when two or more companies work successfully together, with each

company each contributing, so that they all make bigger profits

when two or more different companies come together to release MEDIA content for a
film. This includes releasing different content for a film across different platforms.

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when two or more technologies come together to form one device, for
example a mobile phone that is also a camera, an MP3 player and provides
internet access all in one device