Unit 3 media research

Unit 3: The Creative Media SectorBy Jozie Peaty

Film

Film Industry

The Film Industry is the entertainment industries involved in making and distributing movies

Film Industry These are just some of the production

company's in the film industry

Founded May 8, 1912, Los Angeles, California, United States

Founded August 17,

1986 USA

Founded April 4, 1923, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States

Founded October 16,

1923, Los Angeles,

California, United

States

Founded August 7, 1991 USA

Founded May 31, 1935 USA

Key Jobs

DirectorA director is in charge of the film

and the artistic vision some

times the director even has the

film idea.

Examples: Steven Spielberg

directed Jaws 1975, War horse

2011Chris Columbus directed Harry

Potter, Home Alone, Percy

Jackson & the Lightning Thief

ProducerProducer has the last word on

whether sounds or music have to

be changed. Even if the shooting

has officially finished, the producers can still demand that

other scenes be filmed.Examples: Michael Barnathan

produced Harry Potter, Night at the

Museum, Jingle All the Way, Nine

Months

Writer

You arnt employed by a company

you have to write a script and then

sell it to a production company you

also have to be very imaginative and

creative to do this job.

Examples: Scott Frank wrote Marley

& Me, The Wolverine, The Interpreter

.

ActorA actor plays the roles in the films and acts as characters.Examples: Leonardo DiCaprio has acted in Romeo + Juliet, Titanic, The Wolf of Wall Street Johnny Depp acted in, Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands , Chocolat

Governing body

British Board of Film Classification

BBFC

20th Century Fox

Founders- William Fox, Joseph M. Schenck, Darryl F. Zanuck. Headquarters- Fox Plaza, Century City, Los Angeles, California,

United States Owner(s)Independent(1935 - 1985) News Corporation (1985 - 2013)

21st Century Fox (2013 - Present) Divisions- 20th Century Fox Animation, Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox

Digital Studio, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Animation Studio sFox, Atomic Fox Interactive, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fox Television Studios, 20th Television, 20th Century Fox Television.

Famous films- Avatar (December 18, 2009), Ice Age (March 15, 2002), Miracle on 34th Street (November 18, 1994), Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (December 23, 2009), Titanic (December 19, 1997).

Awards- won best picture with paramount in 1997 for the Titanic. They also won the same award in 1971 for the film The French Connection and also before that the won in 1941 for How Green Was My Valley.

They don’t really have a target audience as they make all kinds of films.

TV

TV Industry

The TV industry is all the people who are involved In broadcasting live television/programs.

TV Industry These are just a few of the many TV

channels on our screens

Founded November 14, 1922, Central London, London

Founded September 22, 1955, United

Kingdom

Founded November 2, 1982, United Kingdom

Founded March, 30, 1997, United Kingdom

Founded November, 1, 1992, United Kingdom

Founded November, 1990, Osterley, London, United Kingdom

Key Jobs

ProducerA television produces job is to over see the whole video production and they are in charge of the business and financial side of things Examples: Alison Davis produces EastEnders also Stuart Blackburn produces Coronation Street.

EditorsThe editor works with director to edit the footage and to put it all together to create a storyExamples: Alistair McMath andDavid Mercer both edit Hollyoaks also Hannah Barnes, Peter Elphick, David Horwell, Neil Hunter and Nykki Parker edit pointless.

DirectorThe job changes depending on the TV show also weather its live or not they are in charge of the placement of the cameras, lighting and microphones.Examples: Ian Hamilton and Stuart Macdonald direct The Chase also Sandy Johnson, John Henderson and David Sant directs Benidorm.

ScreenwriterThe screenwriters job is to research the story, developing the narrative and writing the screenplayExamples: Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Stephen Thompson wrote Sherlock also Tony Jordan who wrote EastEnders.

The TV Governing Body

The Office of Communications (Ofcom)

ITV

Headquarters- The London Studios, Waterloo. Owned by- ITV plc, STV Group plc and UTV Media plc. Chairman- Archie Norman. Sport that ITV has the right to show- The fa cup

(football), 2014 fifa world cup (football), UEFA Champions League (football), England coverage includes all home and away games both friendlies and qualifiers (football), tour de France (cycling), the French open (tennis), rugby world cup.

Sister channels- ITV HD, ITV2/ITV2 HD, ITV3/ITV3 HD, ITV4/ITV4 HD, CITV

Slogan- "Where drama/laughter/life/news lives"

Radio

Radio Industry

Any company that is involved in he broadcasting of a radio station.

Radio Industry These are just a few of lots of radio

stations

First aired 30

September 1967 First aired1973

First aired 1994

First aired 7 September 1992

First aired 14 June 1998

First aired 9 July 1990

Key Jobs

PresenterThey are in charge of talking on the radio who's main responsibility is to give news, weather, sports, or traffic information they also can host talk shows and can take calls from listeners.Examples: Nick Grimshaw BBC radio1, Emma Bunton Heart Fm.

ProducerThey are in charge of overseeing the whole making of the radio show the producer may also be in control of the technical stuff e.g. sounds and switchboards.Examples: Laura Sayers producer of the Greg James show in bbc radio 1, Josh Andrews Producer of Heart Breakfast with Matt & Caroline

EditorThe main job of an Editor is to make sure that the headlines, stories and scripts are factual and comply with the industry standards some may even report the news on the radio show.Examples: Stephen Chilcott is Editor Weekly Business Programs on BBC Radio in London, BBC World Service's Global Business and BBC Radio 4's Moneybox and Moneybox Live,

The Radio Governing Body

The Office of Communications (Ofcom)

Heart FM

Owner- Global Radio Languages- English City of license- London Broadcasting areas-London, West Midlands, East Anglia, South East

England, West of England, Devon, Cornwall, North Wales, Cheshire, Wirral Peninsula.

Sister stations- The Arrow, Capital, Capital Xtra, Chill, Classic FM, Gold, Jazz FM, LBC, Real Radio, Real Radio XS, Smooth Radio, XFM.

Heart stations- Heart Cambridgeshire, Heart Cymru, Heart East Anglia, Heart Essex, Heart Four Counties, Heart Gloucestershire, Heart Hertfordshire, Heart Kent. Heart London, Heart North West and Wales Heart South Coast, Heart South West, Heart Sussex and Surrey, Heart Thames Valley, Heart West Country, Heart West Midlands and Heart Wiltshire

Print

Print Here are few of the newspapers and

magazines in the print industry

Founded 4 May 1896 United Kingdom

Founded 2 November 1903 United Kingdom

Founded 1964 United Kingdom

Founded 1 January 1785 United Kingdom Founded April

1993 United Kingdom

Founded 1988 United Kingdom

Key Jobs

EditorThey can be known as chief editor and executive editor they choose which bits and information is put in the news paper.Examples: John Witherow editor of The Times, Kirsty Tyler editor of OK! magazine

Journalist They get all the facts and information about the event and write it all up in a article which goes in the news paper.Examples: David Aaronovitch journalist for the times, Josh Clarke journalist for the sunPhotographer

The photographer is in charge of taking photos which are suitable to the subject to go in the newspaper.Examples: Garry Winogrand, Art Wolfe, Sebastiao Salgado and James Nachtwey.

Print Governing Body

British Printing Industries Federation

(bpif)

The Times

Headquarters- Wapping, London, United Kingdom

Sister Paper- The Sunday Times Type- daily newspaper Owner- News UK Editor-John Witherow Political group- Conservative

Online

Online These are a few websites that are really

popular

Founded February 4, 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Founded March 2006, San Francisco, California, United States

Founded 25 December 2007

Founded 2001 February 14, 2005, San Mateo, California, United States

Founded September 3, 1995, Campbell, California, United States

Key Jobs

Graphic designerThese are the people responsible for the picture and the graphics in the website they also think of logos for the website

Web developerThis involves developing the website for the internet Web development can range from developing the simplest single page to the most complex web applications.

Computer programmer

They create the codes that all internet websites have which directs the website lay out and all the hyperlinks on the website which makes the website work.

Mark Zuckerberg

Date of birth- May 14, 1984 (age 29) Occupation- Chairman & CEO of Facebook, Inc. Awards- Time Person of the Year (2010) Nationality- American Facts- Co-founder of Facebook in 2004; world's 2nd

youngest self-made billionaire (2012)

Online governing body

There isn't one company that looks after the internet but different people still do it e.g. Ofcom overlook the bbc and Facebook employ people who look at there website.

Facebook

Founders- Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes

Headquarters- Menlo Park, California, U.S. Type of site- social media Users- £1.2 billion Target audience- 13 year olds and over