Film Overview

Section A

1. The stages in which a film has to go through to be exhibited in the cinema are lengthy , this often means it takes a couple of years for the initial idea of a film to be exhibited on "the big screen" the first stage would be to have an idea or storyline for your film, you would then create ideas on how the film would unfold and how you could promote this film to gain maximum viewing. After this it is vital that you can assemble a crew which would consist of a director, producer, screenwriter, cast and crew, it is vital that all of the people involved have faith in your idea and believe in your vision this often takes time to find the right cast and crew. Once the right production group has been found it is there job to complete the making of the film, it is then sent to the studio and once it has been viewed the studio make a licensing agreement with a distribution company, it is then up to the licensing company how many companies of the film they are willing to produce. Then the distribution has a screening of the film to prospective buyers and theatre companies, it is prospective buyers who then negotiate with the distribution company on which films they wish to lease and the terms and conditions of the licensing agreement. Once this has all been arranged the prints are sent out to the cinemas and theatres which are showing the film a couple of days before its due for release. The Cinemas then show the film for certain amount of weeks in which they feel the film is viable for this is called engagement. it is then up to the paying public to purchase a ticket and watch the film. Once the engagement period has finished the cinemas send back the copies of the film and makes payment on there lease agreement. These stages which a film has to go through to be viewed in cinemas is lengthy and time consuming and can often take many years

2.Film Distribution: is the process in which a film is made available to watch by a viewer or a film distributor, this can occur in many ways for example theatrical release and home entertainment release.

3.The Hollywood studio system in the 30s and 40s was a system which is credited with producing many stars. the studios spent and invested money into promising talent and gave them training and education in the film industry preparing and bettering themselves this meant that many stars were found in this system and was like a process in which the best young actors and actresses has access to. Studios took control of the lives of many of its clients imposing rules and regulations on them a delving deep inside there personal life. Studios had total control over the clients employing them on short term contracts meaning they could be dropped if they failed to provide some attraction this meant that the studios only had the best that was around and were incredible influential and had great power.

4. The introduction of new technology has enabled the production, distribution and exhibition of films to be drastically transformed, it means that the process undertaken to get an a story on to “the big screen” takes a less time and is not so time consuming and is a lot easier fro many groups of people for example film distributors. Many process which are required for an exhibition of a film can now be undertaken by using  computers which can shorten the time taken to create a film dramatically it also means the groups involved for example studios and film distributors are not waiting as long as they might have in the past as the technology has enabled them to be more efficient and have better quality as the film industry is continuously trying to find a new niche.

5. Horizontal Integration: is a practice in by which companies that produce a similar product or provide a similar service merge an example of this would be the content which is used is to broadcast a TV show could also be used in broadcasting a radio  and the content used in a hard copy of a newspaper could also be used in a online newspaper.

Vertical Integration: is the process in which several steps in the production and/or distribution of a product or service are controlled by a single company or entity, in order to increase that company’s or entity’s power in the marketplace. A car company that expands into tire manufacturing would be an example of vertical integration. Another example of Vertical integration is the brand that you see on the bottle is the producer of the drink but not necessarily the maker of the bottles that carry these drinks