The issues raised by media
ownership in contemporary
media practice
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Definitions
Vertical integration –
Horizontal integration –
Where one Company
owns/ controls all the
sections in the production
of their product. This
means if one thing goes
then the whole company
is in trouble. E.g. Apple.
Where one company
owns several others to
make profit. So if one
fails or is sold they have
others to fall onto. E.g.
Virgin.
So what if ???
Apple
Creative department
Technological department
Factory
Distributers
Shops
And so on…
Money
Airlines
shops
Mobile
Virgin
Media
And the others I CBA to
type out.
$ money, money, money £
Predators
This Is England
Was an estimated
$40,000,000 to budget.
Was an estimated
£1,500,000 to budget.
20th century fox film
corperation
Our old friends… the UK
Film Council.
Trouble makerstudios
Davis Entertainment
Other productions
Predators
This Is England
Follow this link to see other
productions made by the
companies involved.
Follow this link to see other
productions made by the
companies involved.
http://www.imdb.com/title
/tt1424381/companycredits
http://www.imdb.com/title
/tt0480025/companycredits
The companies involved in
production, have been
involved with other major
holly word blockbusters.
The companies involved in
production are not as big as
those in predators and do
not have as much experience
or widely known.
Those company perks
Predators
News corp. allows, Cross
media convergence in
which it reaches out to a
wider audience, coverage
and positive reviews in
News corp. productions/
materials, this is as they
own media such as 20th
century fox, sky news, fox
and many news papers.
This Is England
Film four, being one of
the production companies
will allow advertisement
on T.V. E.g. film 4 &
channel 4. Unfortunately
this is a smaller target
audience compared with
the news corp. ownership,
so word of mouth may be
heavily required.