Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Section B : Media Studies
- Conglomerate
- A global company (The Walt
Disney Company) owns a
number or media
companies which produce,
distribute and exhibit a
media product.
- Cross Media Convergence
- Where a conglomerate owns
different subsidiaries across
different areas of the media.
- Symbiosis
- When a media company teams
up with another company (who
does something completely
different) to promote each
others products
- For example: The Walt Disney
Company teamed up with Burger
King to promote both Star Wars
and the Darth Vadar burger, and
Max Factor to promote the Star
Wars Makeup collection
- Synergy
- When a company
such as The Walt
Disney company
owns all sections of
vertical integration
- They combine one of
their media products
with their other
products to create
merchandise
- Vertical Intergration
- When a company such as The Walt
Disney Company owns all areas in each
sector
- Production
- Distribution
- Exhibition
- Horizontal
Intergration
- When a company (The Walt
Disney Company) owns
more than one company in
each sector
- The Walt Disney
Company owns
LucasFilms LTD
- Independent Company
- When a media
company is not
owned by any
other, larger
media
company
- Not part
of a
conglomerate
- An example
of this
would be
Warp Films
- Subsidiary
- A company such as LucasFilm
LTD which is owned by another
media company
- Cultural Imperialism
- When a Country's culture
becomes saturated by
media products from
another country
- American TV and
Films make up a
large percentage
of media within
the UK
- Dominant Ideology
- The beliefs and
attitudes of society
- Films help to create a
dominant ideology and can
influence how we think about
things
- For Example, America is a superior nation with
extensive resources, which can be seen through
films such as Iron Man where American is
viewed as a supreme nation
- Homogenisation of Culture
- When similar media
products are
created, producing a
culture of 'sameness'
- For example, the
Multiplex's are filled
with American
Blockbusters
- Mass Audience
- A large, general,
majority audience.
- Niche Audience
- A small, particular
audience
- LucasFilm LTD
- Founded in 1971 by
George Lucas
- it had subsidiaries in a
number of technology and
distribution companies
- bought by the Walt Disney
Company in 2012
- They paid
$4.06 billion
- The Walt Disney Company
- is an American diversified
multinational mass media and
entertainment conglomerate
- the worlds 2nd
largest media
conglomerate in
terms of revenue
- Founded on
October 16th
1923
- By Walt Disney
and Roy O
- As the Disney
Brothers
Cartoon Studio
- Star Wars:
The Force
Awakens
- Studio :
LucasFilm
LTD
- The Walt Disney
Studios Motion
Pictures
- Budget : $200,000,000
(estimated)