Unit 3 – Media sector By Kara-lea foster

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

The Walt Disney Company (Disney) is an American diversified multinational mass media corporation based in California

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc (WB) American producer of film, television, and music entertainment

Paramount Pictures Corporation is a film and television production/distribution studio, continuously ranked as one of the largest film studios.

Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation is an American entertainment company. The company was formed in Vancouver on July 3, 1997, and is currently based in Santa Monica, (California)

Jobs within the Industry The film director, on the right, gives last

minute direction to the cast and crew,

while filming. One of the jobs a director

does is they create an overall vision

through which a film eventually becomes

realized. (Stephen Spielberg (Jurassic

Park) and Sylvester Stallone( Rambo 4)

ProducerDuring the discovery stage the producer has to find and acknowledge promising material. Often a producer must then retrieve the film rights. E.g. the Spiderman films. (Jerry Bruckheimer(The Lone Ranger)and Martin Scorsese (Hugo) Animator

An animator is an artist who creates

multiple images that give an illusion of

movement .when displayed in rapid

sequence, the images are called frames.

Animators can work in a variety of fields

including film, television, and video

games. (Walter Elias "Walt"

Disney( Tangled) and Max

Fleischer(Gulliver's Travels)

A camera operator or cameraman/woman is a professional operator of a film or video camera. In filmmaking, the leading camera operator is usually called a cinematographer. (Eduardo Serra( Deathly hallows 1/2 and Gunnar Fischer(Wild Strawberries)

Cinematographer

Director

THE FILMS

DIFFERENT AGE RESTRICTIONS IN THE UK

Age restrictions go from U all the way to R18.

Usually only really gory and violent films like horrors(final destination) and rated at R18 but films like Disney and other animated films are family friendly or for children(like tangled).

Television channels

Sky:Sky1Sky2

BBC:Bbc oneBbc twoBbc three

BT: Bt sportBt 1Bt 2

Jobs in Television

• Make-up artist

• A professional make-up artis

t is

usually a cosmetology

beautician, and applies makeup

to anyone who appears on

screen.

Television producer

In the entertainment industry, a

television producer is generally

in charge of the financial, legal,

administrative, technological,

and artistic aspects of a

production. A producer can be

given the title of :

Associate producer, Assistant

Producer and series producer.

FOLEY ARTIST( SOUND EFFECT RECORDER):

The Foley artist on a film crew creates and records many of the sound effects. Foley artists, editors, and supervisors are very specialized and essential for producing a professional-sounding soundtrack.

Location scouts: Location scouts often negotiate legal access to filming locations. They are usually sent out when the scriptwriters, producers or directors have got a general picture of where they want the scene or what they want it to look like.

The television shows. Make-up artists from downtown abbey Elaine Browne Gerda Lauciute JoJo Dutton And many more ….

Director for dancing on ice :Richard Valentine

Foley artists for doctor who:Julie ankersonWill everett

Location scout for Grimm:location manager Shaun Gavin

Radio stations

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2

http://www.heart.co.uk/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/

http://www.wave105.com/

Usually hosted by mark Collins

Usually hosted by fearne cotton

Usually hosted by Jeremy vine

Jobs in Radio

Radio DJ :Radio DJ’s are responsible for the songs and playlists that are put on to the radio. Also they have guests and give weather updates. ( Fearne cotton from radio 1-Mark Collins from wave 105)

Radio producer: Oversees the making of a radio show( There are two main types of producer an audio or creative producer and a content producer). Audio producers create sounds and audio specifically, content producers oversee and orchestrate a radio show or feature. The content producer might organize music choices, guests, callers for talk radio or competitions ect.

Broadcast journalist : Broadcast journalism is the field that is

published by electrical methods, instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. Broadcast methods include radio air, ]television and, recently, the Internet. Such media disperse pictures (still and moving), visual text and/or sounds.

Radio Traffic Manager

Radio Traffic Managers (in Commercial Radio) are responsible for promotions in line with the business strategy of a radio station or group of stations, in order to ensure effectiveness.

Radio Heart

Heart is a network of 17 adult contemporary local radio stations in central and south England and north Wales.

Frequency: 96MHz–107MHz RDS: HEART_xx or HEART___

First air date:1994 (Heart West Midlands)

Owner: Global Radio

Some other similar stations: The Arrow, Capital, Chill, Classic FM, Gold, Jazz FM, LBC, Real Radio.

City of license:London

Format:Adult Contemporary (AC)

Audience share:5.1% (June 2013)

Other heart stations include:Heart Cambridgeshire Heart Cymru Heart East Anglia Heart Essex Heart Four CountiesTo name a few

GLOBAL RADIO Key people in global radio include: Ashley Tabor (Founder/Executive President) Stephen Miron (Chief Executive) Charles Allen (Chairman) Richard Park (Director of Broadcasting)

Headquarters:Leicester Square, (London)England

This is Global Limited is a British media and publishing holding company, which owns a number of other companies (including Global Radio). the largest in the country following acquisitions of Chrysalis Radio, GCap Media and Real and Smooth (formerly GMG Radio).

Founded 2007

Print A newspaper is a periodical publication containing news regarding current events and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper.

The Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom (and Ireland). And is still in circulation.

The News of the World was a national newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world but has now shut down.

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper which was founded in 1903. and is still in circulation.

Jobs in Print Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible and film media used to convey information. In print it is their job to correct any mistakes e.g. spelling or punctuation.

A journalist collects, writes, and distributes news and other information. A reporter" is a type of journalist who researches, writes, and reports information to present in sources, which is then put into a readable article

journalist

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story. It usually refers only to still images.

Photojournalism

The News of the world

OwnerNews Group Newspapers (News International)

EditorColin Myler

Founded: 1 October 1843

Ceased publication:10 July 2011Some similar

newspapers: The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times.

The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. After the phone hacking scandal the news of the world was forced to shut down after 168 years of newspaper production.

News Corp UK & Ireland Limited News UK, is a British newspaper publisher which owns news of the world and some other products which include both Newspapers and Websites.

Online companies

Websites such as Facebook, YouTube and twitter allow us to communicate with other people all over the world with ease and at the click of a button.

A web page is a web document that is suitable for the World Wide Web and the web browser.

Other companies include gaming websites and e-mail sites such as MSN messaging and friv.com.

Facebook is an online social networking service. Which is used by millions of people from all over the world. Facebook was founded in February

2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his college and university friends and roommates:Eduardo Saverin Andrew McCollumDustin MoskovitzChris Huges

In 2012, Facebook was valued at $104 billion. As of January 2014, the company has about 1.2 billion monthly users.

In May 2005, Accel partners invested $12.7 million in Facebook.

Subsidiaries:Instagram

Instagram

Developer:Facebook, Inc.

Release:October 6, 2010.

Operating systems:iOS 5.0 or later; Android 2.2 or later; Windows Phone and IPod. Instagram is an online photo-sharing (video-sharing) and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures (and videos) and apply digital filters to them and then share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.

By December 2010, Instagram had 1 million registered users. In April 2012, it was announced that over 30 million accounts were set up on Instagram.Instagram announced that 100 million photographs had been uploaded to its service as of July 2011. And now the total number of photographs uploaded had exceeded one billion

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York.

Mark Zuckerberg is among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world.

Occupation:Chairman & CEO of Facebook, Inc.

Zuckerberg sees blue best because of red–green colour blindness; blue is also Facebook's dominant colour.

Zuckerberg has been a vegetarian since 2011.

The group first introduced Facebook onto other university campuses as well as there own.

Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4.

About the Co-foundersEduardo Saverin Andrew McCollum

Dustin MoskovitzChris Hughes

Chris Hughes who was born November 26, 1983 and co-founded the online social directory and networking site Facebook.

Eduardo Luiz Saverinlu is a Brazilian internet entrepreneur and investor. Saverin is one of five co-founders of Facebook.

Andrew McCollum is a co-founder of Facebook and an angel investor.He worked at Facebook from February 2004 to September 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Moskovitz

Dustin Moskovitz was born May 22, 1984 and is an American internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking website Facebook .