Opening paragraph and essay plan: Ashwin

Discuss the ways in which media products are produced and distributed to audiences, within a media area, which you have studied?

a) Media products are produced and distributed to audiences in many ways, two of which include large conglomerates and small companies. Large conglomerates tend to have the production and distribution done by them without having to rely on external companies, which is where smaller companies come in. Smaller companies, unlike big conglomerates, tend to have distribution done externally whilst they take care of production, and sometimes they don’t even have the funds for distribution so they rely on things such as word-of-mouth and Internet success (Such as uploading to YouTube and having it shared across social networking sites like Facebook.)

Case Studies:

Sony Pictures (Conglomerate) – The Amazing Spiderman Part 2

21^st Century Fox (Conglomerate) – Avatar, Titanic, Life Of Pi

Pico Pictures (Small British Film Company - 13 multi award winning shorts since 2008 and have a feature on the iFeatures2 development slate, another in development with Northern Ireland Screen, and another in development with the BFI, 2AM Films and Luke Snellin (BAFTA nominated and Virgin Media Shorts grand prize winning filmmaker).

Hanway Films – (British Company) – Kidulthood

BBCFilms (Production)

http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk (distribution company – UK)

http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk

Warner Bros. (Big Distribution And Production Company)

Pathe Distribution - http://www.pathe.co.uk - Mandela Long Walk To Freedom

b) I will answer the question by first mentioning large conglomerates and how they do most of the production and distribution. I will then mention smaller companies and how they have separate companies doing different things – one company does the production and one does the distribution.  I would structure it like this:

à An opening statement that answers the question and talks briefly about what you are going to mention in the essay

àFirst paragraph (Large Conglomerates)

àSecond paragraph (Small Companies)

àThe rest of the paragraphs going back and forth between large conglomerates and small companies mentioning the pros and cons of each

àFinal Statement/Conclusion that closes the essay.