Unit 8 Vlog Script

Vlogg Script as a word document

• Introduce film company and say what they are famous for (the films).

The film company we have chosen is Walt Disney. Walt Disney are famous for creating films such as: Cinderella, Jungle Book, The Lion King and the complete Toy Story saga.

• Explain some of their most successful box office films with stats (how much their successful films made at the box office)

Disney has had a range of successful films, including: 

Frozen which earned over 1.2 billion dollars making it Disney's successful animated feature.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest earned 1.07 billion dollars. 

Toy Story 3 also earned just over 1 billion dollars.

The Lion King fell slightly under a billion with 987.5 million dollars

Finding Nemo fell just below The Lion King with it earning over 936 million dollars. 

• Who are their competition (find a company that finds similar films to them, who are they going up against with these films)

Dreamworks who made successful animated films such as Shrek and Madagascar. The company was founded by Steven Spielberg amongst overs. Dreamworks goes up against Walt Disney with their films, Dreamworks end up trumping Disney in the CGI department but Disney's films also end up on top. Another competitor for Disney is Sony Pictures Animation creating films from the likes of Arthur Christmas, Cloudy With a Chance Of Meatballs and The Smurfs.

• Explain how your film company is structured (you will tell me who the conglomerate is, whether the conglomerate is horizontal or vertical with examples of what other things they own, what companies they have links with)

Walt Disney are the biggest Media Conglomerate in the world. Walt Disney own a range of different companies like: Marvel Entertainment, ESPN, ABC, Pixar Animation Studios, Disney Channel, Disney Nature, Touchstone Pictures and many more! 

So are they Vertical or Horizontal? To be 'vertically integrated' they have to own at least 2 of the following. A production company, a distributing company OR a way if exhibiting their products. Disney ARE vertical! Walt Disney owns several different production companies and they have their own channel to exhibit their films and tv programmes. Despite my hatred of the film High School Musical is a perfect example; it could have gone to the cinema but instead it went straight to the Disney Channel.

To be 'horizontally integrated' they must own a range of different types of company, such as: Websites, Music Labels, Book Publishers or Television Stations. Once again Disney prove just how much money they have: they pay for their own films, Disney owns their own music label, they have several disney websites plus their own theme park. All of their profits go back to Walt Disney. So Disney are both Horizontally and Vertically Integrated! 

• Tell me how much money the conglomerate is worth? Are they successful? (Their Revenue)

Walt Disney Studios are worth around 84 Billion dollars making them the most successful media conglomerate.

• Debate about the power of the few media companies owning so much? What is your opinion?

The power of the media conglomerates is vastly taking over our screens, everything we see nowadays has been made by one of the big six conglomerates and why? because we ask for it! We love seeing these big companies creating visual masterpieces because it's familiar and they have a franchise but then what about the smaller companies? Do they not get a right to own something? Does all the power have to belong to the famous six?! My answer is NO. I hate that these big companies have all of this power, they feed off of the money that constantly gets thrust their way and they grow power hungry. Film directors and writers don't want their film made by some smaller company because they don't have enough power, they constantly get looked down on for not having as much money as these big media conglomerates yet they've made some really good films, studios such as Lionsgate Entertainment who made The Hunger Games films of Film4 Productions who made The Inbetweeners Movie.

• Talk about the new technologies that the film industry have developed.

The film industry is constantly upgrading their technology to create a new and more interesting viewing experience. Some of the best technologies have been made in the past few years things such as: 3D this is used in lots of animated and non animated Walt Disney films. Cinemas have kept with the new technologies changing how they showcase a film so now instead of using film reels, most cinemas are able to show the film digitally. Cinemas continue to develop by introducing things such as the IMAX and an increase in frame rate.

• Then talk about what technological development do you think is next for film.

I think that there might be films made in higher definition in the future. It could be the rise of the IMAX cinemas and more services online will be available for people. I think CGI will grow stronger and that it will become more advanced making films and visual effects look more realistic. I think we should expect to see more 3D appearing in film enhancing our viewing experience.

                                                        

BBC Script

Introduce the BBC as a Public Service Broadcaster and explain

what it is:

It's not just the film industry that has increased, the television industry is still going strong giving us some of our favourite channels. Channels such as the BBC. The BBC is known as a Public Service Broadcaster, this means that the channel has no adverts   and that the public pays to view the channel. 

How are they funded?

The BBC is funded by license fee payers. They are funded by something called the BBC Trust -a governing body that make sure that the BBC deliver their mission of educating, informing and entertaining. The annual cost for the tv license for BBC is: £145.50 This money gets broken down to fund each of the different media outlets that the BBC own. 66% of that money is spent on TV, Radio receives 19% of the money whilst any online services get only 5% of the money. Any other costs are paid with the remaining 10% of the money that the BBC receive from their license fee.

How are they structured? (How are they regulated and managed?)

The BBC is split so that separate operational areas manage the day to day working of the BBC. First off we have the Royal Charter: this is what the BBC was established under. Their current charter came into force in 2007 and is set to run until the end of 2016. The charter recognises the BBC's editorial independence and it sets out its' public purposes. The BBC is governed by the BBC Trust who fall underneath the Royal Charter. The trust works to represent the interests of their target audience aka the licence fee payers. Their job is to set purpose remits, issue service licence. They hold the executive board to account for their performance to deliver BBC services. The BBC Trust is led by Chairman: Rona Fairhead and has 12 other trustees.

How successful are the BBC, have they had complaints about their management of programs, staff or

services (find proof)

The BBC used to be a lot more successful years back when the commercial channels weren't taking charge but now sadly they've become slightly irrelevant and unnecessary. Commercial channels end up offering more. BBC have received a fair few comments about their management of programmes/staff and their services. John Gapper (a financial times associate) made several comments claiming that the BBC tended to lose focus of their original purpose showing programmes which quote: 'could be shown anywhere' and that they are losing their original appeal of catering for a wide range of audiences by focusing on creating 'copycat' programmes that are shown on commercial channels like ITV. In an attempt to stay relevant and successful BBC have made the decision to move their BBC Three channel to a purely online outlet. Following this decision members of the public have campaigned in the hope of saving the channel from moving online, 270,000 people have signed a petition apposing the move, a petition which campaigners presented to The Trust.

What debates are there about the usefulness of the  licence fee?  What alternatives are there? What is
your opinion?

-The BBC has had a lot of backlash for making the public pay £145.50 per year for programs that aren't really

appealing to a wide range of people.They are getting complaints for paying a lot of money for programs like

The Voice to be made, when they are failing to make good viewing numbers, so it's considered a waste of

money.

-The BBC is turning into a commercial channel by just focussing on entertaining. Lord Hall said, “If the BBC

becomes a commercial media company, they must expect to be funded like one”. If the BBC get rid of the TV

licence, they need to think of alternative ways of being funded, such as private funding through sponsorship.

If the BBC becomes a commercial channel, channels such as ITV and Channel 4 won't be happy because it

will be tough competition

- In my opinion I don't think we should continue to fund the BBC through TV licence because they do not seem
to provide a wide range of programs for a wide range of people. In terms of older people, I think they
wouldn't mind the BBC being scrapped because the programs that they watch on there can be shown on other
channels or have very similar ones they could watch somewhere else. The BBC are concentrating on pleasing
younger people more, but younger people won't be paying £145 per year for the TV licence, it will be their
parents and so they should focus more on providing for the older generation.

Who are their competition and what programmes rival theirs?

-The BBC’s competition is channels such as ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. They also have online competition

like ITV player, 4OD, Demand 5.

- ITV believes that at least some of the £3.6 billion a year raised via the licence fee should be made available

as "contestable funding" for rivals to bid for, this is called Top Slicing. ITV says the BBC should stop using the

money to make programs such as The Voice, and concentrate using the money more wisely on other genres of

programs. 

- The BBC have lots of programme rivals. The BBC has Strictly Come Dancing when ITV had Dancing On Ice.

These were considered rivals as they both were about celebrities learning how to dance in particular ways;

they were also shown on the same night.

ITV also has The X Factor where the BBC has The Voice, which are always being compared in terms of

viewing figures. Call the midwife is compared to Downton Abbey a lot also, as well as Eastenders rivalling

Coronation Street at the soap awards etc.

What New technologies have they developed and how have these new technologies changed the way we
watch/use the BBC?

-Over the years technology has developed and gotten better. Now instead of Video plus

recording we have things like sky plus and Freeview. There are over a thousand channels

available, we have online streaming sites and on demand channels to watch programmes.

-BBC made Iplayer, which meant people could watch programs online, on their phones, game
consoles and other television platforms.

Some examples of new technologies we have are:

-Sky Plus

-3D Television

-Curved Television Sets

-Internet Sites like Netflix

-Illegal Streaming

and even voice command to replace remotes!  

What technological development do you think is next for the way we watch television? (the living room
of the future?)

So what's next for the way we watch TV? I think we'll see more Video On Demand. I think we'll see a variety
of different channels and that channels might all become commercial channels being funded through
sponsorship and going private. The TV license could cease to exist due to the possible changes to
commercial channels.