Cambridge Technicals Digital Media Unit 1 -Media Products and Audiences-Revision Booklet

Digital Media-Unit 1
Media Products and
Audiences
Revision Booklet

,Ownership of Media Companies:

Media Sectors Specialist Providers
• Film-Warner bros • Media companies that produc
• TV-HBO and distribute products within
specific media
• Radio-BBC
• Games-Ubisoft
• Print-The sun
• Online-Facebook
• Music-Sony records

,Ownership of Media Companies:

Conglomerate Pros Cons
• A large organisation that is made • More money • Less contr
up of a number of subsidiary to work with over your
companies • Can use their productio
• Often cross media companies resources and
• Objective is to maximise profits subsidiaries to
increase
• Audience is mainstream and big success
as possible
• E.g. Disney and Sony

, Ownership of Media Companies:

Independent Company Pros Cons
• Specialises in one particular field and • Have greater • Need supp
not part of a conglomerate control over from othe
• Work on productions with small budgets what they with
• Can work with other companies on a produce distributio
joint venture and marke
• E.g. Ubisoft (games), Warp films and
working title (film) • Less budg
• Ubisoft work with valve to distribute and resou
assassins creed
• Warp films joint venture with Lionsgate
to distribute film ghost stories