Tuesday 20 October 2015

Institution & Audience Key Terms

Production Companyproduction company provides the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video.

Distributorfilm distributor is responsible for the marketing of a film. The distribution company is usually different from the production company. Distribution deals are an important part of financing a film.


Exhibitor: is the retail branch of the film industry. It involves not the production or the distribution of motion pictures, but their public screening, usually for paying customers in a site devoted to such screenings, the movie theatre  What the exhibitor sells is the experience of a film. 


Vertical Integration: The combination in one firm of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate firms.

Major Studiomajor film studio is a production and distribution company that releases a substantial number of films annually and consistently commands a significant share of box office revenue in a given market.


Independent StudioAn independent film is a film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system, in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment.

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