Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Institution & Audience Key Terms

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

Distributor: A film 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 Studio: A major 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 Studio: An 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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