Unit 3 Creative Media Industries - Lesson 2

Unit 3 Creative Media Industries - Lesson 2

Activity 1 - How is the creative media sector structured? 

In pairs match the correct key concept to definition by putting a line to the correct answer:

Photography	Is made up of Photo imaging - Fashion photography, Documentary photography, News Photography, Weddings, paparazzi, Celebrity photography
Film	Is made up of: development, production, distribution and exhibition
Radio	Is made up of local, commercial, National, Community Radio, World Service, and publicly funded, privately funded stations.

Watch the youtube video and write down (history of the video game industry -  http://youtu.be/lcLIyctkbyY

Game Industry -

In your pairs research the following company Slightly Mad Studio  You will present your research to the group in your pairs. 

1. Where is the company called Slightly Mad Studios located?
2. Who owns and runs Slightly Mad? 
3. When was it set up? 
4. List 6 games the company has made in the last 5 years.
5. Look up the term conglomerate and decide whether Slightly Mad Studio fits the description. Explain why it does or does not. 
6. Is this a multinational, national or local company? 

Answers =

1. London, England, UK.
2. Unknown.
3. 2008.
4. Need for Speed: Shift, Shift 2: Unleashed, Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends, Bike Bash, World of Speed.
5. No, because they are not owned by a corporate parent nor do they own subsidiary companies.
6. Slightly Mad Studios are a local company.

In your pairs research the following company Mother.  You will present your research to the group in your pairs.  The website might be useful. http://www.motherlondon.com 

Advertising - 

1. Where is the advertising agency called Mother located? 
2. Who owns and runs Mother? 
3. When was it set up? 
4. List 6 adverts the company has made in the last 5 years. 
5. Look up the term conglomerate and decide whether Mother fits the description. Explain why it does or does not
6. Is this a multinational, national or local company? 

Answers =

1. London's Shoreditch and New York in Hell's Kitchen.
2. Unknown
3. 2003.
4. The feature film 'Somers Town', the graphic novel 'Four Feet From a Rat', a musical for Pot Noodle, they created airfix models of football hooligans, English sushi, and Ronald the driving winker toy.
5. Yes, because they own multiple offices in a number of cities in different countries.
6. Multinational.

Television - 

In your pairs research the following company .  You will present your research to the group in your pairs.  T

1. When was the Television company Sky (BskyB) set up
2. How is Sky funded?
3. What are the most popular programmes?
4. Look up the term conglomerate and decide whether SKY fits the description. Explain why it does or does not.
5. Is this a multinational, national or local company? 

Answers = 

1. Sky was set up in 1990
2. When BSkyB's predecessors Sky Television plc and British Satellite Broadcasting merged their respective film channels, Sky Movies and The Movie Channels, this prompted the subscription to watch the channels. After this merge, Sky decided to merge their Sky Sports channel soon after the subscription service got their etiquette viewer base.
3. Sky 1, 2, Living, Living it, Arts1, Arts2, Sports, and News HQ.
4. Yes, because they have a multitude of different channels connected to a broadband.
5. Multinational.

Television -

1. When was the BBC set up?
2. How is the BBC funded?
3. List programmes the BBC play.
4. Look up the term conglomerate and decide wether it fits BBC the description  Explain why it dose or dose not.
5. Is the BBC a multinational, national or local?

Answers =

1. The BBC was set up on the 18th of october, 1922
2. Britain's first live public broadcast from the Marconi factory in Chelmsford took place in 1920. it was sponsored  by the Daily Mail's Lord Northcliffe and featured the featured the famous Australian Soprano Dame Nellie Melda. The Melda broadcast caught the people's imagination and marked a turning point in the British public's attitude to the radio.
3. BBC One, Two, Three, Four, CBBC, CBeebies, News Channel, Parliament, ALBA, S4C, Radio 1, 1Xtra, 2, 3, 4, 4 Extra, 5 Live, 5 Live Sports Extra, 6 Music.
4. No, however it dose have categories that fall under a media of conglomerate such: as films, television, radio, and internet provision.
5. National.