Media and Entertainment

The music, books, television shows and overall media that were a product of the 90’s had a lasting impact on American culture. From Nirvana’s influence on the creation of the grunge music genre to the acclaimed Harry Potter franchise, entertainment established in the 90’s is still loved and revered by numerous people to date.

With the advent of information technology, the ways different aspects of life work and operate have changed a great deal. Media has always had a great influence in molding the culture of a society. There was a point of time when television and radio were invented and when computer was invented and there was little connection between the two. Time then travelled fast then through the age of cassettes, records, VCDs, DVDs, flash drive and then the internet. Media also started to go satellite on a massive scale and there came a point of time when media and digital communication systems became closely integrated with one another, opening the dimensions to digital media.

Original content – Shows like House of Cards, Orange is the New Black and Sacred Games (first original series in India) are what brings interest to the consumers.

is growing outside of the USA. This kind of growth includes the large countries that previously specialised in film production. For countries such as China and India, the annual release of films has grown progressively for the past decade, followed by a forced growing purchase power and investments in cinemas (Lorenzen, M. 2008). The American film industry must, in a way, watch its back. Especially when the amount of small film countries, such as Denmark and Switzerland, has grown. The smaller countries have attracted attention by not only up-scaling their production, but also winning market shares from Hollywood. Other new filmmaking countries are also on the rise, with Korea, Mexico etc. joining the market, who bring cheaper production technologies to their advantage (Lorenzen, M. 2008).

Analyzing the international outlook of this industry, also according to the same source, we can see the huge potential for Cineplex in terms of opportunities. Global revenue only from Box Office in 2014 increased by 1% over the previous year, or U$ 26billions, especially considering Asia Pacific Region (+ 12%) and China (+ 4%). Overall, the global growth rate of this industry was 6% in 2014.

The job growth of Multimedia Artists and Animators is growing at a very slow rate, due to the animation companies and studios hiring artists and animators who work overseas. For those who are not exactly sure what a Multimedia Artist is or does. A Multimedia Artist/Animator is an artist who creates “[2- Dimensional and 3-Dimensional] animation and visual effects for television, movies, video games, and other forms of media” (www.bls.gov). This is one of the few drawbacks in this occupation. American animation companies and studios hire overseas animators, since overseas animators work for a much lower price than American animators. This means the companies and studios save money. Also, the overseas animators create top-of-the-line animated

In today society the media entertainment has become very large. Media entertainment is everywhere you look and hear there is no way to avoid it. The entertainment media has influenced and shaped the American culture for many years. It has provided the American society with a variety of different television and cable programs such as drama, sports, comedy, suspense, horror, documentary and the combination of the local and world news to attract different generations. We cannot forget the influence the radio stations programs have also provided to the American culture with a variety of different genre of music such as classical,

Everybody loves to go the movies, some of us even like to go see an animated feature. Over the years, Disney has made several classic animated features, Cinderella, Snow White and the seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, these features should be considered the highest grossing features of all time but they are not! Frozen, Toy Story 2, Monsters INC, Toy Story 3, are considered the 4 highest grossing animated features of all time. When Disney and Pixar make movies together it can be certain that that feature is going to be a blockbuster and make history.

The film industry has continuously changed since its inception due to rapid technology advancements. Camera technology has been a key factor that has influenced the growth of filmmaking. The first motion picture in the world was produced in the early 1880s, and the first public screening occurred ten years later. It didn’t take long for the quality of films to improve as new filmmaking equipment emerged. Ever since the first movie was produced, the film industry has been continuously changing in response to emerging filmmaking technology. Introduction of digital photography and digital data storage along with the development of internet significantly influenced the film industry (Barsam, 2015). These technologies contributed

The film industry is a large industry derived from Hollywood. The major film industries; Metro- Goldwyn Mayer Inc, Paramount Pictures, Sony Picture Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Walt Disney Co., Warner Brothers, and newcomer Dreamworks SKG headquarters are all located in Hollywood

The industry in the U.S. has experienced growth of approximately 26% from 2012 to 2014 and is projected to continue growing.

film industry is the largest of any industries with India making the most number of movies per year than

“The U.S. media and entertainment (M&E) industry is compromised of businesses that produce and distribute motion pictures, television programs and commercials along with streaming content, music, and audio recordings, broadcast, radio, book publishing, and video games

UTV has mastered the specificities of the Indian M&E industry and put itself in key position to be successful and benefit from the growth potential in India. With its diversification strategy and the switch to a business-to-consumer (B2C) model, Screwvala moved UTV to a more scalable model and in a position to control its destiny. Researches have shown that the film entertainment was one of the fastest-growing industries because it was the primary source of content for television. By entering and investing heavily in the film industry business UTV generated a driver for his other verticals, despite there is a lot of

Mass media is a media intended for a large audience. It may take the form of broadcast media, as in the case of television and radio, or print media, like newspapers and magazines. Internet media can also attain mass media status, and many media outlets maintain a web presence to take advantage of the ready availability of Internet in many regions of the world. Some people also refer to it as the “mainstream media,” referencing the fact that it tends to stick to prominent stories which will be of interest to a general audience, sometimes ignoring controversial breaking news. Many people around the world rely on this form of media for news and entertainment, and globally, it is a huge industry.