'Media production is dominated by global institutions, which sell there products and services to national audiences' to what extent do you agree with this statement?

Introduction

- Start with my opinion
- The Big Six - Paramount, Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures
- How they can afford: Best actors/Lots of marketing/Exotic Locations

Tron: Legacy vs Moon

Tron: Legacy
- Big Budget: $170m
- It's a sequel of a highly critisised film
- Produced in exotic location: Vancouver, Canada
- Large Cast, including stars such as Jeff Bridges (Oscar Winner), Michael Sheen and Olivia Wilde
- Lots of CGI: Used scenes of Jeff bridges form original tron
- the original was not a massive success: budget: 17m, gross 33m
- Had Daft Punk do a 24 track soundtrack with an accompanying orchestra
- Because they were distributed by disney, one of the big six, they were able to make attracttions at disney land and also create branded products for the film.
- Exhibit at Comic-Con to market film.

Moon
- Small Budget: $5m
- Produced in one studio: Shepperton Studios, London
- Very small cast, Sam Rockwell is the only main actor/charactar, Kevin Spacey as G.E.R.T.Y
- Director, Duncan Jones, won a BAFTA for special achievement by a British director, writer or producer in their first feature film.
- Because of the good directing, Duncan Jones became the director of an American, higher budget film 'Source Code' with a much larger budget (32m) and because it was distributed by an American company 'Summit Entertainment' grossed 123m


This as a whole reflects the film industry in the UK. We have the studios, we have great home grown directors , we have famous British stars (e.g Keira Knightly, Jude Law). But there is not nearly as much financial investment.


Comparison of 'Kick-Ass' and 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2'


Kick-Ass
- Budget 28m, Grossed 96m
- Large reletivly unknown cast, Nicholas Cage, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
- Based on comic book
- Universal Studios in the UK, Lionsgate USA
- Filmed in Hamilton, Ontario and East London
- Won two empire awards and two mtv movie awards