1. discuss the ways in which media products are produced and distributed to audiences within a media area, which you have studied
The media area i will specking about is film and how it is produced and distributed. the hunger games catching fire film was produced with new, top of the range technology to give the viewer the best experience while watching the film. For example they used the Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format) which is highly praised and basically means they bring the film quality to a 4k resolution which is a very high quality picture through out the film.
All the top quality technology was funded from the first films great success and gave the second instalment a very large budget of $130 000 000 and gained a gross of $407,999,255. it wasn't just the technology that drew in the audience the cast and the director also played a part in bringing the audience the cast and director. the main cast members that brought people in were Jennifer Laurence for her work in the x men first class film and the first hunger games film and Liam Hemmsworth for his work in expendables 2 and also the first hunger games film. This film was directed by Francis Lawrence who also directed the known masterpiece I am legend which is loved through out the film community so film fanatics were going crazy that he was working on the hunger games franchise.
The hunger games were distributed internationally to all the main cinemas (odeon,vue....) around the world by Warner brother going in with such a big buzz and the backing of a wold wide conglomerate the film was in the audiences eyes was already a master piece. and is set to be released on blue ray, DVD netflix and love film which shows that the market is changing from just cinema based releases to and a internet dominated media industry
the film was marketed very well with lots of sponsors from big companies like subway and cover girl which kept the film in the public eye which in turn kept the films buzz going all the way in til release.
the hunger games catching fire film also dominated viral marketing also by having a twitter page and other big social media sites to gain more and more publicity than they already had. and not only this many big companies across various media forms were holding competitions for example over radio and magazines
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