Friday, September 28, 2018

Warner Bros- Character Artist Job

Character Artist Job

The Warner Bros Media Conglomerate is looking for a new Character artist. 
The wage will be around $50,000 to roughly $100,000 a year but could vary depending on efficiency and skill in doing the task at hand.
You will need the following the following:
- A degree/ major degree in fine arts
-A skilled illustrator of 2D design
-You must also be a good communicator and able listen and contribute well towards a team.
-You will need to be a good programmer
Other qualities that may be useful to posses is:
-A level headed person who is not easily frustrated.
-A determined person who will always work to try to do the task at hand.
-Someone who has played a lot of video games and understands the typical design.

The importance of a Character Artist

The character artist is a very important person for the overall making of a video game as they are creating the characters that will be within the game. You will be a very valued member of the Warner Bros team. You will be responsible for helping us achieve a good reach in horizontal integration to do this you will have to create visual ways to target our audience in the 4 main sectors these are:
-Online/Social Media 
-Print media and print advertisement
-TV/ Radio channels
-Merchandising

The way we would like you to target these 4 areas is to do the following:
-Create a Snapchat and Instagram short 10 second advert for the game that will look good and target our main audience for the game
-Create a 2D image of the design of the front cover of the game and publish this in the newspaper and game magazines the case for the game needs to look well presented but also try to show off the game well.
-Make a TV advert that is roughly 20 seconds long it should be well animated and show of the game as a great game that kids will see and will want to get. It should be action packed but also have top notch graphics for the older gamers who look for graphics in a game.
-Create visual representations of merchandise that we can create for example clothing with the game name or the main character of the game on, you could also make toys for younger children to play with that look like the real ones that are within the game.

Warner Bros- Conglomerate Overview

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The Warner Bros Conglomerate

The company was formed in 1990. The conglomerate was named Time Warner, as Time Inc merged with Warner Communications. The current company mainly consists of the assets from the former Warner Communications old company. 
In 1927 Warner Bros created the worlds first feature length film called The Jazz Singer- It was an American Musical film the film had a $442,000 budget and it mad $3.9 million at box office this kicked off The Warner Bros film business. In 1923 Time magazine released the first weekly news magazine in the United States. 
A few of the Time Warner subsidiaries are as follows:
  • HBO
  • Turner Broadcasting System
  • Warner Bros

Monday, September 24, 2018

Kerrang!

What is Kerrang?

Kerrang! is a magazine that is devoted to rock music it was first published on June 6th 1981. It was first created as a one of supplement in the sounds Newspaper.

Kerrang! is owned by Bauer Media Group which is a European-Based media company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. 
Kerrang! did sponsor Donnington rock festival from 1980 to 1996 it took place every one of those years except 1989 and 1993. Kerrang! currently sponsors download festival from the 8th-10th of June every year. 
Kerrang! could use synergy to promote their festivals using synergy as they could work together with like another radio station to maximise listeners and attendees at the festival.
The Subsidiaries that are within the Kerrang! company are the magazine, the radio station, the festivals, a website and the awards.

Media job roles

What are the main categories of Job in media production companies?

Three key categories:
  • Pre-Production: The planning and drafting stages of a media product for example Scheduling, funding, casting, designing etc
  • Production: The actual making of a product eg. Filming, Photography, writing, inking graphics etc
  • Post production: The editing and finalising of a media product for example adding special effects, digital manipulation, audio and video editing.
The one that has the most time spent on it is Post production this is because it is the hardest one to do and filming only takes roughly 3 weeks to do however doing the computer things takes about 2 years. 

Jobs within the game industry

What are the operating structures of media companies?

Horizontal and Vertical Integration

The way in which a media conglomerate is structured that can maximizes profits. 

Vertical integration is when a conglomerate has ways to do all 4 of the following ways perfectly to maximize profits as they don't have to pay anyone to do it for them:
  • Production- The making/manufacturing of the product 
  • Marketing- The advertisement of the product
  • Distribution- The way in which the product is then shipped out and sold 
  • Consumption- The way the product can be used. 
For a conglomerate to maximize profits for this is having their own factories for production, to have people who can make an advert without having to pay someone else to do it for them, having lorries and boats for the distribution so they can get the product to the customer themselves and to have their own devices for the product to be used for example if it was a game then a console that was supported by the game.

 Horizontal integration is a process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same part of the supply chain. A company may do this via internal expansion, acquisition or merger. The process can lead to monopoly if a company captures the vast majority of the market for that product or service. 
A Monopoly happens when a single company/conglomerate owns the whole of something with no competition in a single area leading to the company being able to set prices that cant be argued as there is no competition. 
The different things that a company has to be in control of for horizontal integration to take place is:
  • Online/social media
  • Print media and advertisement
  • TV and radio
  • Merchandising
When a conglomerate uses all available subsidiaries to promote and distribute a product this is called Synergy, this is enabled by Cross-Media ownership.

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Understand the ownership modelsof Media institutions

The six main media sectors are as follows: Advertisement, TV and Radio, Film, Video games, Web and online technologies and print.
The Video games sector makes the most out of any of the other sectors this is because Video games are a very popular sector especially because of the rise of mobile gaming.

A brief overview of the sectors:
  1. Film- The film industry is one of the largest sectors of media it contributed £4.3billion to the UK's economy in 2006. The film company consists of independent film companies and big film companies that own other companies. For example one independent film company is Blumhouse productions one film company that is not independent is marvel as this company is owned by Disney.
  2. TV and Radio- All companies that work to produce programmes that are broadcast on Tv and radio. For example Channel 4 and ITV 
  3. Video Games- Companies who make video games. For example EA and Treyarch
  4. Print and Publishing- Companies who distribute books, newspapers and magazines for example Penguin and Harper Collins
  5. Web and Online technologies- Companies who produce internet and app based products for example Facebook and Google 
  6. Music- Record labels that are parts of larger media organisations for example Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group

Example table of sectors

Friday, September 14, 2018

Guilty pleasure

Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande is a singer, she is stereotyped to be mostly aimed at teenage girls however I think that her music is really good. I prefer her songs like: The light is coming, breathin and no tears left to cry. She originally was in a Disney show Victorious where she played Cat Valentine the program first aired in March 2010 and finished in February 2013. Ariana Grande is 25 years old in Florida. 

Ariana Grande's first album was released 3rd September 2013 and her most recent album was released in August 2018 entitled Sweetener. The more recent album is supposed to be seen as her recovery following the Manchester attacks that occurred in 2017, after the attacks occurred she raised money for the families of the victims by hosting a festival called One love she raised about £10 million from the festival which had stars such as Coldplay and Liam Gallagher. 

Her newest album has been viewed as a very good album and critics have been saying that the album is very good one review said 'A fascinating and sneakily complex pop album that adds new creative wrinkles to Grande’s already estimable repertoire'  This review seems to be the more popular view of her album however some reviews seem to think the opposite with one person even saying that 'Without a doubt the worst work of Ariana, with nothing new to offer, would have been better to continue with her musical silence' this shows some divide between what people make of the new album.

In my opinion this album is some of the best work that she has done so far and the songs seem to be full of emotion and she sings every word with power and emotion behind it. I think that all the beats in the background are catchy and up beat and some songs start of slower and speed up which I enjoy, I think that the songs are really catchy.

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Deadpool 2

Questions

1. Cinema: -Marvel

                    -20th Century Fox


2- The budget for Deadpool 2 was $110 million
   -The earnings in 20 days was $562.9 million


3: Camera work: - As Deadpool arrived on the scene as 'fire fist' was causing havoc there was a medium close up of Deadpool in his mask making him look like he was the super hero. The medium close up on Deadpool emphasised his mask that he was wearing. 

Sound- As the X-men ship landed on the scene there was loud dramatic music to emphasis the power that the X-men force have.

Editing- There was a shot counter shot as Deadpool was talking to Firefist the significance of the shot counter shot is to get a perspective of what both of the characters are seeing and hearing at this point. The shot counter shot allows the audience to see both of the characters points of view so that we can emphasis for both characters.

Mise-en-sene -In the background behind 'FireFist' as the scene begins there is a police car that is on fire this shows the extremity of the incident and also shows how the power ad how it is not under control.