Media Language Research TaskBy Aaron Southcott

Production

Production is a product that is manufactured or produced.

For example: A Film being released would be classed as production as it is now being manufactured.

Distribution

The distribution of a film is the process through which a movie will go through and make available for an audience to watch etc.

Marketing

The way in which a product or media text is sold to a target audience.

Exhibition

This is a large scale public showing or a small public showing depending on where the movie is released. This can be seen in a cinema, from an online source, streaming sources or shops.

Audience

The people/group of consumers for who the media text is constructed for as well as anyone extra who takes to it.

Institution

A large organization that produces films such as a film studio like Universal Studios.

Digital

the storage and transmission of information by reducing it to digits and then reassembling it for an exact reproduction.

Ownership

Ownership is a company that owns large numbers of companies in various media such as television, radio, publishing, movies and the internet.

Convergence

The merging of separate communication such as publishing, computers, film, music and broadcasting, which are made possible by, advances in technology.

For example: when the ipod first came about, Microsoft tried to become a contender by bringing out zune. Nobody knows about zune but everyone knows about the ipod therefore this is convergence.

Synergy

The coming together of two separate media texts or products that share similar characteristics so that one helps to market the other.

New Technologies

New technology are things such as androids, phones, tablets, computers or anything which is new within the world of media.

Hardware

The physical equipment used to produce, distribute and exhibit media texts.