...Introduction The North South Wales creative industries produce a great value that spreads to ranges of different sectors. It can be a key part of wide array of different economic activities such as in supply chain, technology, marketing and many other forms. It employs thousands of workers in the region along which constitutes of more than 6.8% of overall employees within the region. With the great economic potential of creative industries, it is a must that the country will be able to properly guide and support companies and businesses in the sector. As such, it is worth mentioning the drives and initiatives that government of Australia is taking. Recently, the commonwealth government released its National Cultural Policy, Creative Australia, in which the city of Sydney patterned its Creative City (CC). This policy aims to continuously develop and sustain the creative industry activities. The said objectives, if met is set to perceive a distinction that would separate the city like no others. It will also boost the economic growth and social benefits of the region. Through CC, becoming among the world leader in terms of creative industries is not just a dream now. It can be realized sooner or later. It will also play a very important role in shaping the brand in which Sydney will be known like the other countries who have that halo effect. However, there are a lot of challenges that will come into play that needed to be surpassed. It is expected that the marketplace...
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...displays a precise story line in which the CIA establishes a fake movie production in order to rescue six American ambassadors out of Iran. CIA took advantage of the political crisis happening in Iran. “The Iranian government, incredibly, was trying to encourage international business in the country. They needed the hard currency and a film production could mean millions of dollars.” (Bearman, 2007). Therefore, CIA came up with the plan of producing a fake sci-fi movie flick in Iran. In the film Argo Ben Affleck was chosen to play the lead role of Tony Mendez. A considerable part of the movie Argo focuses on the Canada’s role in the escape. Canada received complete credit for rescuing these American ambassadors. In the reality Canada was actually given recognition for rescuing Americans out of Teheran. The scenes in the movie Argo successfully portray the fear of American ambassadors. As demonstrated by this dialogue “Don’t f**king shoot anyone. You don’t wanna be the son of b*tch who started the war. They need an hour to be classified. I need you to hold. If you shoot one person, they are gonna shoot everyone of us in here” (Affleck, 2012). This dialogue demonstrates the fear of American ambassador. These six Americans were in the same state of fear during the Iran Hostage Crisis. Another portion of the movie focuses on creating the fake Identities of six of those ambassadors. Mendez needed a real production company to make his fake movie plan look real and also because he had...
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...Studies Advanced Subsidiary Examination Unit 2 MEST2 Creating Media Production Briefs To release to students on or after 1 June 2015 All teacher-assessed marks to be returned to AQA by 15 May 2016 Instructions • • • • • Overleaf you will find three Production Briefs. Each brief contains instructions for three separate tasks, each requiring you to work in different media platforms – Broadcasting, Print and e-Media. Read the briefs carefully. You should select one brief. You should then produce the material indicated for two of the tasks from your chosen brief. Information • • • You are reminded that the Production Process comprises the following: — Research — Pre-production — Production — Evaluation (1500 words) The maximum mark for this paper is 80. You will be marked on your ability to: — use good English — organise information clearly — use specialist vocabulary where appropriate. Production Brief MEST2 Read the scenarios. Choose one brief and complete two tasks on that brief. You should attempt to integrate the productions across the two chosen platforms where possible. Brief One You have decided to enter a competition being run by your local arts cinema, The Little Picturehouse. This cinema, which is part of a small chain of 12 independent arts cinemas across the country, shows a mixture of independent, foreign language and documentary films. The company prides itself on providing access to non-mainstream cinema and...
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...Case: Brixton Surgical Devices Brixton Surgical Devices, a public company with sales of over $900,000,000, is one of the world’s largest productions of surgical clamps, saws, screws, and stents. Its business involves production of both stock items and customs pieces for doctors at research hospitals. At the end of the third quarter of 2011, it became clear to Ed Walters, chief operating officer, and Robin Smith , chief financial officer, that the company would not make the aggressive annual earnings target specified by the board of directors. In consequence, Ed and Robin would not receive bonuses, which historically had averaged about 35 percent of their base compensation. The two devised the following strategy. “Here’s what we’ll do,” suggested Ed. “We’ve never offered our customers a discount. Let’s change that right now. We’ll offer a 25 percent discount on all orders placed in October and November for delivery in December of 2011.” “That will certainly boost fourth-quarter sales,” said Robin. “But you know, it won’t really increase total sales. It’ll just transfer some sales from the first quarter of 2012 to the fourth quarter of 2011. Of course, 2011 is where we need earnings to hit our bonus target. Hey, I’ve got another idea. We can also jack up productions of our stock items in the fourth quarter. With our high-priced production equipment we’ve got a ton of overhead. But the more we produce the more overhead we can bury in inventory. With lower unit costs and higher...
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...Taking a Look at Atlanta’s Past and Future in Film This article shares how a slight tax increase in 2005, turned into a $3.1 billion to better Atlanta’s film production. This money was used to clean up the city for television and movie production. This clean up also benefited Georgia State University’s image. The writer of this article, William Inman, spoke to numerous peers about their interactions in different film’s that have recently come to Atlanta. Michael Oloyede shared his adventure as an extra in “Hunger Games II.” Oloyede played an exhausting roll yelling and screaming. Meanwhile, there have been other opportunities to be an extra in films such as, “Anchorman 2” or the “The Change-Up,” which provides extra rolls that are a little less involved as far as acting. Another show that Inman spoke about in detail was the production of the AMC series, “The Walking Dead.” As the series continues, “The Walking Dead” has actually continued to use Atlanta’s skyline in all three seasons. Inman interviewed Kevin Galbraith, a senior psychology major as Georgia State University, about his personal experience as an extra in “The Walking Dead.” The article shared Galbraith story as an extra. This article mainly contained short personal testimonials about experiences of others within Georgia State University. Throughout this article I noticed a few different things that could have made this article an easier read. Although the topic is incredibly interesting, Inman...
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...process when compared to the production runs.BMW supported such adual development process to provide flexibility to its prototyping craftsmen to make changes to thedesign quickly. For instance, the prototype shop was able to make new parts within a week of beingintimated of a design change. In contrast, the lead time for procuring pre-production tools fromsuppliers was 6 months. Providing such flexibility though had a flip side to it - something which workedin the prototyping phase may not work in the production phase. This meant that potential problems inthe design could be identified very late in the development process. People in pilot production spent alot of their time identifying and solving the big problems leaving them little or no time for minorproblems and fine tuning. Thus there were chances of minor issues creeping into actual productionresulting in customer complaints after sales.Another reason which contributed towards BMWs quality issues was its mixed-model ramp up strategy.In order to utilize the high fixed costs involved BMW adopted a mixed model ramp up strategy. Whilethis permitted better utilization of fixed assets, it caused greater confusion among the workers andmade the logistics more complex. This problem was compounded due to the fact that not all problemswere discovered or solved in the pilot production phase. This in turn affected the quality of the carsbeing produced. At the same time frequent changes to the production schedule resulted in escalation...
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...“Media production is dominated by global institutions, which sell their services and production, to national audiences.” To what extent do you agree? The media industry has an unpenetratable monopoly- it is owned and controlled by 6 big owners. These companies are in charge of hundreds of different businesses involved in all aspects of media, such as television, radio and film. The big 6 have international dominance and earn billion dollar revenues; this is because they have many advertising opportunities to sell their products and services. With all of their different branches into different media based companies, they have lots of platforms to advertise to their consumers. An example of one of the 6 dominant owners is Vivendi, a French company. The company is mainly focused on digital entertainment and telecommunications. It owns French TV channel and movie producer Canal+, as well as music world leader Universal Music. It also owns mobile companies SFR (France) and GVT (Brazil) and controlling Maroc Telecom (Morocco). In 2012, Vivendi earned revenue of €28.994 billion. Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London owned by Universal Studios. It produces popular feature films such as Love Actually and Bridget Jones, and several television productions. Working Title can produce any film with a budget of up to £35 million. However they them have to consult with executives at their parent company Universal before producing any film, so they could...
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...Case: Brixton Surgical Devices Brixton Surgical Devices, a public company with sales of over $900,000,000, is one of the world’s largest productions of surgical clamps, saws, screws, and stents. Its business involves production of both stock items and customs pieces for doctors at research hospitals. At the end of the third quarter of 2011, it became clear to Ed Walters, chief operating officer, and Robin Smith , chief financial officer, that the company would not make the aggressive annual earnings target specified by the board of directors. In consequence, Ed and Robin would not receive bonuses, which historically had averaged about 35 percent of their base compensation. The two devised the following strategy. “Here’s what we’ll do,” suggested Ed. “We’ve never offered our customers a discount. Let’s change that right now. We’ll offer a 25 percent discount on all orders placed in October and November for delivery in December of 2011.” “That will certainly boost fourth-quarter sales,” said Robin. “But you know, it won’t really increase total sales. It’ll just transfer some sales from the first quarter of 2012 to the fourth quarter of 2011. Of course, 2011 is where we need earnings to hit our bonus target. Hey, I’ve got another idea. We can also jack up productions of our stock items in the fourth quarter. With our high-priced production equipment we’ve got a ton of overhead. But the more we produce the more overhead we can bury in inventory. With lower unit costs and higher...
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...Film as the most widely-accept form of art plays pivotal role in popular entertainment. Rosenstone states that “You need more than words on page to understand how film presents the world of the past. Words aren’t fully up to the task of comprehending the film experience” (2006, p.1). Product placement (also sometimes referred to as“brand integration”) is the inclusion of branded products or identifiers through audio or visual means within mass-media programming (Balasubramanian 1994). This paper is aim to discuss the affect of product placement on film’s content and production company. With the development of society and technology, there is no denying that the film industry has formed its own unique business model in modern world. In order to product high quality films and obtain greater profits, the film production companies have to invested heavily in its films. In other words, it is impossible to product a high level and appealing film without the support of abundant capital in some extent. In this context, a large number of sponsorship of big brand company plays a significant role in film industry. As a typical representative of new advertisement, product placement is deeply affect films in terms of content, structure, production and so on. According to the data of PQ Media (2007), it spent $885.1 million on product placement embed into the film in the world in 2006. In the meantime, the product placement which means the combination of art and commerce. It is the existence...
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...Although situation comedies (sitcoms) are a staple source of entertainment in America, their content is controlled by "gatekeepers" in all three phases of production. Gatekeepers are those individuals who are able to control the content of material that appears in the sitcom. Production occurs in three phases called, pre-production, production, and post-production. Gatekeeper influence starts in pre-production. Pre-production starts many months before any studio set is built, or actors are hired. The first gatekeeper is the production company. They have the right to decide which ideas are worth sending in to production. They decide if the premise and context of the proposed show will resonate with audiences. Pushing the boundaries of acceptability may be a way to generate new audiences or alienate an existing audience. Production companies must make that call. One example of pushing the boundaries of acceptability occurred back in the 70's with a sitcom called, "All in The Family". This show depicted a working class man, named Archie Bunker, and the ups and downs of his average blue-collar family. While very controversial at the time, the show was later seen as one of the first shows to realistically address racial integration and racial tension and the foolishness of bigotry. Once the show is funded then writers are hired to begin working on scripts for the show. Writers work with the executive producer to develop a story line. The executive producer is another gatekeeper...
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...are currently pondering the idea of switching their scheduling production from seasonal to a more level production. It is believed that by switching it will save the company substantial amount of funds and help reserve its factory equipment. Also, they are and need to find a solution to the current loan agreement they have with their bank to coincide with this new plan. Adopting a policy of level monthly production was the idea of Toy World Inc.’s Production manager, Mr. Hoffman. He has stated multiple issues with the current production schedule and exclaimed projected ideas & results with the new level policy. Current problems arising from the seasonal production schedule include overtime premiums reducing profits, seasonal expansion and contraction of the work force resulted in recruiting difficulties and high training/quality costs, machinery was idle for months at a time and subjected to heavy use, frequent set up changes in the machinery, confusion in scheduling runs, and frequent setup changes that resulted in inefficiencies in assembly and packaging. Mr. Hoffman believes that by switching to a monthly level production those overtime premiums will be reduced and result in great savings, and there will be additional savings with regard to direct labor. Instead of COGS being 70% of sales it is now 65.1%. Slightly lower but still a definite change. The only exceptions with the level monthly production schedule is that savings would be...
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...that occupation. I will also discuss the transferable skills that are gained from this and how they can be used in other fields within the creative industries. Lastly, I will include the potential impact this has on technological, health and safety, legal issues and business support. Film is the chosen occupational area within the Creative Industries that will be discussed. The main goal of a film can be anything from to entertainment, to create shock and awe, to inform and also tempt people into going to the cinema to watch their work thus making a profit. The construction a film it can broke down into 5 parts: Development, Pre-production, Production, Post-production and Distribution. The development stage of a film is when the idea is written and the story and characters are finalised. The development stage includes Executive Producers, Producers and Scriptwriters. The Executive Producers key role is to look over the producers on behalf of the studio. They will also ensure the film is produced on time and remains within the set budget. An Executive Producer will have to have a vast and intimate knowledge of all facets of film production, marketing, financing and the distribution of films. They will be great negotiators, as they have to discuss technical standards and negotiate a budget.[1] The skill within this job role such as keeping to a deadline can easily be transferrable to another job role within the Creative Industries. For example, an Advertising Account Executive...
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...| | | Planning | 1) Responsible for monitoring the workforce to achieve the on time Delivery of sample. 2) Analyze the workload.3) Make a daily plan also focus with planning department 4) Communicate with the workforce and explain to them the situation of Sampling Stage up to the Production start date. 5) plan and follow up the sample room work force trainingTarget: Sample on time delivery with good quality. | | Control the working Time | 1) Monitor the work force to achieve the target within the workingHours.2) Negotiate to the workforce the extra working time in case of urgency situation.Target : Controlling attendance daily bases to avoid any exceed work hour (Less than 60 hours/week) | | Measure the operator performance | 1) Measure the operator performance according to records2) finalize the sewing grading person in productivity best sample operator Target; work force motivation. | | Disciplinary | 1) Build up and maintain, “a well-disciplined” but harmonious working environment in the sample room.2) Build up the teamwork in work force and relationship in between staff and work force.Target: Respect and Follow the company rules and regulation. | | Costing and ordering YYMarker marking | 1) Take cuttable width and ratio filled consumption details sheet 2) Identify the way of the fabric (1gmnt/1way) or (all grmnt 1way/a). any garment any way, 3) And the fabric behavior also(knit fabric or woven)4) If there is a big alteration on the pattern (in sampling /...
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...faced a big challenge. The capacity of the project was 90 blocs. The company has only been able to complete a 7 block per year radius. The total capacity of the industry itself was 20 blocks per year. Demand for 2 of its 4 products - precast concrete facades & slabs, which are in current production, is in high demand for the Hong Kong market. These 2 products already represent close to 54% of the sales of Unicon. The fact that the total capacity of the industry is 20 blocks per year clearly indicates that competition will be entering the Hong Kong market. Unicon, in fact, already expects a minimum of 5 new competitors to enter the HK market for construction suppliers. There are currently already 4 competitors in the HK market. Unicon needs to move fast to be able to stay ahead of the competition entering the market. The opportunity for expansion is great. Based on our evaluation, we recommend that Mr. Li: • Work on the blanket approval with the HKHA to short cut the approval process; • Re-organize the company structure by moving from “make to order” to “make to stock” between interior walls, facades and slabs to support the demand for these product; • Implement changes in production - introduce a second shift to solve the problem of the 2.5 hours morning set up in order to support our strategic operational plan. To implement these recommendations, we have considered an strategy of 0-6 months while our 5 year long-term...
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...company's president expressed dissatisfaction with Merton's financial performance during the six-month period January-June 1988. "I know we are operating at capacity in some of our production lines," he remarked to Merton's controller and sales and production managers. "But surely we can do something to improve our financial position. Maybe we should change our product mix. We don't seem to be making a profit on our Model 101 truck. Why don't we just stop making it altogether? Maybe we should purchase engines from an outside supplier, relieving the capacity problem in our engine assembly department. Why don't the three of you get together, consider the different options, and come up with a recommendation?" Production Possibilities and Standard Costs No The Merton Truck Company manufactured two specialized models of trucks, Model 101 and Model 102, in a single plant in Wheeling, Michigan. Manufacturing operations were grouped into four departments: engine assembly, metal stamping, Model 101 assembly, and Model 102 assembly. Do Capacity in each department was expressed in manufacturing machine-hours available (net of maintenance downtime). Machine-hours available, in conjunction with machine-hours required for each truck model in each department, determined Merton's "production possibilities." For example, the company's engine assembly capacity was sufficient to assemble engines for either 4,000 Model 101 trucks per month (4,000 machine-hours available...
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