- Department: Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
- Module co-ordinator: Dr. Nathan Townsend
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: I
- Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
- See module specification for other years: 2023-24
This module will introduce you to the key business models, and industrial conditions, which surround the production of creative content for the screen: the funding, distribution and marketing of movies; the commissioning and scheduling of TV programmes, the investment systems that fund game development and distribution. It will focus on how projects raise money - commercial and public - and how they make money, or deliver on their investment. This will be a cutting-edge module which considers the latest developments - streaming and online distribution, for example - alongside the established models whereby the screen industries develop and deliver their projects to audiences.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 2 2024-25 |
This module aims to:
At the end of this module, you will be:
This module will focus, in part, on key case-studies. You will be expected to work on researching case studies, in teams, for some of your module seminars.
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework Essay : Critical and Contextual Essay |
N/A | 70 |
Essay/coursework Presentation : Researched case studies |
N/A | 30 |
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There are no formative assessments on this module.
Task | Length | % of module mark |
---|---|---|
Essay/coursework Essay : Critical and Contextual Essay |
N/A | 70 |
Essay/coursework Presentation : Researched case studies |
N/A | 30 |
You will receive written feedback in line with standard University turnaround times.
David Hesmondhalgh,The Cultural Industries (London: Sage, 2019)
Jeff Ulin, The Business of Media Distribution : Monetizing Film, TV, and Video Content in an Online World (New York: Routledge, 2019)
Aphra Kerr, Global Games: Production, Circulation and Policy in the Networked Era (London: Routledge, 2017)
Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang, Streaming, Sharing Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016)
David Lee, Independent Television Production in the UK (London: Palgrave, 2018)