MEDIA INSTITUTION RESEARCH

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer

What films that institution has made – do they specialise in genre?

·         Co-production all of the most recent James Bond films with EON productions including ‘Skyfall’  ‘Casino Royal’ ‘Quantum of Solace’

·         ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ co-production with United Artist

·         ‘Zookeeper’ co-production Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions

·         ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ co-production with Columbia Pictures

·         ‘21 Jump Street’ co-production with Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Original Film and Cannell Studios

Most of the films made by MGM are co-produced films because they don’t have enough money to be able to produce the film alone but have lots of arms and connections to help them out. They use there subsidiaries to promote the products which will lower the budget of the films. They do no specialise in any type of genre as they have a very wide variety of films

What the conglomerate for the institution is?

MGM Holdings, Inc since 2005

What other subsidiaries the conglomerate own?

MGM Holdings Inc own:

Film Production/Distribution and Home Entertainment

1.        United Artists Corporation

2.        Orion Pictures Corporation

3.        MGM Home Entertainment Distribution Corporation

Television

4.        MGM Television Entertainment Inc

5.        MGM International Television Distribution

6.        MGM Networks Inc

7.        MGM channel (MGM HD)

8.        THIS Network LLC (Joint venture with Weigel Broadcasting)

9.        EPIX (Joint venture with Viacom and Lions Gate Entertainment)

Other assets

10.     Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Animation Inc

11.     Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Music Inc

12.     MGM On Stage

13.     MGM Consumer Products

14.     MGM Interactive

What distribution company is owned by the conglomerate (vertical integration)?

1.        United Artists Corporation

2.        Orion Pictures Corporation

3.        MGM Home Entertainment Distribution Corporation

Studio Canal

What films that institution has made – do they specialise in genre?

·         ‘About a boy’

·         ‘Hot fuzz’

·         ‘Jonny English’ ‘Jonny English Reborn’

·         ‘Ali G Indahouse’

·         ‘Terminator 2: Judgement day’

Studio canal have a wide range of films all different in Genre.

What links they have with other media types?

They also own one of the most important catalogues in the world, containing more than 5,000 French, British, Italian, German and American titles.  Also they have the majority stake in TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS, which is one of the leading European companies for international primetime Event TV productions and worldwide distribution of quality television programs

Who owns the institution?

Studio Canal is owned Canal+ group

Where they get their money from to make films?

Studio Canal is owned by Canel+ which is owned by Universal Studios and Vivendi. Universal Studios and Vivendi will both give money to Studio Canal to help with the making of their films. Although studio canal are an independent company, they aren’t a British company.

REPRESENTATION OF ETHNICITY - HOTEL BABYLON

Representation of Ethnicity - Hotel Babylon

REPRESENTATION OF GENDER - PRIMEVAL

Representation of Gender - Primeval

THE INBETWEENERS MOVIE REVIEW

The Inbetweeners Movie on Prezi

REPRESENTATION OF CLASS - MONARCH OF GLEN

At the start of the clip we are should some builders loading up the van with some tools and talking about what work they are going to be doing at work. This could suggest that these men are working class as they are working in a typical industrial type job.

Next we are introduced to a young male sweeping the floor outside and a young female. We know by the accents that these people are Scottish. We are then shown the young female who claims she can drive when in fact she crashes straight into another car which we find out is her headmaster and she is only 16 years old. We are then introduced to Edward Green the young girls (Amy) headmaster. Edward sounds vary fluent and posh when he talks and also is dressed very smartly which could suggest that he is middle/upper class. We know that Paul is the boss of the characters as he is the person giving out the orders to people, also Paul has an English accent whereas all the others have a Scottish accent. This could show that he is different to the rest and makes him sound intelligent. The young male and Paul both look and sound shocked when they find out that Amy is still at school and is only 16, this would tell us that Amy has been lying to them and could come across as mischievous which could emphasis her working class.

After being introduced to Edward Green, Paul takes him into a very posh wooden board room which would be similar to an old gentlemen’s room or an old fashion study. The way they are talking with each other is like they are from the same class which could show us that Paul is also upper class. They pour a glass of brandy out of a decanter which is very posh and shows Pauls class. The camera angles have been very clever in this clip as it is showing Paul and Edward both on the same level not having one looking down at the other. This really emphasises that both Paul and Edward are upper class and come across to have the status of rich.

Towards the end of the clip the sound in the background is very happy and positive when the men and female are moving tables and chairs around. However continuing onto Amy the music starts to get very sad and emotion which links in to how Amy is feeling about having to go home and back to school.

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS

Class and Status - Working Class - Robson Green - Waterloo Road

Robson Green played the caretaker in the last series of waterloo road. Waterloo Road is a programme about a high school in a fairly rough run down area. There are a lot of problems at the school which always ends in the police being there or government trying to close down the school. Robson plays the caretaker at the school thought out the series. This would determine Robson into working class as he is working in an industrial maintenance job. Here is a good clip showing Robson cleaning spraypaint of the walls in the school. At the start of this clip we see him scrubbing the spraypaint off the walls. This tells us that his job isint very high up in the industry and he is working class. Also Robson is wearing a shirt which a caretaker would'nt normally wear, they would normally be in overalls or clothes that could get ruined. As we hear Robson speaking in the clip we discover that infact he talks fairly posh and not slangy, this could link with why he dresses smartly for the job he is doing. So overall we could say that he has middle/upper title but a working class status because of the job and the little wage he would be earning.



Class and Status - Poor - Joseph Gilgun (Rudy) - Misfits

Joesph Gilgun plays Rudy in the TV drama 'Misfits'. Misfits is about a group of young adults who are serving community service and the local communal centre. The young adults are aged around 18 to 25. They all have some sort of special power. We dont really know much about all the chacters backgrounds so it is had to find a partically poor character. We get the impression that Rudy is poor because in the latest episode which i cant find clips for we see Rudy struggle to find places to live and has to barge his way into one of the other boys in the comuntity centres flat. Also we never see Rudy get in contact with any friends of family which shows us that noone is there to supposrt him and he is living quite individually. Rudy is serving community service which is usally because you have done something wrong or commited a crime. This could be down to him being unhappy and poor wanting to commit a crime. We dont see Rudy with a job or any source of money coming in. The clothes he wears arent very expensive looking and look a bit tatty and old. Rudy has lots of tattoos all on his body which is usally sterotype as thugist or not very well presentable. All these reason give me the impression that Rudy is quite a poor character.

CLASS AND STATUS

Class and Status on Prezi