What impact does media ownership have upon the range of products available to audiences in the media area you have studied?

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Media Ownership

Media ownership has a huge impact on the availability of the products that are able to be made. Huge conglomerates such as Disney horizontally integrate, meaning that when they synergise across other sectors such as TV, publishing and games, they work with companies and institutions that they already own or have created. They earn the name ‘conglomerate’ by having these subsidiary companies within themselves. This means that all profit made across the sectors, stays within the conglomerate, being Disney. The domination of a conglomerate has a huge effect on smaller media institutions. Smaller media institutions have little media ownership. Little media ownership may cause losses in their overall profit. This is due to the fact that for them to synergise to other sectors, they must work with other, separate companies and institutions, that specialize in that particular area. Doing this causes the company to share out its profit to any companies that have helped.

The ease to which a conglomerate can offer new products is great. The parent company can decide what products they want, and can use their subsidiary companies to create it. An example of this would be Disney wanting a TV show to be broadcast on The Disney Channel. Whatever this new show is, Disney will have full influence on its outcome. Smaller companies will have greater difficulty doing this as the reality of converging with another company is not guaranteed. Even if successful, part of the control of the product goes to this external company, influencing the final outcome. Media conglomerates will have full control of their products and how it turns out. The subsidiary companies are under control of their parent company.

Ex Machina Research

• Producer- Andrew MacDonald, Allow Reich 
• Director- Alex Garland
• Distributor- Universal pictures 
• Cast- Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac 
• Budget- $15,000,000 (million) 
• Locations- Norway,Bloomberg offices, pinewood studios and UK 
• Technology- 
• Number of screen (opening weekend)-1,255 screens
• Number of screens (peak number)- 
• Box office figures- $33 million worldwide

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Major Film Studios
A major film studio is a film producer and production company that releases a substantial number of films annually.The Big Six film studios are:1. Warner Bros. Pictures. Comprising a whopping 19.7 percent of the US/Canadian market share (2007 figures), Warner Bros. Pictures is the biggest player in the film industry. Securing the rights to major films like Harry Potter, Superman, Batman, The Matrix and Star Wars have made Warner Bros. the No. 1 name in the business.2. Paramount Pictures. With 15.5 percent of the US/Canadian market share (2007 figures), Paramount Pictures continues to be one of the most successful film production companies in the world. Star Trek, War of the Worlds, the Mission Impossible series, Transformers and Tropic Thunder are just a few of the popular films produced by Paramount Pictures.3. Walt Disney. One of the most renowned film production companies in the history of the business, Walt Disney now holds 15.3 percent of the US/Canadian market share (2007 figures). With highly successful movies like Pirates of the Caribbean, National Treasure, Meet the Robinsons and Enchanted, there's no doubt that Disney will continue to play a key role in the industry for years to come.4. Columbia Pictures. Comprising 12.9 percent of the US/Canadian market share (2007 figures), Columbia Pictures remains a big player in the business. Some of this company's recent successes include Casino Royale, The Da Vinci Code, the Spider-Man series and Step Brothers.5. Universal Studios. 12.2 percent of the US/Canadian market share (2007 figures) belongs to Universal Studios, which continues to make millions for the film industry. With major hits like the Bourne series (Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum), The American Pie series, Knocked Up, American Gangster and The Incredible Hulk, it's very clear that Universal Studios knows what it takes to make money in this industry.6. 20th Century Fox. Also known as "Twentieth Century Fox," this highly successful movie production company makes up 11.9 percent of the US/Canadian market share (2007 figures). Some of the biggest and most successful movies from this empire include the X-Men series, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Star Wars Episodes II and III, and the Fantastic Four.Roughly 9/10 films in the UK are seen as a result of these distributors

Ex machina Review

Ex Machina is a psychological thriller in which A young programmer Caleb Smith (Domnhall Gleeson) is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking humanoid A.I Ava (Alicia Vikander). built by millionaire Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), personally i believe that this is one of the best films of 2015 despite it only having a budget of around $15 million, as an audience we are plunged into a pit of horror inhumanity and questionable ethics, all to have our eyes opened at the finale of the film rally questioning everything we thought we knew about the future its truly 'the work of gods'.

After serious consideration i believe my favorite character in this film has to be Oscar Isaac's depiction of millionaire Nathan Bateman, Oscar Isaac was successful in truly bringing depth to this role and showing the many faces of Nathan. Oscar Isaac also had to work extremely hard to get him self into the physical condition to play this role by gaining a lot of weight in the form of muscle it really shows the dedication to the character Oscar Isaac possess.

The use of nudity has become controversial with many critics saying its simply not needed and its only there to appeal to the male eye and get some easy publicity, however i believe that it really showed the life style of Nathan and that it only added to the portrayal of the character showing his true colors.

Overall Ex Machina is a stellar film and has thoroughly earned its place at the adult table, the final twist to this film has to be one of my favorite modern day twists and will hold its place in history and who knows maybe it will become a reality in the not so distant future. I give it a 8/10 and its highly recommended!