Understanding Creative Media Industries.

• Photo Imaging
• Games
• Radio
• TV
• Advertisting
• Publishing
• Interactive Media
• Animation
• Film

Film.

The Motion Picture Industry grossed $65,000,000,000 in 2007. but in 2012 the movie industry makes more than one billion each year, The industries are made up of a small number of big companies which are highly skilled. The United Kingdom's film industry is broken down into 4 sectors Production, Facilities, Distribution and Exhibition.

Publishing

Publishing is made up of a large group of industries including: Books, Directories and Mailing Lists, Journals, Magazines and Business Media, Newspapers, News Agencies and other Information Services.  

The publishing industry employs 195,000 people. 51,000 people are employed in the newspaper sector. 50,500 working in journals and magazines, 33,000 in the book industry & 12, 000 in other activities. 

Alot of the complains are based in London and South East of England but sources have proven there not very popular. 54% Male & 46% Female's work in this industry although it drops to 35& in news agencies.

Animation

Animation is a worldwide corporation but around 4,700 people throughout the UK work in the animation business. Draw/stop motion animation are employing around 1,000 people, Producing 910 people, Computer Generated Animation 900 people & production 430 People. A further 1,100 more people are employed in the key animation roles. 

34% of the animation workers are women.  39% of the workers in animation have worked there since 1990. 22% since 2000. 3% the representation of the ethnic minorities is among the lowest of all sectors of the audio visual industry.

 

Games

Games businesses employ total of 7,000 people in the UK. The most common occupations are Art & Design accounting for 1,700 (24%) managements accounting for 1,500 (22%)  and production accounting for 1,350 (19%) other smaller groups are strategic management (6%), Animators (6%), content development (3%) and audio/sound/music (2%) all other occupations are just 4% of the workforce. 

The age profile of the games industry show the aim towards younger employees with 61% of the workforce ages 35 or under and 23% of those employees to have children. Overall the computer games industry has around 486 businesses with majority being classes as games developers around 35 companies can also be classes as games support. 

 

Advertising 

The Advertising industry generates £6.2 billion for the UK economy. Advertising is a large firm. The advertising industry have 13,000 companies and almost 250, 000 people working in advertising. 

59% of people working in the advertising business have atleast level 4 qualifications and a third have a level 2 or 3 qualification. The UK has third biggest advertising firm in the world after USA & Japan. 

 

 

Interactive Media

The interactive media sector has around 34,300 employees representing approximately 7% of the total creative industries workforce

The work force is highly qualified 36% hold a postgraduate qualification and a further 43% hold an undergraduate degree. 

 

Photo Imaging

The photo imaging industry has a highly skilled and well qualified workforce 46% of the work force have a degree. 42% of those holding a undergraduate degree or diploma having a qualification in a media related subjects

The photo imaging industry has a low proportion of people from minority ethnic groups. 

 

TV
Television is still one of the most popular forms of entertainment and information with the average British viewers still watching twenty hours or more per-week, But the internet becoming so popular it is competing strongly for audiences. 

Just under two thirds of the TV industry's (62%) is based in lond. The north west is the second largest centre with 8% of the workforce. They are both broadcasting and production companies in Glasgow, Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and Liverpool. 

Women are well represented in the TV industry, with 41% female workers out of the 49% although the overall representation of women in the tv workforce has declined year on year from 49% in 2004. 

 

Radio
They are many radio stations dotted around the UK although a majority of workforce are based in London. the radio workforce is older than that of the Creative Media Industries as a whole. About half the workforce is female. 

Also the radio industry employs a relatively low proportion of people from minority ethnic groups. 

 

These are a rage of sources of income that are made by the media industries

Downloads - money is made to downloads on tv, films through online sites such as netflicks, lovefilm, itune, amazon. audiences pay to download and watch them!

Advertisers - Advertising is one of the most popular sources of income for creative media industries as they can charge companies to advertise their product inbetween their media service. 

Sponsorship - Sponsership means you get exclusive promotion, sponsers get mentioned at the begining, middle & end of the program (for example, Hollyoaks they are sponsered by nikon)

Product placement - Product placement is having something in the background of popular tv shows, because people who watch  the tv show regulary will notice these items and if they like the thing they will go out and buy it.

BBC Licence fee - The annual cost of a colour TV licence is £145.50 (as from 1 April 2010). A black and white TV licence is £49.

Cinema box office - Cinema Box Offices Sell tickets to audiences for a particular movie thats showcasing, people buy the tickets.

Franchises, formats - Simon cowell sells his ideas and sells them to a company oversea's but he gets all the money that if makes, for example, simon created the xfactor in the uk but he created a USA version, another example Big Brother UK was sold and they created a Indian version of Big Brother.

CD and DVD sales - money is made because dvd sales lower there prices therefor people buying it because it's a bargain. they do this alot to get rid of alot of the older movies,

Television subscriptions -  Tv Subscription is when someone subscribes to a certain channel they get a wider viriaties of channels such as Sky.
 

Merchandise - Merchandise make there money buy selling things merch is mainly sold at concerts which include Wrist Bands, TShirts, Posters.

Licensing; ‘intellectual property’