Start your essay with a short introductory paragraph that outlines your intention for this essay. So think – what is it you want to argue / discuss / present in this essay?– In this essay I would like to argue that
Show knowledge of the film industry, specifically the key stages of: production, distribution, consumption– Production, distribution, and consumption are related to how goods and services are created and made available to the public as people buy, sell, and make goods, they become interdependent upon one another to supply what they need or to purchase what they sell.
position contemporary film production within a couple of key theoretical positions for example:
Hesmondhalgh’s ideas that mitigate the ‘risky business’ of cultural production– This film can be considered as ‘risky business’ because Joe Stevenson borrowed 110,000 in order to create the film in hopes that he’d eventually gain the money back from profits of the film. However, that isn’t always the case, as Hesmondhalgh said it is mere impossible to predict the audiences taste in films like ‘Chicken’. He also says that coupled with the high costs of production it means that
Curran and Seaton’s arguments for a more diverse media landscape.
Livingstone and Lunt’s suggestion that cultural production exists in a loosely regulated framework, biased towards a consumers rather than citizen model.
The impact of new media technologies for cultural production.
Present details of the CSP (Chicken) but make sure you focus on production, distribution and consumption and NOT on a textual analysis of the film – remember the examiner / assessor is assuming that you may not have seen the film.
