Film Financing

Government grants:- This is where films are funded by the government. The government hope that 'creative individuals' are interested in moving into the area. The funded does not have to be repaid back the government. If the film is shot in a certain place it could help advertise the location.
Tax Schemes:-This where tax deductions are enhanced for film owners/makers and big companies that don. These people try to find the best tax deduction so that 't want to pay a lot of tax. They try to find the best tax schemes so they're tax free.
Debt Finance:- The producer of a film, sells the film in advance and use the money they have made to pay for the making of the film. The people who buy the films have to be certain that it will make a profit. Un-successful films would loose the buyers a lot of money.If a famous star is in the film or a well known producer is making the film it is a guarantee that the film would make money.
Equity Finance:- This type of finance is the less risky of the other ones. The person who buys apart in a film is guaranteed to get their money back even if the film 'flops'. Product placement in films makes a lot of money, this is because companies pay a lot of money to see their product in the film, for advertisement purposes. This happens in films such as James Bond where the product is the Aston Martin.Private equity is where film producer pitch their ideas to a private buyer such as the dragons on dragons den. These private investors will then earn a profit.

Funding/ Finance of TV

TV

TV channels such as the BBC(public service broadcaster) and Channel 4(part public/ part commercial) gain money through the licence fee. The licence fee is now £145.50 and £7.90 of this is given to the BBC from each person in the UK. The BBC gains money through merchandising, The licence Fee, syndication and competitions. The BBC does not advertise other products so this means The BBC won't earn money that way. ITV and Chanel 5 are commercial TV stations. They earn most of their money through advertisements, merchandising and sponsoring. As well as other channels they also syndicate programs, which earns them a lot of money.  Channel 4 earns a small amount from the licence fee. They also advertise and syndicate. Sky and Virgin are subscriber broadcaster this means they do not earn money through the licence fee. The BBC does not worry about the number of viewers as they receive money from the public even if they do not watch the channel. The money that is earned goes towards making the program better, so that more money is earned. Their only concern is that their programs are worth watching. Channels such as ITV depend on competitions and phone ins to gain money.
Product placement is where TV channels are paid to put certain products in their programs, this is very similar to advertisements. More and more Channels use this to earn money.

Advertising on TV channels becomes more expensive when placed between featured films. Channels buy films so that the people who want advertise, have to pay more.

Syndication is where Channels sell their original programs to other channels for high prices. E4 is a well known channel that shows programs that were once owned by another channel.

My Opinion on Pixar

Pixar is one of my favourite film corperation. It produces family friendly films which apeal to all ages. It may have some issues when it comes to religion but it is rarely ever offencive. Pixar films are sold all over the world and make a lot of money. The co-operation between Disney and Pixar are much to be disired but over the years they have produced some great films.

Pixar Part 2

Disney and Pixar have had along relationship together and there have been many ups and downs. In 1991 Disney began to be the main face of their films. The organisation is made up of many people from script writers to animators to directors. Pixar gains many millions dollars per year from their films, through cinema tickets, DVDs/Bluerays and other merchandise, across the world. Their films are directed at families but as people grow up with past Disney films most people of different ages enjoy them. Now that Disney and Pixar are in collaboration the company is more popular. Pixar has won many Academy awards for their films and many of the production team has won awards as well.

Pixar part 1

Pixar is a Subsidiary company which founded in 1979 as Graphics Group which then went onto be Pixar in 1986. Pixar is based in California, America. 5 years later a short Film called The Adventures Andr and Wally B which then spun out to begin Pixar. It was groundbreaking, as it was the first CG motion picture animation, but it was very restricted. After a year of research they were able to master making films. These films were produced by Lucasfilms. Throughout the years after, many short films were made. John Ratzenburger features in many of their films. From 1995 to 2010 many long films were made such as Toy Story in 1995 to the Incredibles in 2004. Pixar and Disney fell out in 2004, this fall out lasted for some time. In 2006 Disney buys Pixar for $7.4 Billion. In 2007 Pixar's first traditional short was made. In 2010 Pixar studios in Vancouver is opened.

My Opinion on the BBC

The BBC as public service broadcaster, provides the best TV for all audiences. The BBC wants to give the public good enough entertainment for what they payed for, through the licence fee. It provides many different TV channels and radio stations, which give the public many different genres of programs, music and news. The BBC are also not aloud to be bias bias so that when the news is presented there are no one sided arguments. Syndication does not happen in the BBC unless it repeats a program on another of their channels.
Overall I believe that BBC is one of the best broadcasting organisation in the UK (which also branched out to other countries such as America). I justify the licence fee as BBC provides us with good entertainment for our money.

The BBC part 2

The licence fee is a big part of how the BBC gains money. £7.69 from the licence fee pays for the BBC television channels per month, per house hold. £2.11 is spent on BBC Radio Channels per month, per house hold. 66p is spent on BBC online, BBC Iplayer and BBC mobile per month, per house hold. The licence pay for 75% of The BBC's income.

The BBC aims to educate, inform and entertain the British public. It has diversified its channels so that it appeals to most viewers. It provides 32 different languages when it broadcasts news and information. The BBC always takes the public's requests and ideas into consideration.

BBC's many channels provide for different audiences;
BBC One:- This channel shows programs of different genres for all audiences
BBC Two:- Focuses on documentaries and sports ( appealing to older audiences )
BBC Three:- Shows Documentaries and comedy programs, also repeats of BBC One programs
BBC Four:- The shows featured on this channel are documentaries
CBBC and Cbeebies:- These channels are for children