In 1896 Svante Arhenius discovered that fossil fuels are a source of carbon dioxide. In 1965 the US Presidents science advisory panel reported that pollution is a major threat to society. In the 1970s atmospheric scientists Manabe, Wetherald and Sawyer confirmed that human activities are contributing factors to climate change. Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller explored the environmental impact of media technology in 2012. Kääpä explored sustainability in media in 2018, yet in 2022 sustainability in Film, TV and Media is still in its infancy, while other sectors are taking strong measures to reduce their carbon footprint. This report synthesis Elkington’s’ triple bottom line with Porters’ value chain in Film, TV, and media production as framework to teach sustainability. Research highlights the importance of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the sector and underscores Green Production strategies that reduce the carbon footprint. Research reveals that the sector has the unique potential to change the way audiences perceive sustainability using Green Content strategies and highlights the sustainability problem in distribution. Results suggest that educational institutions in Film, TV, and Media must do more to integrate sustainability into their curricula to unleash the full potential beyond sector boundaries.
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This book is for the newcomer to the industry, the curious individual who loves storytelling. If you want to learn how to produce a complex short film project and all the people connected to it, then this guide is for you.The Creative Producer normally does not make the biggest headlines. Fame is more often than not, claimed by the Actor and Director of the film. But it is the Creative Producer who puts together the deals, finds the best possible talent for a project and facilitates an environment that allows the creative minds of cast crew to unfold.This is the true skill of the Creative Producer – find the story, get the best possible people involved and make sure they have everything they need to do their best
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Three graduates of the Inholland Master Leren en Innoveren (Zac Woolfitt, Iris Sutherland and Richard Kragten) each presented their master thesis in an interactive 'flipped' session which involved providing content in advance via a video for those attending the session. The session was well attended and generated an interesting and constructive discussion.
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In media audience research we tend to assume that media are engaged with when they are used, however ‘light’ such engagement might be. Once ‘passive media use’ was banned as a reference to media use, being a media audience member became synonymous with being a meaning producer. In audience research however I find that media are not always the object of meaning making in daily life and that media texts can be hardly meaningful. Thinking about media and engagement, there is a threefold challenge in relation to audience research. The coming into being of platform media and hence of new forms of media production on a micro level that come out of and are woven into practices of media use, suggests that we need to redraft the repertoire of terms used in audience research (and maybe start calling it something else). Material and immaterial media production, the unpaid labour on the part of otherwise audience members should for instance be taken into account. Then, secondly, there is the continuing challenge to further develop heuristically strong ways of linking media use and meaning making, and most of all to do justice, thirdly, to those moments and ways in which audiences truly engage with media texts without identifying them with those texts.
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Introduction to a special issue of the IASPM journal. This special issue on fan studies aims to build a bridge with the study of popular music in order to inspire further investigation of music fandom.
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Het proefschrift gaat in op de werkwijze, het belang en het gedrag van muziekuitgevers, de pioniers van de muziekindustrie. Sinds de uitvinding van de boekdrukkunst geven muziekuitgevers composities uit op bladmuziek of licenseren zij deze. Door het succes van de grammofoonplaat werden de uitgevers een eeuw geleden uit het centrum van de macht van de muziekindustrie verdreven door de platenmaatschappijen die de geluidsopnames van muziek gingen exploiteren. De verborgenheid van de muziekuitgeversbranche komt enerzijds voort uit de onduidelijke positie van de muziekuitgevers in de culturele waardeketen van de muziekindustrie en anderzijds door de historische wirwar aan rechten. Opvallend genoeg is er weinig wetenschappelijke aandacht geweest voor deze industrie zeker in tegenstelling tot de aandacht voor de platenmaatschappijen, dit onderzoek hoopt daar verandering in te brengen. Machtige positie door digitalisering van muziek Het proefschrift van Wierda is een longitudinale studie die een periode van honderd jaar omvat. Muziekuitgevers verwerven een deel van het auteursrecht van een liedje, indien de componist muziek wenst uit te geven. Door deze wijze komt de uitgever voor de componist op zodat ze beide inkomen uit het intellectueel eigendom vergaren als of het liedje op plaat verschijnt of live ten gehore wordt gebracht. Muziekuitgevers wensen mede ten behoeve van de componist, inkomen te vergaren. Waar ook maar muziek geconsumeerd wordt eisen zij het recht van gebruik op. Dit kan zijn bij live entertainment, televisie, internet en games. Het bijzondere volgens het proefschrift is dat door de digitalisering na honderd jaar dynamiek de uitgevers weer in belang toenemen, doordat de handel in de fysieke geluidsdragers van de platenmaatschappijen tanende is. De muziekindustrie neigt naar een ‘rights industry’ waarin qua werkwijze de uitgevers al eeuwen in gespecialiseerd zijn. De huidige uitgevers kenmerken zich dan ook als ondernemers die weer dichter tegen de componist aankruipen en zich op deze wijze dynamisch profileren in de nieuwe tijd.
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Audience studies is not the vibrant field it was in its 1980s and early 1990s heyday. Cultural studies today has a more balanced interest in production, audiences and texts. A renewed focus in audience studies on everyday meaning production, identity and relations of power could benefit from recent developments. Theorization of power especially has benefited from recent work on governmentality. In accord with recent work on ‘affect’, there is an opportunity for renewed vitality and urgency. Was audience studies damaged beyond repair by the charge that it is a populist field that celebrates rather than interrogates everyday media culture? Could a concept such as cultural literacy provide a bridge to help re-establish the critical credibility of audience studies or would it burden this field with its implied notions of standards, distinction and cultural exclusion? The article discusses recent work with youth audiences to inquire into the possibilities of ‘critical literacy’. It proposes taking up questions and insights raised by affect theory, to merge appreciation, criticism and understanding of the forces that drive (the possibility of) change, and to embed critical literacy in cultural studies’ ongoing interest in the construction of (cultural) citizenship.
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The moment of casting is a crucial one in any media production. Casting the ‘right’ person shapes the narrative as much as the way in which the final product might be received by critics and audiences. For this article, casting—as the moment in which gender is hypervisible in its complex intersectional entanglement with class, race and sexuality—will be our gateway to exploring the dynamics of discussion of gender conventions and how we, as feminist scholars, might manoeuvre. To do so, we will test and triangulate three different forms of ethnographically inspired inquiry: 1) ‘collaborative autoethnography,’ to discuss male-to-female gender-bending comedies from the 1980s and 1990s, 2) ‘netnography’ of online discussions about the (potential) recasting of gendered legacy roles from Doctor Who to Mary Poppins, and 3) textual media analysis of content focusing on the casting of cisgender actors for transgender roles. Exploring the affordances and challenges of these three methods underlines the duty of care that is essential to feminist audience research. Moving across personal and anonymous, ‘real’ and ‘virtual,’ popular and professional discussion highlights how gender has been used and continues to be instrumentalised in lived audience experience and in audience research.
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