Exam #2 Review Sheet

Intro to Media Industries

Exam #2

Spring 2015

Underbelly of Movie Industry (from the blog + class)
- Tricky Hollywood accounting
- Theater extortion
- Fake Reviews
- Copyright Battles
- Strangling Consumer Choice
- Script theft accusations
- Writers don't come up with ideas (producers do)
- Importance of the International Market
- Reasons why movies get killed (development hell)
- The ratings system
- The importance of merchandising

App Inventor Information (from appinventor.mit.edu + class) 
- Palette, Viewer, Components, Properties
- Blocks
- Built-in drawers; component drawers
- Event handlers
- getters and setters


Understanding TV Ratings (from blog + class)  
Nielsen Media Research
Rating vs Share (know that successful talk shows typically get low ratings but high shares)
Key Demo for entertainment
Key Demo for news
GRP = "gross ratings point"
HUT
TVHH
C3
Live + 7
Nielsen Family
Overnight Ratings (Set-top boxes)
Sweeps Months (November, February, May, July)
PeopleMeters
Diaries
Telephone Coincidentals

Sound Recording Overview (Info from Blog and text; we'll go over this on Tuesday)

Phonograph and Edison

Gramophone and Berliner

Nickelodeons

Cylinders vs. flat discs

Berliner’s Victrola

Impact of radio on recording industry

Importance of the jukebox during the Depression

Rock n’ roll’s importance

RIAA

“South Park” and RIAA

New business models

Organization of industry—talent, production, distribution, retail

Types of distribution 

Ownership of industry

Departments within typical recording company (A&R, sales/distribution, advertising, promotion, business, publicity, artist development)

Demo

Billboard Magazine

Economic State of Music Sales Worldwide (IFPI Digital Music Report)

Radio (from text and blog; we did not cover in class, but you'll need to know this material) 

Key figures: Hertz, Marconi, Fessenden, de Forest, Conrad, Sarnoff, Armstrong

KDKA
“toll broadcasting”
Networks and affiliates

Radio Act of 1927, FRC

Communications Act of 1934, FCC

FM radio

Television’s influence on radio

NPR

Telecommunications Policy Act of 1996

Terrestrial Digital Radio

Internet Radio

Mobile Radio/Satellite Radio

Defining features of radio

Three AM radio channel classifications (clear, regional, local)

Three FM radio channel classifications (C, B, A)

Popular station formats

Voice-tracking and compression

Sources of revenue (network ads, national spot ads, local ads)

Arbitron

General radio audience characteristics

Drama & Storytelling (Info from class and blog; we'll go over this on Tuesday)

Dramatic formula

- Exposition/introduction

- Rising Action

- Climax

- Falling Action

- Denouement
Stock characters

-reluctant hero

-comic sidekick

-nerdy girl

-wacky neighbor

-wise old man
Stock Situations

-bitter rivals

-dysfunctional nuclear family

-middle child

-team of three girls

-ill-fated lovers

Plot

Theme

Genres (tragedy, comedy, mystery, action/horror, reality)

Sports as drama

Articles/videos posted on blog that will be on exam: 

Lucrative stardom in China, using a webcam and a voice
New Girl lawsuit
MI: Ghost Protocol lawsuit
IFPI Digital Music Report
Understanding TV Ratings
What TV ratings really mean (Nielsen)
Radio Industry in Flux
Radio Revenue 2008-2012
Who owns radio in the U.S.