Technological and institutional contexts

Technological context: the equipment and techniques used to make a film, such as sound, colour, widescreen, digital cameras and visual effects, and technology within a story.
Institutional context: who funds, makes and distributes films, the Hollywood studios and independent production, and how the budget affects the kind of film made.
The main stages of production: development, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution and exhibition.
Placing the set films in film history: the studio era, the New Hollywood and the blockbuster, and independent and global film.

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