Production

The process of making a media product, including planning, filming and editing.

The creation of a media product, including planning, making and editing it.

Production means creating the product: planning it, making its content and editing it into its finished form. Distribution means supplying it to the outlets or services through which people can access it. Circulation concerns how it becomes available and moves among audiences, whether through newspaper sales or digital sharing.

The process of developing and making a media product, including planning, filming and editing.

If asked for two advantages of conglomerate production, give distinct, precise benefits. ‘More money for advertising’ is clearer than ‘advertising’, and should not be repeated as ‘a bigger marketing budget’.

For a personnel question, connect a named person's role to production or marketing. Personnel includes people behind the camera as well as performers.

For a personnel question, link a named person to an effect on production or marketing. Naming Ken Loach without explaining his influence is not enough.

The process of constructing a media product, including the work involved in planning, recording, writing, designing and editing it.

Production means constructing the product. Distribution concerns how it is delivered to audiences, including its release and marketing. Circulation concerns how it spreads among audiences.

The process of making a media product. In film, this includes developing the project, preparing the shoot, filming and completing the edit, sound and visual effects.

The process of making a media product, including writing, casting, filming and editing.

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