Prosumers

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Mina Fanea-Ivanovici
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Assessment And Testing ◽  
The One ◽  
Rate Of Success

During the current digital (r)evolution, consumer and producer roles have started to converge, with consumers becoming value creators and, to a certain extent, producers. This phenomenon is particularly enhanced on online platforms and social networks, especially in creative-cultural industries. The goal of this research is to discuss the role of the prosumer in the film industry in the context of crowdfunded projects, with a focus on the Romanian experience. Through an empirical analysis of successful filmmaking crowdfunding projects, the backers' role in the film production process is investigated. The eight cases analysed within this research represent the quasi-totality of the successfully crowdfunded filmmaking projects via Romanian crowdfunding platforms. The research reveals that the active involvement of backers-consumers into the film production process represents one of the most valuable rewards offered in exchange for the highest financial contributions, with the majority of successful filmmaking projects including it in their reward strategy. According to the research findings, filmmakers understand that, on the one hand, fans can financially contribute more by being provided with such an opportunity, and that, on the other hand, prosumers can use their skills and expertise and translate them into creative input, execution, assessment, and testing of the project. The author posits that the opportunity to become producer in a film is an incentive to financially (and additionally non-financially) contribute to the project, thus increasing the odds of the project to be successful. Such conclusion can improve the reward scheme in crowdfunded filmmaking projects as well as their rate of success.

‘They wanted a bigger, more ambitious film’: Film Finances and the American ‘Runaways’ That Ran Away

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-197
Author(s):  
Llewella Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Film Production ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Tom Jones ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Karel Reisz

From the early 1960s, the British film industry was increasingly reliant on American studio financed ‘runaway’ productions. Alexander Walker identifies United Artists and Universal Pictures as two of the major players in the trend he dubbed ‘Hollywood England’. This article offers a close examination of the role of two studios in the financing of British film production by making extensive use of the Film Finances Archive. It focuses on two case studies: Tom Jones (1963) and Isadora (1968), both of which had completion guarantees from Film Finances, and will argue that Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz, two of the key British New Wave directors, lost their previous ability to direct films to budget and within schedule when they had the financial resources of American studios behind them. It will analyse how, due to a combination of ‘artistic’ intent and Hollywood money, Richardson and Reisz separately created two of the most notorious ‘runaways’ that ran away during the 1960s.

scholarly journals Exploring the Modulatory Effects of Gut Microbiota in Anti-Cancer Therapy

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenyu Li ◽  
Xiaorong Deng ◽  
Tingtao Chen
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Therapy ◽  
Gut Microbiota ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Recent Decade ◽  
Normal Microbiota ◽  
Surgery Research ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
The One

In the recent decade, gut microbiota has received growing interest due to its role in human health and disease. On the one hand, by utilizing the signaling pathways of the host and interacting with the immune system, the gut microbiota is able to maintain the homeostasis in human body. This important role is mainly modulated by the composition of microbiota, as a normal microbiota composition is responsible for maintaining the homeostasis of human body, while an altered microbiota profile could contribute to several pathogenic conditions and may further lead to oncogenesis and tumor progression. Moreover, recent insights have especially focused on the important role of gut microbiota in current anticancer therapies, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy and surgery. Research findings have indicated a bidirectional interplay between gut microbiota and these therapeutic methods, in which the implementation of different therapeutic methods could lead to different alterations in gut microbiota, and the presence of gut microbiota could in turn contribute to different therapeutic responses. As a result, manipulating the gut microbiota to reduce the therapy-induced toxicity may provide an adjuvant therapy to achieve a better therapeutic outcome. Given the complex role of gut microbiota in cancer treatment, this review summarizes the interactions between gut microbiota and anticancer therapies, and demonstrates the current strategies for reshaping gut microbiota community, aiming to provide possibilities for finding an alternative approach to lower the damage and improve the efficacy of cancer therapy.

scholarly journals Global Transformations and Russia: the Sources of Confrontation and Prospects for Cooperation

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Dmitry Evstafiev
Keyword(s):  
Global Competition ◽  
Global System ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The World ◽  
Important Player ◽  
The One ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
Strategic Context

Increased and diversified tensions in Russian-Western relations and first Russian-American relations are not only а result of propaganda pressure. They also reflex a number of conflicting realities of the contemporary system of international political and economic relations that involve Russia as an important player. The role of Russia is especially noticeable now that the process of development of the architecture of a new global system is underway. Hostile or confrontational position of Russia could be a major risk as well as a factor that can change the strategic context of the global competition. The emerging system looks much different from the one that formed the basis on which the world developed during the last 30 years. In that environment a potential hostile position of Russia is regarded as a major risk. But the active involvement of Russia into most important recent global economic and political developments prevents the situation of surpassing the limits of the «non-zero sum game».

scholarly journals ‘Tuyul’: Transportasi Onlen Fiktif, Media Sosial dan Hukum

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Fajrianiamin - Fajrianiamin
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Symbiotic Mutualism ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Media ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One ◽  
A Company

Technology today cannot be denied is developed very rapidly. People compete to innovate and take advantage of this technology development to create something that has economic value. One form of these rapid technology development that is currently being discussed and massively utilised is the presence of online-based application transportation. In Indonesia, there are a number of online-based application transportation companies, one of the most popular companies is  Grab. However, this technological advance still have a gap to be cheated by irresponsible people who want to earn money  by breaking the rules through modifying android handphone (HP root). Thus, they do not have to bother driving to pick up passengers from place of origin to destination by onlinely ‘playing’ the aplication. In this way, incentives are obtained, something that can only be legally obtained with certain targets of a company with considerable revenue. Both driver ‘tuyul’ and police understand that burglary apllication is a violation of the law. However, there is a symbiotic mutualism between the two. On the one hand, ‘tuyul’ drivers are excempted for the offence committed by paying some money. On the other hand, police also get some money from ‘the release’. Such ‘peaceful arrangement’ can be done only if the case is not exposed to the media, especially social media  which release news is much faster and up-to-date. This indicates the significant role of media, not only to expose cases of ’tuyul’ driver, but also to make these cases go into the realm of law. This proves that the media is more respected than the police and money remains a ‘king’ capable of buying the law. Therefore, online trandportation companies should evaluate and improve the security sistem of their application so as not to be easily broken by ‘tuyul’ drivers. In addition, cooperation among Grab companies, police, and media in conducting raids since research findings indicate that media can be a controller in expressing this online-based application transportation crime.

Digital Film Production People

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Assistant Director ◽  
Overlapping Spheres ◽  
Digital Film ◽  
The One ◽  
Industry Professionals

This chapter presents a critical examination of the wider context of the film industry using Ginger & Rosa as a lens through which to examine the three main professional working frameworks that film industry professionals operate within - the network, the department and the project itself, the film. Drawing on interviews with established film professionals, the chapter examines these three distinctive, yet overlapping spheres, their intersections, their challenges and their moments of contradiction. The chapter extrapolates the organisational structure as specific to the Ginger & Rosa ‘project’ and examines in detail the structures and working relationships of three different departments–Camera/Electrical, Assistant Director (AD), Production and Post-production. These discussions draw out the complex interplay between, on the one side, a highly craft-based, traditional classical narrative film production, and, on the other, a production shaped by new digital technologies and interstitial work specific to the film-to-data moment. Through the mapping of a Personnel Structure and Working Relations model, the chapter examines how Sally Potter manages to nurture innovation and experimentalism within these seemingly inflexible structures through ‘collaborative’ and ‘transitional’ auteurism.’

scholarly journals Production Control in the Company

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 475-481
Author(s):  
Henryk Dźwigoł ◽  
Lucyna Firlej ◽  
Andreea Cipriana Muntean
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Production Control ◽  
Operational Planning ◽  
Economic Control ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
Control Production ◽  
The One ◽  
The Given ◽  
Production Plans

Abstract The aim of the article is to get to know the essence of production control in the activity of enterprises. This background presents: the role of control in the enterprise and its classification with particular emphasis on production control. Production control plays an important role in the proper course of the production process. On the one hand, it comes down to the preparation of production plans, creating cost budgets for the company's production parts, and on the other hand to control their implementation. In the scope of production control, economic control of production is taken into account, defined as a direct and indirect impact on the shape of the assortment- and quantity-related structure of production and its course in time and space to ensure, in the given circumstances, the best achievement of the organization's goals. Production control may refer to strategic planning, where the most important is to strike a balance between the flexibility of using production means and workforce, availability of technology and substitute technologies or operational planning, where the key task is to find and eliminate bottlenecks occurring in the production process.

Sexism, Stereotypes and Production Constraints in the Tanzania Video Film Industry

Imbizo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicensia Shule
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Production Constraints ◽  
Production Environments ◽  
Survival Mechanisms ◽  
Production Industry ◽  
Means Of Production

In the current neo-liberal era, it is pertinent to interrogate the role of the video film industry in transforming societies beyond patriarchal and bourgeois gender stereotypes. The video film industry is popular in Tanzania, and bongo movies appear to focus on socio-cultural and economic issues, which largely pander to stereotypes as defined by patriarchy. In this article, I investigate the claim that “there are no female producers in bongo movies”. The statement invites analysis on gender roles in the film production industry in Tanzania as well as the content of the produced films. Meetings, participant observations and interviews were used to collect data and transformative feminism was employed as a tool for analysis. The analysis forms part of the process to document women’s struggles in various fields of occupation, linking products to means of production. The findings show that there are few female ‘producers’ in bongo movies. Depicted as ‘just actors’, they are substantially influential and have exhibited extensive survival mechanisms in the constrained film production environments in which they operate.

scholarly journals Trends in the methodology of media consumption study in the field of cinema in Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana Igorevna Nikitina ◽  
Aleksey Aleksandrovich Nikitin ◽  
Bulat Ildarovich Yakupov
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
Qualitative Understanding ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Russian Film ◽  
Research Stage

The relevance of the topic is conditioned by the need for scientific understanding of media analytics and a qualitative understanding of its methods as promotion tools, as well as for the introduction of the research stage of media consumption into the film production process to popularize and further promote domestic film products among the Russian audience. In the Russian film industry, this experience is especially necessary within modern economic conditions. The need to ensure the financial success of Russian film products, which are subsidized by the state, has led to the interest in finding new approaches promoting and increasing the loyalty of the cinema audience, which is especially important at a time when only 1 out of 10 domestic films pays for their film production during the distribution period.

scholarly journals El paisaje en la cinematografía: la costa de Llanes (Asturias) en la obra de José Luis Garci

Liño ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (23) ◽  
pp. 159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Javier Millán Barroso ◽  
Carmen Rodríguez Pérez ◽  
Juan Sevilla Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Collective Imagination ◽  
The One

RESUMEN:En un contexto de creciente consideración del paisaje como un bien público, reafirmado por trabajos científicos, divulgativos e institucionales, el papel de la producción cinematográfica es relevante debido a su alcance espacial y sociocultural, en tanto que fuente de información, documental y pedagógica, y como vehículo propagador de representaciones del territorio con impronta en el imaginario colectivo. Este artículo analiza la imagen paisajística de la costa de Llanes filmada por José Luis Garci en El abuelo (1998), You’re the one (2000) e Historia de un beso (2002), como hito reciente en la divulgación del paisaje del litoral oriental de Asturias1.PALABRAS CLAVE:Paisaje, Cinematografía, Llanes, Asturias, José Luis Garci.ABSTRACT:In a context where landscape is increasingly considered as a public good, reaffirmed by scientific, informative and institutional works, the role of film production is relevant because of its spatial and sociocultural scope, as an informative, documentary or pedagogical source, and also for spreading landscape representations that mark the collective imagination. This article studies the landscape image of Llanes filmed by José Luis Garci in El abuelo (1998), You’re the one (2000) and Historia de un beso (2002) as a recent landmark to extent the knowledge of eastern Asturias.KEYWORDS:Landscape, Cinematography, Llanes, Asturias, José Luis Garci.

scholarly journals Investigating into the dual role of loan loss reserves in banking production process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirofumi Fukuyama ◽  
Yong Tan
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Regulatory Authority ◽  
Dual Role ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis Model ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Loan Loss ◽  
The One ◽  
Better Than

AbstractThis paper considers the use of loan loss reserves (LLRs) in the banking production process and treats it as one variable with a dual role. We establish a three-stage network Data Envelopment Analysis model to address this issue. Using a sample of 43 Chinese commercial banks over the period 2011–2019, the results show that the banks with the ratio between LLRs and total loans less than 1% have higher level of efficiency compared to the ones holding the ratio greater than 1%. The results show that when excluding LLRs in the production process, the efficiency scores are significantly inflated. We find that small and medium sized banks are more efficient than their big counterparts, however, the results show that big banks hold more than enough amounts of LLRs than the one required by the regulatory authority. When LLRs are excluded from the production process, it shows that big banks perform better than small and medium sized banks. Our findings show that less liquid banks perform better than the ones with higher levels of liquidity no matter in which way LLRs are treated. Finally, we find that lower capitalized banks, compared to the ones with high levels of capitalization, are less efficient. however, it shows that higher capitalized banks consistently keep more than 1% LLRs out of total loans.

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