You might be interested in the comicbook series published online by Mr Wozencraft Jr.! In itself an illustration of how digital media continues to open media markets to Indie operators - the Dundee-based publisher DC Thomas (see wiki - an interesting company with a rather oddball history/outlook well covered in a variety of books) has had the UK comics market (US imports aside) sewn up for decades. Without the possibility of low-cost digital distribution/exhibition (and marketing) this would remain unchanged, given the high costs of printing, marketing and distributing a new comic book (in Media "barriers to entry" are one aspect borrowed from Economic thinking when considering media industries)
Remember, what you're currently engaging in would have been very different just a decade ago: you can create sophisticated, multimedia-rich blogs and self-publish your film work through YouTube, marketing it through the likes of Facebook (getting audience feedback as you go the same way, by inviting students from other schools to look and accessing strangers worldwide by posting on targeted forums too), even create and burn your own professional-looking DVDs! All very different from when Media coursework involved cumbersome VHS cameras and computers with less processing power than a typical contemporary mobile phone!!!
Feel free to add comments/pass on suggestions! There is an extensive archive of posts covering most aspects you'll need to consider - use the BritCinema blog too to help add depth of knowledge on the film industry to your posts + Evaluation. A full guide to the coursework + what to blog is provided, and you can look over past student blogs using the Media Blogs...blog!
Key Posts
- Analysing openings guide
- AUDIENCE U+G theory
- Blog setup
- CINEMATOGRAPHY low light shoots
- COURSEWORK GUIDE in 10 steps
- Eval OVERVIEW
- Eval Q1a CONVENTIONS
- Eval Q1b REPRESENTATIONS
- Eval Q2a AUDIENCES
- Eval Q2b DISTRIBUTION
- Eval Q3 DEVELOPMENT
- Eval Q4 TECHNOLOGIES
- Final Cut Pro X
- GENRE research
- IDENTS
- Pitching
- Prelim
- TECH tips blog
- TECHNOLOGIES tag
- Titles tag
- Working title(s)
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