INDUSTRY The Film Cycle

To know how my text would be distributed I need to understand how the film industry and media industries in general work.

The Media Students Book lists these six stages for any media production:

• development or negotiating a brief 30
• pre-production 31 
• production 32
• post-production 33 
• distribution 34 
• exhibition. 

The Film Cycle:

1. Production
2. Distribution
3. Exhibition
4. Consumption