Movie Industry
A term that describes an expensively made production featuring glamorous, highly paid stars.
What is an A film?
The hours from 8 to 11 p.m. during which many networks put on their most expensive programs and charge advertisers the most money for commercial time
What is prime time?
Type of video game genre that involves players in the creation and cultivation of certain worlds that are designed to be realistic. The idea is to see whether you can excel at accomplishing a task.
What are simulation games?
The day of the week that your final is on.
Monday
Eadweard Muybridge set up 24 cameras close to one another to capture some of the first film of this.
What is a horse running
Programming that comes directly to the home from a satellite orbiting the earth.
What is satellite television?
Type of video game genre with careful assessment of a situation and wise actions in order to win a competition or war.
What are strategy games?
The concept that describes a single episode that is used to test the viability of a series.
What is a pilot?
A release pattern consisting of more than 600 theaters with large publicity campaign
What is wide release?
A small box installed by Nielsen on television sets in about 20,000 homes that it has chosen as a representative sample of the US population. Tracks TV viewing.
What is a people meter?
Type of advertisement that asks a player to watch a short video commercial in return for extra life or a better weapon
What are rewarded ads?
The time that your final starts.
8am
A detailed outline of an initial pitch to executives of a production or distribution firm; if the executives approve of the treatment, they will probably order a script to be written
What is a treatment?
The strategy to which different levels of television programming are priced differently.
What is tiering?
The name of the time frame between 1978 - 1986 where Atari releases thousands of consoles, rise of the video game
What is the Golden Age of Video Games?
The type of video game genre characterized by their focus on exploration and story rather than challenges that require quick thinking.
What are action and adventure games?
When movie distributors force exhibitors to book blocks of their films.
What is block booking?
The concept describing the licensing of mass media material to outlets on a market-by-market basis.
What is syndication?
The term used to describe the companies that coordinate the production of video games
What are video game publishers?
The correct spelling of your professor's last name.
What is Kuchenbecker?