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In 1998, in a paper in which he explained the mechanisms used in Hollywood to divide the revenue generated by feature films among different stakeholders, Mark Weinstein (1998) argued that only ten to twenty percent of these projects actually were showing a positive figure under the heading “net profits”. Ten years later, the United Nations (2998) also acknowledged that; as it was widely recognized, yet without mentioning any empirical study that might corroborate the use of such a precise figure, only 20 percent of movies were making a profit. Moreover, as this report informed, the surplus generated by these extremely successful projects was so large that it offset the cumulated losses generated by the remaining 80 percent of feature films. The implications of the existence of uncontested and long lasting belief about the high risks that companies in the filmmaking business have to face and overcome, should not to be neglected: when policy makers accept that the outcome of a movie is highly unpredictable and the gap in terms of income between a success and a failure can be substantial, they are also more inclined to accept concentration in this sector as a way to reduce risk and increase investments. Epstein‟s book “The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies” does not reveal what percentage of feature film is likely to pass the break-even point, nor it denies that filmmaking can be a risky business in financial terms. The main contribution to knowledge from this book comes from his explanation of the financial practices of the producers-distributors that are now part of the largest info-entertainment conglomerates and are the descendent of the major Hollywood studios (i.e. the „Majors‟). After reading this book, the reader will understand that making movies for these companies and for the conglomerates they are part of, is a rather stable, low-risk and very profitable activity.

ABSTRACT This paper aims to present a model for an interactive and hybrid digital TV focused on global services and applications framework. The model proposed aims to improve the hybrid broadcast-broadband model with features which run worldwide using a PaaS cloud service, browser applications in a global compliance and second screen scenarios involving pervasive computing. The proposed architecture and a development baseline analysis indicate the feasibility to develop a global interactive TV scenario.

SEMATECH has sponsored a “Test Method Evaluation” study to understand the trade-offs among the most common test methodologies used in the industry. This paper presents the results of the failure analysis portion of that project. The testing, reliability stressing, characterization, fault diagnosis and physical analysis results are presented for 25 devices including “IDDq-only” failures and “delay test-only” failures

The aim of this study is to compare the activities of Kabalevsky and Bernstein-two musicians who made a significant contribution to the musical education of the younger generation, reveals the principles, methods, forms of educational work and covers the subject of television programmes. In particular, the pedagogical and musical-enlightenment concept of the outstanding composer, scientist Dmitry Kabalevsky was widely spread in our country. Also, the achievements of American composer, lecturer, teacher Leonard Bernstein in the field of musical enlightenment differ in originality and are rarely used in Russian musical pedagogical practice. In accordance with the aim of the study, the following theoretical methods were used: analysis of the literature, epistolary texts, the repertoire of the concert programmes of the New York Philharmonic orchestra; generalisation of historical data on musical and educational activities of Kabalevsky and Bernstein, comparison of methods and techniques of music education, biographical method.

Leif Kramp untersucht erstmals umfassend die Gedächtnisrelevanz des Massenmediums Fernsehen sowie den archivischen und musealen Umgang mit der Fernsehgeschichte. Anknüpfend an die interdisziplinären Zweige der Gedächtnisforschung analysiert der erste Band die Bedeutung des Fernsehens seit Beginn des regelmäßigen Programmbetriebs in Deutschland und Nordamerika unter gedächtnistheoretischer Perspektive. Damit legt dieser Band den Grund für eine differenzierte Bewertung des Fernsehens als Medium des Erinnerns und Vergessens. Auf Basis einer breiten empirischen Erhebung bei zahlreichen Institutionen in Deutschland, Kanada und den USA befasst sich der zweite Band mit dem Status Quo und den Perspektiven der Verwaltung und Nutzung von Überlieferungen aus der Fernsehgeschichte. Kramp analysiert die maßgeblichen Problemstellungen, mit denen sich Museen und Archive konfrontiert sehen: von Fragen der Auswahl, Bewahrung und Zugänglichkeit von Fernsehüberlieferungen bis hin zu ihrer Präsentation und dem Medienwandel, und diskutiert Strategien für die Arbeit von Fernsehmuseen im digitalen Medienzeitalter.

Obesity is a common issue nowadays. The numbers of obese people are increasing every year. There are evidences that childhood obesity persists into adulthood. Predicting obesity at an early age is both useful and important because preventive ...

A abordagem transmídia se mostra cada vez mais atual e interessante por integrar todos os conceitos de produção de conteúdos em uma única metodologia e processo de criação e distribuição. Atualmente, e cada vez mais, as pessoas, o público em geral é um potencial produtor de conteúdo nas novas mídias, seja através de uma simples câmera fotográfica, um telefone celular, um PC ou mesmo do mais sofisticado tablet. Nesta nova dinâmica, o mercado (conjunto de: audiência, mídia, concorrência e demais agentes) apresenta novas plataformas de comuni-cação que, devido a sua abertura e amplo acesso, trazem consigo uma grande perda de controle do que é publi-cado e do próprio contexto originalmente planejado, pois a mídia espontânea e a interpretação do público criam novos caminhos para a história principal do projeto.A necessidade do mercado em estreitar relacionamento com seus clientes ou públicos (cada segmento de mercado é considerado um público diferente) passa por uma grande transformação, que se implementada de forma impul-siva e despreparada, no que diz respeito à análise do público-alvo, aos formatos de distribuição e à mensagem enviada, pode acarretar na perda de oportunidades e propostas de comunicação. O foco dos projetos transmídia é utilizar  metodologias e  processos mais completos e abrangentes, do ponto de vista das áreas de criação de con-teúdo, tecnologia, marketing e outras, utilizando as melhores plataformas de mídia para o sucesso do projeto. De forma resumida o grupo de estudos em transmídia, #EraTransmídia, irá apresentar seus conceitos com o objetivo de proporcionar o engajamento social multiplataforma para resultados positivos.

This article reviews research into why people watch television. Christensen (2003) proposes businesses are best understood by looking at the way they help people address their jobs-to-be-done. If new forms of television are more likely to succeed to the extent that they do the jobs now done by traditional television; then to understand how people will use future forms of TV, we must understand how viewers use traditional TV.

Talking politics online is not exclusively reserved for those spaces dedicated to politics, particularly the everyday political talk crucial to the public sphere. However, past net-based public sphere research has focused mostly on political spaces thereby neglecting an array of other genres. The aim of this article is to move beyond politically oriented communicative spaces by investigating political talk within the British reality TV discussion forum Wife Swap. The purpose is to see whether a forum dedicated to reality TV provides the communicative space, content, and style for politics that extends the public sphere. The central question is whether it fulfils the requirements of rationality and ‘decent’ deliberation. Moreover, the analysis moved beyond a formal notion by investigating how expressives influence the more traditional elements of deliberation. The findings revealed that Wife Swap participants engaged in political talk that was often deliberative. Moreover, it was a space where the use of expressives played a key role in enhancing such talk.

"In an era where communication technologies can move digital media at close to the speed of light, this paper explores the rupture between this technical potential and the actual model by which international television screening dates are determined in Australia. As the delays between overseas and Australian airdates can be as long two years, and average over six months, the rapid rise in both official and fan-produced online material and interaction relating to television series has given rise to a massive but largely unfulfilled demand for simultaneous access to  episodes across the globe. Using the case study of the critically acclaimed fan favourite Battlestar Galactica, this paper outlines some of the strategies by which producers build global fan loyalty — from official websites, blogs, commentary podcasts and online deleted scenes to exclusive webisodes and official participation
in fan forums. The paper argues that these trends, combined with the time delay between release dates, are the largest factors  contributing to the unlawful downloading of television via peer-to-peer file-sharing platforms such as BitTorrent. In attempting to maintain distribution models that began as geographic necessities, but have become exclusively political and economic decisions in an era of digital communication technologies,
this paper argues that media corporations are perpetuating a ‘tyranny of digital distance’ and alienating their own audiences."

Since l986, we have led extensive research on simulating realistic looking humans. We have created Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart that met in a Cafe in Montreal. At that time, they did not wear any dress as such. Humphrey's body was made out of a plaster model that has the shape of a suit. Colors on Marilyn's body looked like a dress. Hairs were simulated as a global shape and skin was a color. Since then, we have developed extensive research to simulate real virtual deformable clothes wearing by virtual humans. We also needed to have appropriate simulation of a skin and recently, we have developed new research on skin in order to decrease the plastic color of our synthetic actors. Also there was a need to simulate hair in an efficient way. New methods have been developed, both for design and animation purpose that are compatible with the clothes module. In this paper, we like to introduce our most recent research results on these topics. We are now able to simulate to...

Resumen:
Desde la teoría de los Usos y Gratificaciones, el objetivo de este trabajo es comparar los hábitos y razones del consumo televisivo juvenil en la pantalla tradicional y en el ordenador. A partir de una encuesta aplicada a una muestra de 213 estudiantes de primero a tercero de titulaciones de grado de ciencias sociales de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, se analizarán sus hábitos de consumo en los dos soportes, se examinarán cuáles sus formatos televisivos preferidos así como sus motivos de exposición para conocer cuál es el soporte que les proporciona una mayor gratificación. Entre los principales resultados hallados se destaca que la televisión convencional continúa siendo el medio preferido para una generación que, todavía, no ha culminado la transición hacia el medio digital y que el consumo se realiza de manera individual en los dos tipos de soportes analizados. Son individuos que realizan un consumo televisivo multitarea y en los que el visionado no les resta tiempo a la realización de otro tipo de actividades. Se inclinan hacia la televisión por Internet por sus características más que por su oferta y hacia la televisión convencional porque quieren entretenerse, informarse y aprender.



Abstract:
Since the Uses and Gratifications theory, the aim of this article is to compare habits and reasons of the youth television consumption on the traditional screen and on the Internet. Using a survey applied to a sample of 213 students from first to third of undergraduate degrees in social sciences of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, we will analyse their habits of consumption in the two platforms, which are their television preferred formats as well as their reasons for exposure to know which platform will provide them a greater gratification. Among the main results found, the conventional television continues to be the favorite for a generation that still hasn´t completed the transition to the digital environment and the consumption is still individual in the two types of media analyzed. Those are individuals who make a multitasking television consumption and that viewing it does not reduce their time dedicated to other activities, who decline toward television by Internet for its characteristics rather than by its offer and to conventional one because they want to entertain themselves, be informed and learn.

O artigo tem o objetivo discutir a transmidiação da telenovela Saramandaia da Rede
Globo. O remake de Ricardo Linhares, para a obra de Dias Gomes, foi exibido entre
junho e setembro de 2013 e expandiu a sua narrativa matriz em quatro narrativas
secundárias. Implantada nas telenovelas em 2006, a transmídia ainda é um desafio para
os autores brasileiros, já que o público alvo e a estrutura organizacional do formato
representam um elemento inibidor para a aplicação do fenômeno proveniente da
convergência midiática.

Cette étude a le but d’analyser les idéologies des spectateurs, la manière de percevoir des commentateurs de la représentation d’un nom historique au fond d’écran avec des images sensationnelle utilisant des sources appartient des différents classes sociales. Le Siècle Magnifique est analyse de contenu des commentaires dans un journal et un site officiel d’une série télévisée qui ont des idéologies différentes. Cette analyse concerne 20 commentaires choisis entre la date du 5 janvier 2010 et 10 Janvier 2010 du journal Radikal et le site: www.muhtesemyuzyil.gen.tr

Este artigo pretende, através de duas fontes televisivas brasileiras, perceber como o Egito antigo é representado e ressignificado pelo presente, destacando que essas mediações são cruciais para entendermos a visão de Egito que se construiu para ser lembrado. O fato de a televisão persistir em representar o Egito e os egípcios dentro de padrões orientalistas e eurocêntricos parece não ser uma simples coincidência e sim uma escolha política e de relações de poder. Logo, temas que são uma crescente demanda na realidade do nosso país, como a questão étnico-racial, serão aqui discutidos e problematizados nessas representações. As fontes escolhidas são a minissérie José do Egito (2013), e a telenovela Os dez mandamentos (2015), ambas da emissora Record, produções brasileiras, recentes e vinculadas à TV aberta. Mais do que uma crítica televisiva, ao problematizar as fontes citadas com o olhar
de historiador, tem-se a visão da História que, através do seu engajamento social, pode perceber a complexa relação entre televisão, História Antiga e atualidades. Pode-se e deve-se ir
além, percebendo o quanto nossas visões sobre o Egito faraônico estão atreladas a narrativas e discursos excludentes do tempo presente.