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It is Friday night, the sky is dark as can be, and a young teenager is trying to decide how he may want to spend the night. Today, there are many options to choose from such as either staying home and playing on the internet or possibly going out with friends and watching a movie in the movie theater. The first option may sound more appealing to a teenager since it is not as costly to them and they can enjoy the internet by just simply staying at home. This is unfortunate for the film industry, who is suffering a blow in the amount of revenue being brought in because of this. Luckily, the revenue gained by movie distribution outside of the theater, such as digital distribution and DVDs, keeps the movie industry from being in great danger. Dating …show more content…

Before ever filming a movie, there needed to be some sort of invention capable of doing this. These inventions were eventually created in 1891, when Thomas Edison created the later in 1895, when the Lumiere brothers patented a portable camera, a film-processing unit, and a projector that could shoot and process the film (Pavlik & Mcintosh 2014). However, the movies during this time were not used to tell a story like films are used for today. Instead, they just showed the audience visuals that everyone could see without having to sit down in a movie theater and pay to watch. This led to the emergence of the silent era where film producers such as George Melies and D.W. Griffith produced films with no sound or color, but these films were entertaining and told a story (Pavlik & Mcintosh 2014). As time went on, the film industry saw a huge change in the screenwriting and the way movies would be filmed with the use of sound, color, and the movement of production companies from New York to California (Pavlik & Mcintosh 2014). As these changes occurred, more and more people filed in to the movie theaters in order to watch these films. However, monopolies eventually arose in the industry thanks to the movie moguls such as Warner Brothers and Walt Disney (Pavlik & Mcintosh 2014). However, thanks to the United …show more content…

The easiest barrier to overcome will be the cost of movie tickets. In order to do this, the movie industry can convince theaters to lower the costs of tickets. Also, if movie theaters offered customers some sort of special such as discounts or giving something away for free, then more people will be inclined to go watch a movie in the theater instead of waiting for the DVD. The lower cost of tickets and the opportunity of winning something for free will attract more customers, especially the younger generation, to take the time out of their schedules and socialize with friends at the theater. This solution could also eliminate the barrier of piracy that exists because of the internet. Lower costs for tickets causes those who pirate to not take the risk and spend a little more money to watch the film in the theater instead because pirating a film usually results in bad quality and a large file. However, there will still be those who do not mind the large file and they will wait for better quality to be available to pirate the film just so they do not have to pay at all. In order to eliminate this, the film industry must work withe law enforcement and crack down on any illegal websites that provide pirated films. If they are able to find one person who pirates films, then it will cause a chain effect and cause others to give up on piracy. Lastly, the issue regarding

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