About Me
- Frank Battiston
- I am a citizen of the world. I believe every culture adds meaning and power to everything they do as it contributes to our world's development. I was born and raised in Colombia, South America. I began to study and develop as a filmmaker in Madrid, Spain and continued to grow as a professional in the United States. I believe filmmaking is not a job, but a life style that triggers passion and gives meaning to my life and the life of others. I am a versatile filmmaker for I believe my craft is not only one of the most beautiful art forms humanity provides to the world, but also it is a mass influence business that changes every day. It is intriguing for me how this business impacts the world's economy and how it moves across multiple platforms: the big screen, TV, and the internet. Thus, I contribute to filmmaking in the creative aspect as a director, but also in the business aspect as a producer. Ultimately, this is my goal: I am here to network and get to know you, work with you, and build a better world through our craft.
Friday, February 25, 2011
THE MPAA
In my research to extend my knowledge about the different networks in the film industry, I was amazed at the format of the new MPAA website. The site is easy to access, comfortable, and easy to understand. The beauty is that it descriptively explains and relates different aspects such as film ratings, content protection, policy and research, and it also provides news and research for parents. These are all distributed in tabs that allow you to easy access other menus.
Also, the website provides with short cuts that highlight as soon as you pass your cursor over them. Options such as film rating search, movies and TV shows online search, copy right information, movies-economy relations, resources for parents, and news which involve press releases, MPAA insider news, and media contacts.
The film ratings section explains it is a designed system to allow parents to decide whether or not they should let their children watch a specific type of content. It further describes that ratings are assigned by an independent board of parents with no past affiliation to the movie business. Their job is to rate each film as they believe a majority of American parents would rate it. It provides menus which you can use to access movies with different ratings, the meaning of such ratings, red carpet ratings, and movie advertising.
It is important to see how the MPAA is designed to respect the audience for it is considered irrevocably important when it comes to motion picture sales. I learned the MPAA is an entity that bridges this industry with its audience. It is a conglomerate of studios interested in connecting with its audience and further expanding their knowledge about ratings, content availability, and copyrights.
The movies online section shows us the different players, legal video playing sites, and emphasizes in information such as content theft, piracy reporting, and its relationship with higher. This leads me to think the MPAA is interested in maintaining more than 2.4 million jobs in the industry by informing people where to watch content online without breaking copyright law. Their mission is also to make young adults in colleges to understand their objective of delivering high quality and legal content they can use for their education and of course stay out of trouble.
The copyright or content protection section emphasizes in their mission to protect artists and creations alike. Their aim is to maintain like I said before those 2.4 industry jobs in the United States and to facilitate people content without having to recur to piracy by allowing distributors to use controlled online resources. This page is pretty much similar to the movies online section. It delves with copyright law but explains in depth their pursuits to create public awareness of the issue.
Also, the MPAA gives you an analysis based on the impact that motion pictures give to the US economy. Here, they distribute the information across tabs which emphasize the state, the gross income, and the amount of people employed within the industry.
Subsequent to that tab, there are the resources for parents and news sections. In these sections, parents have access to resources that help them avoid the dangers of online environment. Furthermore, they have access to global press releases and local news about the MPAA.
These pages are designed to give parents the freedom to choose for themselves and learn about content restriction resources such as webpages and articles which educate in the matter.
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