As a Mainstream film Avatar relies heavily on the entertainment value of their audiences in order for it to be successful; Avatar ingeniously conforms to its audience’s expectations whilst enhancing the film with its unique and remarkable visual qualities. A major factor in the success of a film is its visual qualities that it beholds. The film Avatar as a 3-D motion picture significantly pioneered a new era in stunning visual films. Avatar is loaded with luminescent camera shots endlessly detailing the stunning planet of Pandora, the sensory images of binding luminous colors depicting the nature and environment of the planet. Throughout the film there is a beautifully illustrated scene of unity under the Na’vi tree, the Na’vi people are combined in unity and is a remarkable scene, the visual quality of white fluorescent tree colors and shot types of this scene helps assist the feeling of Unity that James Cameron is trying to evoke.
Whatever your taste may be, as an audience, your role is to critique a film based on what you see on the screen and decide if your entertainment was worth the eight dollar ticket. A successful movie producer’s ideal vision, whatever his style may be, is to create a production that the audience will enjoy and satisfy its viewers. The novel, The Catcher in the Rye, has many connections to the era and generation of the society we live in today. Given a movie producer in present day was to create the book into a film, one would produce a movie coordinated to reach the audience of the current era while still respecting the culture of the time the book was written. A producer seeks to fulfill the viewers of its generation and society so he would modernize aspects of The Catcher in the Rye to be sure to make a successful film The time period of the book would still be used in the film, as done before in movies such as The Great Gatsby, to create and maintain the theme or plot setting for the movie.
While one can’t neglect the threat from new entry, the competitive rivalry mainly comes from traditional films (alliance exits at the same time), from high supplier and customer bargaining power and from substitutes such as internet, DVD, sports events and big screen Televisions. IMAX practiced a focused differentiation strategy by targeting the niche market of large format film segments originally and later expanded its targeted segments. Overall, it has been focusing on the “blue ocean” in the film in-dustry by building its unique resources and consolidating its competitive advantage. IMAX’s financial performance was not satisfactory. For two consecutive fiscal years 2006 and 2007, IMAX recorded nearly $17 million and $27 million in net income loss respectively and the same $160 million in debt for both years.
* * * * * * * * * * Coca Cola’s Strategic Plan SWOTT Analysis Part II * BUS 475 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Coca Cola’s Strategic Plan SWOTT Analysis Part II * In today’s business world strategic planning is very important. Proper strategic planning determines the success of a company’s future. A company develops a strategic plan by first performing a SWOTT analysis on the business. A SWOTT analysis is a situation analysis of an organizations internal strength, the weaknesses of the company, the external opportunities and threats of the company, and the trends of a company (Business Dictionary, 2011). The Coca Cola Company is successful because it performs a SWOTT analysis on the company to pinpoint the areas the company should focus on to improve the organization.
Final Strategic Plan-Music, Movies, & More LaToya Mason BUS 475-Integrated Business Topics April 29, 2012 David Akerman Final Strategic Plan-Music, Movies, & More Strategic Plan: Part I: Conceptualizing a Business Companies must have a solid foundation that is essential to success. They must have good management skills such as planning, leading, organizing, and controlling or as they are called in the business world the four functions of management. Music, Movies & More is built on a solid foundation. Music, Movies & More can be one of the largest electronic stores around and will sell everything from DVDs, to music as well as computers to LCD TVs. Masons will implement their own management concepts using the four functions
Mangerial Decision Making: Tata Interactive Systems Simulation AMBA670, section 9050 Introduction Being able to make strategic decisions is important to a company’s survival in any industry. Despite the industry structures in which a company operates under, it is necessary to prepare competitive strategies for pricing and marketing. This type of decisions making enable and sustain a competitive advantage that makes a company competitive in its industry and it gives the company control in ways to minimize competition and maximize profit. In the year 2003, Quasar Computers started the first optical notebook computer, named Neutron. Neutron is about five times as fast as microchip-based computers and its rechargeable battery can last up to three days (Tata Interactive Systems, n.d.).
- Position To sustain success, the Marvel managers must employ the following marketing strategy: First and most importantly, it must convert its current, yet individual character fan base into an all-encompassing Marvel follower; effectively launching multiple and new character franchises drawn from its vast library of characters. Additionally, they must decide to venture beyond Marvels current business model and expand into more profitable channels as they are now in a position to fund more advantageous ventures. - Evidence As the case study indicates; the current viability of the Marvel Enterprises profitability depends solely on its long-term licensing model. As seen in its current success that is essentially produced by a minority of blockbuster films that they have licensed their characters to participate in. These include and are limited to Daredevil, X-Men and Spiderman.
Clayton Industries Inc. had built a successful business around window-mounted room air conditioners which it sold for residential and light-commercial applications. Clayton Industries Inc. needs to focuses on restoring profitability and ensuring its long-term viability to its stakeholders. What are the key benefits of Clayton Industries Inc. and what good strategy can be implemented to success in emerging markets? Using five analytical frameworks will help us to better understand this situation. PEST Figure 1: PEST Analysis of Global Trends – 2009 - 2013 Political * Government licenses/ regulations * Political relationship for government contracts | Economic * Higher Commodity imports-steel * Slow economic growth | Social * Brand Awareness * Marketing and Advertising * Social Media- Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Analyzing these questions for the easyGroup should give an adequate reasoning for adopting or rejecting the diversification strategy to the cinema business. Interesting questions for the easyGroup are “What can our company do better than any of its competitors in its current market?” and “Will we simply be a player in the new market of will we emerge a winner?”. Based on their past successes, the easyGroup strongly believed they would emerge a winner in the cinema market. The resource view (Montgomery, 2004) gives strong arguments for the reason why easyGroup wanted to diversify into the cinema business: easyGroup’s CEO Stelios Haji-Ioannou saw that the knowledge of yield management they accumulated over time in the airline business, gave rise to opportunities for applying this in other sectors as well. Even
Pharmasim Marketing Case Problem Allstar Brands Corporation is one of the leading manufacturers of packaged goods in the world. Allstar Brands’ Allround product is a market leader in the over-the-counter (OTC) cold and allergy remedy market. The brand has had consistent success in terms of profitability and sales. This has made Allround a critical component of the Pharmaceuticals Division’s long-term strategic plan. Currently, the division anticipates that the brand’s cash flow in the coming periods will allow the company to pursue new opportunities in emerging markets.