INI100H1 Lecture : Film Lecture Part Three

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14 Feb 2011

School

UTSG

Department

Innis College Courses

Course

INI100H1

Professor

Vikki Visvis

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hollywood has given the formal and stylistic forms of a movie" norms. hollywood studio production emphasised process over product. cared little about artists they did not go around to create a masterpiece very rare for any american studio to invest tons of money in a single film. two defining studio production market control. Skilled specialists collaborate to create [a unique] product while still adhering to a blueprint prepared by management. (film art, p. 26) the producer was the management, not the director ensured that films were similar in quality and employees productive www. notesolution. com. In i115y: introduction to film studies the film production was plenty and steady director was only used to control the actors on set. technological innovation must be incorporated into the production process. The functional incorporation of technological change is called standardisation. vertical integration: control of production, distribution and exhibition by a single company.

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A film studio in Hollywood produces movies according to the function (yes, they can also produce fractions of movies... Think of half a movie as a B-movie or so.) q = F(K, L) = K0.5L 0.5 /100 (reads as K to the power of 0.5 times L to the power of 0.5 divided by 100). In the short run, capital (studios, gear) is fixed at a level of 100. It costs $4,000 to rent a unit of capital and $1,000 to hire a unit of labor (actors, stuntmen, camera crew, etc.) The Hollywood studio is doing its planning for the next year and can choose capital and labor.

(a) Imagine that you come in as a new manager and discover that the current capital-labor ratio is K/L = 1. If you spend 10,000 additional (small fractions of) dollars on hiring more labor, how many additional (small) units of labor can you hire and how much more output can you produce? Answer the same for capital. If you had to stay on the same budget, would you hire or fire workers, to maximize output?

(b) Still assume that the current capital-labor ratio is K/L = 1. How many (small) units of capital can you save when you hire four additional (small) units of labor, holding output constant? How much money can you save when you do so?

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Productivity and technology—Examples of innovations Recent innovations are increasing productivity.
Go to the Timeline of Historic Inventions at www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_invention. Scroll down until you find the inventions made starting in the 1940s. Look at them and later inventions. Cite five technological "home runs" (for example, the transistor in 1947) and five technological "singles" (for example, the personal stereo in 1977).
Which one innovation do you think has increased productivity and contributed more to economic growth.

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"Conventional wisdom" seems to indicate that technology results in taking jobs from people and resulting in lost jobs and higher unemployment. However, conventional wisdom is often wrong.

In 1811, a group of people in England protested the introduction of automated looms to make clothing. This group became known as the Luddites, and they believed that the machinery would result in the loss of jobs. However, the equipment resulted in cheaper clothing now people could afford more than one change of clothes! Since that time, people who oppose technology are known as Luddites.

For your essay, describe one or more technologies that impact production. What has been the impact of this technology? Your book notes that specialized skills can be made obsolete through change. What was the social cost of this technology?

Technological change doesn't happen by itself- resources must be devoted to the process. Should the US government fund research? What types of research? Discuss and evaluate industrial policy in general: should the government be involved in shaping the future path of our technology? Why or why not?

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