Essay Question 3

How does convergence affect the way in which we consume films?

Convergence could affect the way in which we consume the films we watch in many ways, for example though the convergence of the film industry and the industry of the Internet, people are beginning to watch the films on the net creating piracy which is illegal. this is changing the ways in which we watch these films as people are not wanting to go to the cinema anymore because of constantly rising prices and instead finding the film on the internet and watching it through there. This could reflect the way convergence could be seen as a bad affect of convergence through the film industry. A positive could be that merchandising industry could be made from the film creating good amounts of revenue and therefore this could be seen as a good convergence. Overall i believe convergence creates good and bad affects and therefore convergence could never be seen as one of these...