Essay on
Marketing/Circulation
Disney is a conglomerate and one of the largest. A
conglomerate is a mixture of two or corporations which come under one main
firm. Disneys conglomerate consists of : Disney, ABC, ESPN, Lucas film, marvel.
Disney is part of the BIG 6. The Big 6 are an oligopoly. They are the 6 main
companies that produce media.
Jon
Favreau introduced the film via social media and also introduced it by
promoting it at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. They also released three teaser trailers
in the lead up to the releasing of the film in cinemas. Disney
have steered away from using animation and into more real life films so older
audiences would be more interested as they may find animations childish. For
example, Disney has done this with Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. Also with films like
Pirates and the Caribbean use more violent themes to attract older audiences.Disney
circulated photographs of paired actors with their onscreen characters, ESPN,
Snapchat to create a living poster, Kenzo.
The differences with the length of the trailer are
that the new one is longer as it has to fill the advert space on tv. Then the
atmosphere is strangly different with mood a lot tenser and every thing more viscous
and wanting to attract more varied audience. Back
in 1967, the ‘old’ jungle book used famous jazz singers to promote the film.
This was because the Jazz singers produced the soundtrack in Jungle Book.
However, for the new Jungle Book, they used actors to promote because if people
saw a famous actor they liked in the trailer, they would most likely go and see
the film. Comparing the posters between the
two productions of the jungle book you can see better technology to create the
posters, making them more realistic and emotive. Also, there are a range of
posters created in 2016, where as in 1967 there was only 1 poster of poor
quality. The new posters show all the different characters, however, if you put
them together in the correct order they all fit together to make one larger
poster.In the 1967 film, Walt Disney wanted
swinging sixties bands such as the Beatles to play the characters of the
vultures which is who they based the characters off of for the 1967 jungle book
film. Disney Vault. The "Disney Vault" is the term used by Walt
Disney Studios Home Entertainment for its policy of putting many of its most
popular home video releases of Walt Disney Animation Studios's animated
features on moratorium.The re-release of the
Jungle book in 2016 after the 2 previous release help to create the extreme
success that has been surrounded the film as Disney itself. The film was also
released onto VHS to appeal to the older audience.
Conclusion
To conclude, marketing has obviously changed. You could argue
that with its licensing deals with Kenzo and its focus on aggressively
targeting a secondary audience to build profits on the back of a family
audience who always turn out for Disney films you could argue that Disney have
grown smarter and more precise with their planning, however we must also not
forget that there are still lots of similarities between the two eras, for
example the use of stars and red carpet premieres to promote a film remains in
place as does the creation of character posters and trailers as the fundamental
basics of Disney marketing so to me what
is forgotten is that Disney as a
conglomerate have always been a master at marketing, it is why they are the
number one entertainment conglomerate in the world and yes some of the practices have changed but
the whole reason why there was new version of The Jungle Book in the first
place was because of the success of the first film, a success driven by an
effective marketing campaign.
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