Creative Communication LCC1013

Introduction
This report is constructed on 23 February of 2010 by a group of students from Creative Communication group MC101. The report concerns of pirated movies industry in Malaysia. The main aim of this report is to carry out a research to identify the factors that lead to the continuity existence of pirated movies in Malaysia.
In the report, the findings describe about the current state of pirated movies such as the main requirements in the market and the problems it has caused to our country from different aspects. Following these findings, research will be carried out to identify the factors that support the continuity of pirated movies industry in Malaysia and to collect the public recommendations of possible solutions towards this issue.
Findings will be obtained through a few methods which include internet sources, encyclopedia and interview. Internet sources such as articles and news relating to the subject will be used as references to assist the writing of the findings as well as numerical data and graphical data from encyclopedia websites. Interview is carried out through questionary paper in which questions regarding pirated movies industry are written. A number of 50 students from different faculty and level of education are randomly selected from the University of Multimedia to fill the questionaire.

This is my draft for part of the review. The draft below is about the effects caused by the existence of pirated movie in the market.

Effect Of The Existence of Pirated Movie

The movie piracy is growing in some countries though it has disadvantages to the economy in a whole.

On the movie creation, producers are expecting a good earning for the movie they produce according to the amount of money they'd spent in creating it, however the selling of pirated movie reduced the amount of money they get. In the long term it means the reduced budget for newer movie which often means a lower quality movie, worse animations, and all to reduce the budget due the past movie didn't gain much in return, in short it's destroying the movie industry slowly.

This impact may be even worse in the case of newcomers, as they begin their debut they were basically on the low financial and due they're new they will probably have to sell their movie cheaper and so the piracy will reduce it even more. This fact may discourage them to make more movies thus killing their spirit of creation. This is very disappointing cause they may have talents and be able to make a high quality movie in many aspects like stories, animations, etc.

The "good" aspects pirated movie has is that it gives easier access to get a hard-to-get movie like old movies for example and people can watch their favourite movies anytime they want.

In the case of developing countries where the majority of the population aren't wealthy, the pirated movie provide them with cost effective movies and be able to save money due reason that it's cheaper.

And at the opposite of the dying movie industry, the movie piracy provides employment to people in the developing countries. Though with the dying movie industry itself, the movie piracy industry will eventually go down along with it cause they basically can't create movie themselves.

Post by: Hui Ching

Hey guys. I had write a rough draft about a part of the research, the reason why the public prefer a pirated movie VCD if compared to the original VCD. Just feel free to correct any mistake within the draft.^_^

The Reason Why The Public Prefer Pirated Movie VCD Compared To Original Movie VCD

Nowadays, existences of the pirated video compact disc (VCD) in the market are not anything new to the public. Their traces can be easily found beside the crowded streets, within the night markets, and inside a small, narrow shop in the corner of the street. For examples, at Kuala Lumpur’s Petaling Street, the pirated VCD sellers are doing their trades by promote the pirated VCD to the people passed by. On the other side, the news reported about the arrest of the offenders who produce and sell pirated VCD are often exist on the newspaper. It seems to be the government is taking action on this piracy issue. However, the traces of the pirated VCD are still available in the market. The public still can easily get a copy of the pirated VCD of a newly release movie down the streets and within the night markets.

So, why the pirated VCD still exist in the market? The existence of pirated VCD in the market is because from the vision of the public, there are a lot of attractive points for them to purchase a pirated movie VCD rather than buying an original released movie VCD. The most attractive points and also the main reason for the public to purchase a pirated movie VCD is its cheap and attractive price. To get a pirated movie VCD, only a few ringgits is needed. However, to own a newly released original movie VCD, four to five times of the pirated movie VCD price is needed. Sometimes, the price of the pirated movie VCD is almost equal to the price of a movie ticket. So, it is not surprise for the public to purchase a pirated movie VCD rather than purchase an original VCD.

Besides, the availability of the pirated movie VCD is also contributes to the existence of the pirated VCD. The public can easily get a pirated movie VCD along the street and within the night market. In some small town, the pirated VCD stall is the only sources for the residents to get a movie VCD due to the absence of a shop which sell original VCD. The pirated VCD is like a wave which floods over the market. Due to its high availability and attractive price, almost nine out of the ten of the public own a pirated movie VCD.

For some big productions which grab the attendance of the public, the pirated version always released as soon as the movie released in the cinema of a particular area. Sometimes, the pirated version movie VCD even exists in the market before the movie released in the cinema within a particular region. For part of the public, queue up in front of the counter of the cinema for a newly released hot movie ticket is a troublesome yet irritating act. So they would prefer to buy a pirated version movie VCD and watch it at home inside their comfortable sofa.

In a conclusion, even though the public felt guilty in selling or owning any pirated VCD, but part of them still prefer pirated VCD compared to original released VCD as pirated VCD meet the ideal condition of the public as an entertainment in their daily life, which is affordable , high availability and released in trend. In the other hand, pirated movie VCD just exists around the public wherever and whenever the public want to have it.

Post by: Zh Wei

Hi,

This is our group's first rough idea about the topic choosen, ANIMAL TEST.



However, after some discussions, we decided to change the topic. The image below is the scanlation of our new topic mind map. Our new title is "Why Privated Movie Stil Exist?".



*upload by Zh Wei

hei,maybe we also can do our topic as"how facebook game change our life?"
because nowadays people are too Addicted to facebook game(Farm ville,Mafia Wars,Restaurant city) until they cannot concentrate on they work/study.

Let’s discuss about impact of cinema, shall we?

Impact of cinema

Cinemas are meant for entertainment. However, they create huge impact on the society, and especially the youths are influenced by it. Youngsters tend to imitate the actions / behaviours and the lifestyles of the heroes and heroines in the movie without considering what the risk is. The type of movie one watches affects their personality and way of thinking. Good movie sets a good example and motivate youths to use their energy in a right way. On the other hand, if a movie contains content such as violence, it can slowly push the youth to the negative direction.

But it all depends upon how the viewers grab things or understand it. =)

What do you guys think?

By HuiChing