ENTERTAINMENT AND MEDIA

The media and entertainment industry consists of film, print, radio, and television

PUBLISHING INDUSTRY

Publishing books, magazines, comics, references, blogs and research in both paper and digital formats

BROADCASTING INDUSTRY

Video and Animation

Broadcast television, video productions and animation

Audio

Broadcast radio and audio productions such as podcasts

Streaming Media

Digital access to media on demand

Social Media

Digital communications that allow individuals to communicate, share and produce media

Interactive Media

Media that has a user interface such as an app, software application or website

GRAPHICS DESIGN

 Product, Graphics such as billboards and posters and Fashion Design

ARTS INDUSTRY

Museums, Galleries and Libraries

Theatre and Performing Arts

Plays, music theatre, performance arts

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary writing which utilizes rhythm or freeform styles in the expression of thoughts and feelings. Poetry can be written about anything from the social to the political, romantic, and natural.

Music 

The purpose of music is to vocalize or use instruments to express feelings, thoughts, and harmony. The universal language of music underpins many world cultures and is a source of historical narrative storytelling. 

Literature 

Literature is comprised of the written word and associated with a collection of written work. It does not denote anything specific in its most barebones definition, only that the work be a written work respectively. Literature is further recognized as books, magazines, and plays 

Dance 

The performance fine art form of dance is the use of the body for expression of thought and emotion, with or without music. Dance is often pre-choreographed, rhythmic, sequential, and cultural. Types of dance are Ballet, Modern and Contemporary, Jazz, Ballroom, Hip-hop, Folk, and Performance Art. 

Events

Events that communicate to a large number of people that are related to arts such as festivals

Visual Arts

The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts also involve aspects of visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art.

Painting

Painting is a type of fine art that utilizes pigmented colors by applying them to canvas, paper, or any other flat surface with or without a paintbrush. Oil, acrylics, water colors, or pastels may also be used.

Sculpture 

Sculpture is a visual art defined by the artists shaping, moulding, and forming, shapes, and figures. The freedom of sculpture is the varied materials that can be used to do this such as stone, wire, metal, bronze, ivory, wood, plastic, clay, and other unique mediums to create structures and forms..

Crafts

The term "craft" denotes a skill, usually employed in branches of the decorative arts (e.g. ceramics), or in an associated artistic practice (e.g. lace-making). A key feature of crafts is that they involve a high degree of "hands-on" craftsmanship (hence the colloquial term "handicrafts) rather than just skill with a machine.

Some crafts that are practiced by artists working alone are sometimes referred to by the vague term "studio craft". Metal work, wood turning, glass blowing, and glass art are examples of "studio crafts", as is pottery - notably the studio pottery movement.

FILM INDUSTRY

The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution and actors.

PRINTING INDUSTRY

The printing industry prints products ranging from newspapers, magazines, and books to brochures, labels, newsletters, postcards, memo pads, business order forms, checks, maps, T-shirts, and packaging. The industry also consists of establishments that provide related services to printers, such as embossing, binding, finishing, and prepress services.

Types of printing companies

Printing companies can be categorized based on the type of customers they serve, the types of jobs they print, and the equipment they use. The printing market is often split into 4 segments:

Commercial printers

Commercial printers typically print a wide range of products, from stationery to brochures and magazines. They use a mix of machines, typically including offset and digital presses.

Most commercial printers work for a wide range of customers:

• Private persons
• SOHO (small office, home office)
• SME (small and medium enterprises)
• Government & large enterprises

Some companies focus on specific markets, such as:

• Quick printers – printing a variety of small jobs in small run lengths for walk-in customers and local businesses. Copy shops are one type of quick printers.
• Forms printers
• Wide-format printers – printing posters, banners, point-of-displays, and other large jobs on paper, canvas, textiles, and other substrates. This can be done using offset, screen printing, and increasingly large format digital inkjet presses.
• Direct mail printers
• Security printing – The segment of the printing industry that handles printing banknotes, passports, identity documents, driver’s licenses, vouchers, lottery tickets but also packages for luxury or pharmaceutical products.

Packaging printers

Packaging printers have specialized in printing all kinds of packaging such as boxes, cartons, bags, cans, tags, and labels. Packaging printers mostly use offset, flexor, or digital presses.

Publication printing

These companies focus uniquely on printing publications: newspapers, books, periodicals such as magazines or directories such as the yellow pages. Most printers have specialized in just one type of publication, such as newspapers. General commercial printers also print a significant number of books and magazines.

In-plants

An in-plant is a printing facility that is part of a company or institution. It typically only produces print for its own employer, although sometimes excess capacity is used for commercial printing activities. Typical examples of in-plants are the print centre of a university, the print department of a ministry, or the print division of banks.

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