Production, Distribution and Exhibition

Production:

This is the process of making a film. Production involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story idea, or commission, through script writing, casting, shooting, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition. Production takes place in many places around the world in a range of economic, social, and political contexts, and using a variety of technologies and techniques used in the cinematography. Typically, it involves a large number of people, and can take from a few months to several years to complete, this means that a two hour film actually can take years to develop and create.

Distribution

This is the process through which a movie is made available to watch for an audience by a film distributor. Some channels of distributions are: Internet sites such as YouTube, home entertainment such as DVD it also may include digital distribution. The media content that is produced is then distributed by certain websites and viral networks to a range of viewers. Some other examples of channels of distribution are: Box Office (Sky), Cinemas, Netflix etc. 

Exhibition

Exhibition is the retail branch of the film industry. It involves not the production or the distribution of motion pictures, but their public screening, usually for paying customers in a site devoted to such screenings, the movie theater. What the exhibitor sells is the experience of a film  and frequently other products that connect to it such as popcorn and drinks. Because exhibitors to some extent control how films are programmed, promoted, and presented to the public, they have considerable influence over the box-office success and, more importantly, the reception of films.