The competitive environment of Disney

 

How is the competitive environment of Disney changing?
What is Disney’s overall strategy for adapting to its current environment? How has Covid19 impacted Disney?
Whatever Disney’s overall strategy is, what do you think Disney’s strategy ought to be? Is Disney on the right
track? Should it focus more on resembling or on differentiating itself from Netflix, for example?
Why did streaming services including Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu develop their own original programming?
How would you summarize the cornerstones of Quibi’s business strategy? How did Quibi try to distinguish itself
in the marketplace?
In retrospect, where did Quibi executives miscalculate? For example, where was their resource allocation less
than optimal? What did they fail to understand about their core customer base?
To what extent was Quibi simply the victim of lacking the right killer content to take off? Did Quibi need a
different strategy or did it simply need a short-form hit series?
What is your takeaway from this story? What are the key lessons to be drawn from the failure of Quibi in the
media industry?

 

Movie Review: Leaning into the Wind

This is such a wonderful movie and if you have never seen any of his work, I highly suggest you to do so.
There is another movie called River and Tides which is equally engaging. In light of some of our recent
readings as well as other movies and TED Talks, Andy Goldsworthy provides a unique but sophisticated
perspective on beauty and nature. Please make specific references to this film in attempting to synthesize it
with other concepts shared in the Aesthetics text as well as other course content. How might his perspective
align with certain theories? How does his work “contradict” them? How does your viewing of this film expand or
build upon your undestanding of art and an “aesthetic encounter”
Please make sure you post is well-written and edited, uses academic language and provides evidence of
critical thinking and synthesis of content.
Here is the link:
https://gmu.kanopy.com/video/leaning-wind-andy-goldsworthy