This week we had the treat of watching "I Love Lucy and examining
the techniques for media at that time period. It was my first time seeing this
show and I actually found it quite amusing. I would actually like to watch more
of it sometime. We where given questions to answer after we watched the show
and the answers to the questions we were given are similar to some shows today.
Modern day tv shows use the same lighting techniques and camera angles and know
when to put on a laugh track and crazy storylines to keep the audience hooked. It’s
crazy to think how similar but yet how different the techniques of “I Love Lucy”
and something modern such as “Two and A Half Men” are. It made me think of all
modern day television shows that are popular on the market and how similar they
really are. It’s almost like there’s a standardized checklist when making a
series for decades that directors just check off when making an episode for any
comedy type show.
We also had other questions to answer for a news article of
our choice. I chose a news story about an American helicopter crash in
Afghanistan since I’m already doing research on it for World Issues class.
Answering simple questions from the sheet given out let me open my mind up more
to the story and find out more about it quicker. I think it was an effective
way to dissect the story and could be used on any type of media if you wanted
to understand it better.
I agree that "I love Lucy" was a good and I also in joyed it as much as I would a lot of comedy show like stand-up shows and others on a similar topic as "I love Lucy", and I will say that there is a lot more product placement in T.V that people watch today than in the 50"s & 60's.
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