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Sunday, 28 April 2013
Coca Cola Covers Contest
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Consumer Role
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We actually
have rather large yet easy roles in being television consumers. We have to make
sure we don’t take everything we see on television as fact. Information that we
are being fed through that magic box could just be opinion or inaccurate. We
must realize this and make sure we do further investigating on a subject before
we take it into our mind as being a factual thing. Usually, and I am also
guilty of this, a person will see something on television and automatically
program it into their mind as 100% true. Not everything ever created on video
is true. I’m surprised that television doesn’t have a similar reputation as the
Internet. Most people know that anyone could make up a website about something
fake or post misleading information on any topic so it is usually not taken as
fact. Well any television company can decide to punk the viewers with a fake
event too. Look at the Bronswick Affair. That video really taught me to
re-analyze all types a media before accepting it as truth because anything can
be fake. Another example would be the war of the worlds. Everyone accepted that
as truth in the moment because everyone just assumed that whatever was said
through the radio was the 100% truth. We just need to make sure we don’t accept
everything that comes through the television as fact. This is an awfully big
task, but can be done by just sitting in a chair staring at a screen and
existing. Simple enough.
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Television Acceptance
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Television,
film, and videos almost set a standard for the way we accept ordinary things in
our everyday lives. The way we see people act on a screen can heavily influence
the way we act in our everyday lives. It gives us a feeling that seeing someone
else do something gives us reasoning to do it ourselves. For instance, one
might see a commercial on tv showing a someone putting on AXE body spray and
getting a bunch of girls so he goes out and buys some just to find out that its
cheap and not recommended for what he was going for. Also, television, film,
and videos usually portray the ordinary things we accept in our daily world in
a good light. For instance, gay marriage is being accepted more and more in
today’s society and in result we are now seeing more and more gay couples in tv
shows and films. Also, movies seem to have a protagonist that is every guy’s or
girl’s dream as a spouse and it sets the bar for everyone else. All in all,
television, film, and videos have a huge impact on how we live our daily lives
and sometimes acts as a reflection of our society, while other times they are
the opposite.
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Class Video
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This week in media studies we are going to be filming a
short video modeled after the popular tv series The Walking Dead. This project
will be acted out by members of our class and filmed by me with the help of
Brock Jorgenson later in the week. I’m kind of nervous as to how it will turn
out since we are trying to do a series knock-off of the show rather than a
parody. We don’t have a multi-million dollar budget, comparable acting skills,
multi-thousand dollar cameras, professional editors, professional costuming,
set designers, and all of that other professional things that make The Walking
Dead what it is. I think it would be much better to do a parody of The Walking
Dead where we could really have fun with it and make a video which is both
funny and have a serious plot line and would be an excuse for anything that
doesn’t seem very professional, but that’s just my opinion. We need to have it
all filmed in 4 days. Sometimes it has taken me up to 3 different days of
filming to get enough footage for a 3 and a half minute music video, so it’ll
be interesting to see if we can finish this video on time. I just hope that in
the end the final product of this project turns out to be time well spent
rather than a mistake!
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Sunday, 7 April 2013
Equality in Media
I personally don’t have a problem
with cartoons today. Sure, there may be some female characters that aren’t as
pretty as others and the main female character is rather old or attractive, but
isn’t every character? The majority of
male main characters are manly, brave men rather than some lanky, awkward guy.
I find that everyone is so skeptical when it comes to women be treating fairly.
If it is unfair for males, it seems to be overlooked, but as soon as something
doesn’t seem right for women, there is a line-up of complaints waiting. Almost like how if you where walking down the
street and saw a couple arguing and the women slapped the man, you’d probably
chuckle a little, yet if you saw the man hit the women it would be a much more
serious event. It just seems worse when it’s happening to women. Everyone being
treated equally seems to be a big topic these days. If a show has all white
characters it’s called racist. If a show has all white characters except one
black character that ends up getting killed is also called racist. If a show
has just one character of any race that has an extreme personality, such as an
Asian who is super smart, it is called racist. Modern media sacrifices too much
to try and not offend every single human on the planet rather than creating the
best possible show for a specific audience. Now I’m not trying to come off as
racist or discriminate against women in any way in this article, this is just
what crossed my mind upon reading this. I just think that people need to stop
criticizing shows if things aren’t perfect for everyone. The Walking Dead is a
good example of this. In season 1, the men dominated the pack and defended the
helpless females and helped by a smart Asian man. The show then got really
popular and with fame comes criticism. By season two, there was African
Americans, the women put in an equal effort in protecting the group and
themselves, and the Asian seemed to stop making elaborate plans and strategies
and seemed to fit in more. Plus I noticed that when an African American died,
they were shortly replaced by another. It’s still an amazing show, but I guess
they had to change to be more accepted.
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Tuesday, 2 April 2013
The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead
So last Sunday concluded season 3 of The Walking Dead tv
series and was it ever crazy. I’m not going to say what happened and spoil it
for anyone who isn’t up to date on the series, but man was it ever great. It’s
good to finally see some episodes where things actually happen as I found that
the episodes last month felt like filler episodes with not much happening. I do
always enjoy every episode though. I’ve been hooked ever since season 1,
episode 1. I’ve always been a fan of zombie games and action tv shows, so its
easy to see why I enjoy this one so much. The show has been a big hit everywhere
and has started a zombie craze. Three quarters of the commercials during The
Walking Dead are bunches of new games and movies coming out about the world
being in danger by some monster, rather zombies or aliens, and just a small
group left to try to survive. I don’t think anything will be able to compete
with The Walking Dead’s success. Only thing that sucked about the finale was
that it was that last new episode until season 4 starts this Fall. So now
there’s a long wait ahead. Until then I’ll just have to survive off of Netflix
or actually try having a life. Netflix sounds more appealing though…
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