Week 13!

I personally though glogster was pretty cool. I liked it much better than a poster because I feel it was much more creative when it came to the images I used. The fact that you could put music on it was probably the coolest part. You can't put music on a regular poster. The thing that caused me the most trouble was trying to fit what I wanted to say in the little caption boxes. They weren't very big so I was very limited to what I could say about my picture and my song. But overall I thought it was pretty cool. I would much rather use glogster for our final project rather than just making a plan old poster.

MY GLOG!

Week 12!

Newspapers in the Digital Age
Newspapers will always be relevant, no matter if its online or in print. In the video clip, a journalism student was saying that there will always be a form of newspaper. So with that in mind, why do we need print? It not only wastes paper but if more people prefer to have news online then whats the point? Also, you need to pay to have the newspaper come to your house. If its online then you can get the news for free. Of course there will always be those people who love getting the actual newspaper but soon it will be gone for good.

Future of Magazines
Technology is now taking over entire companies. Apple is so powerful now that major magazine companies are falling under Apple's spell just to remain in business. This has both positives and negatives. A positive is that once someones favorite magazine joins Apple and they have an iPhone or iPad, they can virtually read their favorite magazine for free or for cheaper then it costs to have it sent to your house. The down fall is for people who do not have the technology. Also, if magazine companies want to stay independent, eventually, they will either fail or fall to Apple is a desperate need to stay in business. It's amazing and sad how controlling Apple has become.

Osama bin Laden!
I feel that Obama should release at least photo of bin Laden's death. It doesn't need to be the picture of him with his face blown off, even just the one proving that he is the one being thrown into the ocean. Personally, I can think of tons people who are curious about these pictures, I being one of them. If someone doesn't want to see these pictures, then don't look at them...simple as that. The fact that no one, except the people who were actually there, knows that he's really dead kinda freaks me out. I am one of those people who cant believe something 100% unless I see proof. Where is the proof?

Week 11!

-The structure and concept in American families has change a lot over the past century, a perfect example of this change is through the TV sitcoms we watched in class. Families now rarely come together and have wonderful family dinners together like they did in the show Leave it to Beaver. In the episode we watched in class, every night, Beaver and his family all gathered around the table and discussed their day and the problems they have been facing. I feel now, in this day in age, families seem to be too busy to all sit down and have a nice family dinner together. That is a main example of loss of structure in the basic American family. Loss of concept is another example of change. People have completely forgot the meaning of being a family and have dropped all sense of structure then. Structure and concept are connected to one another.

-The whole goal behind a sitcom is to make the show be relatable, so if someone can relate to the problem in the story, or the characters, people will be more likely to come back and watch the show again. Sitcoms are a perfect example of portraying real life situations but making them fictional because the fictional parts to the story are what makes the show funny. For example, in the episode "Six Degrees of Graduation" on the show Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Will is at the risk of not graduating. Tons of students can relate to that. But, to make the episode funny, Will has to perform with a bunch of little kids in order to pass, which would most likely never happen. So in order to get viewers to come back and watch more, the show needs to be relatable but funny.

-A half hour is not very long for any TV show. What with the ten minutes of commercials in a thirty minute show is not a very long time. So the TV shows have to conform to that short amount of time. With every episode they have the opening scenes to set up for the main plot. That usually only takes about 3-4 minutes so that way the rest of the story can be played out. For example, in the episode "The Hair-Braided Scheme" on the show The Brady Bunch, they happened to flow the opening scenes right into the plot so there was almost no time lost. Since the time is so short, the show finds easy anf quick ways to solve the characters problems or the show speeds us time and only shows us what is important too see.