www.amazon.com/Flowers-Attic-V-C-Andrews
I know what most of you are thinking who have already read this book, Crazy right. I chose this book because i believe that every book has a different meaning to every person. This book opened my eyes to how messed up life can be. The characters in this novel all were described with great detail making them come to life. The good thing i liked about the book was no matter how twisted things got or how evil your environment was hope was never lost. They prevailed into trying to live normal lives and continue chasing there dreams. I recommend it, I actually read this book later in life as suppose to most other readers who were introduced to it in there teenage years. I was 22 years old but even then it left an impact.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Media Impact through film.
Objective: Why did Avatar win best picture of the year for 2009 when there were tons of other better written scripts with unique plots that were not considered.
Hypothesis: It won best picture for the success and amount of money it made rather then for what matters a creative unique plot with great cinematography.
Methods: Random Sampling will be my method in gathering my data. I would ask " Did you support the movie "Avatar" due to the storyline or because of all the hype and images that were surrounding you in advertisements.
Prediction: People were not at all really awed by this creation but were more impressed visually then actually walking out thinking that it was a greatest picture of the year.
The Movie "Avatar" has been rated the best picture of the year for 2009. I believe this is based on propaganda through images. The images have been exposed in making it an environmental awareness type film allowing people to support it so they can feel better about themselves. This is done through the two- step flow theory and opinion leaders that support the cause for the wrong reason such as giving their opinion because of the success than to actually have an idea of what a good film consists of. This leads to social advertisement in giving bad opinions causing more support to a film that could have waited to be viewed at home when available for rent.
Visually it was exciting and new. I can support that as a viewer to the film but it was a typical and non inventive storyline. A little over a million was spent on advertising images which are found throughout the world in people's daily lives such as: Fast Food chains, large corporations etc.... As successful as the movie was we have not heard about any type of funding actually supporting any environmental matter making the cause false.
I believe that this leads to my opinion to the vote of the best picture of the year being biased and was more based in the amount of money it made rather then what should count A unique creative story line.
Hypothesis: It won best picture for the success and amount of money it made rather then for what matters a creative unique plot with great cinematography.
Methods: Random Sampling will be my method in gathering my data. I would ask " Did you support the movie "Avatar" due to the storyline or because of all the hype and images that were surrounding you in advertisements.
Prediction: People were not at all really awed by this creation but were more impressed visually then actually walking out thinking that it was a greatest picture of the year.
The Movie "Avatar" has been rated the best picture of the year for 2009. I believe this is based on propaganda through images. The images have been exposed in making it an environmental awareness type film allowing people to support it so they can feel better about themselves. This is done through the two- step flow theory and opinion leaders that support the cause for the wrong reason such as giving their opinion because of the success than to actually have an idea of what a good film consists of. This leads to social advertisement in giving bad opinions causing more support to a film that could have waited to be viewed at home when available for rent.
Visually it was exciting and new. I can support that as a viewer to the film but it was a typical and non inventive storyline. A little over a million was spent on advertising images which are found throughout the world in people's daily lives such as: Fast Food chains, large corporations etc.... As successful as the movie was we have not heard about any type of funding actually supporting any environmental matter making the cause false.
I believe that this leads to my opinion to the vote of the best picture of the year being biased and was more based in the amount of money it made rather then what should count A unique creative story line.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Media Autobiography
The media has been around my life since i was born literally. My families background starts way back in the 60's. My grandfather owned one of the first Mexican theaters in California which featured some of the most talked about talents in that genre at that time. In the 70's he bought a radio station again targeted towards the Mexican community called Radio Kaza. So inevitably my family still owned this radio station while i was born in 1984.This to me was my calling as to why I am so interested in this type of media.
As a child I remember going around the office with my mom and going into the production studio. If I was at my grand parents house the radio station would constantly be playing. I believe these habbit's lead to my constant need to be around music, movies and Tv for the most part. I love the entertainment part of media which makes sense due to my constant creativity and majors i choose as an adult student.
As for books, newspapers,magazine and internet use are all other sources that have been influenced through school at a later age. I was able to use it for school purposes and from there it opened the doors to making me more savvy and prepared to getting more involved at least for the internet that is. The magazines I would use for either gossip in the entertainment purposes and for a brief time I would use them to read about cars. In this present time I read them for health purposes to update me on new exercise and eating tips which is one of my common reading "Mens Health".
Television in my child hood was huge and i was big on cartoons and kid show so of course i would become a victim to all the advertisements that were directed towards us. I was a spoiled kid who would always have the most talked about inventions and toys targeted towards my age group. Media is around and huge and it can be used positively or negatively point being its every where and it will interfere into your life. You can decide on how it will do that it can brain wash you and make you buy things you don't need or it can be used to inform you on your present day in your community or all around the world.
As a child I remember going around the office with my mom and going into the production studio. If I was at my grand parents house the radio station would constantly be playing. I believe these habbit's lead to my constant need to be around music, movies and Tv for the most part. I love the entertainment part of media which makes sense due to my constant creativity and majors i choose as an adult student.
As for books, newspapers,magazine and internet use are all other sources that have been influenced through school at a later age. I was able to use it for school purposes and from there it opened the doors to making me more savvy and prepared to getting more involved at least for the internet that is. The magazines I would use for either gossip in the entertainment purposes and for a brief time I would use them to read about cars. In this present time I read them for health purposes to update me on new exercise and eating tips which is one of my common reading "Mens Health".
Television in my child hood was huge and i was big on cartoons and kid show so of course i would become a victim to all the advertisements that were directed towards us. I was a spoiled kid who would always have the most talked about inventions and toys targeted towards my age group. Media is around and huge and it can be used positively or negatively point being its every where and it will interfere into your life. You can decide on how it will do that it can brain wash you and make you buy things you don't need or it can be used to inform you on your present day in your community or all around the world.
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