Haley Kaelin | Movies

Psychology and Movies?

When Haley had mentioned the fact it was related to psychology in a way, it made me really think. Was it really related to two separate subjects that were completely different? After a long realization though, what Haley said was true! With the experiences involved to make the movie medium such a popular one, even in today’s time, psychology can be applied to it. With the aspects of how the human mind works, the experiences are something that we grown accustomed to in order to per say go with the crowd and be part of the trend that everyone has been in. It’s interesting to find out how these two things work out to keep the industry surviving, but not just movies itself. In many other ways, many of the other mass mediums today can still apply psychology to how that certain medium is able to keep on going in modern days.

Haley's post about movie theaters can be found here:
http://haleyk1.blogspot.com/2013/11/lecture-on-movie-theaters.html

Kate Hatter | A Cultural Underground No More

Not Affecting Just Mass Mediums

When Kate had mentioned about the cultural underground that wasn’t exactly underground anymore, I totally agree in which how the internet impacted it! As well as Harlem shake, many of the fads and music that seemed to be only know to a smaller public could now be discovered by a mass audience which messed up those who knew the things before everyone else since they wanted to be unique and not as they say “part of a crowd”. It really does become fascinating in the end of how the system of the internet is able to mass impact many crowds of not just media mediums, but also mass groups of people whether it’s just something still unknown or soon to be widely known.

Kate's post about the Internet Lecture: http://teawithahatter.blogspot.com/2013/11/no-cultural-underground-harlem-shake.html

Media Critique

TV News Stations: Blowing Proportions to the Little Things and not Showing the Big Things

Looking back of what the lead stories are for the TV news stations as well as Courier Journal during the month of October, the pattern still continues. In most cases, the four TV stations often had lead stories that have been not much significance to a whole wide audience, thus making it non-newsworthy. Their topics are typically not core/peripheral nor does it ever have that direct and lasting informational impact toward a large audience. Typically, the stories that they reported as news stories were local crimes of sorts or any accidents that had happen in the Kentuckiana area. Though they say they are providing local news to the general public because that’s what their priority, many other local issues could have been pressed as their lead story like the Courier Journal. Using the Courier Journal as the lead example, they have done a good job in making sure that whatever stories they mostly have are important to their audience, which is mostly local also. If the TV stations are able to go toward a large variety of topics and not just mostly crime and accidents, the substantial information they would be able to send out would be more newsworthy and a good aspect of what good journalism quality should really be.

Media Critique

WAVE: Few, but not Millions

Of the events that were told Theo Keith, a local couple was left to a giant hole in their backyard after a sewage pipe was hit when they originally had wanted to build a below-ground pool for their grandchildren. Though it is a feat in which they were not informed of the situation that they had an underground pipe that they were not told of, this disrupts a part of the yardstick of newsworthiness. To consider what makes it a newsworthy story, it would have to have a direct and lasting informational impact among the story. However in this case, this type of story was done in a way in which it wasn’t that newsworthy. Rather than affecting a large part of the Louisville community, it had only affected the couple themselves and how their situation is going so far with the MSD. Though it can be considered important to the Stefaniks, it is not considered something worth to be told about to the whole public if the situation will be fixed soon vice versa to a situation in which might affect all of Louisville for a period of time.

The story can be found at:

http://www.wave3.com/story/23963663/louisville-couple-left-with-large-hole-after-pool-contractor-hits-sewer-line

Internet

An Eventual Takeover

The final stage..well for now has finally come. A fairly new medium, the internet’s main advantage was that it contained all of the mediums itself! It was able to help the general public and save a whole lot of money, whether it came from illegal downloading, buying it for a cheaper price or simply finding it from a website. What didn’t really didn’t come into mind though was how it impacted on all of the media mediums. It was a thought that came up sooner or later, but it wasn’t that important to know at the time. Knowing the real reasons in which what happened because of the internet, it’s a bit devastating to find out that it made such a wide impact.

Everything being cheaper, faster and on-demand, it caused for cut profits. Everything started to be interactive which made it bad for them. With all of this happening in such a short period, many effects started to happen. Many real businesses are closing down or staying online because of the impact of the internet. Now before you know it, everything will turn toward the internet and all of the other mediums will simply blend in with the internet. Now that..that is a result that seems a bit frightening and sad all the same while. 

Television

A Slow Process, A Fast Effect

We all know by now that television had took over most of the other mediums during its time, but what the shock to me was during our discussion in class was the time it took for the television invention overall to become a major outlet for the United States. When first discussing about the whole situation that was happening along with another medium radio, it was the most bizarre thing I ever heard of! Compared to what the radio was at the time, it wasn’t much at all to what you would expect today. Now that it comes to mind, it created such an impact than it originally intended to. The things that TV did created more of a negative effect rather than a positive effect.

It kept people inside from social interests (outside), which could’ve led to a down toll to things like social services such as churches if they were able to watch it on TV instead. It then could also influence people on their spending habits and their decisions to what trends they would go toward seeing it on television. Seeing it on TV made it a delusion to what they would consider as real vice versa to seeing something in real life and saying it wasn’t real because of the fact it wasn’t seen on television. Finally, it had corrupted our politics systems. Really now-a-days, in order to get elected, you have be able to show all of these advertisements which require a lot of money. Lower and middle classes can’t go toward elections without that much needed money so it just depended on those who had rich friends or those who were already rich themselves. Overall, it was able to control how we did things in today’s society rather than almost 100 years ago. Although shocking at first, it has finally become something that we now see as well..normal!

Movies

An All-Time Popular Medium

A booming medium ever since its beginning, who knew that it was actually a medium that would demassify eventually? To think in the first place that movies would end up that seeing as that today’s top businesses often make a lot of money. Why is that though? It isn’t really something that you would think of as a medium that became demassified till now. The reasons why it still is “alive” do make sense once it was discussed in class. It seemed little since it played on a normal part of people’s lives but it really wasn’t in a way.

The social experience made it so many people watching it seemed like the usual thing to do. 

The overwhelming experience made it so that you could actually experience the thrill, the joy or many of the other feelings that you wouldn’t be able to experience in comparison to anything like home. The cultural experience was there so you were able to be part of that trendsetting group of people. Being able to see it first and able to say how much you either loved/hated it, it was something that you could feel proud about.

Altogether it was able to gain so much tickets being spent every week to allow the movie industry to live strong. The evolution from 1888 till now is one of the most interesting progressions that I ever learned about and hope to see more in the nearby future. Well done movies, for you were able to catch my attention!

Radio

A First Live Medium

The impact that radio gave upon other mediums during that as well as its impact today is really a fascinating topic. Originally thinking that radio by itself was all storytelling in the past and music now, but it was way off from what I had expected. The first live news medium, it gave news immediately to the public vice versa to the other mediums where you had to wait for it. The most intriguing thing though was actually what happened when it became less popular due to television. Instead of becoming almost extinct, it became to what seem like a better advantage than most of the other mediums. To be able to become fragmented and still surviving now, it’s an amazing feat to how they’re able to become something we still use today. Well of course, the general public still uses magazines and newspaper but it can never compare to what radio had as an advantage of:

•          Direct communication with the audience with immediate feedback
•          A faster, live medium