...Influences of Visual Media Paper HUM/176 Professor Craig Bowler There are many forms of visual entertainment readily accessible to us; it has become the primary source of entertainment. Visual entertainment only has not helped shape American culture but also its values. Visual entertainment comes in many forms; whether it is reading a newspaper, magazines, or just watching television. Visual media has many numerous advantages as well as some disadvantages. Advisements are used to target individuals that find their product appealing. This compels viewers to buy the latest technology gadget or to wear the latest fashion clothes. Media has also changed the way we communicate and this has improved our culture in many ways. For example, in the recent years it has been possible to connect on real time with someone across the world through a computer. Now we are able to connect with people through a simple device like the IPhone 4S. The IPhone 4S lets a person talk through face time and allows them to see each other. Visual media has also made a huge impact on young children and teenagers. With all the new artists coming out changing the music and media culture the younger generation is looking up to them more each day. The younger generations view these artists as role models and want to be exactly like them. The music industry has changed media forever. Artists have introduced us to many different cultures...
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...Influence of Visual Media Paper Course: HUM/176 December 08, 2013 Jonathan Langdon Culture and visual entertainment media have an interrelationship with each other such as film and television. With the years going by, more television shows and movies have been constructed which has become in my opinion a reflection of our cultural times. Society and our people can see visual instead of having to read to learn which can give them a distinctive perspective that they may not have thought of on their own. As people view the visual entertainment they are being influenced from the way celebrities act, dress, talk, and so forth.. American culture has been shaped and influence by visual entertainment in so many ways. Entertainment has brought various benefits and challenges to American culture and changed how our people and society communicates. For most people TV is the primary source of entertainment back then and most likely today since technology has been updated, electronic devices such as iPads, iPods, tablets, and cell phones have become society’s primary source of entertainment. Television has also helped to establish our culture by making an impact on newspaper's and magazine's design and content and books. Sports have also made an impact on our culture. For example when it’s close to Super Bowl my family and I plan a big family brunch or meet up at the bar for a couple drinks. Or whomever out of my siblings that wants to...
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...In this paper I will be describing and explaining the interrelationship between culture and the visual entertainment media. I believe that there have been many television shows and movies that have displayed the culture of times in them. People have been influenced by these movies and television shows because some individuals can really relate to the lifestyles or actions of the people in these movies or shows. Especially with videos out there for learning things, I think that can really help with teaching people rather than just trying to get them to read materials to learn. It gives a different view of the materials and what is supposed to be learned. I think that these different forms of visual entertainment media have shaped American culture and its values by influencing people to act differently because of what they see on television or in movies. I believe that celebrities can have a large impact on how people say and do things. For example, Marilyn Monroe was a huge symbol in the past. She was someone who a lot of women admired and tried to be like. I believe that the social influences of the visual entertainment media are mostly positive because it is not always a bad thing to want to better yourself to be like someone in movies or television. Honestly, I think some people can learn a lot from visual media because if they just moved to America or where ever, they can watch movies and television to get an idea of how things are. That is just one example, there are just...
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...Influence of Visual Media Paper By: Marco Contreras There is a strong link, or interrelationship, between culture and visual entertainment media. Visual entertainment media has been used to depict, and to some extent, influence society and culture. Everything we watch on television, film and even digital gaming has influenced us in one way or another. We can easily see an array of examples of these influences. For instance, Marilyn Monroe was considered a huge “sex symbol.” Visual media created this image of her as the “ideal woman,” thus many other women at the time began to imitate her and her style. Another example is the singer and actress Jennifer Lopez. At one point in time, being “anorexic skinny” was what every woman aspired to be. This changed thanks to the exposure of Jennifer Lopez through visual entertainment media. Her “curvy” body became the “ideal” much like Marilyn Monroe was during her time. As such, many women began to change their concept of what is “sexy” or the “ideal woman.” Unfortunately, not all visual entertainment media’s influence on society has been positive. There have been saddening examples, such as the appearance of the television show “Sixteen and Pregnant.” Instead of learning from the show, young teenage girls began to imitate this behavior. Next thing we know, there was a wave of teenage girls getting pregnant across the country. We see all these music video where sex, drugs, and alcohol are glamorized. Kids think that...
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...The three significant forms of visual entertainment media that have shaped our culture are movies, television and video games. These three have been a staple or lifestyle in almost every American household. Movies have been around since the early twentieth century. At that time it was the most popular form of entertainment. This continued until the fifties when television was starting to make its place in American homes. As television sets became more popular and more affordable, movie theaters started to feel the impact, with the loss of patrons. In order to compete against television, movie producers had to become more creative. As technology started to advance, many producers started using this as a method to attract more people and stem the tide of lost revenue. As production costs continued to rise, a majority of film companies stopped making so many low budget films. It seems that each producer wanted to create an epoch production, which in general was quite expensive. This allowed their latest efforts to spend more time in development. Television was founded around 1920. It wasn’t until after world war two that it gained acceptance. Television grew dramatically in the fifties as both availability and affordability became commonplace. Color television became the boon of the sixties, although in the fifties certain programs and movies were developed in color. The seventies and eighties saw the development of both cable and satellite transmission...
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...(c) Bedford/St. Martin's bedfordstmartins.com 1-457-62096-0 / 978-1-457-62096-6 SOUNDS AND IMAGES Movies and the Impact of Images 187 Early Technology and the Evolution of Movies 192 The Rise of the Hollywood Studio System 195 The Studio System’s Golden Age 205 The Transformation of the Studio System 209 The Economics of the Movie Business 215 Popular Movies and Democracy In every generation, a film is made that changes the movie industry. In 1941, that film was Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane. Welles produced, directed, wrote, and starred in the movie at age twenty-five, playing a newspaper magnate from a young man to old age. While the movie was not a commercial success initially (powerful newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose life was the inspiration for the movie, tried to suppress it), it was critically praised for its acting, story, and directing. Citizen Kane’s dramatic camera angles, striking film noir–style lighting, nonlinear storytelling, montages, and long deep-focus shots were considered technically innovative for the era. Over time, Citizen Kane became revered as a masterpiece, and in 1997 the American Film Institute named it the Greatest American Movie of All Time. “Citizen Kane is more than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound,” film critic Roger Ebert wrote.1 CHAPTER 6 ○ MOVIES 185 (c) Bedford/St. Martin's bedfordstmartins.com 1-457-62096-0 / 978-1-457-62096-6 MOVIES A generation later...
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...Influence of Visual Media Paper Carolyn R. Slaughter HUM/176 October 6, 2013 Dr. Steven H. Mathew Influence of Visual Media Paper What would this world be without the influence of visual media? People want to see what is going on in the world around them. In the United States people want to watch TV and it has a great influence on culture experiences. People want to keep up with the latest celebrity gossip, and political pros and cons. In today’s society visual media is used in new ways, at one time people were only able to watch TV in their homes, now it’s available on digital televisions, DVD, smartphones, tablets, and computers. At one time there were only three major broadcasting networks available (ABC, NBC, and CBS) for viewing primetime movies and shows in America. These networks would appeal to a general family audience. (Lule, 2012) Visual media is an important aspect in many people lives; it provides entertainment for many people. The entertainment media has shaped the American culture and its values in many different ways. Today the young as well as the old try to mimic what they see celebrities do. If Miley Cyrus Twerked on a YouTube video, and her fans went insane over the video, now the young people who are her fans wants to do the Twerk dance in spite of how ridiculous some may view it as being. Parent have to preview the content their children are watching on TV whether it be in movies, videos, or music. After viewing the video on YouTube it is easy...
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...March 21, 2012 Effects of the Transition to a Visual Culture Lucinda Whitfield Western Governor University The world has begun to move to a culture full of visual images, this transition has even had an impact on literature and has shaped our world into a visual culture. In this paper, the writer will investigate the effects of visual literacy on society. Visual images are observed in many facets of global society. Vast amounts of information today is embedded in forms of media that does not solely rely on linguistics causing the new digital generation to have a need to develop new types of literacy skills. Messages that were once conveyed through literary texts are now communicated through other forms of media that are enhanced or supported by visual images. The emergence of a growing visual culture has led to a steady decline in literary culture and has several underlying effects. Mirzoeff argued (1998) “the visual culture defines and delimits the post-modern present in that the culture that we call postmodernism is best imagined and understood visually, just as the nineteenth century was classically represented in the newspaper and the novel” (p.5). Understanding what is seen versus what is read will likely continue to be an important acquired and needed skill for people of all ages. Several trends are believed to be contributors for the need to attain new literacy skills. In a time of reality television, movies, video gaming, and digital billboards, it is rare...
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...nature and role of the visual arts in society. Art theory, art practices and an overview of art history will be required. The Medias of art will also be explored. Field trips are required. This course will enable the student to understand the historical, social, and psychological factors involved in the creation of works of art through an analysis of the language, media, and rationale of visual communication. Prerequisites: None. Units: Three Required Text: Artforms, 11th Edition, Patrick Frank, Pearson Prentice/Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 07458. Method of Presentation: Lectures with PowerPoint presentations and class discussion. Student Learning Outcomes: Art 100 – Introduction to Art Concepts is a survey course whose purpose is to develop the ability of students to see an art object or building on objective, perceptual, and interpretive levels. The student will learn the vocabulary of art; recognize the materials and techniques of art processes and learn to recognize the historical styles and changing tastes of the public and the art market. To evaluate the student outcomes, standards of achievement will be measured by exams, practice tests, class participation, museum reports and research papers. This will identify how successfully each student processes the visual images and the meanings that they contain. Specific areas of student development will be: 1. Communication. Students will listen to multi-media presentations,...
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...Visual Communication has proven to be far more effective than plain text. In today’s day and age of technology graphics are critical for successful presentations. One sure way in the development is to create the graphics first, then write or create the text around the graphics. Graphics generally fall under two criteria that must be achieved to be considered successful, and they mesh or complement each other. If the image or graphic communicates the right message, then it is more likely that it will be accepted. Then if accepted, the presentation of the message will be clear to the receptiveness of the targeted audience. It has been found that most clip art libraries do not contain the proper graphics for advertisement or newsletters, which causes a delay in the presentation. Also, to retain a captive audience the presentation should and must be pleasing to the audience and not to overwhelm them with too much or too many colors. The author or creator doesn’t want this to happen as it may affect the ability for the viewer to recall and associate the graphic and message at a later time. Many have interpreted visual communication as a fancy term for graphic design. I see it as a process of providing pictorial and written information to an intended audience. I see two important distinctions that separate visual communications and graphic design. The first is that visual communication is a “process,” that by its problem-solving nature includes investigative and analytical skills in...
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...Paper Assignment Option (A) You are assigned a short paper, three to five pages in length, on four pieces of artwork you have seen in person by visiting Detroit Institute of Arts, Toledo Museum of Art or University of Michigan Museum of Art (You have to attach the ticket or museum sticker with your paper to demonstrate your museum trip). The paper is due no later than Thursday, April 12, 2012. In order to articulate your point of view more effectively, you might want to attach pictures of the artworks you are talking about. The bulk of this assignment is about writing paragraphs that visually describes the piece, using terms and concepts learning in class. Consider the subject, medium, technique, and composition. Also consider the design elements and principles that we have learned in class. Try to be complete. You must use the vocabulary that we have learned. Choose four works of art each created in a different media. Types of media could be oil painting, ink wash painting, wood carving, metal casting, photography, video, cloth tapestry, or other media. Typical questions to consider about each work of art include: -Describe what you have seen. -Explain your reaction to the work. -What do you think the artist’s intent was for creating this work? -How would interpret the work? -For contemporary art works, how would the theme be rendered if it was created several centuries earlier? For example, included in your visual description of the piece shall be commentary on: Form Composition...
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...ARTS 105 Art Appreciation Summer 2016 Session (15-55) May 30 , 2016 – July 23, 2016 Course Description Introduction to the place of visual art in modern society, to the vocabulary used in discussing a work of art, and the studio techniques artists use to produce two and three-dimensional works Prerequisite: None Proctored Exams: None Instructor Information Dr. Patricia Rooney, PhD American Studies-Visual Culture, St. Louis University M.A. Art History, Webster University parooney@cougars.ccis.edu Textbooks Frank, Patrick. Prebles’ Artforms 11th Edition. 2014. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-205-96811-4 Textbooks for the course may be ordered from MBS Direct. You can order * online at http://direct.mbsbooks.com/columbia.htm (be sure to select Online Education rather than your home campus before selecting your class) * by phone at 800-325-3252 For additional information about the bookstore, visit http://www.mbsbooks.com. Course Overview Art Appreciation is an introduction to the principles and concepts used in the study and analysis of the fine arts, in order to achieve a basic understanding of art and artistic concerns. Art Appreciation studies the major cultural achievements and significant artistic works that have shaped Western culture. The approach to this course is to study the arts in an historical context beginning with the earliest artistic expressions of ancient societies...
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...Multimodal Analysis For the visual picture for this project, I choose to use two pictures that have numbers and stats, because my main audience for this paper is my friends or anyone who is taking Computer Science major and feel like it is really overwhelming and that he cannot do it and anyone who is taking that major and in the same does not take care of his health. Specially, that we have a hard major so we have to be seated for most of the time, which lead to a lot of problems, so I used pictures to appeal to their feelings and to show them by numbers, what will happen to them if they do not start taking care of themselves. Also in Computer Science major, we take a lot of math classes so we are used to seeing numbers all the time. I want to show them that I know what they are going through and that I am not someone who just want to get good grade on his paper for an english class and that is it. In my paper and my choose of visual for this project, I used ethos, logos and pathos. They are all used to make the audience understand the effect of exercising and understand that working out is no long just something you can do to be good looking, no it is something you must do to be healthy and prevent diseases....
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...Your assignment is to write a news article (about 600words) on a media research topic of your choice. A step-by-step guide for this assignment is below. Examples of Media Research Questions: Is movie marketing on the Web effective? Is a particular film based on a true story actually “true”? Does female body image in the media affect young kids? Does cyber-activism work? Should preschool aged children watch television? Was Edward R. Murrow the greatest journalist of all time? Is product placement in movies effective? Is illegal music downloading declining? 1. General Topic. Select your topic. Start with something general about the Mass Media and then narrow your idea. Think about all the areas and issues that have been/will be covered in this class. Select a topic you’d like to research further. Be sure you have a specific focus or point for your research. Don’t try to tell all there is to tell about some vague, general subject. Find an angle that’s fresh, interesting and worth a close-up look. The better your idea, the easier the assignment will come together for you. NOTE: Your topic must relate to an aspect of mass media. 2. Create Your Research Question. Visit the URL below to narrow your topic. https://www.library.unlv.edu/services/instruction/tutorials/topic_narrowing/ Once you’ve finished using this online tool, email your Research Question to your instructor Julie Roosa, jkroosa@dmacc.edu. The Course is JOU110. Deadline: Sunday...
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...Visual Data Security White Paper Brian Honan, BH Consulting July 2012 1 Introduction Welcome to Secure’s White Paper on Visual Data Security. As data gets ever more versatile and mobile, we want to make sure that individuals, businesses, organisations and governments across Europe are aware of the threats posed by visual data security breaches. Simply put, visual data security is ensuring that information cannot be seen by unauthorised individuals. This is particularly important when dealing with private or sensitive information, and the threat of a breach has risen enormously with the shift in working practices towards increased mobility, flexibility and shared resources. This White Paper has been commissioned to give some background to visual data security and provide simple, easy to follow advice on how to prevent a breach and protect individuals’ personal data and organisations’ commercially sensitive information. It’s not about constraining people’s working habits or holding back the tide, but about embracing new trends and empowering employers and employees to take small steps to work in a safe and secure manner. By promoting a greater understanding of these risks and the behavioural and practical procedures that can be adopted to reduce them, we hope to enhance data security across the continent. We hope you find the Paper of interest. For any further information please don’t hesitate to contact us on info@visualdatasecurity.eu. Happy reading and stay secure...
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