The situation with TV nowadays is rather controversial, and writing this essay actually required quite a lot of effort to make up my clumsy thoughts. Even though many people claim that TV might follow the footsteps of, for example, VHS-cassettes, no one can deny the pleasure of watching films in full HD, and other possibilities, that are kindly offered by the brand new smart-TV's. Like the majority of teenagers I don't watch TV often and its not surprising at all, if we mention Internet. However
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Daniel Western Mr. Fatheree 2nd period May 20, 2014 The Art of Gameing Literature has always been considered the original medium of entertainment. It allowed the reader to enter another world and to see the veal world from the writer’s point of view. Eventually new forms of storytelling sprang forth like cinema. This evolution of storytelling allowed an artist to express their ideas without uttering a single word. So this brings up the question, “What is the next evolution of storytelling?”
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1) Describe the three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points) There are three basic types of music heard in The Birth of a Nation. Each type serves it’s own purpose in the film. The first is adaptations of classical works. These adaptations are extended versions of the original classical piece of work. These adaptations are used for extensive action scenes. For example, Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyrie
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WALK TOUR REACTION PAPER Last, Monday, September 21, 2015, we had our "Food" walk tour in Binondo with Mr. Ivan Dy. The tour was very tiring and at the same time stomach filling. It was tiring because the weather was so hot and we just walked to go to our destination. It was stomach filling because we went to 5 destinations and just ate chinese foods the entire tour. The foods were delicious. Mr. Ivan is a fun and entertaining tour guide. Even though he had mic, we werent able to understand some
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A lot of people run short of money and do not have much to spend on music, movies or TV programmes and downloading it for free seems the best option for them who don’t want to be left aside from the new technological society who offers these entertainments. Before you had to spend a lot of money to get all of these, but nowadays they are closer to our needs, closer for the people with limited resources, so why are we going to take away this privilege from them. People who support this side of the
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Influence of Entertainment Media Claudia Atkinson 6/27/16 HUM/186 Erin Di Cesare Influence of Entertainment Media Over the years, America has grown to one of the largest producers of entertainers in the world. With entertainment playing such a large role in the lives of many, it is going to affect the American culture and our values. These affects have a greater impact on the younger generations. Entertainment media has influenced American culture in many ways. The effects that media has
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From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little serious writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music. Soundtrack Available fills this gap, as its contributors provide detailed analyses of individual films as well as historical overviews of genres, styles of music, and approaches to film scoring. With a cross-cultural emphasis, the contributors focus on movies that use popular songs from a variety of genres
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Tonya Butts Some of the various forms of visual entertainment media that has shaped American culture are television, movies, and social media. Television has played a role in bringing many people closer to local and world happenings. People can know what they might need to know about certain things that are going on in their neighborhood. They can also know what is happening in other parts of the country. Television also brought comedies and reflected attitudes about sitcom families
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Evaluative Summary: Does TV Make You Smarter? Steven Johnson, an author of seven books, wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine in 2005 called, “Watching TV Makes You Smarter.” In the article, Johnson explains that he believes watching television makes you smarter because it forces you to “pay attention, make inferences, [and] track shifting social relationships” (279). Johnson then takes it one step further by comparing television from the past and the present, and the amount of threading
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While some people prefer to read fiction books rather than watch movies, I strongly believe on the advantages that movies bring to the watcher in matter on enjoyability, for one thing, they can become a social situation where you will not only enjoy the story presented on the movie, but you can listen and discuss with others what is happening, for other thing, understanding the plot becomes the main focus, leaving you with the time to enjoy and analyse the movie, requiring a shorter amount of time
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