I was absent from class this past Thursday when the class viewed the film, "Downfall." There was an assignment to post a blog with personal commentary on the movie. I haven't done it because I haven't seen the film. I was also absent the day that the class posted questions from the second publication we read that was written by Diana George (a few classes back).
Notes:
FILM
-film is about experiences
-"misc en scene"- film jargon for the world inside the movie. . .from the word miscellaneous?
-the message of the film is "to see, to think, and to act". . .I still haven't seen it, but that is the class consensus
-this medium of film (Thomas Edison) was originally intended for the audience of the working class who perhaps couldn't afford to go to the theatre
-no one ever expected the "motion pictures" to stomp on the theatre
-require a certain amount of investment
-the Big M- plot lines follow the pathway of the M (in rising/falling action, etc.)
TELEVISION
-some people say that television is the dumbed down version of film; there has always been a stigma associated with watching too much television (it is still not socially acceptable because we have values that are more elevated in our society)
-useful for advertisements-central feature of the tv medium in this country
-becoming extremely interactive/multimodal-history chanel, food network, etc. . .things "on demand"-DVR, TIVO
-phasing out analog television by the year 2009-all signals broadcasted will be digital
-it's seen as consumerism-a passive activity
-Literacy. . .media literacy-there are many different types of literacy
-tv is part of modern living
-completely driven by ads-lasting from about sixty to ninety seconds-becoming more frequent toward the end of the program on television
-during an hour long show, there are usually an average of sixty commercials
-the tv medium doesn't impose the same kinds of restrictions that films do. . .tv lends itself to more casual entertainment
-a tv show should climax in about five different places to incorporate the ads
-the sitcom-situation comedy
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