This was our last week of class and I can honestly say that I really enjoyed this class and every week was a different learning experience. For this week’s class, we watched dateline’s Generation Like. At face value, ‘Generation Like’ didn’t hold any surprises. Pretty much everyone knows that the Internet, in its current form, is all about likes, clicks, what you have. I mean, that’s common knowledge. But digging a little deeper, that’s where things get scary. The primary focus here is this: it’s not the technology, but what companies are doing to kids through technology. Specifically, marketing. The younger age group knows that the goal with social media is to be your own media network, and it’s a generation that is willing to do the work of the marketing department just for more likes. Selling out isn’t selling out anymore, it’s the brass ring. Sponsorship is the prize. 

Just like the rest of the millennials of this generation I too am always on my phone, except I do not spend as much time on social media as much as I used to. I usually just scroll through all my feed and not really post anything. When it comes to posting I don’t really care what I say because everyone can voice their opinions. I just wouldn’t post a threat online, even if it were a joke which is how many people get caught up. I also would never post anything personal about my life. However, some people may. Social media can be a stress reliever for some, where they can talk to people they never even met about their personal lives. But I will never forget that whatever is said online will be there forever and can come back to bite you in the ass. Many celebrities have experienced this, where before they were famous or when they were on the rise have said something online that to them was just a joke might have been hurtful to others. There are people out there who go deep into ones feed just to find something negative in order to blast them for it. I also don’t care about likes the way I used to. It is true that many people only care about likes. Some are very self conscious and feel the need to get a certain amount of likes will make them feel better about themselves. All these social media sites like Facebook and Instagram are all about likes and the public can see all of that. Even Snapchat has gotten to the point where people care how many views they are getting even when the user is the only one who can get this information. I really do believe that social media can boost ones ego up. I can’t lie, when I get a certain number of likes it does make me feel good about myself. This is really a topic that I can go on for days, but I’ll just have to save the rest for social media and society.

This week in class we discussed the big topic on fandom. “Fandom as a whole is a subculture that celebrates a mutual bond formed between people over a book series, TV show, movie, band, or other form of pop culture.” (Morrison, 2016, para 1). Fandoms are not about pointless things, it’s tied in with turning into a network fixated on the adoration for, and energy for something. It’s about fellowship, comprehension, and opening entryways and pathways that you never knew existed. To put it plainly, Fandom is digital empowerment. From streaming content to interfacing through social media life to making fan works. At the point when we got fit for devouring, interfacing and making without anyone else terms, with access to large numbers of other people who share our enthusiasm for a show, motion picture, book, story, character, sport, band, craftsman, computer game, brand, item, hobby, and so forth., the intensity of being a fan started to appear. As a business major, all of this is interesting and relates in a way because there is research that comes with this for example, ” In research,  In research we conducted last September, 85% of those surveyed reported being fans of something – 97% in the 18-24 age range” (Kresnicka, 2016, para 4). In a way, fandom is similar to brand loyalty, except with fans being loyal to their favorite TV show, movie, book, etc.

https://www.thedailystar.net/shout/life/why-fandoms-are-important-1580551

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-is-fandom-and-why-is-it-important

We then watched Galaxy Quest which manages the possibility of being a fan and how big names treat their fans. I feel as though Galaxy Quest caught everything without flaw, the shows, the ensembles, the nerds, the groupies who go to cons searching for kicks. It paid heed to all the sci-fi platitudes, recognized them, and afterward bent them to its own comedic purposes. The cast are generally praiseworthy in their jobs as ex sci-fi stars who get slung into the genuine article and need to spare the system. What makes a great movie great is constantly an incredible story. The entire thought of on-screen characters from a quite a while in the past space arrangement being confused with being the genuine article by real outsiders is very cunning. Galaxy Quest got the outlandishness of being a fan, yet too its inspiration. At last, the disrupted and basic performers found quality and essentialness in comparable characters which stereotyped them. The geeks had a significant effect. The saints won. The miscreants gave excitement to masses of fans, which is the thing that I think being a fan and sci-fi is about. The whole cast was brilliant, particularly Tim Allen and Alan Rickman doing their best Shatner and Nimoy impersonations. However, out of every one of them two truly shine for me. Alan Rickman, whose outward appearances all through the film simply make you chuckle and Sam Rockwell, who plays the “additional crew member” who’s constantly persuaded he will get murdered in light of the fact that he’s no one important and not one of the ordinary cast.

This week we watched two episodes from “The Newsroom” We watched the pilot. “The Newsroom” is about a news group who endeavors to make a news show that reports the news in a moral and sensible manner. They take genuine, newsworthy occasions from our reality as they’re occurring and report on them as though they were a real news station that pursued normal and good rules, in a gnawing analysis of our famous press and a cunning obscuring of craftsmanship and reality. Will McAvoy, the new anchor is wanting to carry something new to television. His producer, McKenzie MacHale, who was once impractically engaged with the new boss wouldn’t like to have her staff think about it, only a couple of all around associated companions. The present tattle condition saturates into this offering which as it were, doesn’t show anything new, so far as that is concerned. The show begins with Will McAvoy, played by Jeff Daniels, responding to questions at a nearby school. Furthermore, in the wake of utilizing a little humor to get passed questions he would not like to reply, he at last snaps when the host requests his supposition if America is the greatest country in the world. Not only does he lash out at a college girl, but he also lashes out on the country that turns his career for the worse. Mr. McAvoy is the head stay at Atlantis Cable News (ACN) and when he comes back to work after his lash out, he realizes the vast majority of his staff is gone from the newsroom. As he examines what occurred with the head administrator of the system Charlie Skinnern, understands that his manager contracted another official maker for the show without allowing Will to meet her. Notably, the new official maker is Mackenzie McHale, who has had a relationship with Will in the past that turned sour. It doesn’t take Will long for him to be totally angry with the entire quandary yet needs to confront realities that she will help spare his show after his outburst.

We then watched “The Blackout, Part 1: Tragedy Porn”. In the Blackout Part 1, Charlie, McAvoy, and MacKenzie have no choice but to cover the Casey Anthony trial despite their protest due to Nancy Grace securing a large bit of their audience. They treat it with little-to-no soul or heart, allowing this to infiltrate the importance of their news broadcasts, while Sloan is adamant that Mac report a major economic story on the potential of a devastating collapse of the currency and a debt ceiling ordeal that would affect not just America but the world at large.

https://collider.com/aaron-sorkin-the-newsroom-season-2-interview/

https://thenewsroom.fandom.com/wiki/Season_1

Jeff Daniels is flawless in his role as the worn out thrashed writer that simply doesn’t care the slightest bit about anything any longer, yet utilized as well. What’s more, we can see the sparkle that touches off him to become extraordinary once more.

This week in class we watched Why Be Good? Colleen Moore stars as Pert Kelly, a business young lady in a retail chain by day and a jazz child around evening time. One night she meets a person who happens to be the son of the department store owner. They hit it off, yet when she’s late for work the next morning, she’s called into his office and they find what their identity is. She’s terminated by the storekeeper, yet she figures the son did it. Rich daddy attempts to shield his child from that sort of young lady and convinces him to test her by taking her to an inn to perceive how she responds. Is it true that she is a decent young lady? Does it make a difference? All things considered, for what reason be great? Moore is staggering as the move crazed flapper, who still lives at home with mother and father. With her mark hair-do and scanty dresses, she the very image of the quiet flapper. Hamilton is additionally great as the credulous child. Co-stars incorporate Jack Norton as the smashed sweetheart. The film features in a well-delegated and flawlessly bundled way the discussions about the role of women at the time. Objecting her dad’s strictures about clothing standard and relaxation exercises, Moore contends that on the off chance that she attempts to add to family unit upkeep, at that point she has an option to seem as though she needs and do what she needs. These contentions had been worked through in endless movies.

https://www.classicflix.com/products/why-be-good-warner-archive-888574128418-1929-2014/reviews/2441

We also watched a documentary called The Mean World Syndrome. This was a very interesting documentary to me. “The Mean World Syndrome”, represents Gerbner’s development hypothesis by the strife between impression of rising viciousness and rising weapon deals, and real falling wrongdoing rates. The fourth and fifth segments, “Mean People” and “The Fallout”, investigate further ramifications of the development speculation, for example, the media’s proclamation of contrary generalizations of African Americans, Latinos and Muslims, and the residential governmental issues and international strategy associated with it. As indicated by Cultivation Theory, high introduction to “television wrongdoing world” may cause the Mean World Syndrome, as such, watchers discovers that the vast majority aren’t dependable and wrongdoing is uncontrolled in each road. For instance, individuals believe that wrongdoing rate is higher than the past, in spite of the fact that it’s not valid. Another impact is over the top nervousness about wrongdoing.

https://shop.mediaed.org/the-mean-world-syndrome-p143.aspx

This week was very interesting. This was my second time watching ‘This Film Is Not Yet Rated’. My first time watching it was last year in my History of Motion pictures class and I can definitely say that I enjoyed it as much as I did when I first watched this documentary. In an uncommon and invigorating inversion of jobs, movie producers put the ground-breaking Motion Picture Association of America under the magnifying instrument for assessment in Academy Award-designated chief Kirby Dick’s sharp take a gander at stateside film’s most infamous non-editing blue pencils. Constrained by the amazing measure of intensity that the MPAA appraisals board uses, the movie producer searches out the genuine characters of the mysterious first class who control what movies make it to the multiplex. He even ventures to such an extreme as to enlist private specialist Becky Altringer to stake out MPAA central station and uncover Hollywood’s best-stayed quiet. En route, Dick talks with various movie producers whose vocations have been influenced by the apparently irregular and sexual-content fixated decisions of the MPAA. The revelation that many rating board individuals either have children 18 and over or have no kids at all that the board appears to treat gay material substantially more cruelly than heterosexual material that the board’s raters get no preparation and are intentionally picked as a result of their absence of skill in media education or kid advancement; that senior raters have direct contact as required gatherings with studio work force after film screenings and that the MPAA’s interests board is similarly as hidden as the rating board, its individuals were for the most part cinema chain and studio officials. Likewise included on the interests board are two individuals from the clergy.

https://slate.com/culture/2006/08/this-film-is-not-yet-rated-reviewed.html

The film rating framework in this nation is represented by a mystery board made by the significant film studios over 35 years back. Since it’s beginning the MPAA evaluations board has worked as a kind of ‘black box’ where motion pictures go in one end and a rating turns out the other, with definitely no straightforwardness or open responsibility of the procedure. The MPAA rating framework is openly broadcasted to be simply a deliberate industry framework that no one is ‘required’ to pursue. Sadly the truth of the motion picture industry is altogether separated from these harmless decrees. The rating put on a film generally figures out who gets the chance to see it in a theater, and what kind of exposure for the motion picture will be acknowledged by TV and papers. A NC-17 essentially ensures that solitary the little fragment of the general population with access to workmanship house films will ever plunk down in a theater to watch the film, and that there will be basically no real way to elevate the film to people in general. Kirby Dick moves toward this subject with diversion, understanding, and tirelessness. He attempts to brush the top off of the black box of the MPAA rating framework. In the process he makes an account loaded up with both data and silliness. While I will leave his techniques as a shock for the watcher, do the trick it state they are both unpredictable and compelling. If you care deeply about he art of film, This Film Is Not Yet Rated is an unquestionable requirement see. Then again on the off chance that you simply need to gain proficiency with a bit of something and have a decent giggle, this is a decent pick for you as well.

American Scary is a great documentary covering the history of horror hosts in America. Through interviews and clips, we see how this phenomenon started off in just one city and before long they were popping up all over the country. Among the people interviewed are Mike Price (Baron Daemen), Joseph Fotinos (Professor Anton Griffin), Leonard Maltin, Joe Bob Briggs, Jeff Thompson, Donald F. Glut, Maila Nurmi (Vampira), Bob Burns, Forrest J. Ackerman, Tom Savini and John Zacherle. Dozens of other hosts from various cities are also interviewed. They discuss how studios were just starting to open their vaults to TV so these hosts had a whole slew of horror movies to show people. The hosts each talk about what they wanted to do with their cheap sets and what they did or didn’t want to do with the movies. Many people look at hosts as insults to the movies because they cut the films up and sometimes super-imposed themselves into the film.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/american_scary

ER is a medical drama that accounts life and passing in a Chicago medical clinic crisis room. Every scene tells the story of one more day in the ER, from the energizing to the unremarkable, and the joyous to the heart-rending. A TV therapeutic show that neglects and narratives the every day individual/working existences of a group of ER Doctors, Nurses, Patients and the individuals around them who work in Cook County General Teaching Hospital. Through this we see the deplorability, triumph, misfortune and love they experience and penance to attempt to spare lives and to manage their own issues.

We watched the episode Exodus which was an episode with a lot of disasters that get handled very well. My favorite part is Elizabeth going on a ride along and ending up in a pretty hard situation when a building collapses. She ends up saving the man’s life risking her own. It was very thrilling and filmed very well, so well that I had trouble looking sometimes because I started to feel claustrophobic just from it on the screen. Another problem arises in the ER when it gets infected by fumes and Carter has to take control over it once Dr. Weaver passes out. He ends up doing a great job. Im assuming that this is one of the moments when carter develops into a more confident doctor. This was a great week and I really enjoyed all of the screenings

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108757/