The Blind Viewer
We watch an amazing amount of television in this country. Some of it is good and some of it is not so good. Reality television takes the drama that most people run from in their own lives and broadcasts it for a full audience. Whatever the television show, there is a meaning to be taken. The Wizard of Oz was originally commentary on the Industrial Revolution. We have turned it into an iconic film filled with romance of days past and what could have been. The movies, Red Dawn, Hunt for the Red October, and No Way Out are all movies that came out in the 80"s. This in turn was to provide commentary on the Cold War.
My point is that what we watch each day impacts our ideas and our views. Look at what you are watching now. The movie remake, Red Dawn changed its antagonist to North Korean invaders. What commentary are they making now? What are you watching and what do the writers, directors, and actors want you to take from it?
- Your assignment: Look at what you watch this week. Pull one example.
- Briefly provide some background information
- Explain what message is being conveyed to those viewing
- How is that message being conveyed--characterization, visual imagery, archetypes, etc?
76 comments:
1. What I usually watch during the week is the daily news.
2. The message that is conveyed through the news I watch is what is happening in today's world both nationally and internationally.
3. These messages are being conveyed through unbias reports (news reports).
1.) I watched a show called king of the nerds. In this show several "nerds" from across America compete in challenges to win money and title of king of the nerds.
2.) The main message being conveyed is that being a "nerd" is not a bad thing.
3.) The message is displayed through characterization of a "nerd".
1) I watched a show called Duck Dynasty. It is a reality tv series that shows the lives of the Robertson family, who became wealthy from their family-operated business which makes products for duck hunters.
2.) The message that is being conveyed is family is everything. The Robertson's do everything together from cooking to cleaning and hunting.
3.) This message is being conveyed through the actions they perform. They are characterized as a loving family.
K.Monkowski 1*
1.The show i watch once a week is called "Dance Moms".
2. The message that is conveyed through the show is that Dance moms have a big part to do with their dancers world. Its not just the child that can get recognized, the mother should too because they are paying for who they are today as a dancer.
3. This message is displayed through the performances that are shown and the actions of each the dance mom and the child.
Breanna Hartory 4/5
I watch tv before going to bed at night and usually everynight i watch Full House. It is an older show from the 80s but is still very entertaining. The show portrays an almost perfect family. There are problems but the problems are never left unresolved. The house they live in is perfect and clean. The girls dress conservative and when there is something wrong, they talk it out with the family. I feel as if the show is very unlike how most families are but yet people watch it because it is an ideal family.
1. The show I watched was Toddlers & Tiaras.
2. The message that is being conveyed in this show is how much of an extent some parents will go to make their child almost "perfect"
3. The message is displayed through the actions and choices they make through out the show.
Kaitlyn Jindra
1. One show that I watch religiously is The Bachelor. It is a competition between a group of women competing for the love of one eligible bachelor. Each week a girl is let go, until the bachelor finds his "love" usually resulting in an engagement.
2. The message that is portrayed through this show is that everyone can find love, and that even though they might not find it on the show, it is out there.
3. This message is displayed through the things said by the participants and the context of the show as a whole.
1) The show I watched this week was Friends
2) The message being conveyed is that friends are always there for you and are fun to be around.
3) These messages are being conveyed through their daily lives and what happens in their social life, work life, love life etc.
A.MacIvor
1. What I usually try to watch every week is the Daily show with john stewart and the Colbert report with stephen colbert.
2. The message they convey is that there is two sides to every coin, and that both sides have thick accusations that are actually false.
3. Rather than endlessly badmouth both sides, they make fun of them, in addition to making an example of how easy it is to abuse political systems like "superpacs", current medical technology scandals, and key events happening around the world. They manage to keep it interesting, funny, and creative.
1. I watch a show all the time called that 70's show
2. The message conveyed is that when there are problems with the family you can talk it out and also there are many teenagers in the show doing teenager mistakes and learning from them.
3. The message is displayed through teens and a family.
I do not watch mush television, but when i do it is pretty random. One thing I do enjoy watching is The Real Housewives of Beverley Hills. It is about seven or so women who are hardly famous for one reason or another, many of them are washed up or are just plain rich. A few though are successful entrepreneurs though. The show follows their lives, drama, fights, and activities they do. The message being conveyed to those watching is that wealth will make you happy and famous. This is the message they are trying to portray but I do not view it this way. I would not trade my life for the superficial ones these ladies live. People do look at these women though and want their lives because they have nice things and do extravagant things which is making normal society want more, be greedy, and possibly self conscious of themselves. The message is conveyed through visual imagery and materialistic objects. People see flashy jewelry and clothing and cars and automatically want to be like these women because of their wealth when really they are distraught in their own lives.
-Erica Jacks
1. One show that i watch every week is "Teen Mom". It is a reality show about four girls that are juggling being a mom, going to school, and just being a teenager.
2. The message that is conveyed to the viewers is to not have kids at such a young age. The show shows the struggles each of the girls face being a teen mom.
3. The message is shown through their daily life struggles, and just everything that they have to deal with everyday.
1. The show I usually watch is Dance Moms.
2. This show is about these mothers whos daughters dance at Abby Lee Dance Company in Pittsburgh. This show features young dancers dancing under the strict "first place" policy. The coach Abby will not let girls dance if they are not perfect.
3. The main message being conveyed is perfection and perfection only. Thers nothing less then the best.
4. The message is very clear when the girls dance at show cases. This is when you wittness Abby at her finest.
-Megan Chiara 4/5
1. The show I watched this week was “Psych”, about a fake psychic detective for the Santa Barbara police department. Though he is not a real psychic, the protagonist uses his real detective skills his dad taught him to solve cases.
2. The show comments on how humor is important even during serious and stressful situations and how anyone can be a hero even without magic powers.
3. The show demonstrates this through the protagonist and his best friends’ constant jokes and immaturity at crime scenes or during investigations. Also, everyone seems to have a turn being brave and heroic during the show not just the protagonist, and none of them really have special powers.
1)Something I watched this week was Notorious. Its based of the life of well known rapper Notorious B.I.G
2)The message that is being converyed is that anyone can reach their dreams as long as they have the dedcation and determination to do so.
3)The messaged is conveyed by Notorious himself. He shows he will give up nothing till he reaches the top
1) This week my Dad wanted to watch the first "Atlas Shrugged" movie, I was far enough along in the book to not object. It is about a collapsing economy that is filled with politicians who argue for socialistic ideals that prove detrimental to productive capitalists.
2) The message is against all of the misgivings surrounding rich industrialists. Society views them as greedy and inhumane. The movie (basing its message off of the book) portrays the deterioration of infrastructure when public opinion focuses more on benevolence at the expense of quality. It hopes to help its viewers sympathize with how productive greed is necessary in establishing many of the things we rely on.
3) The point takes its battleground in characterization. The main characters are either hard-working, "greedy" capitalists or corrupt, manipulating politicians (even if they are CEO's). If the movie did not drawn the line so dark between the two, it would be without argument. The capitalists would be just like everyone else and their economic position would seem unfair. The politicians would merely be acting in the interests of the common good.
Today, I'm going to watch a movie called "21 and Over". It's about an asian college student who gets talked into partying before a big interview with his grad school by his two white friends. The message comically conveys inappropriate views and bad morals by making fun of asian stereotypes, telling kids that it's O.K. to party before something important, and listening to your friends will make your life more fun (even though sometimes it can lead to complete chaos). It's a terrible movie to go see. But the reason why people see this stuff is because it (1) makes you laugh, (2) is considered the social norm, and (3) has humor/situations that can be compared to other people's lives.
1. The show that I watch every week and rarely miss is Dance Moms. It is a show about 7 girls who are on Abby Lee Miller's competition team. They learn solos, groups, numbers, trios, etc. every week and compete.
2. The message that this show conveys ,besides how petty people can be (the moms, the idea of hard work and how hard work pays off. The girls work extremely hard and win first place quite often.
3. The t.v. show presents this idea by showing the girls rehearsing and learning new choreography. We also get to see them perform and the awards they receive.
1.The show that I watch every week is the walking dead. It's about dead people that roam around killing humans. And the humans end up trying to kill them also it's like a war between the living and non living.
2. The message being showed is people need to stick together with any race to stay alive and survive
3. This tv show, shows this by there is a group if people many mixed races helping each other out to stay alive and survivie and so far it's been working when they all get along anything is possible.
1) The show I watch during the week is Once Upon a Time. The show is about Fairy tale characters being stuck in modern day life.
2)The message in the show is that there's more in life than what you see and good always wins.
3) The messages are displayed through the life of the Fairy tale characters.
1. I really don't watch TV, but when I do, I usually watch the Colbert Report.
2. The Colbert Report is a newscast, but it uses humor to present the news, showing how ridiculous some of the world's "problems" are.
3. This message is conveyed through the use of humor and satire.
1. The show I watch is Toddlers and Tiaras.
2. The message of this show is to show how crazy some moms can be when it comes to trying to make their child the number one child in order to win a pageant.
3. The message is shown through the actions of the parents and the children. Also, by how much a parent is willing to spend on their child.
The show that I love watching just about everyday is "Moderan Family". It's such a good family show. It is about 3 family's that are all one family though. The uncles the grand parents and all. They all have there own problems within each other and fighting and they have out side confictls but they are still all family. The message it give out is that even through the hard and struggles for life they all fight yet they love each other and work things out because you only live once and this is your family. How this is shown is by they take simple every day problems and change it up. They turn the problems and the create more and more between each others but yet they did work it out. They can relate this just like in our every day life's.
High Society is a musical about differing opinions of relationships, specifically how the woman should be thought of and treated. In the end the character Sam must choose between three men essentially based on their view of what a wife is.
The message is that husband and wife must understand they are equals and imperfect.
This message is conveyed through the general unhappiness when the women expects to be treated like a godess and the man goes along with this. The opposite is represented in the second man who is considered by both a little better. The third man is the one she is happiest with because he expects them to act as equals.
Surprisingly, I haven't watched a lot of TV this past week. One show I make sure I always watch when I have the time is Doctor Who. It's about a crazy man with a box that travels through time and relative dimensions in space.
The episode I was able to watch was called "Asylum of the Daleks." The message portrayed throughout the episode is that things are not as they appear to be.
The message is conveyed through visual imagery, as while traveling underground in an alien planet, the doctor's companions start being affected by some hallucinogenic toxin. As well, another character in the episode that tries to help the doctor is usually seen in a self made sanctuary \, but when the doctor finds her, he sees that she has been mutated into a dalek herself, and unknowingly repressed that information.
One thing I've watched this week is the movie Perks of being a Wallflower.Charlie is a freshman in high school. His bestfriend killed himself in the spring before their first year of high school. Charllie doesnt really have any friends and has emotional problems from when he was little. He eventually meets some friends throughout the year.The message being showed is to participate in life. Charlie is a wallflower so he sees everything that goes on around him. So he tells himself the whole year to try participating instead of sitting back and watching. This is showed by all the things Charlie tried doing. He forced himself to go to football games and dances. He met his first two friends at a football game and they got him to do things with them.
1.) I watch the show called the walking dead about a post zombie torn world where survivors try to live day by day.
2.) The survivors are tested on there humanity when they are put through different situations to see how they survive and the decisions they make to ensure that.
3.) They message is shown through how the actors react to various situations and what they will do to survive even hurting people if it comes down to that.
The show I watch quite often is the show friends and the message being conveyed is that in the end friends are there for you and support you no matter whatt and that message is shown throughout the entire show wether its at home, the coffee house, anywhere this message is conveyed
1.) A show that i watch every week is Modern Family. It's about 3 families who are all related to each other that experience problems that everyday families would go through.
2.)The message is to relate situations and troubles that most families have.
3.)The message is presented by using actors and comedy. It makes you think that you're not the only one who has these issues.
1. A show I watched this week was Justified. Basically the main theme for this season is running from your past. Two of the most pivotal characters this season are a fugitive who had been hiding in plain sight for 20 years only to be suddenly outed, and an ex-hooker who was supposed to be killed after seeing something she wasn't supposed to.
2. The overall message is that your past is inescapable. The main protagonist is a cop, but still has to look back on his shady history of growing up in the town. Even when characters think they've put it all behind them, something makes them have to deal with their past again.
3. The message is being conveyed through pretty obvious dialouge and the occasional foreshadowing that ex-prostitute will basically have to go down the same road that the fugitive took. At one point, a crime boss and his wife who wanted the ex-prostitute dead in the first place find both characters in one place. The man who is holding them captive will only sell one of them to the crime boss. If he picks the fugitive, the bounty he will get can seal his future as a life of luxury. If he picks the ex-hooker, then his past will never come back to haunt him. They literally have to choose between their past and future. Every character is pretty much an archetype of some sort.
1.)One show I watch every week is Walking Dead. It is about zombies and groups of people sticking together and fighting the zombies.
2.)The message shown is that people need to stick together and help eachother throughout life or they will not survive.
3.) This messgae is shown through their actions and how the react to all the different problems they are faced with and how they all stick together and help eachother survive. They think about eachother and risk their lives for eachtoher.
I do not watch much TV. However, I did watch one movie and it was called Sabrina.
This movie is about an awkward girl named Sabrina. She is the daughter of the Chauffeur for a rich family called the Larabys. She is "in love" with the youngest son, David. He is a flighty man who can not be interested by one thing for more than a week. To her horror she is taken away from her obsession and sent to Paris by her father. During this time David becomes engaged to another woman. His brother, Lynase uses their engagement to arrange a merger between his fiance's family corporation and his own business. Upon returning Sabrina is a completely different. David finds himself attracted to her and calling off the engagement. Lynase must intervene or risk losing his merger. His plan is to make Sabrina fall in love with him instead and whisk her back to Paris where he will dump her. However, he finds he can not do this to her. He tells David that he no longer wants the merger and will allow Sabrina and David to be together.
In the end David realizes it is time for himself to settle down and marry his fiance, and Lynase ends up with Sabrina in Paris.
The message of this story is that you never really know what you want. Lynase only wanted to deal with the business side of life and follow in his father's footsteps, but realizes he would rather be his own person. David thinks he can not settle down, but realizes that he did indeed want to marry his fiance. And lastly Sabrina thought that her life would be a "meaningless dark abis" without David, but realized that Lynase was indeed the right person for her.
1. A show that i consistently watch is the Walking Dead. Its about a group of familiar people sticking together to fight off zombies.
2. The message being conveyed in this popular TV series is sticking together to fight as a team and if not done correctly not surviving.
3. This message is shown through their actions and how each member of the group reacts to all the different problems they are faced with, and how they all stick together and help each other fight of zombies to survive.
1. The show i watch every Monday is called The Following. It is about a brave cop with a sketchy past and a serial killer who brakes out of jail and starts to murder anyone in his path while the brave cop tries to keep up with him.
2. The message that is being conveyed in this show is to trust few. Many people along the way will either make or brake you.
3. This message is shown through the characters actions of betrayal and distrust.
1) A show that I watched this week is Family Guy.
2) The show has a lot of pop culture references and makes fun of a lot of societal problems. The message being conveyed in this show is that some of society's problems are pretty dumb if you think about them.
3) The message is shown through fictional plots and situations that involve the characters of the show.
1) This week I was watching the show 'World's Worst Tenants'. It is a reality TV Show where an Ex-marine who is now involved in property management goes into properties where the tenants have been evicted or are breaking codes of their rental space. There is always some fight that ensues once the property management team comes in.
2) The main message that is conveyed is that drama rules peoples lives. There is never an episode where a huge fight does not occur.
3) The visual imagery supports this message. The fights are always recorded and make up the majority of the episode.
-EZaranec 7/8
The movie the Proposal is about an Executive Editor In Chief, Sandra Bullock, who finds herself being deported because of failure to properly fill out immigration forms. She then forces her secretary, Ryan Reynolds who despises her, to marry her - he agrees only in order to keep his job. The message being conveyed is that political power often corrupts the individual and that people high up in the business world often forget about life and family and are flooded only with logic and lack of emotion. Ryan even says to Sandra that she is allergic to human emotion during their flight to Alaska. Reflecting the time period, we find the main character to be a businesswoman: long brown hair, thin, respectful, intelligent, controlling, living alone, and surviving off of coffee. She never lets anyone forget that she is in charge but throughout the course of the movie Ryan takes her away from her working environment and breaks her down until she feels true love and remembers what family is all about. One archetype I found is the large body of water which not only is a cleanser, where many problems are aired, but also as a barrier which separates the business life of New York City, and the home life of Sitka Alaska. From accidental intimate settings, to merely too much time spent together, Sandy and Ryan learn enough about each other to breakdown the power struggle of the business world and earn respect for each other’s work, where they eventually find love.
-Samantha Hoyt 2nd period
** HI MRS. PERRIN. THIS IS CLAUDIA KRAH. SAM TYPED THIS BUT I WANTED TO WRITE YOU A LITTLE NOTE. YOU'RE SO CUTE. LOVE CLAUD
1) This week, I was watching Game of Thrones, a TV series that deals with betrayal, war, and power-hungry people.
2) The message being portrayed in this series is that sometimes, in order to do the right thing, you have to let the enemy win first.
3) This message is being portrayed through characterization and stereotyping, as in the world of this show, all those with blonde hair is considered rich, and the Lannister family are all considered bad, as one killed a previous king and attempted to take the throne, as well as had incest with his twin, resulting in a boy who was considered the king's son, and ends up being king himself.
I'm sorry Mrs.Perrin, but i seriously do not watch TV ever. The last time I watched TV was probably 4 months ago. I am not up to date with any shows, movies, etc. that are out....
1.) A show that I enjoy watching is "How I Met Your Mother".
2.) This show is one man's way of telling his children the story of how he met their mother (fitting, I know). This show shows how one person's life is affected so greatly by every person that walks into it and that friendship is irreplaceable. This show is also a message saying that everything happens for a reason.
3.) This message is conveyed through the events that lead up to this main character meeting his wife and realizing his true purpose in life.
1. I watched Parks and Recreation this week.
2. In the most recent episode one of the messages on display was looking past the differences between you and another person, because most things aren't worth arguing over.
3. The messages is being conveyed through the two main characters, Leslie Knope and Ron Swanson. Leslie is very pro-government and Ron is anti-government. If they faced off in a presidential election, people would think they hated each other. Yet they've become friends despite their fundamental differences. This is a recurring theme throughout the entire run of the show.
Steven Price 4/5
Being a dancer, I watch Dance Moms pretty regularly with my friends that I dance with. The show features a dance studio owned by Abby Lee Miller, a renowned choreographer. Abby is somewhat of a tyrant when it comes to the commitment she expects from the girls in the top group. Abby often butts heads with the mothers of these girls, mainly because each of the mothers demand that their child be the best and be at the top of the pyramid. The pyramid is what Abby does to control the girls. Each girl works their hardest to be at the top. After each competition, Abby reveals a new pyramid with the girls and their mothers gathered around. Abby justifies the placement of each girl by her actions as well as the actions of her mother. This allows Abby to keep her control over the mothers. She knows that the mothers will keep their daughters in dance because they love it. So she abuses this through the use of the pyramid. Abby often mentions that they way she runs her studio will prepare the girls for the real dance world. However, as a dancer, I have been to several competitions as well as class taught by professional dancers. This is not how the real dance world is. Yes, it is extremely competitive, but it is not as cut throat as this show makes it seem. This shows gives non-dancers the message that the dance world is extremely intense and unfair. If I were a parent who didn't know anything about the actual dance world, I would never sign my daughter up for dance. This message is portrayed through the mean and treacherous actions of Abby Lee Miller who claims to know everything about the life of a professional dancer.
The only thing I really watch at all is Big Bang Theory. I believe the message that is being portrayed is that we learn new things every day. Take, for example, Sheldon Cooper, one of the main characters in the show. He knows everything about theoretical physics, but when a neighbor moves in to the apartment across the hall, he is completely dumbfounded and unaware of what to do to greet them and make their stay more enjoyable. The meaning is told to the audience by Cooper's inability to socialize with anyone, save for his roommate, and the awkward reactions he shows when he is forced to talk to people.
C. Mahoney 4-5
One of the only TV shows I watch is the Walking Dead, and as a consequence it is one of the only shows I refer to while blogging. For this, I apologize. The show is about humans living in a zombie apocalypse, but lately, the zombies (or 'walkers') have been the least of the group's problems. What we see happening is that the humans, ironically, are the real problem. The message the show sends is that as humans, our inherently quarrelsome nature will be what dominates every situation now and in the future. Despite the apocalypse breaking out, the group is still going to war with another group of people. It is logical to assume that everyone would want to work together to stay alive, but this is not the case. Instead, people prefer killing people. The way that the show sends this message is through not only characterization, but also through the mood. It characterizes the leaders as unyielding and unwilling to compromise, and this is used to create a show-no-mercy attitude in the leaders of the two groups. The characterization of the leaders shows the true nature of humans as it was thousands of years ago, and as it is today and will be in the future. In addition to this, the show creates a heavily suspenseful mood, which allows the audience to feel the imminent doom that the human race is about to inflict upon itself.
1. I watched the show Strike Back this week.
2. The message it shows is to always look for the truth.
3. The message is shown through the story a man asked to many questions about WMD's in Iraq and was kicked out of the military for it and he tries to find who had him discharged and for what reason.
I usually watch tanked its a show on animal planet or discovery channel. The message is basically just work and new ideas in the new century and how advanced technology is. It is being conveyed by putting really cool tanks together.
1 the one show i really watch is the big bang theory, which is about a group of nerds who hang out together
2 the message it shows is that even the nerds can be pretty funny, and that there's plenty of them out there.
3 It show this by situations that the group is put in, especially with the other people like them. the show characterizes of each of them as individuals and smart, while also part of their community of nerds. making everyone else watching either feel a little less nerdy or like they have people out there just like them.
One show that I watched was Dance Moms. This is a reality show in which it goes through the season of the Abby Lee Dance Academy, featuring the seven girl dancers and their mothers as they all try to excel to the top of the podium along with battling with one of the toughest instructors. The message that is being conveyed in my mind is that perfection is the only thing that matters in life. Not that perfection is a bad thing because who does not want to be perfect. But in Abby Lee’s eyes if you are not first then you are last. The message of perfection is portrayed by the use of constant work through rehearsals day after day, along with the many of trophies the studio and girls get as they perform at showcases around the region.
1.) The only show I really watch is The Biggest Loser. It is a competition that helps people lose weight and develop a healthy lifestyle.
2.) I think the message the show conveys is that youcan get in shape and be fit as long as you work hard to get it. It shows that weight loss doesn't happen easily, but everyone is capable of doing it in a healthy way.
3.) The message is conveyed through the actions of the trainers and contestants as well as the before and after pictures/videos.
1. One show I watched this week was South Park, which is a cartoon series that is both crude and offensive to just about every audience.
2. The show is intended for a mature audience due to the large amounts of sexual innuendos, political commentary, and racism.
3. Messages such as racism are done through obvious characterization, such as naming a little black boy "Token". One character by the name of Cartman continuously harasses his friend for being a Jew. There is also an entire episode where Cartman fakes having Tourettes just to get away with swearing compulsively. Underneath the layers of crude humor and offensive language there is often commentary on a societal problem, and the boys often learn lessons at the end of their escapades.
1.) I don't remember the name of the show, but it involved taking teens criminal teens and showing them what prison was like.
2.) The message conveyed here was very, VERY clear; jail is bad, and if those kids kept on the path they were following, they'd end up there.
3.) The show relied heavily on visual imagery and sound to make its point. The insides of the jails were menacing (as were the people, and the sounds were just as menacing (from threats to banging noises, etc).
1. I watched the show Heroes, that involved people around the world discovering they control super-human abilities and they have to decide between using them to save the human race or creating a new world filled entirely with people like them.
2. The message being portrayed is that we all go through struggles based on what we deal with in life, and the ultimate decision is how to use these ideas to build a lifestyle.
3. The show uses a solar eclipse as its' main point of symbolism to show the mystery of actions that can sometimes be out of our control.
Sean W. 4-5
I have not watched any television this week, but every once in a while I watch the show Cold Case, which is a show about a group of detectives who solve cases that have been forgotten and abandoned. The message in this is to never give up on a question or mystery, because the answer may still be out there. This message is portrayed through the different story lines and a lot of character emotions are used to portray the message.
Jennifer Sens 7/8
1. I watch drama television shows.
2. The message is how you plan to react to certain situations.
3. theses messages are being shown through the actors and actresses actions.
1) I dont watch much TV but if im watching it Ill be watching the news.
2) The message that is conveyed through the news is whats new and whats happening in the world
3) The messages are being conveyed through people telling stories and news with reports.
1) The show that I've been watching is World of Jenks. It's about a guy who follows three other people around to experience how they live their life for a year. He's following a guy with autism, a girl with cancer, and a guy who lives in a bad part of Oakland.
2) The message being conveyed to those who are watching is to open other people's eyes and realize what others have to deal with and maybe realize how lucky they may have it.
3) They message is being displayed by visual imagery because it's actually showing what they do on their day to day activities.
1) A show that I watch every week is The Walking Dead. In this show, Rick and his group must survive in a world infested with zombies. In the beginning of the show, many of the characters were very innocent and were compassionate about each other. After so many killings and deaths, they have all changed.
2) The message that is being conveyed to the audience is the idea of survival of the fittest. The characters have become numb. It is hard for them to distinguish between right and wrong in a world where survival is your only option. The Walking Dead also shows how important it is to look out for your loved ones. This is seen though Rick. He cares about his group and is willing to look out for them. I think the show is trying to say that it’s important to look out for yourself and the people you care about.
3) This message is displayed through characterization. Rick characterizes the idea of survival of the fittest. In one episode, Rick must kill his best friend in order to protect his group and survive.
Joey Marincek 7/8th Period
1) i watched a show called the walking dead. It is about a group of people who are trying to survive in a world full of zombies.
2) The main message is trying to survive during it, it is also keeping your loved one close and doing anything to protect.
3) the messgae is shown through their actions, like how the protect one another and do whatever they can to survive and save eachother
1.) I watched American Pickers. This show is about 2 (+) guys that run a business going threw peoples old barns and houses and picking out different goods they can sell in their shop.
2.) The message being conveyed is the value in peoples old stuff. When I watch the show the biggest thing I see is a walking advertisement. People find interest in what they do, and they want people to Buy/Sell them their things.
3.) these messages are being conveyed by simply doing their jobs and video taping it.
1.) I watch the show Seinfeld. It's about a comedian and his everyday life with
his three friends George, Elaine, and Kramer.
2.) the message the is being conveyed through the show is even things that
happen to you everyday can be a fun and new experience. There are also a lot of
situations that show examples of karma and what goes around come around because
many of the thins that happen in the beginning tie into the end
3.) The message is shown through the characters and how they interact with each
other.
Over the weekend i watch the movie "O' Brother Where Art Thou?." This movie is based on the struggles of Odysseus from "The Odyssey." By Homer. Unlike the book the movie is based on the struggles in Mississippi during the depression. Showing characters such as Cyclops played by John Goodman. The message simply is based on the depression struggles such as racial -segreggation, the Ku Klux Klan, and high maintnance religions.
1. I watched The Walking Dead this week.
2. The message that is presented is that its survival of the fittese and they all stick together to survive
3. The message is shown by how each person works together in the group to survive and not die.
1. What I usually watch is a channel called NatGeo Wild. I watch documentaries about animals all the time and it really strengthens my love for the outdoors
2. The message perceived on this channel is to give information about various animal species and let the world know what is happening in the wild outside of their concrete jungles.
3. They are shown by people going out that have a passion for animals and filming them day after day.
1) The show I watch weekly is glee and it is about a group of teens in high school that may or may not fit in at school. They all are in a group that sing and do competitions. There are some cool kids, nerds, gays and many others.
2) the message it is sending is that you can be who you are and express what you believe. You shoudl t have to hind who your are or what you believe. So this group lets you show it and shows kids that you can do that in your own school.
3) the way they show the message is by going to this group as their safe place and a place that you won't be judge. They are all together there to back eachother up. They also explay the message by have all different types of things people experience in there life's so they can know how to handle them.
1. One of my favorite shows is 30 Rock
2. The show is very light hearted and intertwines current events and pop culture references into the storylines
3. The show uses satire a lot to poke fun of some of these these things. For example, they may make political jokes or make fun of reality tv
- Jimmy Rutkowski 2nd period
1. The show I picked was Friends, a show about six friends living in New York and spend almost everyday together.
2. The message of the show is when you have a problem, true friends will help you through it even if they have their own problems or that no matter what happens, your friends will be there to back you up, stick to your side or help you fight a battle.
3. This message is displayed by all the adventures the six characters deal with in each episode.
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I have been watching the television show, Switched at Birth almost religiously these past two weeks. Though the show is supposed to revolve around two girls who were "switched at birth" it highly revolves around the deaf community. Through this show, my eyes have been opened up to the struggles of the deaf. I think the message the show is trying to convey is that deaf people are capable of a full life, but we have to be willing to see them as equals. This message has been conveyed through the most recent episodes, where the school for the deaf, Carlton, will be shut down because of lack of funding. The students of the school start a boycott to take back the school. I think this gives the message that deaf people are strong enough to have the rights they deserve.
1. The show that I watch every week is the walking dead. This show is about the survival of the fittest in a zombie Apocalypse.
2. The main message is that only the strongest will survive,
3, The characterization being conveyed is one of a "zombie,"
1. The show i chose is called "king of the nerds". It is a show where many different people from across the country were chosen based on entry videos to gain entry to a house with several others and compete in competition to find the nerdiest nerd, win 100,000 dollars and be crowned king of the nerds.
2. The message that was conveyed is that being smart or liking things that most people don't doesn't make you an outcast and there are people just like you. Also be who you want to be and not what other people want and you will find real happiness.
3. The messages are being conveyed through the actions of the people on the show and by the characterization of being called a "nerd" and turning that word, which normall has a negative vibe to it, to a positive vibe.
1. The show I watch religiously every week is Once Upon A Time. I can't really explain it, because it has such a deep story, but mostly it is about fairly tale characters that have been transported to modern times because of a curse.
2. This is probably the best show for archetypes, it really incorporates almost every archetype we learned about, but the most prevelant one would be Good vs. Evil.
3. One of the biggest messages in this show would be that evil never wins and good will always prevail.
Lauren S. 4/5
I watch a lot in spare time. But mostly, I like to watch NCIS. This is a show of naval criminal investigators that work incredibly well together, and treat one another as if they were family. Together, they solve hundreds of murder cases (in the usual case), with the exception of the rare, fictional terrorist attacks. I believe that the message conveyed in this show is that the bond between humans can grow to be the strongest of bonds, however, these bonds can be broken, and sometimes they lead to rash decisions – like committing murder. They convey this message through the distorted minds of the criminals that the team works so hard to put behind bears, and through the emotional, family-like bond of the team itself.
1. The show i like to watch is 16 and pregnant and teen moms which is the same people just after they have there kids and all.
2. The message these shows that I see is that there are alot of teenagers who get pregnant and struggle with their kids. But what most people think is that these shows are saying go get pregnant and you will be on tv, but that's not what I see. What I see out of these shows are be careful and take precautions and not get pregnant because it is so difficult and its not all about how cute the baby is.
3. The message that's being conveyed is that if you do get pregnant its not all about how cute the baby is, but that its a big responsibility and will change your life forever. They also show how the babies dad leave and struggles the mothers have to go through on a everyday basis.
I watched a few episodes of Lost this week, so I think I'll explain a bit of the most recent one....
Locke has finally blasted open the steel vault-like door in the ground in the middle of the forest. Inside, a computer whose purpose is left unclear to the group is introduced to the viewer and with it, the troubles of blind faith. A man has been typing in a code into the computer every 108 minutes for something like 5 years by the time they discover him. Then the duty is passed on to the group. The task becomes a test of blind faith, whether to believe the word of one man who doesn't know what will happen if the timer is allowed to reach 0 or to leave the computer as it is see if it has all just been an experiment left by the creators of the computer.
The message here is whether or not blind faith or even hope is valid. Within the episode a memory of one character is also evoked from the situation of the group. Being a doctor, the character believed that hope was something too farfetched in the face of reality. But in the end, the hope became reality. The message is one that challenges the reader to give hope a chance. Also the scene makes use of light-dark imagery and archetypes to show despair and then hope as the power goes out in the area but is then brought back just barely in time for the code to be typed in before the timer goes out.
1) This week I watched alot of CSI a show about solving crimes and bring people into jail for their crimes.
2) The message being provailed is the idea of a strong smart and flexable central government. It also has alot about cool new technologys and ways to beat people doing bad things.
3)They present this message with characterisation. There is a few big burly strong and quick policeman to chase down the criminals. There is also a smart geeky tech department. The last bigcharacterisation is the Big Boss character who is in charge of al the poilicmen.
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