Thursday, March 31, 2011

Technology in movies

Technology plays an important role in society. Everyday people use some form of technology examples include if you want to listen to music then many people use a MP3 Player or IPod to play their favorite songs ; if you want to watch something people go to their computers or to the television and put something on.  Movies show many different form of technology many movies today have some form of robots.  Top Box office movies include Iron man, Iron man 2, Transformers, Transformers 2 these movies show how robots are helping to restore problems to normal with the help of human beings. In Iron man it is man himself that uses technology to his advantage to be able to wipe out rebel forces and help everyone that is involved to be able to live happier.  Iron man is similar to Armageddon because without the technology to save the world from the asteroid everyone would die.
            The technology seen in Armageddon was experimental and is still not available today but this movie shows that it probably will become available in the future due to how it was used. The space shuttles were experimental and NASA has not created new ones and is retiring the shuttle program anyway so maybe they will take a technology from a different movie and use it. Also in Armageddon the armadillo’s used to dig the hole on the asteroid doesn’t seem realistic but we do not see anything that is used yet. In the near future there will be technology that will get developed.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

blog 3 infotainment

Television is used for entertainment purposes but it is also used to get the news from around the world. There are people who watch conventional news such as ABC world News tonight with Diane Sawyer or CBS news with Katie kurick. These news stations are conventional and informative but they end up only showing small clips of the news story because they don’t want people getting bored with a longer news story. The local stations have to show local news and national therefore, if there isn’t a big national story it normally gets less coverage than the local story. When there is breaking news then there is hours of coverage done by the big news stations such as ABC news, CBS, CNN, MSNBC.
          The other type of news coverage that there is entertainment news like the Daily show and the Colbert report. On these shows they tell you the news but they laugh about them all the time.  Jon tries to use comedy to explain the news through comedy. He tries to make fun of what is going on in the world so that people can laugh at the news but also know what is going on. This is called infotainment.
There are also shows that poke fun at politics more than others. Examples of these shows include Conan Obrian, Jay Leno show and SNL. They take the issues that are going on in politics and they make fun of them. They also try to create comedy out of the woes of the world. Some people will watch these shows and believe everything that is going on as the truth.
I feel that the shows like the daily show are for entertainment only. If I want to watch the news I will turn it on at 5,6,10 (on some stations), or 11 so that I can get the correct information. Also, I do not watch any of the infotainment news I only have watched SNL for comedic relief if I watched the Daily show with Jon Stewart it would annoy me and I definitely wouldn’t pay attention to the issues of the news.