ALL RESOLVED IN JUST 30 MINUTES

The sitcom has always been a kind of show that entertains us for about half an hour with the outrageous plot lines and problems that the characters tend to get into but at the end of the show after many laughs and sometimes imposible actions the problems are solved and everything returns to the happy settings of before.The problems faced are mostly happening to the main character of the sitcom, who has done something wrong or has gotten themselves in a situation that deals with some kind of moral value. Most of the time the plot involves the person going to extrem lengths so that the victim of the wrong doing does not find out about it. This of course paves way for the story line to become very funny for the writers have more to grab in order to make the story line more interesting instead off just having a mono tone plot line. Never the less after all the twists and turns the protagonist manages to save the day.

In the show "Thats's So Raven", Raven the protagonist which is a psychic;  finds herself in situations that her visions put her in. Her visions are misleading which make her think that they are going to happen a certain way and when it does it is totally different then what she thought. This makes her do something right which seems wrong or makes her do something wrong that she has to fix. In an episode Raven finds herself turning in a hate letter instead of a composition for one of her classes. Raven then has a vison of her teacher reading the letter. In order for her teacher not to see the hate letter Raven along with her friends decide to steal the letter back. Since the classroom door is locked she has to enter the classroom thru a cracked window on top of the door once in there she finds out that the drawer which contains the letter is locked also. Raven decides to steal the desk and take it somewhere to be unlocked this causes her to go on a wild ride literally when she rides on the desk down a hill so that her teacher does't find out that the desk is missing. In the end the teacher opens the drawer for her and she manages to take the letter out. Raven's vision does not come true she then realizes that hate mail is something wrong and it could have gotten her in a major problem. As an any sitcom the protagonists gets into the problem does the impossible to get out of it and manges to do so under 30 minutes. 

SHOT BY SHOT BY SHOT

The shots used in a film have a lot to do with the emotions, speculations, and environment the director wants the audience to feel. The shots are very important because they create the way the movie is perceived and seen by the audience since they get to see what has to be seen in order for the story to move along.

THE LONG SHOT

the long shot in this films sets up the scene by letting the audience know the setting and the environment and shows how there are many people around her because of the news she is about to receive by the gloomy  lighting it shows that the news is not very good

THE MEDIUM SHOT

in this medium shot we see the camera get closer to both actors to capture more of the emotion of the news that the female character is about to receive. it makes the audience observe both of the characters faces to see whats going on more closely

THE CLOSE UP SHOT

in this close up it is seen the pain that the character is experiencing once she finds out that her lover is dead. It makes the audience see the pain that the actress is portraying. 

In all of these shots it is seen how the close up medium and long shots help the audience understand the intensity of the scene and also the meaning of such tragedy in the characters life. By doing this the audience feels more into the scene since every aspect of it is shown.

Let's go see a John Wayne

        The studio system in a way was a technique that assured, or at least made it more probable for a movie to be a blockbuster with just the actors that the film contained. Although some of the greatest films were made at this time people didn't look much at the film but more at the people that were in it in order to figure out or predict what the film would be about.  The most important aspect was putting the actor in the same role so that when people heard that this actor was appearing in the film they knew what to expect which made them go to the right film and one that they would enjoy the most. 

       Since audiences showed what type of actors they liked and in what films they wanted to see by going to the movies every time they were in the starring role these people created a sense of mold films which were the ones that were very similar.  The studio would produce more of the same story lines with the same actor in a similar role so that they would be able to get more profit. This meant that many other stories could not really be taken into account since in such a time most people went to the movies to see their favorite actor playing what role best suited them in the audiences opinion.

              This very wells seen because when you see movies of this time you see the same people playing the same type of role. this is why when you speak of a western film with cowboys and saloons you cannot have this conversation without mentioning  john wayne, he was Mr. Cowboy in this period of time. This is the same when you talk about the innocent girl who always does what is told and is very venerable, Judy Garland comes to mind with movies like the Wizard of Oz in which she spends the whole film trying to return safely back home.         
 This can be a factor that could have helped the year 1939 be so great people showed what they wanted and who they wanted therefore the studio system tried their best to give them what they wanted.

"HE'S LIKE THAT"

  In all in the family the situation of homo-sexuality is like the huge elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about but exists. Carroll O'Connor's character is very against the whole gay thing and wants to avoid.In a modern sitcom this most of the time is taken as something normal there are shows like Ugly Betty, Glee and Modern Family that take a persons homo sexuality as a normal thing and don't make a huge deal about who's straight or gay. they might not like the homosexuality situation but they don't condemn people for being what they are. 

   There was one  similarity between this show and the shows today. They way writers portray the homosexual character or the person that is presumed to be a homosexual has not changed in a very drastic matter. The flamboyant clothes the language  and tone of voice that they use when speaking is still very stereotypical, when a homosexual is on screen. 

The situations in All in the family were very different to those which we deal with today, Jean Stapleton's character was so excited with the pictures the family friend brought back from his trip, to her this technology was very wonderful and she just kept thinking how a second later the people in and around the picture kept on with their lives. The way that they dealt with the friends possible homosexuality was also different, today homosexuality isn't really a very talked about topic on television it's just there, something that is happening and that sometimes appears and when it does the whole episode doesn't revolve around a person's sexual preferences. 

I think people have learned to take homosexuality as something still a bit abnormal, but the way that it is dealt with today is more of a people getting used to the face of homosexuals existing rather than right away judging a person just because of their sexual preferences.   

Radio days are OVER?

Technology has had a great impact on how the customer and the consumer enjoy the music and radio. Today with the creation of the iPod and all sorts of mp3 devices many times people just opt to download the song of their show in contrast with before that they would loyally wait by the radio to hear their favorite jam. 

 

Today many people only listen to the radio as a consolation either they have no iPod or no means of getting a CD created. With all this new technology that has come into circulation the radio days are practically over, unless you listen to radio stations online. But not all is negative towards the radio in some places people still listen to it regularly, iPod has some what made radio a bit more reachable for this new iGeneration by making some of their models have radio stations that run in the FM transmissions. Still i believe that mp3 players have taken much of the audience that is could have been of the radios if not for them. 

In the 1920's radio was practically the source that kept the public informed and also help people keep together in their family household. as soon as other technologies started to come into play all of this started to change. As soon as the TV came into play many people started to use that as their source of information I mean who doesn't want to see moving pictures rather than just listening to a voice out of a box. People want to see the persons face and no longer hope and wish that the person's voice really matches their imagination being. just like for the boy who imagined the person as a great big hero but it turned out to be a person smaller than his father. Radio had it's time of glory unfortunately today its is just another item that some people take for granted many of them rather listen to song after song than have the Dj's title and skill be repeated over and over in every effect that can be put on a voice.   

MEN=BLUE WOMEN=PINK

Before we go into school or have friends sometimes our only teacher is media weather it is on television or on the radio every time we listen to these sources we grab a bit of what we want our personality to be.

Ever since we have been part of the media we have in one way or another acted the way that the media portrays the person that we want to be. As children when we watch television we are automatically assigned the colors that we should love girls have to use, have, breath pink and on the other hand boys have to hate anything with flowers or with pink, they have to play with trucks that are blue and must wear blue.

As we grow older media also helps with our thinking a certain way or acting a certain way, even as gown people we still might act the way our favorite character acts on Glee. We like that character we want to be like them we also do it to see if the people around us act the way people do on television and have the happy ending that the protagonist has, which most of the time doesn't happen. In one way media does this is by always showing the stereotype of girls and boys, girls will always be the one that cries or is in any kind of distress and either it's because of a boy or a boy is the solution, and in comes the masculine non sensitive knight in shining armor  ready to help his damsal in distress. This is the scene that is always seen in movies kids shows you name it and as people see this they choose the role that they have to play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9TzEFyhHb4

In the video above my emotions are very strong and i show what i really feel which many times on television many men don't do, they just stay quiet and wait for another damsal to came along.
In the end we are all our on character and its better to act the way we want as long as we are happy with it who cares with it is not what media says we have to do as long as ME= WHO I REALLY WANT TO BE

FRAMING YOUR IDENTITY

Framing is the one reason that people fear to be who they really are for when they act in accordance to something that is not associated with how society views them most of the time they are shunned upon.  In order to be accepted many time we have to be chameleons in order for people to like us, and some of the time they are mostly those people that live in the frame of what in society is viewed is correct. Framing also makes people view other races cultures or sexes in a certain way for example many of the times when it comes to locking the doors some might say "Lock the door because a black man might get in" when a child or someone who is not really aware of thing hears this they will from then on also think that the only kind of person that breaks into peoples houses is a black man. Framing in my opinion is just another word for prejudice and should really have nothing to do with the way you view another person for in the end they might not fit the frame set upon them by society.

In this picture u see an asian about to stab a Mexican, in many ways this is a step out of Framing. Not only is the person with the knife an asian but she is also a woman which in many cases is the victim and not the attacker. In this case when i posted this on a social network one of the comments was " What an Asian stabbing a Mexican" which in fact made me see how the framing of me being a mexican male is of being the person who attacks the defenseless asian girl. Woman in the media always turn out to be the victim the damsel in distress not many shows portray them as the killers or murderers. One show who is all about breaking that image the Mexican show "Mujeres Asesinas" killer woman. In the promos the Actresses state their name and say I am a murderer which at first hearing sound very strong coming from a a woman's voice. Mujeres Asesinas now in it's third season portrays the many ways women step out of the role of victim and become as many people call them monsters. Once more framing comes into play women aren't suppose to kill they are suppose to be a mother, daughter, wife but never a killer I believe this show steps out of the frame that woman have and makes people see that not all women like to be the victim.