Wrong Channel

Hey what can I say, television was once fun to watch. Whenever I watched it. I mean with all the worries that is happening within my black community, why should I care about watching television. And of course, I know my own answers. I know it is important to watch television, though it is crappy at times. I know it is away to inform and entertain but for the past years it has been away to manipulate and persuade. Lately, I have being ignoring the temptation to put forth even the effort to turn on the television. After along day of school and work why would anyone want to be bothered with the ignorance that surrounds the poor classification of entertainment, educational, and informational programs that makes up television.

Over the last several days my television habits sucked. I couldn't name one reality show, game show, or new talk show or program on any of the popular channels. I just found out who made it to the World Series. I know some think not even the news but with such a migrating and evolutionized industry who needs television besides for visual feeds that tells you what particular emotions look like and most importantly what race looks like. As a senior you just can not spare time to watch such mockery of every race but with certain classes you do have leisure time to read about it, surf the internet, find additional resources to remain updated in the news. Wasting thirty minutes on a television is a lot of time when you are headed to graduate school.

Let's break it down:

Sunday: Was a big day. I stayed up all night on Saturday trying to do something to my hair. than I woke up for church late. I always listen to Gospel music but its via desktop/ Youtubie. When I got back to church I had a meeting and NOPE no television there. However after church we did go to have lunch at Logan's and we watched the game on TELEVISION. Okay we are getting somewhere. That night I read some blog post, prepared for bed, read the Word and went to bed.

Monday: It's not looking to good on this day either. Three classes, work and homework. I left the house at 9 a.m. didn't come back in until 10:45 p.m. Laundry from two weeks ago is still on the floor. I have to organize my desk area and work on my research and production projects. Nope, no television for me

Tuesday: Left the house for work at 8:45. Luckily, we do have an humongous television but it is male dominated and we leave on the sports channel. That's how I discovered who made it to the World Series. After work, there is class and after class there is Maddrama Rehearsals and no television.

Wednesday: A glorious day of grace and mercy and the same as Monday. All work no play.

Thursday: I got up late but I did look on line for the news. Someone left the television on so I entertained myself briefly in the news and started my day. We had major rehearsal this night and we didn't leave until 1 a.m.

Friday: Was the big day for S.C.E.N.E. 60 coming out show. I went to class, took a nap, did some research on my topic, aaaaaaannnnnnnndddddddd I got a chance to watch The Game. It was an old episode but it felt nice to relax.

Saturday: I blew the weekend. I had to work a double. I had heavy blog reading. I permed my hair and sewed it in. I also did my roommate hair. The TV was on but we were too busy playing Spades and Scrabble to watch some BET movie. I know it was a black movie though.

Sunday: Was just the Lord's Day I didn't watch TV at all.

As you can see the lack of television affects me in two ways. One, I don't know whats the new shows, I don't know new actors or actresses, and it doesn't allow me with the capability to engage in conversation with peers about the entertainment on television. Why? BECAUSE I AM NOT WATCHING IT!!!! Two, I do develop additional skills and discover new resources to remain updated in the news by using different new media devices. So I would say I am compensating myself for the time wasting just sitting on my butt. Hey watching television doesn't give you good hand and eye coordination but typing does. LOL LOL LOL

Movie Tickets & More........It's a Process, Yep.

There was The Godfather, Silence of the Lambs, Harry Potter, Fight Club, The Bone Collector, The Color Purple, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Gone With The Wind, The Notebook, Forest Gump, and Lord of the Rings, just to name of few books that I read in my highschool World Literature and Literature of Science classes. To me there has always been a strong connection between written literature and the creative direction on the movie screen. Today, it is not out of the ordinary to produce or watch a movie that derived from a book written.

Ten years ago, movie directors and producers maybe wrote their production, created a storyboard and held a casting call than filmed their own vision of a typical love drama, comedy story. NOW, it appears to be that the only way for someone can get great entertainment is to read a novel and look forward to either a movie or television series come out. Since the the 1900's motion pictures became one of the new leisure activities for young adults when interpersonal time once dominated leisure's job. It developed into a cultural institution. Today, it is much more than an institution for different cultures. It became the leading source of entertainment.

in 2003, Bram Cohen created a downloading and file sharing software called BitTorrent that allowed downloads of files that are shared by one or more file holders. It also help speed up the process if you wanted to down load movies. Producers and other movie companies found new leverage to increase the expansion for films. The star system was created when the realization of fan interest in film actors and actresses drew larger crowds which equaled more MONEY. This only in film.

Motion picture making in the digital age is all computer generated. There is no more dailies being developed, processed, and printed, which takes up considerable amounts of times. To produce a successful film there is preproduction, production, and postproduction. Preproduction consists of writing the screenplay. The Screenplay is revised, rough drafted and polished. Production is cast and crew assembled at the location and shooting. Post production is the editing phase. The film editor and director work together to create what you pay the movies to watch.

It may seem easy but it is not. Before producers and directors wrote and starred in many of their own films. Today, many producers find best selling novels to evolve in movies. This slightly eliminates Pre-production but it also forms it into a different production process. Writers slightly revise and cut out certain scenes in the book to shorten the film but keep the main idea of the novel. It eliminates time because it is already written with a main idea and purpose.

Popular films like The Color Purple and The Godfather has been anticipated. A short time ago, The Color Purple made a different approach with the book and film. They migrated to Broadway productions which are growing more popular today. Illegally Blonde may not have started as a book but is another example of how films are beginning to migrate off the big screen and to the big stage. Books that become films are more interesting. They are less time consuming for the production crews and they can shift the producers writing skills to more creative dramas and ideas in the film.

I believe that it's the most awesomest (<--- Not a word but it's my blog) convergence in media. The benefits are: Whoever didn't read the book saw the film but wants to read the book now, whoever read the book but didn't see the film wants to go see the film. It's like doubling money gross with one fan. The author gets major credit and if the film is a success the producer as well. And, the director gets to manipulate the scenes with his or her imagination. Kind of Cool

The Generation of the Billboard Death

Once again whatever song Lil Wayne puts his hands on will somehow be number one. For whoever heard of Jay Sean before "DOWN' hit number one. Than Lady GaGa boastful music that captures the homosexual hear is the epitome against the Word of God but someway they love her. Miley Cyrus is the cliche teenager everyone wants to be. But, she recently did something that no other celebrity teenager ever did and that was reclaim her privacy. Check out her new music video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTcUZYsWV5M

Of course whatever Jay-Z compose, it will has a guaranteed placement on the billboards representing the urban music community. Billboards wouldn't be billboards if their wasn't the latest love-hate R&B singles. Fan bases for Black Eye Peas and Taylor Swift constantly increases as they produce the high school reminder songs that compliment movies including an unpopular girl who is attracted to the most popular guy in school, who eventually falls for her. Bravo to cliche music.

Today, Billboards are pretty much predictable to music analyst. Pop, Hip Hop, Country, R & B, Rap, and Rock. There are fans for everyone and almost every genre of music, and converging genres of music. If there wasn't the music industry wouldn't be as broad as it is now. There wouldn't be a need to translate songs in different languages. No need to learn how to hip hop dance or line dance. Music is one of the ways that help persuade and mold our society from the way we think to how we behave. But it's not the only outlet of music.

IPods, MP3s', and ringtones has presented a different outlet for artist to distribute their music to fans for compensation. Fans pay to hear the their favorite music, if enough fans have phones and Ipods it could be difficult to decipher what genre of music is favored out through the U.S. Due to such evolving ways to obtain music, it forces technology to evolve into the next device to that compensates our needs. It forces convergences among different devices like Ipod and cellular phones, cellular phones and cameras, etc. that branches out to multiple use.

Everyone wins. Jobs remain for the producers of new technology and devices that allows music fans multiple ways to buy their favorite music, which proceeds go to their favorite artist who gets compensated for their fantastic song. It is a chain reaction if one chain break it alters or loosens the rest. By it being so much diversity, the music industry grows consistently. Music is flowing in and ringtones are going out. It has become a additional source and resource for income.

From society's perspective, music has always been blamed for the effects it has on their community and the people in it. From boasting to bragging and from sexual desire to sexual explicit language. People question where is the FCC when you need them. Ringtones and IPods allows such vulgarity to reach their community quicker and faster. Fans and others wouldn't have to go to a club, tune into a radio, go to BestBuy to purchase a cd, they can just download it on the bus, train, and in the car if they want to listen to it.

The birth of such devices has changed and strictly enforced new laws against devices because it distracts people's lack of tentativeness when doing normal routines. People has lost their lives because such obsession has disrupted conscientiousness of realization that it is only a phone that you can connect to others more quickly, play music and watch music videos while you go through your day just being irrelevant to an industry that you financially support but only thing you get in return is a planned funeral and hurt family.

Woke Again.