It's a human nature to find entertainment whenever bored, nobody like to get bored or stay that way. Cavemen killed their boredom, other than eating and sleeping, they entertained themselves with cave drawings, early humans built civilizations and empires to change their once dull uncivilized lifestyle, barbarians invaded cities to satisfy their craving for entertainment, early innovators invented just to make them happy and proud, then the development of media as a primary entertainment source also known as the 4th information revolution.
I have always been fond of movies and certain types of music and the television. Especially when i wonder about the time during ways of recording music into little strips of 'film' (I'm not really sure what they call it) and pictures used for motion picture. Up to now, i still don't get how they came up with the idea of it being possible to put music in that little instrument without musical instruments.
In the early stages of the radio, it was a breakthrough to have some people invented something like this that would eventually develop into the first most influential medium for media to reach its audience rather than just reading a newspaper, but this source of information and entertainment came with a price. Then the innovations for the ever humble camera, to an instrument for a film maker equivalent for a painter to a paintbrush (almost typed in toothbrush, *phew*). Having television and movies nearly have similar characteristics but still totally different in so many ways and platforms. Early film makers expressed their thoughts through their simple films then thankfully through the years they have improved and grown a lot, the film makers and the movies themselves.
This era of discoveries in this particular field of entertainment using media is for me the most crucial part of the developement of or source of entertainment today in the modern age. If it weren't for the ideas of some, risks they took just to try their idea to do something new, has led to become part of our life's necessities today, entertainment in the form of music, radio, television, theatre, and cinema.
Friday, August 3, 2007
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
'War of the Worlds'
The broadcast of the dramatization of HG Well's 'War of the Worlds' during the late 1930's, 1938 to be exact, is somewhat interesting in its own way. The dramatization itself is brought out to the audience like a live broadcast which never prepared the listeners for the tragic story.
I listened to it with an open mind and tried to set my thinking as like of those people in that time. As a 'kid', it obviously bored me, but that was only my initial reaction for i am very very tired at the moment i listened to the audio file, anyways, it started out as boring for me then it came to the part when they played a piece by some orchestra which made my eyelids drop but then came the part when its making me curious for interrupting broadcasts buildng up the suspense, then as minutes past by, the radio broadcast was getting more exciting, well, not that exciting. It really sounded like it was really happening.
However, during the part where a captain in the area claiming that the situation is under control then suddenly the aliens came out then the action began, and the contact from the place of the aliens were suddenly cut of then continued by the broadcastser in the radio station then stating events of the next actions of the aliens, that made me wonder how can he know that instantly where the events during the attack from the farm was cut off only up to that part. But still, it will just make me question but it won't entirely change my thoughts about the radio broadcast.
Viewing it with a particular point of view, specifically of a person from that period, i would definitely believe the broadcast as real news only up to the part when they say that it was ony a dramatization, for the reasons that radio was very infuential at that period, and the way of presenting the dramatization. Also the reactions of some already panicking, careless of what they are doing that unconciously building a tense atmosphere which could influence many to panic as helpless citizens as well, as reaction to the tragic broadcast.
I listened to it with an open mind and tried to set my thinking as like of those people in that time. As a 'kid', it obviously bored me, but that was only my initial reaction for i am very very tired at the moment i listened to the audio file, anyways, it started out as boring for me then it came to the part when they played a piece by some orchestra which made my eyelids drop but then came the part when its making me curious for interrupting broadcasts buildng up the suspense, then as minutes past by, the radio broadcast was getting more exciting, well, not that exciting. It really sounded like it was really happening.
However, during the part where a captain in the area claiming that the situation is under control then suddenly the aliens came out then the action began, and the contact from the place of the aliens were suddenly cut of then continued by the broadcastser in the radio station then stating events of the next actions of the aliens, that made me wonder how can he know that instantly where the events during the attack from the farm was cut off only up to that part. But still, it will just make me question but it won't entirely change my thoughts about the radio broadcast.
Viewing it with a particular point of view, specifically of a person from that period, i would definitely believe the broadcast as real news only up to the part when they say that it was ony a dramatization, for the reasons that radio was very infuential at that period, and the way of presenting the dramatization. Also the reactions of some already panicking, careless of what they are doing that unconciously building a tense atmosphere which could influence many to panic as helpless citizens as well, as reaction to the tragic broadcast.
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