Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Magazines

Magazines are very interesting stuff to read. It has every kind for every kind of people, and the good thing is, there's more than one magazine that can fit a person's character. It could be about sports, business, news, fashion, food, housekeeping, culture, music, everything. It is very well made to fit a person's lifestyle. It sets deadlines for every issue to be released. Making it only for its target market which is the most important thing in all publications.

Reading a magazine is just like a little television in its glossy paper version and you can hit replay everytime you miss a thing or just feel like it, you can read it anytime. Just like one of my preffered magazines to read, "United", it's the official magazine of the Manchester United Football Club, its where i can read articles about whats currently happening, player profiles, staff, posters, pictures, snapshots of matches or events and highlights, it has advertisements, contests and promos, etc. It is only behind to televion/radio in the field of audio, that's the only downside i can think of, but imagine a sports magazine with audio, that would be nice. I can't even come up with the word to describe it. Imagine hearing crowd cheers while just reading a match report in a sports magazine. =) I wouldn't think that it's impossible.

I understand that in the business of making or publishing a magazine, it takes a lot of hard work and time to finish it properly, working under pressure on a very tight schedule on a seemingly very short deadline, but having an experience of making a magazine, even just a simple one, for our class project in our CA subject, i learned that that pressure and hard work can be divided which makes more comfortable and relaxed(not quite), comfort as a requirement to do work properly. Being involved in the online department, I learned that even though we are in a very different platform with the magazine itself, we still have to go with the flow with the pace of the magazine is going, we cannot be ahead and we cannot be too far behind.

Broadcast

Broadcasting started in the early era of the development of printing which led to the introduction of newspaper which is invented to broadcast, simply to inform. Now, it developed in many different ways, it can be done on air, the radio, television, and also in the internet today. Done for the purpose to inform.

Broadcasting is very important to all, no questions asked, if nobody in the channels of media to inform the people, it is very difficult to know whats the current events, what's happening to your favorite country, how could you ever know the state of business here in the Phils. or how could you even know when your favorite t.v. show will be aired. It surely has a big effect to us since the early beginnings of broadcasting. It changed how we live, how we develop or retain our culture and traditions, economic state of countries, everything, even how we think. It can show us different perspectives of the world and could convince us to think differently than we initially thought.

Personally, i never realised that i relied mostly on broadcasts to know the schedule of important football matches, especially my favourite team, to know the current status of football players, etc., it's not that i didn't know the definition of broadcast, it's that i haven't really thought about it, i just know it's there without any care to what i would do without it or the importance of it. Well now, i'm thanking television and the power of broadcast and also everyone involved that i am privelaged to be able to watch my favourite sport whenever i want to.

Sadly according to the a law of physics which i could not remember what particular law, all i know that it's important, that's why it is even made a law, anymays, it goes like 'for every action, there's always an equal but opposite reaction..'. To connect it to my point, with all these positive effects in broadcasting, there is also negative effects caused, also as great as the positive caused. Although this is, i think, irreversable, we still can survive with these negative effects caused but with, obviously, regrets.