Say Yes to the Dress

On the popular television channel TLC, a popular show is called Say Yes to the Dress. The show consists of different brides and their families trying on different wedding dresses and trying to decide which dress is perfect for their wedding. But, every single time, something is out of the ordinary. Whether the family's desires are so bizarre or unachievable, or the bride is in some crazy circumstance. So, something tells me that these situations are set up. The extreme situations and problems that they have to try and overcome are purely for more viewers. Viewers are attracted to drama, and that is why many reality television shows are popular, and the show leaves you on a cliffhanger as you go to commercials. Cliffhangers of drama always keep bringing you in, so you have something to pay attention to and not skip to a new show, because you want to know what's going to happen next. A few years ago, one of my coaches and I were talking about the show, and she informed me that one of her friends was actually asked to be on the show. So, this proves that the family's drama and desires, or even being related at all, are all fake. This is even a little obvious because of how weird some situations can be, but it still attracts people to watch it. Humans are not attracted to real, but attracted to drama.

Madison and Vine in Stranger Things

Madison and Vine: the coming together of advertising products within entertainment and media. Product placement is everywhere is movie and television, some you may not notice or it is your main focus of attention. In the television show, Stranger Things, the famous frozen waffle brand of Eggos, is largely eaten by one of the main characters throughout all of the seasons. This brand has become a fixture from the first time we see the character, Eleven, steal many boxes from the store, to when she is living with Hopper and eating them for breakfast. This was very smart on Kelloggs part, because multiple episodes have parts of them simply revolving around the product. Advertisement is usually not like this, because before we mainly saw commercials in between shows, never integrated within them. Fans of the show will now increase Eggos sales simply because their favorite show or character likes them, so they want to be similar.

Sonic the Hedgehog Animation Change

Scheduled for February  14, 2020, is the movie, Sonic: The Hedgehog. This is a particularly interesting but hilarious piece of media to me, because the originally scheduled release date was for November 8, 2019. This drastic change was all because of the backlash that was received over the appearance of Sonic. His animation had more human-like characteristics with his physique and eyes. But, after the trailer was released, it was a laughing stock across many different platforms, especially twitter. The people of twitter basically made fun of the design because it seemed so outrageous to them. So, the animators went back and reanimated the entire character of Sonic. The media essentially bullied those creators into creating a whole new movie, three months after the expected time. They gave him larger eyes and a less realistic "human" body. This whole event is hilarious that people on social media voiced their opinions of an already made movie, and they reanimated the whole movie to appeal to the crowd. In reality, I do not even think the young adults and teenagers tweeting about it were going to be a large consumer of the production. 

The Death of Jeffrey Epstein in the News

Jeffery Epstein, convicted sex offender and American financer, was rumored to have killed himself on August 10th while imprisoned. This strikes up a lot of controversies about whether or not he killed himself or was killed by someone hired to do so. He held a lot of unknown information on the Trump and Clinton families, which they would not want getting out. Also, the guards that were supposedly watching him every half hour for suicide, lied and did not actually go into his cell.
I looked at two different articles on this case, from The New York Times and Business Insider. Neither articles had frequent or any use of overused metaphors or phrases that Orwell describes as meaningless. But, The New York Times article was quite vague on which point of view they stood with, which may weaken their article. The writer described the events that happened the night of his death as if they were conspiracy side, but that was never clearly stated. Business Insider shows what their point is and backs it up with the evidence that they have. But, the writer still did not conclude that their point was the only view because of the evidence, which will strengthen their article. Still, neither news articles display a decay or language, because all of their words show direct facts, and cannot be debated. Although, in the Business Insider article, your view may be differed by how you define evidence. What the writer views as evidence may immediately swing you to one point of view, but you also may see that as having no correlation at all. So, while they did not use any overused words, some words can have different meanings to others.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-death.html https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-conspiracy-theories-death-clinton-trump-2019-8

Harry Styles: Fine Line

Harry Styles, British singer and former member of the boy band, One Direction, has announced the release date for his second solo album. His first album was released on May 12, 2017, and his new album, Fine Line, his scheduled for December 13, 2019. So far, he has released two of the songs that are going to be on the album, called Lights Up and Watermelon Sugar. As a huge fan of Harry Styles, every announcement or post he makes is very exciting. During the past two years, he has almost stayed "undercover" by not doing anything on social media or even out in the public. The only time the fans got to see anything of what he was doing is when he was spotted out in public and people took photos with him. This created a large amount of anticipation within all of the fans, wondering when and what he was going to do next. This could have been for publicity because even though he still hasn't released his album yet, I still spent a lot of money on tour tickets. Also, people who were not fans during his first album, have increased how many listeners he has. His new songs have differed from his first album, where there was both sad soft rock, and fast soft rock, while these new songs have been mainly pop. While I still love his new songs, I really hope that on his album there is some fast soft rock that my friends and I can go crazy to. His music brings my friends and I together because we all love him and are able to experience his tour, interviews, and skits. 

My Relationship with Media

November 19, 2019

     What is my relationship with media? Media is different forms of communication, using things like music, television, newspapers, or magazines. I see media every single day at the first time of my day, to the very end. I am able to bring my phone everywhere with me, which is just a pocket-sized form of media. So, I often find myself being "addicted" to media. At any time I can go on my phone to look at or use any type of media. Then, even when I turn off my phone, it still surrounds me in forms of videos in my classes, on the radio in the car, or on the TV at home. The types of media I find myself using or appreciating most are music, television shows, movies, and social media, like YouTube. I can have music playing at any time that I like, and it's able to fit whatever scenario it needs to fit. I often listen to it in between classes, in the car, doing homework, with friends, at a party, or just by myself. I no longer watch much cable TV and mainly use Netflix to stream shows that either no longer air or that are only on Netflix. I watch these shows when I am bored and would appreciate either a good laugh or even cry. Both new and old movies are a way that I can spend time with my friends or family. Social media is my "addiction", I am always on it and it is a way for me to procrastinate or just scroll. So, while I have a good relationship with media, and thoroughly enjoy using it, I often find myself being addicted to looking at or using it.