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- 501: Celebrities And Their Salaries
- ... of a camera but it has negative effects on the rest of the entertainment business. Due to the salary increases, production prices are rising, quality is lowering, and it is becoming increasingly harder for a television show or movie to become a hit. Making money at the movies is problematic, though studios once thought star power was a surefire way to receive boffo box-office returns. These days star power is ... the idea counted." Yet studios continue to shell out for these big names, exploding the current price tag for the average studio film, including marketing and distribution to $60 million. The same is true for television programs such as Mad About You and The Simpsons. Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser, the stars of Mad About You demanded $1 million per episode this season (that's a $750 000 raise for both ... upon to write his own new dialogue and the turnout from that project? Let's just say that it won't be winning any Academy Awards this year or ever. Featuring A-list actors in television shows and movies is the studios' idea of an insurance policy, guaranteeing boffo box office and Nielsen ratings. There is a flaw to this logic though, big stars bomb all the time. Recently, the ...
- 502: Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim Prediction of the Future
- ... thought it would. Orwell, more than likely, would have made note of, but wouldn’t be astonished by, the fact that in 1983 the average American household spent over 7 hours in front of the television every night. The number is even greater for those households which currently subscribe to a cable service. Those families watch television for more that 58 hours a week. That is more that 2 days straight without sleeping, eating, or going to the bathroom. He also wouldn’t have passed by this magazine advertisement that could be ... of everyone under it’s power, and has complete physical and psychological surveillance on all people at all time. This is exemplified in the fact that the government can look back at you through your television, or telescreen as it is called in the book, and the governmet has set up telescreens almost anywhere you can go. While they don’t have telescreens in unpopulated country sides, they have gone ...
- 503: Advertising 3
- ... It can be highly selective and concentrated on a particular segment of the public such as stockholders, suppliers, or opinion leaders. Intensive community coverage may be secured through the use of local newspapers, radio, or television advertising. Which will provide enough space to tell a complete story and inform and educate people. The advertiser can control the timing and space given a public relations message by buying a certain amount of ... it and start saying it themselves, then they say it to someone else and they remember it, and so on. So word of mouth was a reliable source, as well as the newspapers, radio, and television. "Vocal advertisement came first; visual second,"(Wood 23). There are five creative strategies that advertisers use: 1. Objective (what advertisers should do). 2. Target Audience (who is your consumer). 3. Key consumer benefit (why the ... competitors, that would be a change worth considering." (Petroski 207). In conclusion, the advertisements of today are far more different, with the computer technologies, it is becoming more and more expensive to get things advertised. Television and radio are more expensive these days. With the different variations of popular products people will just get the cheaper product. Getting your product on the market is not as important as getting it ...
- 504: Teenage Violence
- ... to a generation ago. Teenagers are exposed to massive amounts of violence in the media. Violent acts are glorified in the media. Children are subjected to a relentless stream of violent acts on prime time television, news and movies. They begin to see violence as an acceptable solution to their complex problems. Exposure to violence in the media is increasing. Teenagers are watching more television instead of spending time with family and friends. For some teens television becomes their social life. Even Saturday morning cartoons are impressing messages upon our children. They seem to illustrate that if you are a reasonable person, you must use violence if you are dealing with ...
- 505: Advertising 2
- ... Advertisements are one of the most important cultural factors moulding and reflecting our life today. They are ubiquitous, an inevitable part of everyone's lives: even if you do not read a newspaper or watch television, the images posted over our urban surroundings are inescapable. Pervading all the media, but limited to none, advertising forms a vast superstructure with an apparently autonomous existence and an immense influence."(11) Television commercials and magazine advertisements tend to focus toward the people most likely to watch that television program or read that magazine. For example, if people are watching a soccer game then the commercials in between will most likely have to do with soccer. In magazines the advertisements are related to ...
- 506: How the Women's Movement has Improved
- ... fact change. “Berenice Abbott was best known for 1920s portraits of Parisian notables and for dignified cityscapes of New York, was commissioned in 1954 to photograph U.S. Highway No. 1 from beginning to end. Television offered a brand-new field for women's imaginations. Nanette Fabray and Imogene Coca, Jayne and Audrey Meadows, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen and Lucille Ball instantly became national figures.” (Kaledin 26) “Lucille Ball, while pregnant during her television show, I Love Lucy, was demonstrating that having a baby should not force any women to give up her work. Over two million more people watched Lucy's television birth in 1953 than watched President Eisenhower's inauguration address the next day.” (Kaledin 27) “Journalists flourished. Marguerite Higgins became the first woman foreign correspondent to win a Pulitzer prize for her account of ...
- 507: The Media's Impact On Life
- ... impacted upon your life in one way or another. The commercials, magazine ads, radio advertisements, they all have done or said something to catch your attention for if nothing else, and extra three seconds. The television commercial is the powerhouse of influential propaganda of today, and the days to come. The music videos on TV often portray women as being inferior. They are not capable to withstand the pressures of society ... target certain age group and cultural horizons. For instance let us take an in-depth look on Terry Hogan, formerly of the WWF® (World Wrestling Federation) where he was known to practically anyone with a television as Hulk Hogan™. After a few misinterpretations of his contract in the WWF, he then changed scenes and joined the WCW (World Championship Wrestling). He brought with him the same fan support in which he ... was brought about by the WCW because their ratings were dropping because the golden boy image means nothing to the common day viewer anymore. Violence is now everything and Terry Hogan actually admitted in a television interview that the saliva spitting, vigilante that he now portrays is indeed the more appealing role of the two he has focused upon. Well, the WCW ratings have now reached number one in wresting ...
- 508: Affecting How We Think
- Mass communications is one of the most popular college majors in the country, which perhaps reflects a belief in the importance of communications systems in society. The communications system, consisting of radio, television, film, newspapers and magazines, effects how we think, how we feel, and how we live. Therefore, we must ask ourselves, "Is media 'mere entertainment,' or are there serious side effects of the national preoccupation with ... gossip. It can be detrimental to the intelligence of the public to "dumb down" the news for the sake of ratings. And it seems, day by day, that ratings take total precedence in the media. Television programming is a significant example of rating precedence. Much of the population believes that violence is a reoccurring theme in television programs, and that this violence may provoke violent tendencies in those who watch it. Because of this notion, a device called the v-chip was invented which allowed parents to prevent their children from ...
- 509: JFK
- ... construction projects. On Nov. 22, 1963, Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas, Texas, the fourth United States president to die by an assassin's bullet. The state funeral of President Kennedy was watched on television by millions around the world. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. During his time as President, JFK had to make difficult decisions. Many of the hardest choices concerned the relationship between our nation and ... were and what they were doing when they heard the news of the murder. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington for the President's funeral, and millions throughout the world watched it on television. As the years have gone by and other Presidents have written their chapters in history, John Kennedy's brief time in office stands out in people's memories--for his leadership, personality, and accomplishments. Many ...
- 510: Australia's Future
- ... soon to be amended to make it impossible. There is a group lobbying to make chastising children illegal - an absurdity - a quality that makes official adoption almost a certainty. Continually being observed via a huge television screen in every room was one of the horrors of life under Big Brother. Presumably Orwell was alluding to Stalin's secret police who constantly watched all citizens. Such relentless scrutiny has not yet been ... it must kill freedom of speech while providing nothing of benefit. Giving increasingly nervous citizens a device to lash out easily at others when social conditions are deteriorating, can only have one result. The satirical television cartoon comedy "The Simpsons" had an episode that graphically depicted what happens in such circumstances. To overcome constant bickering each Simpson family member was given the power to administer an electric shock to any other ...
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