#WeeklyTask : Week 3 - Theatre and how it communicate.

What is theatre? How do you think theatre, as a media form, communicates messages to its audience?

Theatre, the first thing come across my mind is about ancient Greek and Rome. It is where the theatre culture comes from right? Because there is one game I played, Caesar III, a very old game back in 2000's, shows that the theatre play an important role in developing the society. Maybe because the theatre was meant to deliver messages to the audiences, society right ?

There is variety of theatre, depend on country, and culture. But how does the theatre communicates to the audience? In my opinion, the content of the performance/show is meant to be delivered to the audiences depend on the current situation of that country/society so that the community will be easily influenced by the show and the messages can be greatly delivered.


Or maybe, by performing a very beautiful, great masterpiece of art, the crowd can remembered well the scene, the act, thus applying it on their daily life.

reference :

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/thtr/hd_thtr.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth-century_theatre

#WeeklyTask : Week2, Type of Media Form

based on my googling..
there is 4 big category of media form. but for this task, I will list ten different media form.

Print Media

includes newspapers, magazines, directories, mail, brochures, packaging, and all other forms of message delivery that are produced by printing words or images onto paper or any other material like balloons or T-shirts. ( wikianswers )

#1 : Newspaper : A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features, editorials, and advertising. (wikipedia)

taken from http://www.mymalaysiabooks.com/malaysia/Malaysia_News.htm

#2 : Magazine : publications that are printed with ink on paper, generally published on a regular schedule and contain a variety of content. (wikipedia)

taken from : http://www.redfordlibrary.org/giving.htm

#3 : Brochures : is a type of leaflet. Brochures are advertising pieces mainly used to introduce a company or organization, and inform about products and/or services to a target audience. (wikipedia)

taken from my camera

Broadcast Media

#4 Radio Talk - another type of broadcast media. Example, Hitz.FM, Fly FM, Red FM

taken from : http://sixthseal.com/2011/12/interview-with-linora-on-red-fm/

#5 Television News - The main broadcast networks—Buletin Utama, RTM, and BERNAMA—each have a news division that broadcasts a nightly news show

taken from : http://paultan.org/2011/06/04/perodua-myvi-d54t-previewed-on-buletin-utama-tv3/

#6 Internet - the internet itself is one type of broadcast media. We live with internet in our daily life.

Out of Home Media

#7 Billboards. But there are also digital out of home media - like a regular billboards but using digital signage / a form of electronic display. ( justoutofhome )

taken from : http://www.oaaa.org/legislativeandregulatory/digital/aboutdigitalbillboardtechnology.aspx

#8 Product Placement in Movie : where branded goods or services are placed in a context usually devoid of ads, such as movies (wikipedia)

taken from : http://brandsandfilms.com/2011/01/top-40-product-placements-of-all-time-10-1/
wilson ball from 'Cast Away'

Interactive Media
Interactive media is two-way media that allows both companies and customers to send and receive messages between one another. This includes websites.


#9 Social Network, facebook/twitter/etc. Everyone pretty much know what is social network.

image taken from twitter, screenshot. 

#10 Video Games : electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.(wikipedia)

taken from http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/sharp-downturn-for-video-game-industry/

#WeeklyTask Week 2 - Different Group, Different Media Use.

Does different social or cultural group used different type of media? And the answer is yes. For this week, I would focus on 4 social/cultural groups. First started with the younger generation, including the kids, teenager and young adult. As more and more gadgets are introduced today, this generation is the earliest generation being introduced to the gadgets and technology. They are the one who will depend on the technology. The kids will spend most of their time watching television, cartoon maybe or playing games on smartphone or tablet. The teenager enjoying the internet, wasting time on social network such as Facebook and Twitter. Teenager can be from 12 to 19 years old. While the young adult, pretty much just like the teenager, but not only focusing on social network. They are probably actively on forum, social network, online streaming, or doing some reading about assignments.

Compared to the baby boomer generation, they don’t really care much about new media. They prefer with the traditional media, such as TV, newspaper, radio and mail. They are not technology dependent, and concerned about current issues, politic and economy. Some of them use the smartphone, but not really concerned about it. As long as it can function well, it good enough for them. For social network, this generation mostly used it for business purposed, or marketing. Twitter, is one of the good example business company can used for marketing and doing business because the retweet function on Twitter. Facebook merely used, just for the sake to connect with family members.

How about different culture? Does people in Brazil use different type of media compared in Malaysia? If we talked in term of social network, there are several different social media used by some country. Facebook is well known for social network, but it not really conquered the world. For example, in China, they use RenRen instead of Facebook. The Japanese use Ameba, something pretty much like Twitter, but only for those speaking Japanese. Vkontakte for Russia’s Facebook, Sonico.com for Latin Americans and Portuguese , AbairThusa for the Gaelic community. Gaelic is language and culture. Mostly found in Ireland.

In term of language, it is certainly different from one culture to the another. The Chinese speaks Cantonese. But there are some who speak Hakka, Mandarin, Min or Hokkien. Therefore, different culture got their own language, but to be able to communicate globally, English is set as standard language.

references : http://www.mediabadger.com/2010/06/culture-ethnicity-in-social-media/