This observation is less one I have about Media and more one that I have had about my self. I have always found myself critical of media I consume, more specifically Literature. Having had Literature classes I found myself capable of understanding the works and analyzing them but when trying to do the same with television or a movie I find myself unable to articulate my way of understanding them. I feel that after the first chapter we've done I am better equipped to analyze these media artifacts as I now have new ways of using some of the same literary devices I was so accustomed to.
I recognized and applied this understanding to last week's premier of the series Heroes: Reborn, a mini-series continuation of the popular NBC Science Fiction Drama. I found myself categorizing the signs and symbols as they showed up, as well as finding the parallels in the way camera shots were used between this new series by the same director of the old series, made easier by the fact I used the first episode for our paper. Now that I knew these way to apply my previous knowledge with the techniques we have learned in class it felt more natural and I didn't feel like was trying to stick a television show in a literature sized hole. I hope as this class continues I'll be more at ease analyzing and expressing that analysis through my writing. I can only hope that more practice both in an out of class will be what makes me better understand the media artifacts and what makes them work so that I can learn how to write for them, which is a goal of mine.
I recognized and applied this understanding to last week's premier of the series Heroes: Reborn, a mini-series continuation of the popular NBC Science Fiction Drama. I found myself categorizing the signs and symbols as they showed up, as well as finding the parallels in the way camera shots were used between this new series by the same director of the old series, made easier by the fact I used the first episode for our paper. Now that I knew these way to apply my previous knowledge with the techniques we have learned in class it felt more natural and I didn't feel like was trying to stick a television show in a literature sized hole. I hope as this class continues I'll be more at ease analyzing and expressing that analysis through my writing. I can only hope that more practice both in an out of class will be what makes me better understand the media artifacts and what makes them work so that I can learn how to write for them, which is a goal of mine.
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