Media Literacy
What is media? What does being “Media Literate” mean? Media is what our people created for all of us to be entertained. I think media is about the world that we see or hear on T.V., the internet and the radio. Also, to find out reports about what tragically happened last Friday or to see what the weather is going to be the day after tomorrow. Most importantly, I think music plays a very important role of media. All of the media that was created had a purpose for everyone, although we may not know it, it’s a part of us now. The media evolves every day and we don’t realize that we become in tune with any sort of media more than anything else. Which is why I think the meaning of being “media literate” is being involved with the world, by just a click of a button. I think that being media literate is having a connection to people by media. For example, our phones that we use to contact loved ones or anybody else you would want to connected to. We are even electronically connected to celebrities, by watching their stand-up comedies, music videos, movies, or shows and more. We may not be face- to-face, but we are indirectly connected through media. Technology has grown efficiently to whereas we can be a follower or be a friend of a celebrity through social media. I also feel that being media literate is how we talk to others over technology, to talk like the majority talks through media. For instance, songs that artists create can have grammar flaws or not such a great vocabulary, but if the song is great that’s all that matters. So, we use the same language as the media is presented and become part of the media language and being known as a media literate.
Fox 5 is always live!
Media's Meaning!
Beyonce's National Anthem Perfromance!
Coca Cola in the Super Bowl commercial "America the beautiful", (2014) suggests that we are all a union in America. Coca cola expresses their support by having people all over the world sing the song in their foreign language. To acknowledge that we are all beautiful throughout every continent. Coca cola puts emphasis on different cultures as to show admiration to all.
HOLLYWOOD- The model, Susan, finally accomplished her goal: to come from a size one to a size negative two! She made the cover on People’s Magazine as a “Perfect, yet interesting, figure.”
Susan has made it on covers of magazines such as; Entertainment, Time Magazine: Susan is disappearing in a blink of an eye!, and many more. Susan even designed a product after herself, an hourglass as her body.
Susan gives her fans her secrets on how to get the figure of a straw. “All you gotta do to stay motivated is, look at the mirror and think to yourself that your body is not skinny enough to be seen on an anorexia billboard .”
“After you do that, all you have to do is not eat for about one year, if you’re strong enough.” That is, if Susan can do that herself, she nearly blends with the desert’s flimsy trees.
Starving may not be the best option, actually it shouldn’t be an option. Fit and skinny are two different things, meaning that you can have a different body type apart from someone else and be fit. Skinny, however, is meaning you don’t carry fat or other important nutrients. For example, Angelina Jolie is probably begging for food from what she looks like.
Anorexia has been a horrid disorder to majority females and is still continuing. Mostly, teenage girls read magazines and see a beautiful, flawless model. They then look at themselves in the mirror and think that they should look like model on Cover Girl. If those young girls only knew that the model shown in that magazine has as many flaws as the girls looking at the model.
Susan finishes her interview with this amazingly wise quote, “Don’t let anybody tell you how you look… because they are probably lying.” We don’t see Susan stopping her “diet” anytime soon.
Theme Song of 1984
Same Faces Same Places
I chose the song Mad World, by Gary Jules, because it talks about how everyone is completely the same and are living in an infinitive circle every single day. In the lyrics of the song it says, “All around me are familiar faces, worn out places, worn out faces. Bright and early for their daily races…” In 1984 Winston describes how the citizens of Oceania look every morning and night. He describes the routines that are performed by the people of Big Brother and how he analyzes the living, he makes an illusion of the day constantly being seen as a black and white scene. The song’s melody also has a sorrowful tune that fits the description of 1984 to which is one of the reasons of why this song was chosen for the 1984’s theme song. Jules’s song is brought to life in our modern society now and when you listen to it, you realize that, that part of our world is exactly how it is in the lyrics. In the song it also says, “Their tears are filling up their glasses. No expression, no expression” In the book everyone is required not to have any human characteristics, for example feelings, and people on the inside cry, but instead they have no expression.
Lyrics
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world ... mad world
Enlarging your world
Mad world