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Film Reaction Paper: The Newsroom In 2012, creator Aaron Sorkin’s television series The Newsroom aired on HBO cable network. Actor Jeff Daniels portrays Will McAvoy, News Night’s anchor and managing editor, with impeccable style and realism. The newscast McAvoy and his staff produces is notorious for being soft news (Dominick 2013) but that is about to change. The pilot episode begins at a forum at Northwestern University. McAvoy consistently avoids questions of political party allegiance and…

In the HBO segment titled, “Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”, the host, John Oliver, successfully informs his audience about the negative connotations of a new bill that will abolish net neutrality and how they’ve been lied to by politicians and corporations. This segment was released in May of this year, and ISP companies were starting to show their support for net neutrality even though they were really backing the opposite of it so Oliver decided to make it his duty to…

The first Blockbuster that was established was in Dallas Texas and opened October 19, 1985, and the original owner was David cook. David Cook owned a business before blockbuster that provided computer software services to an oil company. David later sold that business and ceased the opportunity in the video retail industry, the first store opened was said to have over 8,000 VCR tapes on shelves and a computer checkout system. David's business plans had succeeded and the following year he opened…

The video I have picked for this assessment is the television title sequence for HBO`s series named “The Sopranos” created by DAVID CHASE in 1999. I`m going to talk about the video’s basic content and context, its key formal elements, and analyse its construction of meaning. The beginning to every episode of The Sopranos starts with the view provided of HBO`s own branding; A screen full of static appears and the disappears to reveal their logo. The sequence opens with the view coming from the…

opening scene was a standard reenactment in my eyes, akin to America’s Most Wanted. It wasn’t until the faces of Michael Keaton and Paul Guilfoyle appeared on the screen that I realized I wasn’t watching a documentary at all. Live From Baghdad was an HBO feature film that documents the first Iraq War, and the coverage of the CNN team in 1991. While it was certainly a dramatic retelling; it was a rather informative and well made film. In 1991, I was only 4 years old. My memories from that…

Since the 1950’s the television set has been a staple in every American family’s living room. They gathered around to watch the moon landing, nightly newscasts, Saturday Night Live, the Superbowl, presidential debates, and to find out the winner of American Idol. TV has a long history of impacting our culture and society, but what it once was is slowly dissolving and transforming into something new. We now live in the age of Netflix, binge watching, and being able to carry a TV with us at all…

Sopranos, which aired on HBO from 1999-2007. Given the shows name you can already decipher that the family is of Italian heritage. What it does not do is give a hint that this is a family who has connections to the mob. So how do you analyze the opening sequence for The Sopranos by using semiotics? For one you have to really delve into every shot, its…

There are thousands of nonviolent drug offenders serving a lengthy mandatory prison sentencing within federal prisons. Years ago, during the “war on drugs”, this was President Richard Nixon quick fix to the dramatic growth on drug use and dealing. Decades later, maybe sooner, it has come to light that this mandatory sentencing mostly affected African American Men. For example, powder cocaine versus crack cocaine, were said to be two different drugs and crack cocaine dealers would serve a…

but at a low reasonable price. Where it still makes the person feel like they are getting it for free. HBO may also be leading the way in the TV show market with creating a subscription to stream their content over the internet for a low monthly fee without having a cable subscription, no doubt a direct cause from their popular TV shows and movies being the most downloaded in the world. With HBO changing their ways to get people to pay for their content, and the growing popularity of Netflix. It…

Subscription channels such as Starz and HBO are successful in premiering new releases and also air movies and series that are exclusives for their networks. One con is that it would take tens of millions of dollars to start the network when you factor in both production and marketing (Unknown…