Reality television

Find X The world is ripe with enigmas—bold unanswered questions. Extraterrestrial life, time travel, the meaning of life, and cultural relativism are just some of these sweeping topics. There are also countless smaller mysteries, less earth shattering questions that manifest in short-lived daydreams and musings. The smaller enigmas I ponder span from how the first camera prototype was conceptualized to what the X-Factor truly is. It is a popular show, most people know that it’s a televised music…

The Jimmy Fallon, the Bachelor Presentation: I cannot believe that any parent would let their child audition for something like this; the Baby Bachelor. It’s a very cute and very comical way to make fun of what happens on real shows like the Bachelor and the Bachelorette. This little clip showed me how incredibly unintelligent these shows are. They are not very educational or really have a purpose other than entertainment. I really like how you presented the topic. I like that you gave a…

The Truman Show focuses on Truman Burbank, a man who was adopted by a TV company after his birth. He lives in a large TV set, unknowingly filmed at every moment in a live broadcast to the public. Living in a world of lies, Truman begins to discover the truth of his life and acts upon it. Christof, the director of the TV show, controls Burbanks’ life.His main goal is to get the TV show to be a success, however, by doing so he neglects all ethical guidelines to an experiment but particularly the…

Jenny Jane Jackson was the best Youtuber in the world don’t ya know. She was born in Texas on August 29, 1995, she is now 21 years old. Jenny can make and watch, then edit 10 videos that are 2 hours or longer on both of her channels that she has. She can also make anyone watch and like her videos. Her videos has every topic you can think of from gamer to stunt devil. When all of the people in the world saw her in her first video at 2 years old talking about how she knew how to do 12th grader…

In the movie there were four different newspaper headlines. One read "The Best Place on Earth Seahaven Voted Planets Top Town", they used that title so that Truman would feel safe. He was planning on leaving, but they make the rest of the world seem so horrible so that he won't want to leave his little town that protects him from all of the evil. If he leaves then the entire show is ruined so they are using the media to influence him to stay. Another newspaper headline was "who needs Europe"…

When you grow up in America, the values and views of what an American family is said to be is instilled deep within your subconscious from a young age. You grow up watching your parents strive to reach this goal and fit in themselves. The traditional American family is viewed as having a mom, a dad, and children. In the 1950s, these views were very important to everyone. If you didn’t fit into this tradition, then you weren’t a part of the realm of normal. Tobias Wolff and his mother, Rosemary,…

Every so often, an actor gets a "break" that can only be described as luck (or for people of faith like me--divine intervention). And in the case of Bzhaun Rhoden, I believe he has acquired a blessing that few young people in this business receive. While there is no doubt in my mind that his uncanny talent and savvy business acumen have garnered him this opportunity of guest-starring on a hit TV show, I tend to think he is the perfect example of being in the right place at the right time and…

truman's life in his fake reality he discovers many lies about his world. Truman wanted to explore the world as a child. He wanted to discover the world unknowingly that he was held by a cooperation for a daily movie or tv show in the fake world that he lives in. He wanted to fly to a place for vacation only to realize that “He who controls the past, controls the future.” Many of the people in Truman's world are actors apart of the movie and have seen what reality is. Truman's dream of…

choice to leave the constructed reality because he deserves a life just like any other human being. Christof taking Truman when he was a baby and putting him in this constructed reality was cruel and out of his decision. At the end when Christof was trying to persuade Truman to stay at his constructed reality he made it seem as a utopia place when in reality it isn’t because his whole life was a lie. Christof would have done anything to keep Truman in that constructed reality including killing…

In a society surrounded by media the producers have to prioritize there audience, who is consuming there product such as TV, radio and newspapers. This can be done by calculating how many individuals are consuming and what type of gender, age and class they are or by more in-depth research such as ethnography and interviews. Classifying media audiences according to class can be seen as useful particularly within the media industry in regards to the sale of advertising. For instance, newspapers…