Monday, April 1, 2013

The Questions


Film
What led to the birth of Hollywood? what is your personal view of Hollywood? Name 5 Hollywood films that have changed the movie industry and describe the respective changes.
The Jews can be said to be the founder of Holloywood, because the movies that they have been producing are better and created dreams. My personal view of Hollywood is that they have bring movie and acting to a brand new level, they created dreams for people who wanted to be an actor. Hollywood allows movie producer to compete with each other and improve their movie from time to time and the idea of a movie can bring some affection to how people think especially for the Sci-Fi movie. One of the movie I think that have changed the movie industry is Star Wars, although it is not the first film that uses special effect, but as the first episode Star Wars : A New Hope (1977) gave me an impression which I could not forget since I was a child. It give me the question like is it really happening? The brilliant part about Star Wars is that they try to involve different type of creatures and planet into their movie and they have like a lot of main actor for different episode. They are relating the 6 episodes with each other and the audience are still able to understand the whole storyline. Another reason I said StarWars film changed the movie industry is that it has a strong identity until now, let's say when we see a light saber or Darth Vader helmet, we can still recognize them. Their merchandise is a success too. A lot of toys and tools are created and sell based on the concept of Star Wars, a lot of advertisement from company such as Volkswagen, Lego, Pepsi and etc were made based on the Star Wars character.
The second film that I think have changed the movie industry is Avatar. The movie brought us to another level of visual. I was amazed by the graphic in the Avatar movie and I even bought the Blu-Ray version as my collection. It was said to have changed the 3D glasses technology in cinema. It was one of the most successful Sci-Fi and Adventure movie that people could not forget easily. The idea of floating rock and fountain in Pandora might have changed people's point of view on creativity when producing a film. The amazing technical improvement have led Hollywood to become better and most of the new film nowadays are starting to have the feeling that the movie Avatar is trying to give.
I have to be honest that I only have 2 opinion because I still don't really understand how Hollywood works and I don't want to just copy and paste from other website, sorry for my bad english too.

Games
What is the relationship between colour technology and video games? Describe how dominant Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are in the history of video games?
-In my opinion, the relationship between colour technology and video games are they are improving from time to time so that they are compatible with each other. The game industry will keep improving their graphic and colours, same goes to the colour technology. The gaming console for video games are improving the number of colour from  a Sega Master System(1985) which has 32 colours to Sega Dreamcast(1997) 16.7million colours. After the Sharp Quatron 3D Tv was introduced, we now have 16.7billion colours for the video games which is possible to make the graphic look as real as possible and that all depends on how the creator making full use of the colours.

Music
How did the music industry began and what has happened since then? what was the impact of digital technology to the music industry? Is piracy killing the music industry
At the dawn of the early 20th century, the recording of sound began to function as a disruptive technology to the commercial interests publishing sheet music. Digital technology affect how the music was published. From the big piece plate of cd to a smaller one and then the walkman generation. Soon there was invention of Ipod. And now people can easily store their music in a pendrive or usb drive. People can also store their music in their mobile phone or smart phone. Piracy is not the enemy, obecurity is. The internet has no borders because of the technology, which means people can find their favourite music online easily.

Tv
How dominating was the television and what has Youtube and Netflix fone to the broadcast industry?
During 1959, around 42000000 American homes have television and some have 2 sets already. On 1972, half of the american have a color television and the first pay-TV network, Home Box Office (HBO) was launched. Later on, billions was spent on wiring  of America and billions on program development. Netflix was established on 1997 and it ships 2million DVDs to customers each day. Netflix allows people to watch movies & TV shows anytime, anywhere for one low monthly prices. Netflix allow people to watch their favourite movie on any device such as Xbox, PlayStation3, Wii, Mac, Mobile, TV and more. I think Netflix allow people to save their time and enjoy their entertainment at home, which is time-saving and some people feel more comfortable to watch movie at home. It is like something similar to Astro in Malaysia, but Netflix is not available in our country yet.

Theme parks
Describe theme park industry and how dominant is Disney compared to its competitors?
Disney is dominant compared to its competitors because it has a lot of Disney characters that the child can recognize and the fantasy they can feel when they are going to Disneyland. It is like a fairy land for the child to go and experience making them feeling like a princess and prince because there is a castle for every Disneyland. The technology of the ride and video games in Disneyland are also improving from time to time. The ride in Disneyland is not the best one but they have the best concept comparing to its competitors like six flags.

Digital Revolution
What kind of revolution is digital? how have conventional media owners responded to the digital content revolution? what about the issue of free and paid content?

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