My Media World
As we went over types of media today, movies never even crossed my mind. I always think of media as magazines, commercials, television, and billboards. Media that is telling you how to think, what to do, and quite simply what’s out in the world. Being someone who has little free time, there’s not much time for media in my life. I’m envious of girls who can sit outside in the sun and read their Cosmopolitan, or people go to movies on weekends (or weekdays for that matter). The extent of my media is, the little bit of TV I watch while eating dinner, right before I go to bed, or when I watch soaps at Coffman in between classes. I try to know what current events, but I’m usually flying out the door before class, and there’s barely time to slam my coffee much less read a paper. For me I observe my media as what is convenient, anything else is random. There may be some difficulty in this class because I’m tend not to really go anywhere outside of mainstream media, simply put, because I don’t have time. To an extent I may be at a disadvantage because of my busy schedule, but I’ve taken film classes before, I’ve had plenty of history, psychology, literature and etc. that I don’t feel it will be a problem. Nor do I think you have to be some Indie dreadlock coffee shop girl who thinks everything is wrong with the world and socially deviation is necessary in order to do well in this class. I’m hoping to learn new things, and I’m sure the exposure to these new types of media will help me to do so.