The termination of Bill O’Reilly may, on its surface, look like a victory in the war on inequality in the media, but it’s just another example of how the news media values their advertisers opinion above all else. On Wednesday, O’Reilly was forced out of his position as cable news’ top-rated host after allegations of sexual…
In John Oliver’s segment on Last Week Tonight, he discusses the rise of native advertising. That is, disguising an advertisement as a news story. Advertisers adopt the tools of narration to make their ads less conspicuous and more entertaining to the consumer. Oliver describes the rather grim ramifications of the blurring lines between the “church and state.”…
When WTVT, a Fox television station in Tampa, Flordia launched an investigative news segment, I’m sure they had no idea how deep their journalists would dig. Emmy Award winning journalists, Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, created a four-part news series centered around Monsanto’s practice of using Bovine Growth hormones (rbGH or rbST). At the time, 90 percent…
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) is an Oscar-nominated film about Edward R. Murrow, one of the most famous and influential broadcast journalists of all time. The movie chronicles his experience as a journalist during the McCarty era. During this time, Americans were overly suspicious of anything related to communism. Senator Joseph McCarthy alleged that a…
“Don’t wait to be told what to do,” encourages Tyler Rogers, a member of the internship panel hosted by Georgia State University (GSU) at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies (AYS). On February 23, GSU students gather to hear first-hand experiences from fellow students who obtained interesting internships in the non-profit sector. Rogers earned…
Snapchat has over 100 million active users that produce over 7 billion videos daily. Snapchat members range from the White House to all the Kardashian sisters. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter display permanent static stories. The creators of Snapchat, Reggie Brown and Evan Spiegel, challenged this norm. They wanted their new medium to mimic interactions in…
I had the opportunity to tour CNN with my Advanced Media Writing class at Georgia State Univerity. Our tour began on March 7 at 9:30. On this bright Tuesday morning, our class gathered at the giant CNN sign, where we met Monte Platt, CNN’s Digital Editor. After being ushered through two security checkpoints, we convened…
According to Neisen Report from March 2016, Americans spend one in every five minutes on Facebook or Instagram. On average, 100 million hours of video are consumed on Facebook daily (Facebook data gathered February 2016). That’s a lot of time and content. However, 83 million accounts on Facebook are fake. That’s 8.7 percent of its 955…
When I first started listening to S-Town, I was eager to immerse myself in the beautifully constructed world of storytelling created by the producers of Serial and This American Life, two of my favorite podcasts. S-Town does not disappoint. Several times, I became so lost in the narrative that I found myself unapologetically crying in the back…
Directors coordinate all facets of production to create one cohesive form of art. Their main goal to to tell a story in a way that produces an emotional response. The can manipulate their use of sound, images, transitions, and light to produce various effects. Of course, there are various approaches to the creative process. These aesthetics can be…
This is the first in a series of pieces on “A-Town Oddities” I wrote for Five Points Literary Journal, featuring unusual and intriguing sites in Atlanta off the beaten path. * One night after closing the restaurant, I was smoking cigarettes by the dumpster with one of the line cooks. We both worked at a…
A producer assumes a myriad of roles. They are responsible for drafting a proposal to initiate the project, acquiring funds, hiring personnel, and overseeing the entire production process. The producer establishes continuity throughout the project, ensures that it reaches its target audience and that all financial benefactors are satisfied. Producers act as the cheerleader for…
Lighting is a complex art that directly shapes the overall impressions and emotions created by recorded visual images. The expressive lighting designs fall into three categories: realist, modernist, and postmodernist. The realist approach involves creating the illusion of using a setting’s original light sources. The focus is on recreating reality using artificial lights. Modernist lighting…
There are three different approaches to editing: realism, modernism, and postmodernism. Realism offers an authentic flow mimicking real life by maintaining spatial and temporal continuity from shot to shot. The directional glances must be consistent and movements must follow the 180-degree axis rule. Sounds must be synchronous with similar meanings with the featured images. Realist…
The aesthetics of sound fall into three different categories: realism, modernism, and postmodernism. Realism involves using sound to replicate reality. A modernist approach uses sound to create more abstract feeling, separate from the visual images. Postmodernist audio includes the listener to evoke emotion. Mics are transducers, in that the convert one form of energy into…
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