Introduction to reality show

What is reality show?
According to Oxford Dictionaries 2014, it can be defined as a television programme in which ordinary people are continuously filmed, designing to be entertaining rather than informative.

Winifred Fordhem Metz has stated that reality show is varies from show to show whereby producer propose the concept and people who casting the show are under auditioned and being hired if they have the potential in entertainment. Not only the footage maybe real and it usually extremely edited to entertain the audience.It is not necessary to have script but there will always outline detail as guideline of an episode or part of the show which known as shooting script.

Therefore, reality show is bringing the audiences back to reality world that being designed and edited in way of witty or funny. The main purpose of the show is to entertain the audiences and make them laugh.

Do you know?
"An American Family" is claimed to be the first reality show by TV guide and it featured in 1973. It is about 12 episodes documentary series where Loud family captured day to day lives over 7 months period. 
It is about Loud's marital problem and gay lifestyle of eldest son.

An American Family

Mise-en-scene

According to fundamental of film making it is a French term means "placing on stage". 

Arrangement of actors, lighting, props, costume,decor that appear in framing are 

under mise-en-scene and normally in charge by director. It normally organized by 

4 general areas:

Setting (Lowe)

- creating scene and mood that reflect the character's emotional state of mind

Lighting (Manrodt)

- the arrangement of key, fill and backlight provide the illumination of the scene 

  with the use of lighting scheme

Costume (Mertz)

- the choice of make-up and wardrobes to convey the personalities of the characters and      signify differences between characters

Staging

- most important part where the actors have to make the story engaging to audiences

References:

Oxford Dictionaries (2014) Definition of Reality Show.Oxford University Press.[Online] Available at: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/reality-show [Accessed on 29th June 2014]

Metz,W.(2014) How Reality TV Works. How Stuff Works.[Online] Available at: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/reality-tv4.htm [Accessed on 29th June 2014]

Moura, G.(2014) Mise-en-scene.Element of Cinema, a student's guide to the fundamentals of film making.

[Online] Available at: http://www.elementsofcinema.com/directing/mise-en-scene.html 

[Accessed on 29th June 2014]

Next pose i will talk about the reality show that i have chose 

Question Chosen

After looking and looking again the question between question 1, 4 and 6 so I decided to choose question 6 which is about analyse a soap opera or a reality show, considering aspects such as the " miseen-scene" (setting, look or mood), audience, narrative and editing.What values and attitudes are being communicated? Between the soap opera and reality show, i chose reality show.

Here are some questions that pop up in my mind :
Which reality show should i chose for my essay question?
Asia/Western country

Should compare how the differences of  reality show between nowadays (21st century) and old decade?
- what quality of the reality show between both era? 
- how is the condition of the society make the changes on the entertainment industry? Does it have 
  any affect the development of reality show?
 (for example: the rise of K-pop/Support from government?)

The evolution of reality show?
- does reality show welcomed in older era?
  (who are their target audience?)
- what is quality of demand from the audience at different era?

How concept/idea of reality show-pre production setting-post production setting?
- how the idea or concept in term of catching the eyes of audience or reflecting the society?
  (relativism?)
- what is strategy to keep the show fresh and not boring to the audience?
  (comment/opinion from the fans and make the changes?)
- how the character being set?

The rise/decrease of reality show in recent years? reason?
- maybe audience can or cannot take part in the reality show?
- audience get in touch or not with the concept of the show?
  
Therefore I would like to explore deeper about Question 6 to understand the fact behind the it
Hmm...

Analyzing Essay Questions

Among the seven essay questions that given, the topics that I would choose are:

1. Analyse in detail the coverage of single story, comprising of text and images, in two contrasting newspaper     and magazines, one of which should be a South East Asia publication.Compare and contrast the
    techniques used and the target market for each example.

- It should be the same story but how can it be different in terms of language or visual of different 
   publications and the way they convey the message/ tones of the story

-How can it be different between Western and South East Asian publications when they discuss about the
 detail of the coverage of single story

-Who is the target audience/market of Western and South East Asian publications and what are the 
  techniques they used 


4.Analyse the work of a photographer or film maker of your choice, using appropriate illustrations to present
   your arguments and setting his/her work in a contemporary context.Show how their work has influenced
   your own, providing illustration and examples.

-A photographer/film maker who can inspired me to learn from his/her art works or how their art works 
 has influenced my own

-Should looking or analyzing on only one artist either is photographer or film maker

-What are the reasons that I choose the photographer/film maker as my inspiration on my own works

-What are the ideas/opinions about the style of their art works in term of contemporary context

-What is the similarity/ difference in conjunction of ideas or thought in terms of art/aesthetic/function/skills in
  photography and film making     

6.Analyse a soap opera or a reality show, considering aspect such as the "miseen-scene" (setting, look, or
  mood), audience, narrative and editing. What values and attitudes are being communicated?

-What is definition of soap opera/ reality show , what is the function?

-Why there are the existing of the soap opera or reality show / What is the history 

-What is my choice between soap opera and reality show?What are the differences of them between      Western or Asia countries? For example, Master Chef in Australia and Running Man in Korea (reality 
 show)

-How are the "miseen-scene", audience, narrative and editing part of the show doing to bring out the right 
 feeling to the audience?

-Have to find out the what are the values and attitude being communicated to the audience  

Media Culture 2014

Among the three questions, i would like to choose the first question:
People should not be censored or worry about using the swear words when communicating. Do you agree?

In my opinion, I am neutral with this statement as swear word can be benefit but also bring harm to society.Nowadays, I realise that most of people are using swear word when they communicating with each other. Although according to Cambridge Dictionaries (2014), swear word is referred to a rude or offensives word but to them swearing  is one of the pathways in order to release their anger and unsatisfying towards the stress from jobs, or family issues. Most of the people who using swear word are not really against the person whom they communicate to but is just a habit that people used to be and hard to change it by only one time. This habit can be described same as smoking where once the person is addicted, he/she is hard to change the habit again unless the person spends some times on it.According to Time (2013), Katy Steinmetz has studied on Mohr notes that swearing can help to alleviate pain that when a person put the hands in a buckets of cold water, the person can stay longer time by shouting the s*** words rather than shoot.

However, in the harmful ways, swearing might bring chaos to the society where people misuse the swear word. For an instance, if a person offence another people purposely by using the swear word, there might end up with fight or might come to worst where both of them might get injured. Therefore, parents play important role in educate their child not to use the swear word as they have a big influence from the adults as children do not have any ideas about the swear words.Therefore, they just follow what the parents do or say. If the parents always speaking swear words, obviously the children will say it too.

In my opinion, people should not be censored when using swear word in terms of releasing their stress but in the same time they must be worry where the swear word also might bring chaos to the society when people communicating with each other.


References:
Cambridge University Press (2014) Definition of Swear Word. Available at: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/swearing [ Accessed at 29/5/2014]

Steinmetz,K. (2013) Time: Nine Things You Probably Didn't Know About Swear Word. Available at: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/10/nine-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-swear-words/ [Accessed at 29/5/2014]

Essay Framework Proposal

Question 6: Hacker are the heroes of the 21st century.Argue and against this statement

Essay Framework Proposal

This is the Essay Framework Proposal where I am sure about this topic as I am interested with the hacker world and want to explore about it deeply.

Introduction:
-Subject Matter : Hackers. Introduce the types of hacker and the history of hacker

-Research Objective: To argue whether the hackers are hero or not in 21st century

-Research Question : How hacker can be a hero to help the society in term of art and design field with
                                 knowledge and idea?.

-Relevance Research: ~What hackers actually do in term of art and design field?
                                  ~Did they join any project that have relation about art and technology?
                                  ~Hackers who success in this field

Body:
-Introduced about the hackers and history behind the hackers

-The relationship between the hacker and the art and design

-Exploration about the new term of design - Hacking design

-List some examples of art of hacking event and the function of the event (case study)

-How the hackers use their creative minds and knowledge to come out a new kind of creation or technology
 that bring benefits to the society.

-Support or against the statement

Conclusion:
-A summary the reason on the support or against statement

-How they help to contribute to this society

-Agreement on whether support or against the statement

References 

Appendix

Movie on Hacking

Kevin Mitnick
As I mentioned in previous post, he is a former and he was jailed two times as he was accused break into law and became target of FBI during his hacking. After released from jail, he subject to several books and one of the books "Takedown" was screen on cinema.

Image 1: Kevin Mitnick
Link:blogs.voxeo.com

Image 2: Takedown
Source:IMDb

Takedown
-15th March 2000
-The story is based on true story of the capture on Computer Hacker,
  Kevin Mitnick where he is at present working as an American
  computer security consultant.
-This movie is about his life and how a hacker turned into country
  computer security counselor.Surprisingly, he is in the list of most
  wanted cyber criminal when he was arrested.





There are also other movies that connect with hacker:

1.Hacker
-1995
-The cyber war between Acid Burn ( Angelina Jolie) and Zero Cool
(Jonny lee millar) is the most attractive part in that movie.This movie
also featured how the hacker using their social engineering skill
to get sensitive detail related to the hardware.
Here the trailer :

                                        link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql1uLyuWra8

2.The Matrix

-1999

-The movie is about a computer hacker 

  who learn from mysterious rebels about the 

  true nature of his reality and his war against the

  controller of it

Here the trailer :

                                         link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8g9zL-JL8E

References:

Agrawal,H. (2008-2014) Top Hollywood Movies on Hacking. Available at: http://www.shoutmeloud.com/top-10-hollywood-movies-on-hacking.html

Art Hacking Project

There are some interesting projects that is somehow have connection with hacking but utilize in term of art and design.John Borland has mentioned those projects.

Image: Transparency Grenade
Image source: http://julianoliver.com/output/transparency-grenade

1.Transparency Grenade
Artist : Julian Oliver

About the project :
The Transparency Grenade is an iconic
cure for this frustration, making the process
leaking information from closed as easy as
pulling the pin.There will be a pin that can
be pulled out and the images and web sites
will be extract out from local Wi-Fi and portray
them to a screen that display what local phone
and computer are looking at. It is equipped with
a tiny computer and powerful wireless antenna.
The Transparency Grenade capture network
office and audio at the site and securely streams
it to server where it is mined for information.






2.Packet Bridge
Artist :Julian Oliver and group of Critical Engineering

 Image 2: Packet Bridge
Image source: http://www.yugo.at/processing/?what=packetbruecke

About the project:
It is involving in detecting the location without the GPS by hijacking a kind of Wi-Fi signal where the signal from any location of the city will be collected in the Wi-Fi data receiver then tunneled online to another location and rebroadcast.14 Wi-Fi router are separately turned into 14 channel of frequencies of the 802.11 Wi-Fi Standard.The entire idea and concept is about repositioning electromagnetic
infrastructure into different space.



Not only that, there are also another projects that quite interesting:
Prosthetic knowledge: Assembled a series of creative project with ongoing theme.

Oculus Rift
Among the projects, it is quite outstanding and capture the attention of audience which the creation is creative enough to inspire new ideas and new experiences.Oculus Rift also have relation to Kinetic, Arduino, 3D language and Processing and Programming in language or projection of map software. There are two types of Oculus Rift that create by two different artists and as well as engineers

Image 3: screen capture of Entropy Wrangler
Image source:rhizome.org 

1.Entropy Wrangler

Artist : Ian Cheng

He debuted his own version of Entropy Wrangler in London.It is chaotic virtual space in which the viewpoint of participant can alter the dynamic of weightless 3D form by generating their own narrative from experience.





2.PaperDude VR
Artist : Globacore
It is a project about utilizing in common bicycle and also an homage to the well known 8 bit video game, Paperboy using the kinetic as main element to control the gesture of people for gameplay. It is built in 3D assets and build in 3D studio and textured in Photoshop.There is also a sensor whereby it can detect the speed and has ability to control resistance.It also has provided a headset with full 360 degrees to let audience to concentrate on the game.

Below are video about the PaperDude VR:

                                            video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKHEoCN0Nmg

3.City Trip
Artist: Globacore
The people can travel a fantasy and alien city when they ride on the City Trip. The people will feel that they are really inside the environment as they pedaling and steering and they will navigate through virtual reality.People can fly through the air and hit the ramps and use the bicycle bell to jump from the building to another building as well.People can set their own gold or challenge to have fun on it.

Video about the City Trip:

                                          Video link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDNFGVMac5c
                                             

Above are the examples Art Hacking project done by the artists as they know that using their own creativity and knowledge to create the amazing and outstanding technology is important than break into other computer system to steal data of other people illegally. To me, the artist and hacker use their expertise to create their own creation are hero!

References:
Borland, J. (2013) Hacking Secrets into Art. California: Wired. Available at: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/hacking-secrets-art/ [Accessed on: 18th January 2014]

VIM (2013) Julian Oliver: The Transparency Grenade. Available at: http://julianoliver.com/output/transparency-grenade [Accessed on: 18th January 2014]

Prosthetic Knowledge (2013) Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: The Year of Oculus Rift. Available at:http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/dec/23/prosthetic-knowledge-picks-oculus-rift/
[Accessed on:18th January 2014]