Essays on Televisions

Pinewood Toronto Studios

Pinewood Toronto Studios is both a film and television studio complex based in Toronto State, Ontario, Canada. The studios operate both locally and internationally in the two field’s film and television industries. Its services include video shooting, music, and video production and airing of televisions shows to its clients. Pinewood Toronto Studios also have on-site media hub, 18 purposes built sound stages, workshop, TV studios, full-service post facility and black lots used for outdoor filming with a big land of natural forests. All these features of the studios integrate to make it a world-class production studio. The studio ...

Typography refers to the appearance and style present in printed matter. It also relates to the skill of arranging to ensure that published sources appeal to the readers. Neil Postman uses his book, ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death,' to analyze different ideologies like how the television acts as ‘the way of knowing’ and how it uncompromisingly acts hostile to the typography techniques. The media objects’ ‘Knowing’ process entails how they obtain information, the means they use, and how they present it to the public and therefore, the television’s mentioned procedure is more identifiable with the public compared to ...

Overview

Technology has both positive and negative implications on the lives of the people. The proliferation and advancement of technology tools have enormous effects on the lives of the people with respect to the odds of space and time thereby influencing the nature of social interactions. In particular, the technological advancements have direct effects on social evolution and social interaction across the globe, especially on the internet. The relationship between technology and social development results in the new realities of the individuals and the society. In particular, the relation between the society and technology encompasses the social networks sites, modern ...

Overview

Media violence is considered complex. Therefore, its meaning is explained in different ways according to how one views the whole perception. According to David & Hertz, (2007) one of the simple definitions of media violence is the exposure of fights, murder, and forms of injustices through the televisions to the public. When defining media violence, one should keep in mind the ideas like; the aims of media violence that are; do they point at passion or retaliation? The being consequences: whether financial benefits or death and finally, the techniques in media violence like handful fights or shootouts. When watching the ...

Communication and New Technologies

Communication and New Technologies Communication is one way of expressing the feelings, ideas and thoughts regarding of an issue or situation. New technology has improved communication at a greatly and hence changing impact in economic growth, political focus and social networking. This happens through digital technology on devices such as cell phones, televisions, and computers technology that supports communication. The paper focuses on communication changes due a result new technology, especially in the social media. Furthermore, the study projects on the impact of communication on the new technology in development, especially in the business context. The article news; Use ...

Introduction

A document that outlines all that a business undertakes as a marketing strategy define a marketing plan for the organization. A marketing strategy will only focus on what the management wishes to achieve for the organization. Therefore, its outline on how to achieve it can clearly define the marketing plan of an organization. The marketing plan will include a detailed description of the target market, competitors and that of all the products and services that a company deals with. The primary goal of this Emirates marketing plan is to grow the business to the next level. A marketing plan ...

Today, technology showcases its exertive existence than ever. Televisions, laptops, desktops, tablets and laptops are the products of this technological era with their use being notable to many across the globe. However, its embracement has raised arguable disputes among different scholars with both negatives and positives getting attached to their use. Children are perceived to be vulnerable and on the benefiting side of the use of media such as the computers. Is the television usage on the collision course or constructive to the lives of the users? This paper explores the use of the television and its implications to ...

During the inspection of the thermal envelope (insulation) of my residence, major mechanical equipment were evaluated. The auditing also involved conducting various diagnostic tests on residence. The evaluations are geared towards helping me establish and quantify the energy efficiency levels at my residence. The audit indicates that there are many energy consuming appliances at my home and some of them emit energy while on standby mode. The appliances include toasters, televisions, computers, and televisions. These appliances use varied quantities of electricity in terms of Watts (Turner, 2016). Some of the concerns revealed by the audit include air leaks around ...

PART ONE

SWOT Analysis of Lenovo PART TWO Generic strategies used by Lenovo in its international expansion plans The competitive nature of the industry in which Lenovo operates has made the company to rely on both differentiation and low-cost strategies. The rationale for using both strategies is that Lenovo realizes that for it to have a large market share, it has to use competitive pricing while at the same time providing a range of products that are in line with changing consumer needs and expectations. Computer and Information Technology market is highly volatile regarding competition such that reliance on one product ...

Sony Music Entertainment, a fully owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation began its journey in 1929 as American Record Company. Not many companies in this highly competitive and ever evolving industry have survived for long and that too as a leader. This essay will focus on the core competencies of Sony Music Entertainment and a comparison with the competition. The year 2007 was a landmark year for Sony Music Entertainment as the company entered into multiple innovative ventures in partnership with others to expand their portfolio and increase the revenue and market share. In this year, Sony entered into collaboration ...

The Hollywood industry has faced tremendous changes since the beginning of operations. The industry deals with movie production and has moved from the times of high theater movie attendances, for instance, by the year 1929, four-fifth of all American population, which makes up around ninety-five million people who attended the movie theaters, weekly (Epstein, 2009). The Hollywood industry is therefore controlled by the movie producers, the film owners, the directors and the movie stars themselves. The concept of popcorn economy on the other hand, revolves around productive resources being limited. As a result, Hollywood is in the process of ...

Introduction

Customers and businesses have realized that flexibility in communication is among the best ways of reaching out to each other. The need for improved relations has contributed to organizations changing the way they do business in efforts to accommodate interactive platforms for responding to customer inquiries in real time. Online marketing is key to promoting effectiveness and efficiencies of how goods and services are offered to customers in ways to improve brand and customer loyalty. Among the major benefits offered by online marketing is the ability to easily reach out to global markets without incurring many costs in advertisements ...

Introduction

Lenovo is the Chinese company headquarters in Beijing, china and the second head quarter is in North Carolina, United States. The company Lenovo is indulged in the making of the personal computers, tablets, smart phones, and a lot of IT software, workstations, televisions, servers, and smart televisions. The Lenovo is successful in getting the largest unit sales. They develop, design and manufacture all the items mentioned above. They market the think pad for the notebook computers. Similarly, idea pads for the notebook computers. Idea center helps the desktop line, and yoga line helps in marketing the notebook laptops and ...

Television commercials give a wider image on the exposure of children and adults in societies to the world. Advertisements and highlights in commercial television nature young people’s behaviors and norms. These publications include the taking of alcohol that affects the youths in societies. Sexual content, violence, and diets with calories are some of the effects of television commercials, especially for children and teenagers in societies. These effects of television affect children and teenagers privately or socially. Over 750 million people always have access to videos in the world today. In most cases, it is acceptable for children to ...

Executive Summary

In this consultancy report, the whole work has been discussed in parts starting with the introduction that explains the topic statement about the video games industry. The report also covers the history and the development of the video games industry with a case example of a British company HMV Retail Ltd. Through carrying out of a PESTLE analysis, the report focuses on the external factors surrounding the video games companies. Also, the report has put forth some of the major areas that any business in this industry should focus on to experience growth and formulate change strategies. The report ...

Media innovation

Introduction Innovation in the simplest definition can be viewed as a new idea, product or a method of performing a specific task. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines innovation as the “act or process of introducing new ideas, devices or methods (Merriam-webster.com, 2016). Innovation is the use of improved resolutions for countering new challenges, untended needs or fulfilling the already established markets better. One of the most important market that human race has delved in is the acquiring of information. Despite decades of improvement in the communication sector, the need for doing more to satisfy the informational needs of the population ...

Back in the days, before the late 2000s, most people relied on their television when it came to broadcast programming, and the web served to provide people with digital content. That simplicity is long gone due to the rapid advancement in technology which has brought with it sophisticated devices together with content workflow which allows for cross-consumption of both digital and traditional content in almost all available device endpoints. This convergence of traditional and digital methods of content viewing have resulted into individual viewers watching their favorite shows on tablets, phones and televisions anywhere and at any time. This ...

Promotional factors in Champs Sports

Introduction Champs Sports are retail stores in America functioning as a subsidiary of foot lockers. The company sells products such as equipment, apparel, accessories and footwear (Robinson, 2011). The organization had about 547 stores in 2015 located throughout the American States, Puerto Rico, Canada and Virginia Island. The company mainly locate the stores in the shopping malls to attract a huge number of customers and are 330 square metres on average. The stores have been increasing sales owing to promotional methods that the firm has been using. The number of stores has been increasing to cover the rising demand ...

In the article, The Stanford Prison Experiment by psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo, he describes an experiment that was aimed at demonstrating the influence of situational power on a person’s standards, morals, and attitudes. The experiment intended to explore the relationship between the guards and the prisoners, which ended up showing a deterioration of the established rules and morals that guide the manner in which individuals should behave towards each other. In that, the experiment showed the degeneration of character was so extreme, rapid, and unpredicted to the extent that it was to be cut short after six days, ...

International marketing

Adana kebab is the new product (snack) that will be offered to the Turkish urban market. In most instances, the workers would prefer snacks during lunch hours since they save on time. Therefore, this forms the basis of product selection. With the increasing working population in Turkish towns, snacks have become one of the most looked after foods in Turkey. The product will in offered in sticks and packaged in light polythene packing papers. Adana Kebab, therefore, offers a new experience to the working Turkish population given its outstanding characteristics

Target Market

Marketing the new product in the market emphasis on ...

Management

Part V. Business Strategy Sony has differentiated its products and services. The company has used differentiation as its business level strategy. The basis of this differentiation in case of Sony is its core competence of product miniaturization. Miniaturized televisions, radios, cassette recorder, camcorder, and walkman cassette recorder are all examples of differentiated products that Sony has developed by using its core competence. Furthermore, the company has also used miniaturization competence in order to manufacture laptops so that the company become capable of maintain its competitive position in the market place, and to face competition as there is intensity of ...

People are living in the Internet age where there is a lot of media saturation. In essence, there are a lot of digital creations from the televisions, radios, phones, the Internet, and other devices that facilitate social networking. Digital creations such as movies are no longer, for humorous purposes, but incorporate reality shows such as “Keeping up with the Kardashians” which portrays different family interactions. The digital culture through the Internet has rapidly spread the information. In today’s society, you will find television set. Children are exposed to them since infancy. According to Television and Family, television is ...

Role of the Media in Shaping Public Perception of Mental Illness and how this affects Mentally Ill People and their Families

Introduction

Inappropriate information from the media including television stations, newspapers and movies is among the reasons mental illness is viewed negatively in the society. In most cases, the media has contributed to the high degree of stigmatization and discrimination due to the negative influence it has on the public perception of mental illness. Individuals have been made to believe that mentally ill people are a risk to the society and that their condition is permanent. The media has often ...

Introduction

The article “Get a life” by Jenkins talks about two major issues that artist go through in their lives with their fans who see them through their live performances and also through reading. The fans who watch the plays performed by the artists do at times get addicted to the fantasy created through the plays. The addiction at times gets to a new level where the fans feel that they deserve to get emotionally attached to the artists as opposed to just remaining as passive fanatics (Lawrence and Jewett, 1977, p. 5-6). Apart from that, there are those fans ...

Instruction Design

Instructional Design Introduction The designation, development, and delivery of instructions follow a procedural process termed as instructional design (ID). It is an evaluation of the learning requirement and systematic improvement of teaching. An effective instructional design harbors various strategic plans to deliver learning experiences. The design facilitates the increment and enhancement of learning, creates a reliable and effective model of acquiring knowledge, as well as motivates the learners to engage each other and foster fast and deep studies. One significant purpose of instructional design is identifying the instruction outcomes. Essentially, the instructions must deliver their aims by making educational ...

Canon Doyle’s version of characterization is entwined with social issues, especially with regards to relationships. The time and the context of Doyle’s stories gives a critical, yet contrasting relationship developed between male and female partners. Thus, the concept of sexually comes in, and Doyle is keen to express this concept through his stories involving Sherlock Holmes and his acquaintances. However, this concept would hold a different social paradigm in the modern society, as Sherlock’s nature would be interpreted otherwise. Asexuality is defined in Sherlock’s stories as lack of taste, mood, or interest in women and ...

Side by side is a documentary produced by Chris Kenneally describing the science and art in the production of digital cinema, explaining various transitions involved in developing the current digital film making process. It also explains new fascinating technologies which are coming up in the digital technology. The documentary involves interviewing more than 70 producers from Hollywood. The video gives a detailed process in the transition of digital media. By using this video, one can describe various transitions that have taken place to in the film industry from the use of celluloid to digital broadcast. This paper seeks to ...