Thursday, May 11, 2006

Questions for the class

Foundations of Broadcasting
Broadcasting in America. Chapter 13 and 14.


1.What do you know about the Times vs. Sullivan Landmark? (p.379)
2.What is libel? (p.379)
3.What is slander? (p.379)
4.What is obscene in broadcasting? (p. 382)
5.What´s the meaning of Equal Time in broadcasting? (p.392)
6.What´s the meaning of paternalistic approach in broadcasting (p.408)
7.Why competition plays an important role in broadcasting?
8.What is Cultural Imperialism in broadcasting? (p.418)
9.What´s the UNESCO and what’s its role in the world of broadcasting?
10.Where did pirate broadcasting started? How it have affected broadcasting? (p. 423)

11. Create your own Vlog. Name it. Think about an original idea to attract viewers. Create 4 segments of 2 minutes each one. Explain each of the segments. (You can get some help from the next post on this blog (About Vlogs)

Example: I'll create a personal Vlog. I'll call it THE NEIGHBORHOOD. I'll have 4segments of two minutes each one. One of it is going to be about: Places:parks, streets, stores that I like from my neighborhhod. I talk a little bit about them and how they are important to me . The second one is going to be about people, where Ill interview interesting people from my neighborhood: Friends, business people, the guy who works in the supermarket, the postman, etc. The third segment is going to be about Events: people hanging around in the park, a baseball game, a party where I went with my friends, etc. The fourth is going to be MY DIARY. Where I'll show images from my day, what I did, and talk about my days living in this neighborhhod.

About Vlogs.

Personal - Many vlogs are personal. Creators may document their daily lives, recount stories from the past, or air their opinions about various topics. This genre is as varied as the personalities that make personal vlogs.
News - Some vlogs cover news events.
Collaborative (also collective or group) - Some vlogs have a collaborative nature.
Political - Some vlogs discuss political issues.
Environmental - Some vlogs discuss environmental issues, nature, and natural history.
Media - Some vlogs cut and analyze television, documentaries and other mass media.
Entertainment - Some vlogs are essentially independently produced TV shows or collections of short films by independent film makers.
Third party collections - Some vlogs collect videos from third parties.
Educational - Schools and universities are beginning to explore using vlogs as a teaching and creative medium.
Behind the scenes - Some vlogs show the backstage activity of film production or other arts and skills.
Tutorial - Some vlogs give advice, demonstrations, how-to's, and tutorials.
Travel - Vlogs that serve as a travelogue, exploring different places around the world.
Religious - Some vlogs discuss religious topics.
Magazine type or lifestyles - Some vlogs take the magazine or lifestyle approach.
Assignment-based - Some vloggers work from "assignments," or prompts, within online communities of similar vloggers. Assignment-based vlogging also tends to be more collaborative, as every assignment-based vlog is a collaboration between the assignment's creator and the video's creator.
Vlog Anarchy - Finally, some vlogs flirt between all of these categories, vlogs may also contain traditional blog posts amongst his or her various videos.