Final Post 2

PressPausePlay was a movie we watched about the music industry and how it's changed throughout the internet age, how the sharing of music over the internet has made publishing companies almost obsolete, and how collaboration between composers has made music the number one industry for connectivity. This ideal is shared perfectly in a website called Kickstarter, this website is a site where people can get their ideas funded by other people, eliminating the middle man, the producer/publisher. "Each and every Kickstarter project is the independent creation of someone like you." Kickstarter, bottom of the page. This is the fundamental idea of sharing concepts, people talking to people to get their ideas published without a big company, which is sort of ironic considering how big Kickstarter has become. Each great artist has been preceded by the technology that made them great, Picasso by tubed paint and mobile easels, Hendrix by the electric guitar, and Humphrey Bogart by movies with sound, each artist has just adapted this technology to suit his or her needs. "Hendrix was preceded by the electric guitar, which was invented for a very pragmatic reason... if the electric guitar hadn't been invented, Hendrix would've never come to fame," Bill Drummond, PressPausePlay, 15:31. This quote shows that every artist is preceded by a great method of instrument, so in the electronic genre, a great artist has yet to be found, many have tried, none have succeeded. Electronic music is the original rock music of today, nobody liked it at the time, but when we look back on it, we'll see that it was the greatest music of the day. "I think this is an incredibly fertile time for artists, there's no cap on creativity," Brenda Walker, PressPausePlay, 2:12. This quote shows that artists are in their prime right now, and that this point in time is going to become a point in history that artists flourished, and art was made available to the masses for the first time.

The media has a great effect on public opinion, more so than anything else, this is mainly due to the fact that the media controls what the public see and hear, but there are many news stations out there, so the public can listen/watch anyone they want, and form their own opinions based upon what they see/hear. The Newshour is a fairly centerist news reporting station that focuses on both sides of an issue, not just the left and not just the right, it's Friday night special, Shields and Brooks is a prime example of this. "Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week’s news, including the outcomes for Republicans in the first three midterm primaries, why the House GOP are pushing a Benghazi inquiry, the latest national assessment on climate change and NBA MVP Kevin Durant’s tribute to his mom and supporters" The Newshour, politics, Shields and Brooks page. These esteemed columnists do a take on both sides of an argument, usually one taking the democrat side and the other taking a republican side, but they do sometimes agree with one another, which is usually what happens in Washington at the time. The Newshour also does many other stories, some relating to art, some relating to money management, and some relating to foreign affairs. "The Kremlin announced that Russian President Putin has ordered the 40,000 troops massed on the Ukrainian border to retreat to their home bases. However, the NATO secretary general says he sees no sign of movement. Reporting from Donetsk, chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner joins Gwen Ifill to discuss the building tensions in Eastern Ukraine and upcoming national elections" The Newshour, main page. This shows the media reporting on issues that are actually important, rather than idiotic and mediocre issues like who's breaking up with 
who, and who cheated on who, and so on. Many news sources have actual news, but reported on in different ways. "Putin's Promise to Withdraw Troops Leaves Observers Cautiously Optimistic" Moscow Times, main page. This article shows differing views on an issue, because each reporter's view is different, making each news report different, making each view unique.

Ceremony was a book about sacrifice, and overcoming obstacles, Tayo accomplished these very well. During the book, Tayo sacrifices his current life to help the world around him, this is exemplified in this citation. "They had been his friends for a long time; the only ones left now," Silko, 157, Ceremony. This shows that he almost regrets leaving his friends, but not quite as much as he needs healing, which does happen. Tayo heals throughout the book, as shown by this quote. "'You're alright now, aren't you, sonny?' 'Yeah, Grandma, I'm okay now,'" Silko, 214, Ceremony. This quote directly shows Tayo healing from his PTS, and all the horrors the war inflicted on him, but it also shows him healing the bonds between him and his family. Tayo healed his relationship with his adoptive family after coming down from the mountain, even with his stepmother, who's a total bitch, just BTW.  "'One more thing,' Old Grandma said 'one more thing, Tayo. Old man Ku'oosh came around the other day. He said maybe pretty soon you would have something to tell him. He said maybe you would go talk to them sometime,'" Silko, 217, Ceremony. This shows that Old Grandma is willing to relay a message to Tayo from someone important, which means that she's also willing to do more family stuff too, meaning Tayo healed the family relationship, which is a good thing.

Visual Literacy is an important part of the film industry today, and will continue to, as long as humans have a need to feel emotions they don't quite comprehend, which will be always. Some shots, scenes, or music make you feel a certain emotion, like the music during the Seven Pounds sad scenes with the minor piano key parts. "If it originates outside the film (as most background music) then it is non-diegetic." Yale University, Film Analysis presentation. This passage tells us all we need to know about background music in it's place. Scenes tend to establish the mood of the shot, like in Pushing Daises, all the colors are quite bright and perky when it's actually a murder show. "An important element of "putting in the scene" is décor, the objects contained in and the setting of a scene. Décor can be used to amplify character emotion or the dominant mood of a film." Yale University, Film Analysis presentation. This shows that the area around the actors tend to establish a scene. The way they cut the footage affects what's going on as well, you wouldn't just cut to a side character right as something important is about to happen to the main character, would you. "The shot is defined by editing but editing also works to join shots together. There are many ways of effecting that transition, some more evident than others. In the analytical tradition, editing serves to establish space and lead the viewer to the most salient aspects of a scene." Yale University, Film Analysis presentation. This shows that the editor will always show shots of the main character doing something important rather than an unimportant character doing something unimportant, unless you're Supernatural, in which case you show a lot of things unimportant.

PTS stands for Post Traumatic Syndrome, a serious disability affecting war veterans since before recorded history, but the human body has ways of coping with this stress as it does every other type of stress, it's called shock, and is a good thing, as long as you have someone with you to deal with the after effects of shock. The main reason for PTS after Vietnam, was that people didn't accept the veterans, they were ashamed of what they did, most of the time unfairly. "They were always showing us as being nuts, every film that came out it seemed, was like, you know, you're a Vietnam vet and you're crazy.You're a drug addict, you know. Which was really strange, you know, because there was nobody that I knew that did that stuff." David, A History of PTSD, 1:06. This really hits home, because it shows that a lot of the Vietnam vets were never crazy, it's just the bad ones that get reported on, never the good ones. The reason PTS was so prevalent amongst Vietnam vets, was that they couldn't differentiate between civilians and the Vietkong, so atrocities were committed. "The nature of the warfare also caused an increase in stress for the soldier. The Americans fought alongside the South Vietnamese against North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. The Viet Cong were mostly unidentified, recruited in South Vietnamese towns, and controlled a lot of the towns influence on fighting. This made it hard for the American troops to know whom the enemy was." PTSD History website, Vietnam page. This quote shows how hard it was to be in Vietnam at the time, and when the soldiers came back, they were shunned, it was terrible. PTS didn't even start out as PTS, it started out as Post Vietnam Syndrome. "The term Post Vietnam Syndrome was used to describe returning soldiers with trauma symptoms. This syndrome usually consists of combat related nightmares, anxiety, anger, depression, alcohol and/or drug dependence, and poor responsiveness. The term post-traumatic stress disorder was not used in the DSM until the DSM-III was published in 1980 under anxiety disorders. Prior to that this condition was viewed as stress response syndrome, which was a type of gross stress reaction. The policy for receiving treatment and compensation for ptsd for soldiers in the military during the war was that if the soldier experienced symptoms 6 months after their return home it was considered a “transient situational disorder.” This meant that it was a pre-existing condition which was not eligible for treatment by the United States Government. Even though the soldiers who were victims of PTSD did not receive compensation from the government, PTSD as a clinical diagnosis was evolving into a more complex and real disorder." PTSD History Website, Vietnam page. PTS didn't even start out as a real disease, and wasn't actually treated until the Iraq war in the 1990's.