The Screening Room
I had never heard of The Screening Room on Youtube before, but I think that the idea is a very good one. I believe that it is an awesome way for one to get their work out through the media before trying to take their work to bigger and more prominent outlets to get recognition. I scrolled through the list of films to choose from, and I decided to watch one titled Steel Homes, a film by Eva Weber. I thought it was a really cool idea for an indie film, and a really interesting topic to want to create a film on. The film was mainly about different stories from various people renting out space in storage containers, and the so called "baggage" that each person carries emotionally with the things that have collected within them over the years. Each person had a specific tale to tell about their own life and the ways they contributed to their own storage container. I found it very intriguing to learn about each and every one of them, and the ways that each story was not alike the other. I think that the way that it was actually filmed was very interesting as well. I liked how all the interviews that were done were voiceovers, and then the actual film portion was just images of them cleaning out their own containers and adding things to them. Overall, I think that this film was very high quality, and in the future I will be interested to learn more about films on this website!
Warner Bros. VIP Studio Virtual Tour
This is another tour that I enjoyed very much. I have always wondered what is was like to go behind the scenes and see where movies in Hollywood are made and just take it all in. I was fortunate enough to get to go on the set of one of the episodes of Nickelodeon's hit TV shows Slime! It was an awesome once in a lifetime experience and I loved every minute of it! It was very interesting to me because you got to encounter what it was like between commerical breaks, and things of that nature. It was very intriguing! Tying back to the Warner Bros tour, I though it was really neat that you get to ride around in little golf carts to all the main drags of the set and see where some of your most adored films and TV series may have been filmed! I also liked looking at some of the photographs that some people that actually went on these tours took of their favorite spots as well as just enjoying the company of the others in the tour group. All in all it looked like a great time to me, and someday I wold love to take a tour of Warner Brothers!
The Weather Channel Virtual Tour
I was really excited about this particular blog post because since I was little, I have always been interested in meteorology and the Weather Channel! I think my favorite of the videos was the one where they go behind the scenes and take you through the day in the life of a meteorologist and what its like to work for the Weather Channel. I also enjoyed watching the slideshow of pictures of the new building and studio where they will start filming all of their shows. Its amazing to me that they have access to the technology that they do, which they would have never had in the past. The facilities that they work in are state of the art, and will only continue to get better, its crazy! I would say that I definitely enjoyed this tour much more they the New York Times tour from earlier this week just because the topic actually interested me. I hope I don't get docked for saying that...! :)
New York TImes Virtual Tour
Unfortunately, the links available to click on to view other portions of the page weren't working properly for me, but I was able to view the first link which consisted of the overview of the architecture that encompassed the outside of the building itself, as well as how the building was broken up and who worked where. I wasn't aware that there was two different buildings that comprised The Times, including a separate building that is made up of the newsroom. I had no idea that there was so much time and thought put into the design of the buildings, as well as the way that it could be aesthetically pleasing to the eye! I had no idea that The Times had been in Manhattan for over 100 years, its so cool that there is so much history behind it!
Recording Studio Tour
The recording industry has always been one that has sparked my interest, and given me a new respect for this particular place of work. I really enjoyed taking the virtual tours of the four different studios you gave us links to, but there were two in particular that I enjoyed most. First of all, I thought the Radio Ready tour was pretty cool in that it seemed like it was more of a local studio rather then a big name one. Also, I thought it was interesting how they said that they would help promote you around so that your name could be put out there which would allow you to get seen by more people, how nice of them! They also seemed like a credible place to go and record at because some of the clientele that they listed were larger companies that are highly respectable and known all over the country! Another tour that I enjoyed going on was the Pachyderm one. It was really interesting to me to see that such a place existed! The fact that you get to stay at some luxury house with a pool and a sauna just to record some music is surreal! Overall, the art of recording music has always been near and dear to my heart. I have such a respect for the people who day in and day out learn and know how to use such complicated equipment, yet still manage to create awesome songs!
State of the Media
One of the first links that I decided to click on was what I believed was the most important, the key findings tab. Once I got to that point, I began reading into much about different statistics. The first few facts really stood out to me about the state of our nations media right now. The rate at which technology and the media is advancing is increasing higher each day, I just wanted to share a few of the facts I found interesting, yet still didn't surprise me much either! In the text, it stated that 31% of adults own a tablet or computer by 2013 which was almost 4 times the share recorded in the year 2011. Basically, the all encompassing theme was that all outlets of digital media are growing, and have been growing over the past few years.
Ethical Decision Making
I thought that this website was very informative and a great tool
