We are what we see in the television.

We speak of what we hear from the television.

We do what we see in television.

We know stuffs because of the television.

We are entertained by the television.

I am who I am mainly because of the television.

I know that I sounded so exaggerated and sure of the last statement that I have given but it was something that in my own opinion is true.

The television is such a powerful media yet the power that it emanates to the viewers is not seen. Why? It was something that we were used to. Something that's already in our everday lives since we were little kids. It's already a unit in our culture. It's nothing new. So why would it be noticed?

Anyway, after watching the documentary on Philippine television last Monday I have seen and have realized how far the television and broadcasting throught it has reached. How many lives it touched and changed with the views that they impart.  

The television then became a very powerful tool of media. Broadcasting through the television was something that once had raged the passion of the Filipino people and had united lots of Filipinos in a peaceful revolution to oust somebody who was once a tyrrant feared by all - a history. Broadcasting all the fuck-ups that were then happening in the society and administration of Marcos through the television had I guess, added more to what then was just a little fire of passion and made it burn. :) 

I still believe that the television has been playing a great part in today's society. We dress the way what the television is cool. We speak words that what the television tells us is rocking. We sing songs that what the television tells us is cool.

Like before, broadcasting through the television lights up our passion for stuffs and make that passion be a burning one. We are informed of some stuffs because we see it in the television. If the frauds of the government and of other people is not broadcasted in the television, I don't think there will be people rallying here in Manila for they are uninformed and clueless.

People today rely more on television more than the radio. We, today, are more of audiovisual than audio alone.:) We prefer that we see stuffs and hear them at the same time. We watch news on television rather than just listening to it in the radio. We prefer seeing dramas that portrays emotions and expressions rather than just hearing the lines delivered. 

The television and broadcasting through it, has indeed affected us so much. It has been emanating much power on us yet we don't notice. It was something we are used to. :)  

thoughts. 

Excited, blissful, anxious - some of the emotions that were stirred up inside me after knowing that we will do a magazine for a project as this semester ends. It was indeed a good news. It was something that made us feel so excited. It was something different to do. Something challenging.

I thought that one month won't be enough. Looking for generous sponsors, writing alll the articles, lay-outing the stuff, having all the hard-copies printed and sold, coding the on-line version of the magazine and having it deployed in the net, recording the sales and be ready for the report - a span of finger-counted weeks won't be enough, I had in mind, but I then thought we are a class of 52 talented students, we can have it done. :)

At first, too much excitement was all we felt but as days gone by, anxiousness and worries began to take place. We were starting to run out of time.

actions.

To different groups we have arranged ourselves - production, marketing, circulation, editors and writers, models, photography, lay-outs, art group and the "on-liners". It was too make the work more efficient and systematized.

"This won't be easy as I thought it would be," I said to myself.

We all started doing our own jobs as early as possible. The three big groups - production, marketing and circulation started to talk about how we'll gain. The writers started to brainstorm over the topics that they'll use for the articles. They also started jotting down their works. Our gorgeous looking models and photographers thought of what their themes will be and started their photo shoots. The heads started to think of the strategies that will be used to sell the hard-copy of the magazine. The "on-liners" started planning how the site would be.

Nothing in this world is perfect. Everything has flaws. We had too much in doing this magazine. I could still remember how some of my blockmates felt so sleepy after editing the lay-out of the magazine. They did it the night before the printing date. Cool! They have the stuff done and made it look better. :)

I am a computer geek. I have so many html codes inside my head since I really am into coding websites - a "certified on-liner". So allow me to share my experience in doing the site while they are still so so fresh in my memories.

We've done the website in a rush. Believe it or not, it was a rush. The coding was not as simple as some thought it is. We used the "html stuffs" not the "drag-and-drop thingy". I could still remember how Margo cheered me for moral support while my eyes were glued in the computer screen, typing the "computer language". It was hell but was fun.:) An experience that thought me something : WAG KANG MAGC-CRAM. :)

I haven't got enough sleep yet this very moment. I feel so sleepy and hungry. I was awake all night together with Gaile and Margo. But it's fine at least it's done.:)

harvest.

Nostalgia. Reading the word harvest as I had it typed reminded me of something - Pam's puffy eyes started to make drops of tears fall from it after seeing one copy of the printed magazine. The feeling of fulfillment might have got in to her or what that made her cry. Keeping yourself up 'til morning just to finish the lay-out and having the hard-copy in hand - fulfilling. :) It was what I felt after hours of gluing my eyes on the computer screen talking to the computer and seeing it done after. It really is fulfilling. It wasn't easy but yea it's cool.:)

omega.  

Doing this magazine project was really a cool stuff - a challenging one. It binded quadrica3 more as one.  

The magazine was really cool. It was far more better than what I expected it to be. We might have heard some comment on our stuff but who the heck cares. :) If to them it's a competition, to us it's an experience. Experience that we will all treasure all our life.:)

This project taught us lessons that can't be learned within the four corners of rm.215. It gave us experiences we'll all have for keeps.:) O yea! .:)  

And yea! Ma'm Faye I'll miss you. :) Labb! .:)

tabulas.

friendster.

multiply.

yahoo mail.

yahoo messenger.

i-meem.

wikipedia.

audition on-line.

CSS coding

cable tv.

disney channel.

reality tv.

national geographic.

HBO. 

DVDs.

VCDs.

cellphone.

unlimited texting.

MMS messaging.

God.

family.

friends.

-- MY LIFE.

My life is dominantly ran by the information highway. I am chained and stuck with the idea that if the things that it offers will be gone, it's the end of the world and i'll die. I may sound a bit exxagerated for saying such but its true.

I use search engines like yahoo and google in the internet to search answers for my assignments. I am not used to opening big, bulky and dust-covered encyclopedias to search for answers. These internet search engines does it for me and in 5 seconds or less it shows a wide variety of web pages that provides answers. I'll highlight the text, copy it to MS Word and print it. Then it's done.

I, like the others, enjoy playing on-line games -- O2 jam, audition and DOTA. Though I, and the other players are at distant locations, we still have the chance to interact with each other. It eliminates the distance between us.

Though some of family members and friends are abroad, I still have the chance to communicate with them through the yahoo! messenger. I, at times, even have the chance to see them through the access of the web camera. I could also send them e-mails instead of the "snail mail" that takes days before it reaches them.

I blog stuffs about what's the latest happening to me through my tabulas journal. On-line journals allow its members to interact with each other by comment boxes and tag boards.

SMS and MMS messaging is I guess the best thing that the "Information Highway" gave my generation. Many, or should I say most of us, enjoys the bequest of this satellite-generated creation. Honestly speaking, I spend more time conversing with people miles away from me than my family that I share this house with. I have more sensible conversations with people miles away from me than those who are af feet away from where I'm sitting right now.  

The Information Highway.        

Irving Fang's so-called "The Highway" was an immense aid to the need of a faster access to communication, information and entertainment. It, coming to the world, eradicated time and distance. It made life easier. 

The Information Highway has indeed affected the lives of many. It made information more accessible, entertainment more convenient, and communication a lot more expedient. It might have been a lot more complicated than the former information revolutions but iin my opinion, it was the best.  

The use of satellites, invention of computers, access to the internet, contraption of CDs and Cable Narrowcasting -- they marked a developing nation, a mounting way of communication.

What you will be reading is something that I made to make you feel more what I could have felt if I was one of those who have heard the broadcast in 1938.

October 30, 1938. I was 17 then. I was walking home from the dress parlor nearby with a new green dress inside a box that I have in hand. It was getting dark and street lamps start to lit up. I was alone then, all alone. I was feeling quite bizarre then. The streets of New Jersey that night were so quiet. It was like all the villagers were gone in a snap. It was really weird. The odd feeling brought by the strange quietness of the village plus the fact that Halloween then was  just a day away, I really was swathed in so much trepidation.

I reached the house and there I see my mom, my dad and my three sisters listening to the radio that my dad bought a week ago. They seemed so serious. I ignored them and decided to go to my room. I have not reached my room's door yet when I heard my youngest sister shrilled. I went back to the living room ans saw her hugging my dad so tight. It was like she was so afraid. I took her and carried her in my arms. I listened to the radio too and sat beside my dad. Hell! It was a radio broadcast about martians invading New Jersey!

I listened closely to the radio though I was trembling in so much fear. In my mind thoughts of these martians played and raised my hear from head to toe - their peculiar faces, odd languages, deep dark black eyes, bizarre body built and the frightening things that they can do.

The sudden stops in the broadcast added more to my horror. The sounds and the sudden shrills of some covered me more in fear. The signal interruptions made me panic more.

I always doubted that there was life outside the Earth, that there was life in Mars. I always ignored such hoax but that night while I was listening to the broadcast, I found myself believing that martians came to invade the earth.

After an hour or less, it was said that all along the broadcast was just a Halloween presentation, that it was not really happening and in fact, it was just a story. I sighed and said, "Thank God, It wasn't real."  

Obviously, my answer to the question would I have believed the broadcast, was a YES. The radio broadcast was so believable. It was as if it was not just a play or a story played on air. It was like it was really happening. The sound effects, signal interruptions, sudden shrills because of fear, outbreaking news, interviews of some who were said to have witnessed the invasion and the emotions given as the lines were delivered, they made the broadcast something worth believing for.

Take note : In my story, I have not heard the broadcast in full. I wasn't able to hear that it was just a Halloween special presentation. I only had the chance to listen to it minutes before it started.   

If I' not mistaken, we had 7 meetings since this academic year started. But I'm acting like I've been studying communication arts for such a long time. I keep on babbling comments about the things I see on tv whether it be program, a show or a commercial. I even give some to the billboard ads that I see on the road. 

What you'll be reading next are my comments and observations about a specific communication media. Have fun reading.

music videos. . 

I stopped doing this blog entry an hour ago to rest my mind and sum up all the ideas that I have in mind after. I turned on the television and took some time to watch some of the music videos played on myx -- a part of my daily routine. "It only reminds me of you" by MYMP was currently being played when I turned the television on. I love this song a lot and I keep on playing this on my iPod when I'm on my way to school or to somewhere else. But the video, yeah! the video, it was awful! I keep on criticizing it inside my head -- it's camera angles, lighting, the script and the artists. Even the story line was bad!

-->Messages of these videos can be altered depending on who will receive the messages that they are trying to impart. Honestly, I reacted this way, giving the video harsh comments, because I get so sick and tired watching "love" inspired videos. The reason? I don't have my "special somebody". Why would I let myself be jealous of what I'm seeing on the screen?

television shows. . 

Let me continue this entry by giving out my opinion about the hottest and most talked about issue in the television industry -- Pinoy Big Brother season 2. I really am into watching this show ever since the first season was aired. I react to some situations the same way as other people do. I get mad. I laugh. But this season, it was really controversial. Bodie leaving the Big Brother House and Wendy being part of the big 4?! What a LIE! I reacted the way everybody else did -- I got really mad and so annoyed. But understanding and applying what I learned inside the four corners of room 215 during my CA201 class, I shouldn't be acting this way. "Media uses some techniques to heigthen the people's response and grab our attention," and I guess this is PBB's so-called "technique". I admit it! They had a good approach to heighten the rating of the show. Most of us were really affected that some had to make  such controversies to drive Wendy out of the house. This question suddenly popped out of my mind, "Hindi kaya pati yung mga controversies about PBB is a part of ABS-CBN's 'technique' para mas madami ang maging interested manood as this season comes to an end?".

advertisements. .

To end this first entry, let me share a good (in my own opinion) advertisement that really grabbed my attention. It was yesterday when I noticed this flyer posted in the bulletin board inside our classroom. It was an ad for an outreach group of the Faculty of Arts and Letters. "This is a flyer."A green paper plane was glued. "It's time you make one for them too." It was a simple advertisement yet it really touched my heart. I may sound exxagerated for saying this but it really did. It was so simple yet so cool.

I'm just a freshie of the communication arts but I'm already reacting to things this bold and I still have so much to learn. "Paano kaya kung graduate na ako 'di ba? grabe na siguro ko mang-away ng ads and shows."