Finger Eleven!

Any Moment Now Finger Eleven has been together for 20 years, they are from Burlington, Ontario, and came together in high school as a funk-styled band who was originally named Rainbow Butt Monkeys. However, the name was dropped by the time the first album came along. The band is now made up of Scott Anderson Lead vocals, James Black Lead guitar, Rick Jackett Rhythm guitar, Sean Anderson Bass guitar and Rich Beddoe on Drums/percussion. They relaized thier first album in 1998 called Tip. They have five all together, the newest one is called Life Turns Electric. Famous Last Words Lost My Way Even though Finger Eleven is infact a Canadian Band they do not show their Canadianship very well. Their songs do not mention anything about them being Canadian or they don’t sing about where there from. They have toured to many different location in Canada like; Vancover, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto, Alberta, Montreal and many other places. Althought Finger Eleven does not protray thier Canadianship all that much they continue to keep fans entertained and wanting more.

Living A Dream

Paralyzer is a one of Finger Eleven's top songs, it was released in 2007 on thier fifth album "Them vs. You vs. Me." The song recived airplay in both the United States and Canada. It was preformed live on March 14, 2007 on the night show with Jay Leno.

Does Violence Make for Good Entertainment?

The violence in the movie is what makes the movie good because everyone enjoys watching a good fight scene. Most people prefer those type of movies compared to others. A lot of movies are jam packed with violence from start to end and it just becomes to much. Even though this movie does have a lot its all to go along with the storyline of two guys becoming supervillans who are really superheros. so they have to fight and cause some trouble but only to make the other guys scared. In my opnion an action movie can not be peoduced without at least some violence becuase to those poeple who love to watch action movies its because the word action to them means violence of some sort. The two reasons involved in the movie are: Movies, by their very nature, are about movement, and some of the most exciting kinds of movement involve violence and Movies are made with a young audience in mind.

Another movie that has violence is Troy this movie is an Historically flim. people want to know what happened in the past and they only way we can really do that is by a moive. all the fighting in this moive needs to be there so that people can understand what happend years ago. This moive has just the right amount of fighting, where most moives have to much blood and gore this one didnt.

Nielson Report How Teens Use Media

One thing that surprised me in the list of comments was "I received 40 texts since we started doing this - in 15 minutes" this was shocking because thetas a lot of texts to get and reply to in that period of time. Another comment that surprised me was "I haven't turned on my TV in over three years" I don't think I could live without my TV because most of my spire time is spent watching TV.

One that I have in common with the report results is that "I have to watch TV to fall asleep" this is because if I'm just laying there in the dark I'll think about stuff instead of sleeping, but if the TVs on I'll just listen and sleep. I also agree with the person who said "I google everything" because whenever I want to know something the people I'm around usually can't tell me, so I'll just google it.

If I were to do a survey I would do it one the two points I said I have in common "I have to watch TV to fall asleep" and "I google everything". I would survey high school students.

Critiquing

The Phonographic Aspect
I would view this blog again, I enjoyed the photos and they were well organized so it wasn't hard to look at. It is very clear what they author is blogging about. The color scheme was a bit boring, but the opening photo was nice.

Out Law Poetry
This blog had a some nice poems however some were way to long that you lost interest by the time you got to the end. it had a good design but the colors could have been for vibrent. it was not hard to navigate through.

The Key Roles of Mass Media

1. The media supply information about important events (nationally and internationally). "Egypt Boosts Pay 15% for Government Employees" This is important information a salaries increase is the latest attempt to defuse popular anger amid protests demanding President Hosni Mubarak's ouster.

2.The media influence what we talk and think about (hit movies, scandals, politics, etc). "Most listened to songs of 2010" Everyone is influenced by music today, however for some people if its not in the top 10 they wont listen to it because its not "cool enough". This also happens with movies and books.

3.The media allow us to expand our personal experience (ex: safari adventures, war, famine).
We don't always get to experience for ourselves the things we'd like to, so when we watch things on T.V or read magazines we open our minds to those other things. Free The Chrilden came to our school last week and opened my mind to events happening in other parts of the world. they have to deal with so many everyday problems that people living in Canada and other well off countries don't have to.

4.The media show us the images we come to accept as normal (standards of appearance, language, behaviour). People tend to believe that everything we see on T.V and read in magazines in thought to be true. According to these things we are lead to believe that girls are as small as tooth picks and that all black people steal and kill other people. But thats not the case at all. all girls are different sizes and just because one black peoson did those things, that doesnt link every other one to it aswell.

5. Advertising and public relations messages reach us through the media (buy products, accept ideas). This kinda goes along with the saying monkey see monkey do, because when people see a famous person like Drew Barrymore using Covergirl Smoky Shadow Blast in the Commercial they all want to buy it to see if its as wonderfull as she makes it out to be.

6.The media entertain us.
the meida today is filled with thousands of shows that people love to watch for entertainment. for me i like to wactch One Tree Hill

Media Literacy & Your Expectations

One of the most important parts of the first video is, that Media Literacy is not just about analyzing the Media, its also about accessing and creating the media. Also to teach people to be more critical towards the Media and to be more powerful media producers.
The second video talks about the five core questions of media literacy, they are: who sent this message, what techniques are used to attack my attention, how might other people understand this message, what values are responded in or omitted from this message and why was the message sent. It also talks about how people are not taught about racism and how people need to work together instead of against each other then we would be able to talk about things and make dissections.
A few things i would like to learn about all the stereotyping and racism behind Disney. Also how much the internet is becoming the first thing people go to.