Going on a trip into the life of Johanna

When choosing classes for my first semester of college there was one class that stood out to me that I really wanted to take. This class was audio production. It involves us recording sounds and putting them onto the program SoundtrackPro and either making audio clips with our recorded sounds. We need to use professional equipment which is really exciting, but also pretty difficult. My favorite project was the interview we had to conduct. We had to have it be at least 3 minutes and have a cohesive story line to it, without ever hearing the interviewer's (me) voice. My teacher said I did an amazing job and it was very exciting. However, on a typically Tuesday or Thursday anyone can hear me complaining about how I have class from 745 to 9 and how inconvenient it is.

(http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.synthtopia.com/news/05_04/images/apple_soundtrack_pro.jpg&imgrefurl)

Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll, the best radio program on Champlain radio. As reported in a previous blog, my roommate Sandra and I at the beginning of the year decided to run our own radio show. It is on every tuesday from 9 to 10 and can be found at THIS WEBSITE. We talk about pretty much everything you can think of, a lot of our friends say that we are really annoying but we know that they really love us. If you want to find out any more information just go to my other blog post about it!

(http://radio.champlain.edu/)

Television has always been pretty important in my life. I like being able to watch a show every week and feel like I can relate to the character and feel their story. A show I was clinically obsessed with was LOST. I watched it every week with a particular set of rules: no talking, even during commercials, no phones on, no typing on a computer or anything else that would make noise. It amazes me how a show can just get you so attached to make you watch from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010 and have such a horrible ending. BOO!! but I still love you LOST and the re-runs I watch at least once a week!!

(http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2009/04/39lost39_was_gr.html)

Watching movies on the internet has become the most convenient way to watch movies. Hulu is one of the most popular websites to help with instant movie watching. Although most of the movies are all about sex, weed, or other drugs, they also do have have a lot of other good movies and TV shows to watch. It's pretty cool that they are totally free and it's all due to advertising. Let someone put a 30 second clip in the middle of your movie and boom! It's free! I do believe this is the future of movie and TV watching and it should be interesting to see how it progresses throughout the years. Usually when I'm trying to go to sleep after after doing some homework I'll turn on Hulu and watch an episode of some sit com and laugh myself to sleep, for free.

(http://www.hulu.com/movies)

The art of reading books has seemed to have died. They have come up with new and more high-tech ways of reading books so that said reader does not even have to leave their house. The most recent way of instant reading is the Kindle. This is a product that has hundreds of thousands of books for you to download and have the whole book in your hands in seconds, all run by a battery that can apparently last for up to a month. Just like Hulu and YouTube, it brings up the question of, whats next for entertainment?

(http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20014364-1.html)

For as long as they will be in print I will always read magazines. Yes, they are online and convenient like everything else now-a-days, I personally like being able to flip through the glossy pages of my Snowboarder Mag and be able to rip pages out and stick them all over my walls. Now I don't really read any other magazines besides action spots and maybe a few car magazines, I believe in the print of them and not having them online. I also believe that magazines will always be around because yes, online shopping is easier to do, but what else are the mom's going to do in the doctors offices while waiting for their kids?

(http://www.shaunwhite.com/news/2008/11/)

Newspapers, I'll admit, are not something I read on a daily, weekly, or even monthly basis. However, they do have many benefits, especially to their communities. Since newspapers are readily available to everyone in the community, they serve the very important purpose of keeping people informed about current events in the world. More importantly, they keep people up-to-date on events in their neighborhood, town, or city. Burlington, for example, has a free newspaper called 7 Days, which I occasionally peruse while I wait for food at local sandwich and coffee shops.

(http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blip.tv/file/get/SevenDays)

Videogames are becoming more and more popular as a form of artistic media in our society today. They are becoming more common in advertising during sporting events and popular T.V. series, including late-night talk shows. Jimmy Fallon, for example, has premiered multiple first-look videos for upcoming video games on his show. First-day sales records for video games have shattered those of other forms of media for the past several years in a row. I personally hate video games but spend a lot of my days watching my boyfriend and his friends play them for hours on end. I don't get it, but I accept it as a reasonable form of media.

(http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2010/11/06/call-of-duty-black-ops-walkthrough-video-guide-xbox-360-ps3-pc-wii.htm)

Magazine Analysis- SNOWBOARDER

THESIS: This magazine has one motive- keep a snowboarding magazine just about snowboarding.

FIVE FACTS (from the magazine):

1. "Sicktionary"- SNOWBOARDERS own little dictionary.

Example, layback- a layback entails sliding frontside on a feature base-down while literally laying back and dragging one's trailing hand. Variations include the layback air and the look-back layback.

2. Random fact, After Venice, Pittsburgh has the most bridges then any other city in the world.

3. A 2 disc dvd calls "right brain, left brain" by Think Thank is in stores now or on www.ThinkThank.com
4. Keegan Valaika won their contest for highest ollie, in the Americas next top pro model contest.

5. The movie Out Cold, was one of the most successful snowboard themed movies that has made it to theaters.

TRIUNE BRAIN: SNOWBOARDER magazine is a very "limbicly" based magazine because of all of the pictures throughout the whole issue. Almost every other page is an awesome picture of a mountain with someone snowboarding on it or just a creative or colorful advertisement. It also comes with a few posters in every issue which is pretty cool.

The Lizard brain is also used because for girls at least, a lot of the snowboarders are really cute so you are attracted to them so there are pictures of them for the advertisements

8 TRENDS: Snowboarder mag recently made it possible to access a lot of the magazine online, making it follow the Analog to Digital trend. Also having video interviews on the website that are in the actual magazine.

7 PRINCIPLES: The pacing in this magazine is very interesting because like i said before, every other page pretty much is a photograph so you read an article and then can look at the pictures.

29 PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES: Plain folks is used in this magazine with the interviews they have with the amurature riders throughout the magazine. They also do this because at the beginning of every issue they have the list of all of the people who work on the magazine. Humor is also used all throughout this magazine from the stories, to the advertisements. This magazine is very good at keeping everything light hearted and funny. The advertisements are always pretty funny with the pros and their gear and are always doing something crazy in the pictures.

Mid term, wish me luck!

1. That there is a lot behind just media in general.Messages van be widely spread throughout the world, discreetly and indiscreetly. Also how specific production techniques can sway someones opinions, and just the amazing progress over time.

2. The class makes you think a lot specially with our quizzes you really have to analyze them and think how is this video directly made to make the viewer think or how to catch their attention.

3. The only thing I could think of to do differently is like literally memorize the power tool packet.

4. Honestly nothing. By giving us quizzes everyday on the same stuff is really helpful and always being able to access the homework is good.

5. Power tools- After this class the information will be permanently burned into my brain. . It is very helpful and very nicely organized and explained well.

Course blog- Very awesome. Always being able to see what the homework is and stuff related to class that day is convenient. Also being able to just post the homework there is cool. (and green, no paper)

personal blog- I never thought i would make my own blog but its kinda off cool. Im still learning how to use it but its a great way for you as our teacher to really actually learn the opinions of your students.

quizzes- on the class quizzes is the beginning were annoying but now i understand why you were doing it because now i can remember it better due to all the repetition.

Flims- I liked most of the films and videos shown so far. Some were kind of and weird but they were really helpful in seeing the true details of why videos are the way they are. But i really liked the one you were in!

books- I like our text book there are pictures and all the info isn't like boaring info like in a normal text book. It is all about the progression of media which is very interesting to me.

Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll: sweetest new show on the radio.

Coming to champlain i knew exactly what i want to do with my life. I want to broadcast. I don't care if its on the radio, tv, or what probably is the future of tv news casts, online. Recently, their was a sign up for the Champlain radio station online. I looked over at my roommate Sandra with the biggest smile on my face. I asked her if she would ever want to do a radio show with me and she said "hellllll yes." So we signed up. A few weeks ago we got the email asking us to set up a schedule so we can learn how to run everything in the studio. To my surprise, it was actually a really simple set up. At home i DJ so luckily i was already kinda familiar with some of the controls and what not.

R.I.P DJ AM. one of the best DJ's of our time.

Along comes tuesday. We were preparing all day for what we wanted to talk about. All day we were telling people from home to join our FACEBOOK GROUP (which by the way anyone who reads this should join too = ]). All of our friends from home and up here were listening so we were really excited, and surprisingly not nervous.

We decided that since it was our first show we will talk about ourselves a little, funny stories that have happened to us, the little secrets of Burlington we have found, food, ect. However, we want our show to be really funny, and since we knew our friends were listening, we decided to throw our friends under the bus and tell funny stories about them as well. Even though they weren't too happy about it, i knew they were just happy to be talked about on the radio. I can honestly can say, that entire hour was one of the happiest and most comfortable i have ever been, even though the studio is the size of a small jail cell.

((image: from the Champlain Wave Radio facebook page JOIN HERE TOO!!

By doing this show it has only confirmed my choice of my major and that this is definitely what i want to be doing with my life. Talking and talking and talking, my favorite thing to do. And people are tuning in so i know they actually want to listen.

Our show is from tuesdays 9 to 10pm ON THIS WEBSITE. i hope you guys tune in, its a really fun time!

Canada hates us.

Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 450,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?

((Image: Hulu symbol. Can be found here.

The other night my friend and I wanted to watch a movie, having been on the awesome blog for Media and Society , I remembered seeing something about the website for Hulu, where you can go and watch movies for free. I went to the recently popular section, and to my surprise almost all of the movies were documentaries on weed. Considering we are in Burlington, VT we said, hey, why not. We ended up watching the documentary called, The Union: The Business Behind Getting High. Now I'm not about to review this movie ((even though it was very good)) or saying i condone the smoking of weed, but I just wanted to mention how much this movie made me think about our government, and how it seems so sneaky. The quote i put at the beginning of this blog is not the exact quote from the movie, but these are the facts that were mentioned. It is a movie about the big industry that creates and selling illegal Cannabis.Cannabis is still illegal in most parts of the world,despite that cigarettes and Alcohol are taking more life's then Cannabis.

The title of "Canada Hates Us," relates to one part of the movie where these two guys from Canada are about to be arrested and put in jail in the U.S for life, and are being tried by a U.S jury, for selling weed seeds over the internet to people in the U.S, even though it is completely legal in Canada. Thats a little harsh in my opinion by our government. One last thing it made me think about, was the power of the pharmaceutical companies over the government's decision of legalizing weed. They don't want people "growing their own medicine." Also, many of the studies that have been done to prove the "harmfulness" of weed on the brain, were made biased scientist who did not want the legalization of weed so they did them so that no matter what, it would prove weed harmful. The one experiment that was the most horrible was they had monkeys that they put oxygen masks on and pumped them full of pure weed smoke, with no oxygen. So by the end of the few weeks when the results came out saying weed kills brain cells, it was not even from that, it was from the 10 minutes a day the monkeys were deprived of oxygen. Kinda shady in my opinion.

Thats it for now, enjoy the trailer and if you are looking for a good movie that actually does make you think. Check it out, might raise some questions.

1. KEY CONCEPT: Although there are so many benefits to online music sharing, there are also draw backs. Illegal music sharing is very prominent in the world, where in 2008 the ratio was 20:1. The reason this is really bad is because, everyone does it and it is impossible to catch everyone who is doing it and there will always be way to do it.

2. KEY TERM: Compact discs- digitally recorded music onto a small disc which means, a smaller, higher quality, more convenient way for artists to get their music to the public.

3. FIVE FACTS:

1. Frank Sinatra was categorized in 1943 s "the glorification of ignorance and musical illiteracy."
2. Elvis pushed the limits of the public in the 1950's with all of the sexuality surrounding him because religious parents of teens were upset how he was "influencing" their children.

3. The perception of rock and roll was looked at as "juvenile delinquency" in the 1950's.

4. Until 1964, no British artists appeared on the US top 10 charts until the Beatles.

5 By the late 1970's, the rock slogan about the music of the previous decade was "disco sucks."

4. PERSONAL STORY: At home i work for a DJ company, so I love music. With my company we always get CD's with music that has not come out yet, so for me, when i finally hear it on the radio i always get excited because i have known it for however long. Oppositely, i do also listen to the radio to hear what music is popular now. We mainly DJ dances, sweet 16's, grad parties, weddings, so by listening to the top 100 can show me music that is popular that we dont have and can download electronically so we can have it.

5. A SINGLE QUESTION: Is it possible that one day, no artists will put out hard copies, CD's, of their music?

Chapter 4

1. KEY CONCEPT: The idea of the "economic shift" is very prominent in the radio business; for example, Clear Channel owns over 1200 radio stations, s opposed to just one to be in control over.

2. KEY TERM: Wireless telegraphy- one of the the first forms of point to point communication- sends voice and sound transmissions to many form of mass communications, now known as broadcasting.

3. FIVE FACTS:

1. An Audion was is a vacuum tube that detects radio waves and amplifies them.

2. Narrowcasting, as opposed to broadcasting, is person to person communication

3. By 1925, 5,5 million radio sets were used n America where radio officially became a mass medium.

4. A network allows stations to control program costs and avoid duplication

5. The Federal communications act was set in place in 1934.

4. PERSONAL STORY: I love the radio. Although talk radio is not very popular anymore, there is one channel that i can actually stand listening too. I live in New Jersey, so we listen to alot of New york city radio. One of these stations is Z100, which is pretty much all popular music, but during the week days from 6am to 11am there is a talk radio program calls "Elvis Duran and the morning show." I love it because they talk about interesting topics and they are just so funny. For litterally all four years of highschool i would listen to them every morning while i got ready for school.

5. A SINGLE QUESTION: Eventually will talk radio officially not be broadcasted anymore?or you.

all about me

Where are you from?

Im from middletown, New Jersey.

2. Fun Media Experience.

THe best media experience i had this year were all the concerts i went to, my favorite was the pepper, O.A. R. and 311 concert.

3. Likes/dislikes

I love how simple it is to get access to information and news from all over the world in a matter of seconds of it happening. One of the things i would like to do with my life is be a broadcast journalist for celebrity gossip, on that not i hate how rumors about certain celebrities can just be blown way out of portion, especially about certain scandals that can ruin their lives.

4. Future

I am a broadcast journalist major and one day would like to be a reporter for either fuel TV or E network.