I have asked you to start reading Tube of Plenty for Homework this week. In the first few pages of this book you are introduced to early concepts of television such as the telephonoscope or the Nipkow disk.
1. What were some of these inventions? What did you think of them? What sort of content would be on these inventions
Jump ahead over 100 years to this link.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/28343/dr-horribles-sing-along-blog
Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog made quite a buzz this summer when Joss Whedon went against the studio system of television to produce his own short work. In addition, Whedon published a DVD of the show with dvd commentary which was, among other things, sung.
2. Is Dr. Horrible the future of television? Why or Why Not? What do you think were some of the benefits of broadcasting this short series online as opposed to on the internet. Finally, is Dr. Horrible even a show? Is it just a long movie? What makes it TV if it is in fact television at all.
3. Please try to find any similarities and differences between early TV inventions and Dr. Horrible in terms of ingenuity, innovation and thinking towards the future. Feel free to research both Dr. Horrible and early television beyond the books and work.
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Before asking whether Dr. Horrible is the future of television. it is important o ask if it is television. To me personally it wasn't television as I watched it in full well after all three episodes were released. To me they fitted well as a story to the point that it was hard to tell how it was divided between episodes. If that is what what makes television distinct from film then it would be hard to define Dr. Horrible as television
ReplyDeleteoh yeah, and I am Ben
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Ben that it is important to know whether it is television or not. off hand I can think of 2 ways to define television: 1) whether it is being broadcast on a TV. 2) whether it is serialized in video format. there are problems with both of these definitions. With the first definition, that could include movies broadcast on TV. With the second definition, that could include video web blogs, or youtube serials such as say Jake and Amir, it could also even include things we normally consider movies such as the Rocky or Terminator movies. Both of these IPs aren't confined to a trilogy, they are made without considering when the story will end. So I'm still a little unsure about my definition, so I don't know weather Dr. Horrible is television. If anything, I would think it is a miniseries because it obviously had a preconceived ending.
ReplyDeletewoops, I'm writing this on Adam's computer. But that last post was Julian
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