...The television (TV) is part and parcel of many households. Therefore, watching television is a culture of today’s modern society. It is a favourite past-time of many people, cutting across the culture, creed, gender and age. I must admit that I too enjoy “sitting glued” to the TV as mum often laments. Since I watch TV whole day long, I don’t blame mum. However, whenever I watch my favourite TV programme she doesn’t complain. In fact, she often sits together to watch it, the ‘National Geographic’. The National Geographic is a well-known documentary programme, focusing mainly on the ever-changing world, on Mother Earth and on nature and peoples and creatures that colour it with. Just the press of a switch and a button and ‘Hey Presto!’, the whole world is brought before me, for me to savour its beauty and wonders. Personally, I am often awed and amazed with them. I like this programme because it is very educational. It is a ‘window to the world’. By watching it, I can ‘travel’, ‘explore’ and ‘discover’ the four corners of the world. I have trekked up the highest peak and conquered Mt. Everest. I have dived down the deepest trenches. I have walked through the wilderness and be amongst the wild beasts, big and small. Thus, this programme has helped to expand my horizon and improve my knowledge and experience. I can proudly say I am no more a ‘frog in the well’. I also enjoy watching the National Geographic because it is entertaining, interesting and stimulating. I never imagined...
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...industry are substitute services and customers. Youtube has become a problem to the television industry. Instead of going to a cinema or buying an original copy of a movie, most people all over the world switch to Youtube as an alternative as they do not need to fork out any money to watch videos on Youtube. Not only Youtube, the television industry also faces problems from other video streaming websites whereby TV shows and movies can be watched without any charges by Internet users. In terms of customers forces, problem that has merged towards the television industry is that customers find it easier and more convenient for them to watch their favourite shows online. Rather than having to follow the television programme schedule, customers can easily watch any shows via the Internet at anytime they wish. Another problem would be the loss of revenue of the television industry as people might cut their TV cable and turn to watching online because it is indeed lower to them in the sense of money. Obviously, most people do not want to pay an extra sum of money for TV programmes that they can watch for free. 2. Describe the impact of disruptive technology on the companies discuss in this case. In the case study, the two companies that were affected by the advancement of technology is the music company and the cable company. The music company face declining number of CD sales since the introduction of the Internet. This is because a lot of music can be downloaded for free from...
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...Term paper First draft Reflection Of Cartoons On Child Psychology (Based on problem with solution) Submitted to: Submitted by: Farzana Sharmin Pamela Islam (Senior Lecturer of English Department) Date Of Submission 11-02-2012 Content Topic Page # Abstract 3 # Introduction 4 # Methodology 5 # Literature 6 # Findings( only our own view) 7-8 # Limitation ...
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...Итоговая аттестация по английскому языку в 4-м классе Пояснительная записка Цели проведения итогового контроля в новой форме: проверить уровень сформированности элементарных коммуникативных умений в основных видах речевой деятельности: аудировании, говорении, чтении и письме; выявить группу учащихся, обладающих ярко-выраженными способностями к английскому языку для формирования класса с углубленным изучением английского языка на следующей ступени обучения; Особенности нового формата итогового контроля: 1. Проверке подлежат все основные виды речевой деятельности (чтение, аудирование, письмо, говорение), в то время как предыдущим вариантом тестирования навыки аудирования и письма не проверялись, а акцент делался на проверке знания грамматики. 2. Конторольно-измерительные материалы по каждому виду речевой деятельности имеют три уровня сложности (базовый, средний и повышенный, с элементами творческого характера), что дает возможность каждому учащемуся продемонстрировать собственный уровень достижений. 3. Оценка производится по 100-балльной системе (по 20 баллов на каждый вид тестирования) без перевода в 5-балльную. 4. Итоговое тестирование обязательно для всех учащихся, т.к. все они обучались по одной программе с одинаковым количеством часов. Данный формат полностью согласуется с примерными заданиями для итоговой оценки достижения планируемых результатов начального языкового образования, рекомендуемыми новыми образовательными стандартами последнего...
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...Culinary tourism I’m going to talk about gastronomic tourism. In my presentation I’ll tell you what is gastronomic tourism, link between tourism and gastronomy, facts and stats, main destination and 5 major trends. Well, gastronomic tourism refers to trips made to destinations where the local food and beverages are the main motivating factors for travel. It is also known as “food tourism”, “tasting tourism” or “culinary tourism”. This means there is a particular audience of people who are willing to travel the world in order to sample and experience authentic international cuisines. Gastronomy plays a major role in the way tourists experience the destination, and indicate that some travellers would return to the same destination to savour its unique gastronomy. Move on to the facts and stats . * Culinary tourism tends to be largely a domestic tourism activity, with consumers travelling to places to eat and drink specific (usually local) product. * A domestic survey of leisure travellers in America found that 17% engaged in culinary related activities. * The growth in popularity of ethnic cuisines like Thai, Indian, North African, Mexican and Chinese throughout the industrialised countries is attributable to a significant degree to tourism where visitors sample local foods and develop a taste for them. * Food and drink festivals constitute the sole instance where the decision to travel is taken only on the grounds of the gastronomic experiences offered. ...
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...Project Report on DTH Services in India Hyderabad Business School Team Members Name : Janardhan Samba Murthy Roll No: 2225112112 Email ID : janardhansambamurthyrock@gmail.com Name : R.Kavya Roll No: 2225112130 Email ID : Introduction: In earlier days there was only one TV channel in India. That is “Doordarshan” which was owned and operated by government of India. At the time of 90’s every home which had a TV set used to have its own antenna to capture the signals. The Cable Television Ordinance Law was passed in January 1995. This enabled cable operators to feed channels and later on private companies were allowed to air their own channels and this led to the explosive growth in number of TV channels and number of cable operators. The growth of TV channels & cable operators created a big industry and market opportunities. There were as many as 1, 00,000 cable operators across India until few years back. However the services provided by cable operators were poor. The strikes, increase in tariff plan, selective broadcast and poor services were major cause of dissatisfaction among the customers. This has created an opportunity for DTH. What is DTH? DTH stands for Direct-To-Home, it’s a system that allows you to have a personal dish antenna how cable operators do, except it’s much smaller in size, this antenna can be fixed on your terrace and receives transmissions directly from a satellite, hence it is called as a direct to home service. Direct to...
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...Good afternoon to my honourable teacher, Puan Rubi, and also my dearest classmate.Today I want to tell you a little about my favourite book titled L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad.Like Amilyn state yesterday,teenagers nowadays like to read love story,book and novel.I agreed with it because most of my novel are about love story.This book is not totally about love but still,there are some elements of love. Basically this book is about the author herself,Lauren Conrad,but some of the story are true and some are maybe just her imagination to make the story interesting.This story is about Jane and her best friend,Scarlett.They move from Santa Barbara to LA for certain reason.Jane has an internship with Fiona Chen who's a event planner and Scarlett studied at University of Southern California,known as U.S.C. They live like a normal teenage girl at first until one day,Trevor Lord,a producer of reality show met them and offer them to star in new reality show called L.A. Candy.The tv programme shows ups-and-down of Jane,Scarlett and two other girl’s life,name Madison and Gaby.This story also shows behind the scene of reality shows and ofcourse there are a lot of drama and some backstabbing in this story. I love this story because it teaches me about friendship as Jane and Scarlett are bestfriend since they were 5 years old.Though sometimes they had a bit of quarrel,they still close to each other and it show the strength of their friendship. I really enjoyed this book so much .So,.if you...
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...This research is for academic purposes only. It forms part of my PhD. All responses are strictly confidential and for research purposes only. Gaming Questionnaire Name (optional): | | Occupation: | | Age: |Under 18 |18-21 |21-25 |25-30 |30-35 |Over 35 | | | | | | | | Gender: |Male |Female |Other | | | | | Living Status: |With parents |Student accom |Renting with others |With partner |On own |With friends and partner |Other | | | | | | | | | Relationship status: |Single |Partnered |Co-habiting ...
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...the costumers, whose needs and desires have to be coordinated with the set of products and production programmes. Therefore, marketing success an enterprise depends as its ability to create a community of satisfied consumers. All the business activities should be carried out in ways which are directed towards the satisfaction of the consumer needs. Consumer behavior is affected by a host of variables ranging from personal, professional needs, attitudes and values, personality characteristics, social economic and cultural background, age, gender, professional status to social influences of various kinds exerted a family, friends, colleagues, and society as a whole. The combination of these factors help the consumer in decision making further Psychological factors that as individual consumer needs, motivations, perceptions attitudes, the learning process personality characteristics are the similarities, which operate across the different types of people and influence their behavior. There are four major factors which influences on the buying behavior of consumer. 1. 2. 3. 4. Cultural factors Social factors Personal factors Psychological factors So a study had been conducted on “Consumer Behaviour Towards Two-Wheeler Motor Bikes” in the twin cities i.e. Hyderabad and Secunderabad with a sample of 100 consumers by selecting two wheeler motor bikes i.e. Hero Honda, Yamaha, and TVS bikes and data had been collected through structured questionnaire. 2 Osmania...
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...Designer fashion chain Ted Baker has weathered the tough economy to deliver robust rises in sales and profits. The company has reaped the benefits of a global expansion programme, as fellow retailers in the UK feel the pressure from the ongoing squeeze on consumer spending during a double-dip recession. Ted Baker - which started as a shirt store in Glasgow in 1988 - has recently opened new stores in Tokyo and on Fifth Avenue, New York. The chain, which has now 179 stores in the UK including concessions, said retail sales were up 15.4 per cent in the 28 weeks to August 11. The upbeat performance implies like-for-like sales growth of around 3 per cent. The group also revealed a 10.4 per cent increase in underlying pre-tax profits to £9.4million in the half-year period as total revenues rose to £118.6million from £102.8million. Founder and chief executive Ray Kelvin said: 'We have delivered good results in a challenging environment while making important investments for the long term development of the brand.' The group said UK and European retail sales rose 8 per cent to £74.7million, while the U.S. saw growth of 53 per cent to $25.6million (£15.9million). Women’s wear was a strong performer with sales up 24.5 per cent at £66.1million, representing 55.7 per cent of total sales, although more women’s wear space was added in the period. Menswear sales were up 5.7 per cent to £52.5million. In 2015, Ted Baker has released a positive trading update today, with...
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...market, so they can get the best results and profit. For instance it could be documentary on mafias, they could show it to a small target audience as they I have connections in terms of interests. When a media company is identifying an audience to find their target audience some of the factors they must consider are… Age – Gender – Religion – Race – Sexuality – Education – Occupation – Annual income – Disposable income – Current and desired lifestyle – Media interests – Buying habits – Loyalty to brands – Quantitative research: Quantitative research is a method used by producers to shape their targeted audience. This way it allows media producers to see the viewing figures on selected TV channels. In my opinion this way of doing it does not really help producers who are working on documentaries in finding out their target audience because it’’ just give you channels and programs get the most views and doesn’t give on the actual audience themselves in terms of interests. . Here is a link to a useful website that shows these viewing figures. http://www.barb.co.uk/ A way that I find this method useful to producers who are looking to create a documentary is that it shows the times...
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...of American Idol Supergirl Idol. The winner Li Yuchan was chosen via text messages receiving 3.5 million votes. This was seen as a ground breaking moment in both the economic and cultural sectors of Chinese society. Reality TV can be defined as shows that film and follow ordinary people in artificial situations. They could either be at work or in a competition show. Reality shows only came to China in recent years but have since made its impact. With TV programs such as Super Girl and Boy, Dreams in China, Blind Dating shows, each one has attracted thousands of people to participate. Reality shows in China have generated a lot of revenue for not only companies but for the state. Reality TV is one of the fastest growing sectors. One example was Shanghai-based Dragon TV's four popular reality-style programmes, said to have a combined value of about $500m. These programmes had generated a further $1bn for other businesses in Shanghai, in a chain of value-adding that extended from the producer to advertising agents, telecom operators, mobile phone message service providers, entertainment industry design companies and broadband websites. Supergirl Idol, which originated on a Hunan satellite channel, was so successful both commercially and economically that TV stations across China have since produced more than 500 reality shows, ranging from music to martial arts. By one count there were of 50 of them on satellite television at one time and dozens more on regular television. Not...
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...__________above 8,000 meters. 2. He sometimes (come) __________ to see his parents. 3. When I (come) __________, she (leave) __________for Dalat ten minutes ago. 4. My grandfather never (fly) __________ in an airplane, and he has no intention of ever doing so. 5. We just (decide) __________ that we (undertake) the job. 6. He told me that he (take) __________ a trip to California the following week. 7. I knew that this road (be) __________ too narrow. 8. Right now I (attend) __________ class. Yesterday at this time I (attend) __________class. 9. Tomorrow I’m going to leave for home. When I (arrive) __________at the airport, Mary (wait) for me. 10. Margaret was born in 1950. By the year 2005, she (live) __________on this earth for 55 years . 11. The traffic was very heavy. By the time I (get) __________to Mary’s party, everyone already (arrive) __________ 12. I will graduate in June. I (see) you in July. By the time I (see) __________ you , I (graduate) __________. 13. I (visit) __________ my uncle’s home many times when I (be) __________ a child. 14. That book (lie) __________ on the table for week. You (not read) __________ it yet ? 15. David (wash) __________ his hands. He just (repair) __________ the TV set. 16. You (be) __________here before? Yes, I (spend) __________ my holidays here last year. 17. We never (meet) __________ him. We don’t know what he (look) __________ like. 18. The car (be) __________ ready for him by the time...
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...Contents Introduction…………………………….……….…………….…………………... 3 FIRST PART 1. What is Humour?..................................................................................................... 5 2. Humour and Culture…………………………….……………………………...… 6 3. What amuses Britain?……………………………….…….……….………...…… 7 4. Comedy…………………………………………………………………………… 8 4.1 British Comedy………………………………………………..………………..… 9 5. British Television Comedy.……………………………..……………………...… 9 5.1 Sitcom - situational comedy……………………………………………………. 10 5.1.1 Britcom……………………………………………………………….…….…… 11 SECOND PART 6. What makes Britain laugh?..……………………………………………..…… … 11 6.1 Madness & Surrealism………………………………………………………….. .12 6.1.1 Monty Python's Flying Circus…………………………………..………….…… 12 6.2 Political Satire…………………………………………………..…………….…. 14 6.2.1 Yes, Minister……………………………………..………………….……. …….. 15 6.3 The Race……………………………………………………….…………….. …. 17 6.3.1 Da Ali G Show……………………………………………………………….. … 18 6.4. The Family………………………………………………...…………….…… … 20 6.4.1 Only Fools and Horses………………………..……………..……... .. 21 THIRD PART 7. It’s Monty Python!.………………………………………………... ….… 24 8. Manipulation in Political Life……………………………………… ……. 26 9. “Boyakasha!”..................................................................................... 27 10. "This time next year, we'll be millionaires!"………………………. .… ….. 30 Conclusion…………………………………………………………. 33 Appendices Appendix A……………………………………………………………….. 35 Appendix...
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...Issue No 59 FILM “Kia ora. My name is Boy and welcome to my interesting world.” With these words Boy invited audiences to watch Taika Waititi’s highly successful comedy/drama. Cinema opens windows into multiple worlds; the study of film provides the tools with which to explore and understand these worlds. For New Zealand actor Sam Neill, a long, lonely road was an essential image in the landscape of New Zealand filmmaking when he co-directed Cinema of Unease in 1996 with filmmaker Judy Rymer. Over the years talented scriptwriters, directors and producers have travelled this road. Today New Zealand cinema has moved far from its uneasy beginnings. It has become an international thoroughfare where the cinemas of the world, including Hollywood and Bollywood, come to tell stories using New Zealand’s production and post-production facilities, employing local actors, crew and other technical staff. The study of Film makes it possible to consider the diversity in New Zealand cinema and in all cinemas of the world. The disciplined approach to studying these cinemas allows students to better understand not only how cinema itself functions, but also how New Zealand cinema contributes to the global cinematic tapestry. play? How do filmmakers contribute to culture and influence societal attitudes? How can other disciplines, such as psychology, help us to better understand film? Film explores the breadth and depth of motion picture making from the early days of cinema to the multiplex era...
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