Long Form Television Questions/13 Reasons Why
Long Form Television
Group: Alaura, Brandon, Linda, Selina
What is television? It is a form of entertainment to pass time, it's not a necessity but is something that is an escape. It is also for communicating ideas, bringing people together, selling products through commercials and depending on if you are poor or rich, storytelling for characters and situations, personal expression like animation and music. Another form is live television and news channels, knowing information about the world and politics and reality TV that go through everyday life and explain whats either going on with a specific person or location. This can also be applied to documentaries.
What is different of long form television? After the 2000s, television series started to get very popular and more widely used. Sometimes it can be used to have adaptions of multiple books and even graphic novels. Studios are fairly different and reused. Characters and places are repetitive. Also unlike most movies you can watch episodes of series not in chronological order and be able to follow along. Different series are also sometimes followed by openings and endings usually with music and some form of introduction so you can pick up it up very quickly. They also are followed by coming out with series seasons usually yearly. Streaming services popularized the series and made it so commercials can be skipped and you can pause. TV shows go through pilots, and getting multiple seasons and are fairly lower budget than movies. This also provided multiple series that are accessible rather than one. This started to create binge watching and marathons finishing it usually in a weeks time. TV also created formulaic and constant episodes, this also changed the standard for cartoons. These are easier to make and can be on constant. Also changing the production with introducing new inexpensive actors, reusing sets, being cheaper to make, and how easy it can be to get into the business since it's easy and anyone can do it. How easy it is to access and create content nowadays and how subscriptions have become popularized.
What I Watched
I watched 13 Reasons Why on Netflix. I think this an important Long From TV series because it brings an important subject out in the open. Without a streaming service like Netflix, this type of show wouldn't be shown on regular channels such as NBC. However, this subject of the series is mainly suicide, and I think its too serious to binge watch all in one weekend.
The show is a great combination of flash back from when Hannah was alive to current times to when Clay is listening to her tapes about why she did it. Another reason why the show is great is because each episode goes in order of the number of tapes. However, the show was so popular that they didn't end with the 13th episode. I can understand that some people are critical because of the show's graphic content, so I wouldn't recommend this show for anyone under 13. The format of the show allows the viewer to watch a really sad and serious subject without being too overwhelmed. If this was told in a 2 hour movie, it would be too much to handle in a short amount of time. Since the story is divided into episodes that can be watch individually, the writers can cover very serious issues such as suicide, rape, bulling, drink driving, and sexual conduct.
Group: Alaura, Brandon, Linda, Selina
What is television? It is a form of entertainment to pass time, it's not a necessity but is something that is an escape. It is also for communicating ideas, bringing people together, selling products through commercials and depending on if you are poor or rich, storytelling for characters and situations, personal expression like animation and music. Another form is live television and news channels, knowing information about the world and politics and reality TV that go through everyday life and explain whats either going on with a specific person or location. This can also be applied to documentaries.
What is different of long form television? After the 2000s, television series started to get very popular and more widely used. Sometimes it can be used to have adaptions of multiple books and even graphic novels. Studios are fairly different and reused. Characters and places are repetitive. Also unlike most movies you can watch episodes of series not in chronological order and be able to follow along. Different series are also sometimes followed by openings and endings usually with music and some form of introduction so you can pick up it up very quickly. They also are followed by coming out with series seasons usually yearly. Streaming services popularized the series and made it so commercials can be skipped and you can pause. TV shows go through pilots, and getting multiple seasons and are fairly lower budget than movies. This also provided multiple series that are accessible rather than one. This started to create binge watching and marathons finishing it usually in a weeks time. TV also created formulaic and constant episodes, this also changed the standard for cartoons. These are easier to make and can be on constant. Also changing the production with introducing new inexpensive actors, reusing sets, being cheaper to make, and how easy it can be to get into the business since it's easy and anyone can do it. How easy it is to access and create content nowadays and how subscriptions have become popularized.
What I Watched
I watched 13 Reasons Why on Netflix. I think this an important Long From TV series because it brings an important subject out in the open. Without a streaming service like Netflix, this type of show wouldn't be shown on regular channels such as NBC. However, this subject of the series is mainly suicide, and I think its too serious to binge watch all in one weekend.
The show is a great combination of flash back from when Hannah was alive to current times to when Clay is listening to her tapes about why she did it. Another reason why the show is great is because each episode goes in order of the number of tapes. However, the show was so popular that they didn't end with the 13th episode. I can understand that some people are critical because of the show's graphic content, so I wouldn't recommend this show for anyone under 13. The format of the show allows the viewer to watch a really sad and serious subject without being too overwhelmed. If this was told in a 2 hour movie, it would be too much to handle in a short amount of time. Since the story is divided into episodes that can be watch individually, the writers can cover very serious issues such as suicide, rape, bulling, drink driving, and sexual conduct.
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