Reality television has been around since television began in the 1940s. There were versions of radio shows that transitioned to television shows based on reality. Realistic situations involving unscripted actors and paid hosts transitioned quite easily from radio to the television set. The genre was not fundamental to the advent of television‚ in other words. Some of the original shows to debut on television as reality television were Candid Camera‚ Beat the Clock‚ Truth or Consequences‚
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1. The idea of the reality show Cochabamba is very interesting. It reminds me of a movie called The Truman Show (1998) with Jim Carrey where he is born and raised inside this dome and led to believe he was a normal person when in reality his family and friends were all just actors and that he has been the unknowing star of ‘The Truman Show’. However in Cochabamba almost nobody knows they are being filmed. The strategically placed cameras capture everyday events‚ but also catch some very interesting
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The Truman Show Utopia - A perfect world. Truman’s world was an utopia. Everything‚ including the weather‚ was controlled in a huge Hollywood dome. Truman grew up having no idea he was being watched every hour of the day‚ and that every step he took was being viewed by millions all over the globe. As the show progressed‚ it became clear how much media influenced Truman’s life‚ and also how Christof played a huge role in Truman’s well-being. First‚ the influence of media affects our lives
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awoke to the evolutionary and first ever NBC-TV "Today Show". The show‚ an American morning news and talk show‚ put us in touch with the world in which we live. From news to music‚ the show included national news headlines‚ weather‚ in-depth interviews with news makers‚ lifestyle features‚ other light news‚ local news‚ music of the day‚ and what was happening tomorrow in arts‚ science and sports to all fields of human endeavor. The Today Show opened with a view of Dave Garroway‚ one of the early
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The movie‚ "The Truman Show" is about a reality television show that has been created to document the life of a man who‚ adopted at birth by a television network‚ is tricked into believing that his life‚ his reality‚ is normal and the environment that he lives is real. It is set in a town called Seahaven‚ which is essentially a simulation of the real world similar enough to the outside world that the viewing audience can relate to it. The town is a television studio inside an enormous dome in which
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also highly stylized – harking back to a world that never existed. hug each other‚ this shows that with the simple progression of plot we are even able to be moved to tears‚ which shows how easy it is for media to influence us. TV shows can also affect the way we behave or do our jobs‚ as shown by the police turning down a person in need just to follow the progress of the plot of Truman show. The Truman Show also tells the audience that the influence of the media can sometimes help us to create a
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have taken some controls to them due to the values reflected.(Bergman2010) The general audiences have given different comments on the reality TV shows. According to Bergman(2010)‚ some Chinese teenagers reflected that the dating show‚ If You Are The One‚ cause angst to the problem of poverty gap and altered the traditional social attitude. In the show‚ a Beijing model Ma Nuo refused to get on a bike from a poor contestant‚ another lady Zhu Zhenfang want 200‚000 yuan if the suitors need her handshake
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The Truman Show The Truman Show presents to us that the media can be very controlling and influences our lives. For example‚ Truman lives a perfect and happy life. This way of life is supposed to be the “American Dream” and the media is advertising this perfect life to the public. The media influences our lives in many ways such as magazines‚ T.V. and radio. The media wants us to live our life in a certain way. The media sets many expectations not only to how we live but also how we look
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The film The Truman Show follows a man who believes he is living normally‚ yet his life is being filmed without his knowledge‚ and everything he does or sees is controlled by Christof‚ the Director of the television show. Many people follow a religion in which a god or goddess dictates nearly every aspect of the world‚ which is not different to the role of Christof. In many countries like America its citizens are told that they have freedom‚ yet many laws limit and restrict people’s lives‚ similar
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face meeting or through social media‚ like TV. TV has been influencing people’s speech in the term of their lexicon‚ by airing some shows‚ which expose many new terms. In this case‚ those shows involve influencing characters to spread the new terms. The influence is not only caused by their good look‚ but also from their typical lexicons that they use in their shows. Such influence is easy to make a change in the speech specially those‚ who watch and admire the characters fervently‚ the teenagers
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