Television

Discussion Questions

1. Television was first invented in 1886 by a German student, Paul Nipcow. How much television do you watch in one week? How would you spend your time if television had never been invented? 2. RCA's David Sarnoff was credited for bringing television to the masses at the 1939 World's Fair with President Roosevelt speaking. If television were invented today, with what programming would you choose to debut the new invention and why? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puIqcv1nB44 3. The first color television camera was the TK 41. Describe how would black and white television change the programs you watch? Go to this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUcjJ-yChjg Compare and contrast TV commercials of the 1940s with today's commercials. 4. The most recent invention in television is digital technology. Explain what could you invent to improve television programming and viewership? 5. Video recording has revolutionized the television industry and brought about channels like CNN, ESPN, and MTV. What would television be like for you without these channels? Describe the target audiences for these channels. 6. How will the agent or Intelligence Search Software affect your choice of television shows?

Links

The Farnsworth Chronicles This is a concise and easily accessible site detailing the efforts of Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of modern television. Exploratorium Exhibits Exciting online demos and guided discovery help explain how we come to "make pictures" on the tube. Vocabulary Click on any of the vocabulary words below to hear them pronounced and used in a sentence.    fiber-optic Definition: Relating to thin transparent fibers of glass or plastic that are enclosed by material of a lower index of refraction and that transmit light throughout their length by internal reflections. Context: The signal will be captured and temporarily be converted into laser light and fed down long strands of glass called fiber-optic lines.    bit Definition: A unit of computer information equivalent to the result of a choice between two alternatives (e.g., yes or no, on or off). Context: A television camera breaks the scene into bits and scans the world a bit at a time.    vacuum tubes Definition: An electron tube evacuated to a high degree of vacuum. Context: For the next 60 years, television cameras used vacuum tubes.    prism Definition: A transparent body that is bounded in part by two nonparallel plane faces and is used to refract or disperse a beam of light. Context: In broadcast color cameras, the light streaming through the lens enters a prism, which does the usual prism thing, splitting the light into three colors.    ray gun Definition: A device which fires a stream of electrons toward a fluorescent screen. The direction of the stream is controlled by a magnetic field within a cathode ray tube (the point of origin for the stream). Context: There is a ray gun at the back of the picture tube firing a thin beam to light up a tiny dot on your screen.    record head Definition: An electromagnetic strip device which imparts a characteristic pattern on a storage medium such as magnetic tape, thereby saving information to the storage medium. Context: All magnetic recording begins with an electromagnet called a record head.    segmentation Definition: The process of dividing into segments. Context: He could get rid of segmentation by a nice long scan with a tape wrapped around this big drum.    analog Definition: Relating to a mechanism in which data is represented by continuously variable physical quantities (such as voltages). Context: We live in an analog world.    digital Definition: Relating to data in the form of numerical digits. Context: To make our analog world digital it must be converted.    agent Definition: One who is authorized to act for or in the place of another. Context: And these days you use the word agents to do that.    Intelligence Search Software Definition: Computer instructions, customized to the preferences of an individual. Context: And the term agent refers to Intelligence Search Software that will be programmed to know what each family member likes.

Podcasts/Journalist killed in Afghanistan

Please read the following article:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/04/world/asia/afghanistan-journalists-shot/


FINISH PODCASTS FOR PRESENTATION NEXT WEEK!

PODCASTS!!!!

Please continue to work on your podcast SCRIPTS and recordings for next week's PRESENTATIONS...

Podcasts

Start working on your podcast scripts!

A Sample Podcast Outline and Script Example

Outline Example

1. Opening-A quick musical jingle 
2. Introduction-A monologue style introduction introducing your hosts and what you will talk about on your show
3. Segway-Could be musical or a sound effect
4. Topic 1:Talk for about 3 minutes
5. Vocal Segway--"We are going to move on and talk about..."
6. Topic 2:  Talk for about 3 minutes
7. Musical segway
8. Topic 3:  Talk for about 3 minutes
9. Closing remarks, thank the audience, guests, what will be on the next show
10. Closing musical Jingle

Rough Script Example

Opening musical jingle:  First 30 seconds of Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne

Jim:   Hi welcome to the great Sports Guru Podcast.  I am Joe Smith, and with me today is Timothy Carter.  We have a great show for you today.  Today we are going to talk about our super bowl predictions, bring in our guest speaker Alexander Ovechkin to talk about the recent success of the Washington Capitals, and finish with our thoughts on the first few games of the NBA season.

Sound Effect 1-Whistle

Topic 1.

Jim:  So Tim, who do you think is going to be in the Super Bowl this year.

Tim:  Its got to be the Ravens, there is no way that they are losing to the Patriots.  Their defence is too solid.  

Jim:  I just don't see them being able to shut down the Patriots.  There is no way Joe Flacco will outscore Tom Brady.

Tim:  You can't even compare the Ravens defence to the Patriots.

Jim:  Well I think the Patriots will be in the game.  Who is going to win between the Giants and the 49ers.

Tim:  Giants, they can put up the points.  San Francisco can't

Jim:  I agree with you there.  But it could be close.  I think that the game will be decided by a field goal.

Tim:  Anyways time to move on, please welcome our guest Alex Ovechkin

Applause Sound Effect

http://www.osceola.k12.fl.us/depts/IMC/podcasting/WriteYourPodcastScript.asp


http://aces.nmsu.edu/employee/podcasting/parts-of-a-podcast.html

Set up a folder for your sound files....

PODCAST BRAINSTORMING

Start plotting out your podcast on the MIND MAP.  What is your topic?  Are you going to be interviewing people?  How much research are you going to do or present to your listeners?
What is your PURPOSE---to entertain, to inform, to inspire?

What are you going to need in order to write a script, or interview?

 How will you record your segments?

THE SNOW CHILD link:

http://eowynivey.com/snowchild/

PODCASTS:
http://www.mixcloud.com/PageByPage/eowyn-ivey-interview-feb-2014-the-snow-child/http://www.mixcloud.com/PageByPage/eowyn-ivey-interview-feb-2014-the-snow-child/



Last call for photo essays period 8!!

Presentations/Podcasting

Last chance for photo essays, Dan Eldon essays!

Podcasting

1.    Check out This American Life        .http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast
2. View video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4IBSseAJlk&feature=related
3.   Find other podcasts online that you find interesting.
4. Look at the GarageBand instructions for podcasts. 
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RimJ6BfQaTE&feature=related
6.  Post a comment with 6 recommended podcasts.

Photo essay Presentations

There are 4 more class sessions left in the marking period.  It is important that we finish presenting our photo essays so that we can move on to another unit.

Needless to say, Your Dan Eldon essays are also due!