Our last lecture of the semester was given by Steve Molks, a professional Brisbane blogger who specialises in television analysis and critiquing. Molks’ lecture was both informative and entertaining. He knew exactly what is going on in the word of television and why it was happening. The fact that he has (or, more realistically, is trying to) make his living out of something he enjoys doing, is inspirational.
Molks told us that television is the core of popular culture, setting the public attitude. As a result of this, TV offers everyone the opportunity to become armchair directors, producers, casting agents & critics – this is aided by an increase in the social networking technologies of web 2.0. Even though the way we watch TV is changing, the fact that EVERYONE watches and talks about it has not.
However, Steve brought up the “nothing ever happens in Brisbane, including television related events” thought that, I’m sure a lot of people have, which is a little sad but realistic and a fact that we are just all going to have to live with.
A very chilled out, yet educational lecture, this was the perfect way to end the amazing semester that was JOUR1111.
See Molks at work on http://molkstvtalk.com/
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