The Reflection

I think what enjoyed most about the class and blogging in general was that part of my homework was watching television. This class allowed me to view programs I wouldn’t normally view and to look at them with more of a critical eye. There’s watching television and then there’s really watching television. I had a tendency to be one of those people who put the television on in the background and never really pay attention to what’s happening on the screen. When you’re blogging on television it makes it kind of hard to ignore what’s going happening on the screen. Now I really watch television. I find it difficult to form opinions on the shows I’m watching and not sound too opinionated when I blogged on them. I think the most difficult part of blogging was keeping a balance between what I’d seen on the screen and how I felt about what I’d seen. I’m definitely under the strong opinion that my last two blogs on Last Comic Standing were definitely my better blogs from the class. I feel that in the two blogs I posted on Last Comic Standing I have a strong combination of my opinion as well as summary. When I went about revising my blogs from class I really just went through and read them again making spelling and grammar corrections. I really enjoyed the points I made and the summaries as well. There wasn’t much I wanted to change as far as the content of my blogs went. My blog on Glee I worked over after the initial classroom workshop and when I went back and read it earlier today I was pleased with the content. Not having ever blogged before I personally feel as though I did pretty well through out the class. I noticed that by watching the program once and then watching a second time while blogging helped to add more duality towards my pieces. I certainly feel as though I progressed and improved vastly from my first blog to my last.

I’ve greatly enjoyed learning about the dynamic world of television. I definitely think that I have a greater appreciation for media and how it works in our culture. As I stated previously I was one of those people to use television as a background noise. I don’t feel like I can be that person any longer. This class has helped me to look at television with a closer eye, you could say. I never noticed before on Last Comic Standing that each of the comics showed throughout the show would be in the showcase at the end. Also I never noticed that most of these comics would be getting tickets to move on to the semi finals. Really watching a show for the first time has its definite benefits. I also never gave much notice to the shows opening until I watched and blogged on Pretty Little Liars. To be perfectly honest this shows opening really nails it and if I was flicking through the channels I’d most likely stop at a show like Pretty Little Liars thanks alone to the opener. This class has if anything given me new eyes and ears for television. It’s not just another entertainment outlet, television is truly a topic of conversation. What used to just be mindless noise and colors is now thought provoking and conversation starting. I think that I’ve progressed as a writer in the sense that before this I’d never blogged and now I have a better feeling for what blogging is and how to go about it. I’ve certainly progressed as a television watcher. I really enjoyed this class and the way it made me think outside the box and even try to think like a network executive. Having previously been a creative writer it was a refreshing change to step outside my box and really get critical and analytic with television and writing.