BARAKA

Baraka, a must watch movie..

Last week, I watched this movie, Baraka..To be honest, I almost dozed off after the 10th minute of the movie..I actually started yawning..but then at that time, a question popped into my mind..I was thinking, why on earth are we watching this non-narrative movie..I thought about it again and again..then I told myself, my lecturer wouldn't have asked us to watch this video without a reason or purpose..So I tried to concentrate and stay focus on the movie as much as I could..

Varanasi (Kashi)

While watching, a scene caught a sling shot of my eye..that particular scene reminded me of my trip to Varanasi, now known as Kashi...Most people refer Varanasi as "the city of temples", "the holy city of India" or " the oldest living city on Earth"..

I was 12 years old that time when I visited a temple at Kashi..I can remember this trip very well because it was not a pleasant memory for me..I'm saying this because I witnessed the exact same scene that i watched in Baraka..bodies were burning beside the river and people were bathing in the same river and they were also performing their rituals as well..I felt very disgusted that time..I mean like who in their right mind would bathe in a river where bodies are being burnt? At that time I just couldn't digest what I saw..

Carrying a body to the water

Bank of the River Ganges

I would also like to share an additional info..About 2 weeks back, I watched a Tamil TV program..I can't remember the name of the program though..Anyways, through that program I learnt that there is this clan called 'Agora' at Varanasi...People from these clan are actually cannibals..Apparently, they eat the bodies which are burnt by the banks of River Ganges..They are also strong devotees of Lord Shiva..And yes, they still do exist till today..

Semiotics

SEMIOTICS

Dear readers, my second lecture was about Semiotics and I loved learning about this topic..The meaning of Semiotics and the contents of it was pretty easy to understand.. :-) 

Now, I would like to share what I learnt from that lecture based on Semiotics.. 

Semiotic of Virginia Slims

In my point of view the image signifies as the following:

•  promoting a women's cigarette brand
•  the background colour(pink) may represent femininity, it can also represent innocence, cleanliness and   sexual purity
•  the model's head is tilted downward while her eyes are looking up..this is a very childlike, immature pose
•  the model's short cropped hair may be seen as fashion 
•  those catchy words in the picture like "I make my own decision" could show that she has a strong will power

Basically Semiotics is about how you look at things in different ways..whether it's a TV program, magazine or even a book..different people will come up with different texts about the description of subject or their point of view of the subject..

Impact of Media

A week ago was my first lecture of Media Appreciation..The lecture was about the Overview of the Contemporary Media..I learned lots of things from that lecture..In this blog, I would like to share what I understood about the lecture.. :) In today's blog post, I would like to share the advantages and disadvantages of the impact of media.. A celebrity in a popular culture is a person who has a famous profile and commands a great degree of public attraction and influence in day-to-day media..Many career within the fields of sports and entertainmentare commonly associated with celebrity status..For instance, Paris Hilton..She is a spoiled American socialite who shops on three continents one day..but at the same time she appeared in the 2007 Guinness World Records as the world's "Most Overrated Celebrity"..

Paris Hilton

Osama Bin Laden..he is famous..everyone knows who he is and what he did..he was the founder of al-Qaeda, the organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilians and military targets..The media knew where he was..they even interviewed him, but they did not inform the FBI or the INTERPOL..

Osama Bin Laden

I would like to conclude that there are pro's and con's in the field of media..The impact of media changes the world and the people in it..