Week 6 lecture

In this lecture we learnt about Consumption and Production and how it is either shared or private. We made a list of big screen consumption which consisted of cinema, TV and PC's. Small screen consumption consisted of Personal media players such as the iPod and mobile phones, the latest one being the iPhone. We learnt how fans of productions make there own films and stories using the same ideas or characters that are already being consumed in the market. In doing this the fans are consuming the original source, and then reproducing a new material with it, that is then consumed by others. Mobile phones are also responsible for a lot of news footage because when something happens it's convenient for people to just pull out their phones to capture it on film. The problem with this though is that people use their phones to capture things such as fights in the school yard and then post them on the net, which is not just unfortunate for the victim of the fight, but for the "bully" as well or the instigator of the fight, because they're caught on film doing it and can be identified. I know a girl in my grade from my school, with a couple of her friends had decided to ambush this girl they didn’t like when she went to the bathroom during class time. Some other student walking past decided to film it and put it on YouTube. Because it was during class time no one was around outside, so the teachers weren’t aware of it, and the girl that was attacked went home without telling anyone anything and then was just absent from school a few days. A week later our principal got a call from some parent saying her daughter found the fight on YouTube, the principal then watched it recognized who the attackers were and they were expelled from school. Also naturally everyone else from school went online and watched the fight aswell, though I saw it because it got sent to one of my friends phones and she showed it to me in class.