media

Media Interpretation

The media has more viewers now more than ever.  The internet gives billions of people to look at many types of media.  People do not have to look at just black and white pictures.  Color and technology has changed the way we perceive things in books, magazines, and computers.  Using the computer I was able to get some news about what was happening with President Obama and the B.P. oil spill.  I knew very little of what the President was doing about the spill.  I gathered information on the B.P. from broadcast media.  I found it odd that the president of B.P. took a vacation during the crisis.  I would have to choose the internet to find more about this situation, because it took place last year.  This is very important, in my opinion, about the use of the internet.  I would not want to purchase a magazine or a news paper article to get my facts, because it would not even be in there.  It is months after the accident, there will be no story line.  Gathering media information is extremely easy on the internet.  The main purpose of writing is to grab a certain audience.  The audience for these two images would be for environmental people and the government.  Writing to this audience would state a purpose and ask question about the situation, who, what, when, where, and why. 

                      President Obama never had control of this urgent problem.  It took weeks for the disaster to be over.  Plus, there are months of clean up.  He looks concerned and frustrated.  The positioning of the camera is close portrait shot, probably to show his emotions of his views.  He does not have a tie on and there are no guards around and he looks casually dressed.  My view of this image is that I have no confidence in him.  What can be completed at a desk?  This was a hands on problem. 

                 

President Obama looks more in control on the ship.  He looks like he has a smile, but I think that is the sun on his face.  This is a wide view shot, which probably illustrates that he is out there trying to get something done about this sluggish situation.  He looks like he is just listening to the bull crap that this yuppie has to say.  The people around him look like they are more excited to see the president than fixing the problem.