Media Industries

Media industries

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Radio

Before televisions, films and games there were only two forms of media to retrieve information from. One would be print, this would be objects such as newspapers or posters. The other form of media was radio. Radio first came around in the 19^th Century but people only started taking it seriously around the 20^th Century when it was mainly used for political announcements. Soon after in the later 20^th Century the radio began to evolve and was beginning to have licensed commercial public radio stations. This is the specific generation where radio began to flourish until the brought out FM radio. FM radio basically means frequency modulations are used in the radio waves to reduce static. This then opened doors for many radio station companies. Since then there have been many successful radio stations and with different genres to now pick from the can all be at the top of their game for example the top radio station to hear music on would be Capital FM. This station allows its listeners to hear the music they want to hear twenty four seven. Not to mention it also gives them important general information, such as the traffic or the weather, etc.

Film

The use of films began in the 1890’s for people’s entertainment. As technology was limited at this point in time most films were under a minute long and also included no sound until 1927. Around the end of the middles of the 20^th Century film makers began to edit their movies and moving the camera allowing them to have more than one shot. As the movie industry progressed directors such as Alfred Hitchcock started to expand and shock his audience with his classic hit movie ‘Psycho’ having one of the most powerful scenes in cinematic history which would be ‘The shower scene’. Leading on from that the movie industry has expanded too many branches and has become one of the most popular platforms in media.

TV

The television first appeared in the early 19^th Century but then started to use electricity within the late 19^th Century. Around the 20^th Century they began to show television in colour. This movement was a big thing as it allowed the audience to be enlightened and feel refreshed with all the new colours. DTV (Digital television) became popular as it was then the first from coming out of analogue television to digital.  Now in the modern day they have once again improved television by bringing 3D television into our homes.

Games

The history of video games goes as far back as the early 1950s. They started off by designing simple games   as a part of research but then found out it brought great entertainment to themselves. In the 1970s video games started to become popular as arcade games, game consoles and computer games started to appear. The game Nim in which players tried to avoid picking up the last match. Later named "Nimatron," tens of thousands of people played it, and the computer won at least 90% of the games. Pong was the first arcade video game with widespread success. The game is loosely based on table tennis: a ball is "served" from the center of the court and as the ball moves towards their side of the court each player must maneuver their paddle to hit the ball back to their opponent. In 1985, the American video game console market was revived with Nintendo’s release of its 8-bit console. In its original release it was offered in three tiered bundles: the Control Deck bundle came in two versions, one with no game and priced at £89.99, and one with Super Mario Bros. priced at £99.99, and both including two controllers.