PressPausePlay

I have never been a film person. I don't sit still long enough to really watch a whole movie let alone analyze it. That being said, I found the movie we started today, PressPausePlay, very interesting. It brought up a lot of good points that a lot of people are interested in. With everyone being able to make music on their computers today, how do producers stay in business. Recently there has been a hipster fad, where we are almost going back in time. Records are in and the classics are better than ever. People have always had respect for classic and timeless musicians but they listened to more current music. With this hipster era, producing music in a studio makes more sense. They want the 'old sound' instead of the more electronic new sound. I don't know where I fall in the debate. I like both the new and the old ways of making music. They can both create great music that can reach thousands of people.

It also gives people an overload of options. We are exposed to so many types of art, good and bad, through media. A terribly filmed video might go viral on YouTube while a great one is only viewed a handful of times. How do we as a society decide what is good and what is bad? There are personal preferences and it changes depending on the mood of that person. How are people able to stand out against everyone else? Today celebrities have to have a huge social media base to stay at their popularity level. If they hide from the media and don't constently promote themselves to their fans they will fade away. The attention span of society today has shrunk. We only watch something for as long as it entertains us. Then we move on to the next piece and forget we ever saw the first. The overload of artwork in various forms makes it a lot harder for people to stand on their own and get the worlds attention.