Week 5 | task 5

Who owns the newspapers and TV stations in your country? Do you think this has an effect on the news that you hear?

Since I was a kid, my parents always read Berita harian newspaper as a daily routine. It published on July 1, 1957 as the first mainstream newspaper in Bahasa Malaysia. But in July 2, 2012 Berita harian renamed it to BH and since then Bh has become a true chronicler of history for the country. Basically, BH contain all the latest news that can enriching readers knowledge and stimulating their minds. BH keep updating news from time to time. They have a section for politics, family, economy, sports, and etc.   For me, this is good thing because because they have a section that can the readers read what they like. For example if they don't like to read news about politics they can skip the section to family for example. It just us that can decide what type of news that we want to know. 

Another example of newspaper in Bahasa Malaysia is Harian Metro. It was published on March 25, 1991. Harian Metro's meteoric rise has stradily gained momentum over the past few years. If we realize, Harian Metro always put a very daring and suspense headline such as "Restoran Berahi", "Derita Si Anak", "Hotel Projek" and etc. These kind of headline automatically makes people want to know what's the story behind that. This is their tactic to attract and grab attention readers and makes them want to buy the newspaper. In short, Harian Metro brilliantly steal their customers heart by putting a headline that can grab people attention. Rather than BH, their headline is not as daring as Harian Metro but still the content that all matters.

Not only news about politics, sport,economy and stuff but nowadays readers also want to know about life of celebrities around Malaysia and other countries and to make it real, Bh produce their very own Bpop booklet that only come out on every Sunday. In that Bpop booklet, it's full with gossips about local and international celebrities and anything that happen in the entertainment industry. 

Media Prima berhad is a Maaysian company for television station. This group currently have their own television station such as TV3, TV9, NTV7, and 8TV. For TV3, people labeled them as a family channel because they have a slots for housewifes, childrens, men, youngsters and etc. They have a variety of programs such as cartoon, dramas, cooking program, sports, news and etc. In addition, they also have a reality show program for a family to watch such as "Mentor". In addition, MP group also owns a radio stations such as Fly fm, Hot fm and One fm.

Other than Media Prima, RTM is also a Malaysian television station. RTM is broadly known as a governments channels. It is because the programs is a little bit dull and lack of entertainment program that makes young generation dislike this channels. Their program is a bit formal for me which is their program is about governments, education, etc that I think only older generation will likes this channel afterall. 

Aisyah Alwani 

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Week 4 | task 4

Write a short essay of about 400 words about the below stated issue: news and you.How often do you read the paper or watch the news on TV? How important is it for you to keep up with current events?

News is very important to everyone around the world because everyday and every time there will always got a news about what's happening around us and the world. People who don't read newspaper or watch news on TV, I can say that they are not aware and don't really bother to know what's happening around them. Newspaper and TV are very strong sources that people seek for an update and information. Newspaper as we know, Its been exists a long time ago before television exist. So people will seek for information and news from newspaper more than TV because not everyone will have the time to watch TV unless they are housewives or unemployed workers. 

As for me being a student, news are very important for me because I can know what's happening today around the world.  TV is the easier way for me to watch news because as a student you will not have time to stop by at nearest store to buy a newspaper due to you will busy with class and assignments. TV is much better to seek for news because every 8pm there will a news slot on TV so at that time the only free time for most of the student to watch news because usually student don't have a night class. Both of these media form is actually providing the same content such as politics, sports, entertainment, events, and sometime to promote something. The different is only newspaper in printed media so all news is in words but TV is by a professional presenter that will highlight all the news for that day. 

As a student, you also will not have time to watch TV due to lots of assignments, so the other media that I used to search for information and latest news is from Internet. It's also one of the media forms that I always use as a student. So, in that way, if I don't have time to watch TV, I will just read the news through the Internet. In this modern era, everything is in our hand. There's a lot of online news such as thestar.com.my, www.utusan.com.my so it's easy for people who miss to buy the newspaper or miss to watch the news on TV. So, although these two media form are very different and have their own loyal 'fans' but that is not important. What is more important is, the content, news, information that they want to deliver to people and people who care updates around the world. 

Aisyah Alwani bt Azhar

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Week 3 | task 3

Write a short essay of about 400 words on the ‘subject-matter’ below stated.

What is theatre? How do you think theatre, as a media form, communicates messages to its audience?

Theatre is a building or area in which plays and dramatic performances or motion pictures are given. It’s the activity or profession of acting in, producing, directing, or writing plays. Its different from movie that we watch at the cinema because theatre is a live performance starring by the performers that have the combinations of movement, song, dance, and speech to communicate and deliver the message to the audience. There is also lecture theatre, which is a room or hall for lectures with seats in tiers. Mostly found in universities and collages. 

I think theatre as a media form, is a medium that has their own strength in delivering a message to their audience. It is because, when the audience watch the theatre in live, the can successfully deliver the message as the audience give their 100% concentration to their performance. Plus, as a person who already has the experience of watching theatre, I can say that you will not bother to focus on other things and people around you because the theatre itself already grab your attention to watch it from the beginning until the end of the performance.

For example, in Malaysia, we have a lot of theatre performance that be held at Istana Budaya such as Puteri Gunung Ledang The Musical, theatre Tun Siti Hasmah and they has their own message that they want the audience to understand and feel it at the same time. With a great performance by the actors and actresses, it gives more emotional and romantic feeling to the audience. With that kind of feeling, I believe, the audience will certainly remembered the show indefinitely. Moreover, the respond that they get after the performance is totally positive. Means that people can accept the way they perform and as one of the media form that can gives information and moral values to the audience. 

In conclusion, theatre can give a major impact to all of us if we properly understand the message that they are trying to deliver to us. It can be a media form for us to get information as well as a learning process if we take it seriously because people nowadays rarely see the good impact of watching a theatre. Some of them might think that theatre is boring, and it’s only for old generation to watch it when they’re totally wrong.  Theatre can be fun if they know what is exactly theatre is all about the good sight of watching it. 

'Aisyah Alwani bt Azhar
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