Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The Pros and Cons of Media Through the Eyes of the Average Teenaged Girl

My name is Megan and I'm from Nashua, New Hampshire.


This is a photograph I took of downtown Nashua from the roof of my favorite parking garage with my 35-mm SLR camera. I would consider it my hometown because I lived there longer than I lived anywhere else, even if I wasn't born there.

My fun media experience this summer was seeing Shutter Island. The book, by Dennis Lehane, is one of my favorites and it was really amazing being able to watch the plot unfold in front of me. It was one of the best film adaptations I've ever seen of a novel and it stayed extremely close to the original storyline, as well as being extremely visually stunning and well-casted.



One thing I like about media is how easily someone can publish works of art or writing for the world to see. Being published or becoming successful as a writer or artist can be very difficult and places like the internet allow you to start spreading the word about yourself and getting people to look at your stuff. One Web site I really like that enables the sharing and enjoyment of creative and original media, for example, is
hitRECord. If you're an artist or writer or musician or filmmaker or anything of the sort, I would recommend you check it out. One thing I don't like is how easily that work can be stolen and plagiarized. If you post your material on a site or public forum, people can easily post it elsewhere an claim it as their own.

As for my professional future, I would ideally like to become a novelist while doing something with writing on the side to pay the bills while I write. I think I would really enjoy something like editing or publishing, something having to do with helping other people get their own work out there.

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