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Visual Communication
Final Exam Review
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Communication
Undergraduate 3
12/06/2011

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When words and pictures are more easily remembered.
Definition
Think about pictures using words and images.

 

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Jerome Bruner: how much do you remember about what is heard, read, seen, done?
Definition

Hear: 10%

Read: 30%

See + do: 80%

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Components of the Visual Communications two-way path
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Producer and Receiver of a message
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Theme of the textbook
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Aldous Huxley's "Art of Seeing"
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Challenge from Web 3.0
Definition
Ensure that everyone can ride the information highways as easily as those made from asphalt
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Cyberspace
Definition
First used by William Gibson in "Burning Chrome" 
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Google's corporate ethos
Definition
"Don't be evil."
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Google's profits
Definition
Advertisements and selling search services
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Yahoo creators
Definition
David Filo and Jerry Yang (1994)
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Marc Andreessen
Definition
Creator of Mosaic software app. and Netscape
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Money lost shortly after Time Warner/AOL merger
Definition
200 billion dollars
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Googlewhacking
Definition
Trying to find a single website using two totally unrelated words in a Google search
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Google Bombing
Definition
Manipulating searches to make a specific website first on the list
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Booble
Definition
Porn search engine mimicking Google
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Translations for Google
Definition
90 languages
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Bob Davis explains the Internet without a search engine
Definition
Cruise missile without guidance system
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Virtual Reality Computer Sex
Definition
VR Sex
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Apple II Computer
Definition
Introduced in 1977 for $2,000.
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Transistor
Definition
A semiconductor with the same function as a vacuum tube, but made of silicon.
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Inventors of the first transistor
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Bell Telephone Laboratories
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FORTRAN
Definition
Formula Translation
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COBOL
Definition
Common Business Oriented Language (Invented by Grace Murray Hopper)
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BASIC
Definition
Beginner's All-Purpose Instruction Code
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UNIVAC
Definition
Universal Automatic Computer. 
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More than 90% of households had a TV set.
Definition
Movie attendance reduced significantly
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Average American child watched 3 hours of TV each day
Definition
Witness 8,000 murders, 100,000 other acts of violence
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CGI
Definition
Computer Generated Imagery (The Abyss - James Cameron)
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Creator of the first computer-generated image
Definition
Ivan Sutherland
Term
First computer game
Definition
Tennis for two - William Higinbotham
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First computer generated motion picture
Definition
Created by Ed Zajac - trip around Earth 
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First movie to use extensive computer generated graphics
Definition
Tron
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Director who advanced CGI movies
Definition
James Cameron (with Pirhanna II)
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Smeagol/Gollum 
Definition
First character to wear suit covered with dots captured by a digital camera for more life-like motion.
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Game show scandal
Definition
Contestants were given correct answers to add drama (1950s)
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First color TV
Definition
Introduced in 1954 for $1,000 ("The Tournament of Roses" - NBC)
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Golden Age of TV
Definition
1950s
Term
CRT
Definition
Cathode Ray Tube
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First TV set created using CRT
Definition
Philo Fransworth created it using Allen DuMont's invention
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Larry David
Definition
Creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm. 
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King of Reality TV
Definition
Mark Burnett (Eco Challenge, Survivor, The Apprentice, etc.)
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1992 voyeuristic MTV show
Definition
The Real World
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Shows inspired by Hollywood writer's strike in 1988
Definition
Cops, America's Funniest Homw Videos
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Founder of reality programming
Definition
Allen Funt (Candid Microphone, Candid Camera)
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12 kinds of reality shows
Definition
Documentaries, historical re-creations, law enforcement, makeovers, hidden cameras, games, spoofs, talent searches, fantasies fulfilled, situation comedies, cooking, docu-soaps
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First Academy Award Show
Definition
May 16, 1929
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Oscar
Definition
Academy award - "looks like a librarian's uncle"
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Who founded the United Artists and who recently took over?
Definition
Griffith, Chaplin, Fairbanks, Pickford - Tom Cruise
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First blockbuster
Definition
The Birth of a Nation (KKK - $3,000)
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First motion picture
Definition
Fred Ott's Sneeze by Edison, Kennedy and Dickson
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In Citizen Kane, lead character's dying word
Definition
Rosebud (lost youth)
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Money offered RKO to destroy Citizen Kane
Definition
$805,000
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Citizen Kane Academy Award
Definition
Screenplay
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William Randolph Hearst
Definition
Citizen Kane modeled after his life; he fought to block the movie's release
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Orson Welles
Definition
Rose to fame through playwriting; won notoriety from War of the World
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Musical score for Citizen Kane
Definition
Created by Bernard Hermann (won fame in later years for Psycho)
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Citizen Kane
Definition
Created by Orson Welles and Herman Mankiewicz, released in 1941.
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Robot Chicken
Definition
Sketch comedy that parodies pop culture inventions
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Family Guy
Definition
Cancelled by Fox after three seasons and then relaunched
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Comedy Central's show created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Definition
South Park
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MTV show featuring head-bangers
Definition
Beevus and Butthead
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Mickey's big debut
Definition
Steamboat Willie, 1928
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Spider Man 
Definition
First appeared in Amazing Fantasy 15. Learned from his own mistakes and was relatable.
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