ASSIGNMENT 10 WILD CARD

Vlogging in Nepal

A video blog or video log, usually shortened for vlog, is a form of blog for which the medium is video and is a form of web television. Vlogs and Vlogging is famous all over the world. It plays a vital role in the sector of media and entertainment. Vlog entries often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting texts, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts. Vlog category is popular on the video sharing platform YouTube. 

Talking about Vlogging in Nepal, it is as famous as it is all over the world. Maybe not as developed as it is in other countries but people in Nepal sure are working on it. Vlogging in Nepal is usually done in two languages, the native language Nepali and the universal language English. So basically, Vlogs in Nepal are made for both Nepalese audience as well as audience all over the world. Vlogging in Nepal is done mostly about food and travelling. Nepal is a beautiful country with beautiful places to visit, this is why Vloggers in Nepal make Vlogs about travel in Nepal. Even if the Vloggers from different country visit Nepal, they generally end up making Vlogs about either travelling or food. 



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As I mentioned earlier, along with the Nepalese Vloggers vloggin about Nepal, we also have Vloggers from outside who come to Nepal and one thing they don't miss out on doing is Vlog. There are many things you could capture in Nepal. The beautiful places, the unique looking and different tasting food, and interactions with people. All in all Vlogging in Nepal is pretty famous even though if its not done by the Nepalese Vloggers but done by the Vloggers who come from other countries.



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Mostly, people who already have a YouTube channel start making their Vlogs. Vlogs can be posted in any social media platform we want but mainly, it can be seen on YouTube because it is the biggest video sharing platform ever. However, we can also find people posting their Vlogs on Facebook and Instagram. There are different types of Vlogs in Nepal as well as all over the world.

The 10 different popular Vlogs are as follows:

Travel
Food
Review and Unboxing Products
Pranks and Comedy
Beauty / Fashion / Fitness
How to / Education
Life Style Vlog
Gamer
Movie / TV / Book Reviews
Pop Culture / Gossips

Basically, Nepalese Vloggers focus on the first two topics: Travel and Food. It is very necessary for a Vlogger to Vlog about something that would attract the audience. Therefore, Nepalese Vloggers choose to focus on these two entities as Nepal is famous mainly for these things. So we can definitely say that Vlogging and Vloggers in Nepal is a big part of media and is very famous overall. 

ASSIGNMENT 9 CLASSMATE BLOG CRITIQUE

Classmate Blog Critique

Each and every classmates of mine have done a tremendous job on their blogs. I am very impressed with all the hard work and dedication all the classmates put into their blogs. But, according to me, there are two classmates whose blogs were a bit more interesting and well written. 

• Kobe Armstrong-Smith : Kobe's blog is one of the blogs I like among all the blogs. His blogs are simple and to the point. I think his effort and hard work on the blogs are clearly reflected in his writing. Among all the blogs he has written, my favorite has to be #8 Predictions. I think it was very unique and well analyzed.  

http://kobearms3603.blogspot.com/

  

• Anna Kirksey : Anna's blogs are also well written and they seem to be well researched too. I actually liked reading her blogs because they are so simple and not at all boring. One of my favorite blog among all of her blogs has to be #6 Global Trends. I chose this one because it was unique, funny, and nicely written than the other blogs. 

http://aek3603.blogspot.com/

• Desmion Owens : Desmion's blog is very informative and filled with varieties. I was personally very impressed with his blog because it contained all in all necessary information about each and every blog. My favorite one among his blogs has to be #4 Advertising Analysis. I think this one was more researched and well written than all of his blogs.

  

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Overall, these three blogs are the ones I wouldn't mind reading again. I personally am fond of their writing as well. I myself got to learn a lot from their way of writing blogs and the way they focused on researching on each and every blogs they wrote.  

ASSIGNMENT 8 PREDICTIONS

Predictions

In simple words, prediction is something predicted or the action of predicting something. When there arrives new changes in any sector of the world, it is for sure to understand that there will be predictions made by the people as to more changes can occur. Predictions generally takes can take place in any of the things that is around us. We sure can predict things in order to understand the entire concept of how changes can occur. But, a prediction is often, but not always, based upon experience or knowledge. Prediction can also be noted as assumption. Something that we like to assume or even want to happen can be counted as prediction.

Predictions tend to take place mostly in Sports. It is so certain that before any championship, or match, we definitely predict the winner. Most likely, we do so especially in the sector of Sports because we want a certain team or a player to win. Sports prediction is usually biased.  

Example: World Cup 2018 is taking place soon and my prediction is that Germany will win the cup because Germany happens to be the country I support in the World Cup.

Another one that is very famous all over the world is Social Media Predictions. As time passes by and new changes occur in the sector of social media, we end up predicting things that might happen later or might never even happen.

Example: When I saw 'Facebook live' and 'Instagram live' taking place, I predicted that they might announce 'Snapchat live' soon. It is only obvious because if a social media application has everything why would people use a social media application that lacks certain things in it. Hence, it might be possible sooner or later for Snapchat to have its own live streaming just like Facebook and Instagram. 

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ASSIGNMENT 7 BINGE WATCHING

Binge Watching (Friends)

In simple words, Binge Watching is the practice of watching multiple episodes of a television program in rapid succession. Binge watching is typically done either by means of DVDs or digital streaming. Binge watching is mostly done by people who watch television online. In other words, binge watching is also called binge-viewing or marathon-viewing. Binge watching also keeps us awake for a long period of time. In February 2014, a survey conducted by Netflix showed that 73% people define binge-watching as "watching 6 episodes or more of the same TV show in one sitting."Along with the rise of media services such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, Binge-watching has also become popular. 61% of the Netflix survey participants said they binge-watch regularly. 64% of the customers binged-watched once during a year. 

I myself love to binge-watch certain shows. Up until now I've binged watched on couple to TV shows such as Friends, How I Met Your Mother, Modern Family, Keeping Up With The Kardashians and The Vampire Diaries. These are some of the shows I have binged watched on before. But among all these, Friends is one show that I will never stop binge-watching as it is my favorite TV show. I started watching friends way back when I was back home. I came to know about this show through my sister. Ever since then I have always loved watching friends and I still do. All the characters and the story line is very well presented. Most importantly, friends being a comedy series, I love watching it because above all it makes me laugh.

There are altogether 10 seasons of Friends. It was created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. It stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and Dvid Schwimmer. Overall, I am a huge fan of this show. I love watching it every now and then and I don't even mind binge-watching it. Among all the 10 seasons, my favorite one has to be season 4 which I am binge-watching on right now. There is a lot that happens in the entire series, but in my opinion, I think there is a bit more happening in season 4.

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Therefore, among all the shows I binge watch, Friends has to be my favorite one. Mainly because Friends is the first ever TV series I started watching. To me, this show is very entertaining. 

ASSIGNMENT 6 GLOBAL TRENDS

Cover Songs

Cover songs has been in trends all over the world since a very long time. Cover of songs basically means to create our version of a certain song by singing and playing the instruments in a way that we want to. It doesn't mean that people are trying to disrespect the original version of the song or make fun of the original artists in any way. It simple means to experiment. There is nothing wrong in experimenting with songs created by other artists. This trend has made a huge difference in the music industry as it has become very popular. In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover basically means a new performance or recording by someone other than original artists or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song. 

There are plenty of cover artists on YouTube. Some of them are Madilyn Bailey, Kurt Hugo Schneider, Conor Maynard, William Singe, Kina Grannis, TheSamTsui, Alex Aiono and many more. My all time favorite cover song artist is Boyce Avenue. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/boyceavenue

Boyce Avenue is an American rock band formed in Sarasota, Florida, by brothers Alejandro Luis Manzano, Daniel Enrique Manzano, and Fabian Rafael Manzano. The band is names after a combination of two streets the brothers lived on as children. They started their journey since 2004 and are still active doing their thing. Along with the cover songs they also do collaborations with other YouTube artists such as Hannah Trigwell, Kina Grannis, Tiffany Alvord, Megan Nicole,Alex Goot, etc. 

I literally have been following Boyce Avenue since a very long time. I was already aware of them when I was back home. My sister, brothers and some of my friends were also well aware of them and would listen to them. Boyce Avenue is undoubtedly one of the best band mainly for their cover songs and collaboration with other artists. 

ASSIGNMENT 5 SURVEILLANCE OR LAW ENFORCEMENT

Surveillance

In simple words, Surveillance is monitoring of behavior, activities, or other changing information for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting people. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment such as CCTV or interception of electronically transmitted information. It can also include simple no- or relatively low-technology methods such as human intelligence agents and postal interception. Surveillance cameras are video cameras used for the purpose of observing an area. They are often connected to a recording device or IP network, and may be watched by a security guard or law enforcement officer.

Surveillance is used by governments for intelligence gathering, prevention of crime, the protection of a process, person, group or object, or the investigation of crime. It is also used by criminal organisations to plan and commit crimes, such as robbery and kidnapping, by businesses to gather intelligence, and private investigators.

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Surveillance cameras has so much power that the entire crime seen can be captured in it and the criminals can be caught in no time. It is very important for places like supermarkets and malls to have surveillance cameras because many stealing can occur mainly in these type of places. But have surveillance cameras outside the house covering the footage of the front and the backyard of the houses can be necessary at times to in order for the house owners to be alert of robbers or dog thieves like shown in the video above.

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So as we can see surveillance camera played a vital role in the above video. The entire murder has been caught in the camera which makes it easier for the police to catch the criminals and give them the punishment they deserve. Surveillance cameras thoroughly act as the form of protection and main reason why people use them is to protect themselves from any crime or even if the crime is already committed, they will at least be able to get justice with the help of proof present in the surveillance cameras. 

ASSIGNMENT 4 ADVERTISING ANALYSIS

PUMA

PUMA is a European multinational company that designs and manufactures athletic and casual footwear, apparel and accessories. Its headquarter is located in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria. PUMA is the third largest sportswear manufacturer in the world. The company was founded in 1948 by Rudolf Dassler. PUMA has been a public company since 1986, listed at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. As of 2016, PUMA employs more than 10,000 people worldwide and distributes its products in more than 120 countries.

PUMA offers products for Football, Running, Training and Fitness, Golf, Motorsports and Lifestyle. PUMA also sponsors a lot of famous athletes. In terms of football clubs, PUMA sponsors Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund. In order to support its women's business, PUMA endorses fashion icons Rihanna, Kylie Jenner, The Weeknd and most recently Selena Gomez. As we can see, the involvement of many famous athletes, football clubs, and celebrities, it makes the advertisements of PUMA even better and eye catchy in front of the customers.   

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