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In this day and age people are insisting on for something original in their lives, whether it’s music, gaming or something else in the media realm. Problem is that in today’s society we are bombarded with so much in the way of media that it’s difficult not to copy.
Advertisers use music to drum messages in to you, music stations and MTV play non stop back-to-back hits and even shops use music to get people buying their wares. Gaming is increasingly in the limelight and even on your PC the internet is awash with adverts for new games, which are mostly the same as something already out. Media is a manipulative art form and can seriously affect any artist trying to create something new.
Of course, there are the usual cash incentives. Television companies create identikit programs because they see that one particular series is doing well, they make money from other people’s ideas in a way. Take Pokemon, now how many cartoons about collecting creatures are there at the moment? I counted four of them on the same morning without even trying! It’s a cheap and easy way of making money from a concept drawn up by someone else.
Don’t think that original artists can get away from it either, it’s so easy to be subconsciously aware of the millions of songs going through your head as you live and work each day, then not really notice when your brain regurgitates these into something you thought was original. Occasionally a shining light shows through, but then it’s soon made in to another copy by someone else, whether subconsciously or otherwise.
There are other ways of making money from copying media, of course (and I’m not talking about pirates!). Spoof versions of songs and TV programs always go down well, Weird Al Yankovic has turned this in to an artform and Tenacious D use it to great comedy effect in their music. These are more substantial than your usual cash-cow records and they can often provide a useful social comment or two.
The result of all this copying means that we are always doomed to hear the same basic record, see the same basic TV show or play the same basic game again and again, but if it sells no-one will stop producing them. Originality is sometimes hard to find in media, but once achieved it’s like finding gold at the end of the rainbow.
Advertisers use music to drum messages in to you, music stations and MTV play non stop back-to-back hits and even shops use music to get people buying their wares. Gaming is increasingly in the limelight and even on your PC the internet is awash with adverts for new games, which are mostly the same as something already out. Media is a manipulative art form and can seriously affect any artist trying to create something new.
Of course, there are the usual cash incentives. Television companies create identikit programs because they see that one particular series is doing well, they make money from other people’s ideas in a way. Take Pokemon, now how many cartoons about collecting creatures are there at the moment? I counted four of them on the same morning without even trying! It’s a cheap and easy way of making money from a concept drawn up by someone else.
Don’t think that original artists can get away from it either, it’s so easy to be subconsciously aware of the millions of songs going through your head as you live and work each day, then not really notice when your brain regurgitates these into something you thought was original. Occasionally a shining light shows through, but then it’s soon made in to another copy by someone else, whether subconsciously or otherwise.
There are other ways of making money from copying media, of course (and I’m not talking about pirates!). Spoof versions of songs and TV programs always go down well, Weird Al Yankovic has turned this in to an artform and Tenacious D use it to great comedy effect in their music. These are more substantial than your usual cash-cow records and they can often provide a useful social comment or two.
The result of all this copying means that we are always doomed to hear the same basic record, see the same basic TV show or play the same basic game again and again, but if it sells no-one will stop producing them. Originality is sometimes hard to find in media, but once achieved it’s like finding gold at the end of the rainbow.
Yeah I know what you mean, so many films just copy material from other films to make their film, two good examples are the scary movie films and Not another teen movie.
In this day and age people are insisting on for something original in their lives, whether it’s music, gaming or something else in the media realm. Problem is that in today’s society we are bombarded with so much in the way of media that it’s difficult not to copy.
Advertisers use music to drum messages in to you, music stations and MTV play non stop back-to-back hits and even shops use music to get people buying their wares. Gaming is increasingly in the limelight and even on your PC the internet is awash with adverts for new games, which are mostly the same as something already out. Media is a manipulative art form and can seriously affect any artist trying to create something new.
Of course, there are the usual cash incentives. Television companies create identikit programs because they see that one particular series is doing well, they make money from other people’s ideas in a way. Take Pokemon, now how many cartoons about collecting creatures are there at the moment? I counted four of them on the same morning without even trying! It’s a cheap and easy way of making money from a concept drawn up by someone else.
Don’t think that original artists can get away from it either, it’s so easy to be subconsciously aware of the millions of songs going through your head as you live and work each day, then not really notice when your brain regurgitates these into something you thought was original. Occasionally a shining light shows through, but then it’s soon made in to another copy by someone else, whether subconsciously or otherwise.
There are other ways of making money from copying media, of course (and I’m not talking about pirates!). Spoof versions of songs and TV programs always go down well, Weird Al Yankovic has turned this in to an artform and Tenacious D use it to great comedy effect in their music. These are more substantial than your usual cash-cow records and they can often provide a useful social comment or two.
The result of all this copying means that we are always doomed to hear the same basic record, see the same basic TV show or play the same basic game again and again, but if it sells no-one will stop producing them. Originality is sometimes hard to find in media, but once achieved it’s like finding gold at the end of the rainbow.
Advertisers use music to drum messages in to you, music stations and MTV play non stop back-to-back hits and even shops use music to get people buying their wares. Gaming is increasingly in the limelight and even on your PC the internet is awash with adverts for new games, which are mostly the same as something already out. Media is a manipulative art form and can seriously affect any artist trying to create something new.
Of course, there are the usual cash incentives. Television companies create identikit programs because they see that one particular series is doing well, they make money from other people’s ideas in a way. Take Pokemon, now how many cartoons about collecting creatures are there at the moment? I counted four of them on the same morning without even trying! It’s a cheap and easy way of making money from a concept drawn up by someone else.
Don’t think that original artists can get away from it either, it’s so easy to be subconsciously aware of the millions of songs going through your head as you live and work each day, then not really notice when your brain regurgitates these into something you thought was original. Occasionally a shining light shows through, but then it’s soon made in to another copy by someone else, whether subconsciously or otherwise.
There are other ways of making money from copying media, of course (and I’m not talking about pirates!). Spoof versions of songs and TV programs always go down well, Weird Al Yankovic has turned this in to an artform and Tenacious D use it to great comedy effect in their music. These are more substantial than your usual cash-cow records and they can often provide a useful social comment or two.
The result of all this copying means that we are always doomed to hear the same basic record, see the same basic TV show or play the same basic game again and again, but if it sells no-one will stop producing them. Originality is sometimes hard to find in media, but once achieved it’s like finding gold at the end of the rainbow.