Week 2

This week I watched The Adventures of Superman Season 1 and Smallville Season 5. This is a great way to see the big differences between early television and and today's television. Some of the biggest differences include language, special effects, the structure of the storyline, and editing.

The two shows are about fifty three years apart (Superman 1952 and Smallville 2005). The language they use is completely different. For example, in The Adventures of Superman they don't use any vulgar words like today's television shows do. The biggest difference however, is the way that the story lines have become much more thicker. For example, in Superman there is one big story line that can easily be figured out, or you can at least put your attention into. With Smallville, each character has something going on within an episode and it seems that there is more complexity in the story which sets it up for a long series.
The way they use lighting to tell their stories too. For example, when Lex Luthor makes a decision in Smallville that makes his evil side appear, he is generally wearing dark colors and the lighting shows mostly darkness across his face. When something good happens, there clothing is usually brighter and there aren't many shadows in effect.