Saturday, May 3, 2014

Modernization of Entertainment

   ENTERTAINMENT                   OF THE                        MODERN ERA


Modern man is made creative through technology and is influenced to invent many ways of entertainment. When comparing  the past and the present , Entertainment has developed rapidly and has resulted in many new entertaining methods which were unavailable in the past. Though the entertaining methods of the past is still followed, those methods are now modified and a "era of modern entertainment" is created.

When considering the rapid development of the entertainment methods followed by the bygone man, The following forms are taken to consideration,

  • Music
  • Games
  • Arts
  • Literature
  • Drama                                               

These were the entertainment methods of the bygone man which are now modified and followed in a different way.
eg: Pictures are animated to entertain oneself

        
European animated painting                                                        olden european painting


Modern art is different from the earlier ways of painting. A clear difference can be seen in these two pictures where one is animated and the other is painted by hand in the olden times by the ancient man.

All the other forms of entertainment has developed like this.

Music 

Music has rapidly developed and has become a major entertaining form all over the world. Music is now used as a mode of earning money by the composers and  singers while the listeners entertain themselves.
Modern man has invented Modern Musical instruments to suit the musical styles invented by man.



                                         Modern musical instruments




                                                A Modern Musical Band








(a modern musical band)







Games 

Ancient man games are played by the modern man too, but differently modified with the help of technology.
Different games like video games, solitaire, mahjong are played by the modern man.
The development of the games has taken place at a high rate when taking the past century into consideration.

eg: the ancient and the modern olympics

Ancient olympic games were held in athens. Early greek man awarded flower wreaths and olive branches as rewards in the ancient olympics.









olden olympics



the modern olympic games are held in different countries every four years and a large amount of money is allocated for the games .








Modern Olympics

A Family playing video games

Games have been developed through many eras and finally resulted in above seen ways and keeps developing, unceasingly.

Arts

The visual Arts of the ancient periods , developed to be painted in a modern way. New mediums of paintings were invented by the modern man. Some pictures of the ancient times were animated and were painted using modernized inventions of today's technology. A special feature in the olden paintings was, that they were paintings of human beings and gods but the modern paintings are of indescribably various patterns and designs.


                                modern paintings

 Literature

Literature in its smallest sense is enjoyment of a written text.The word literature is derived from the latin word
"literatura" meaning words formed with letters.Literature has rapidly developed making its various forms
for example poems,short stories,novels,free writing,prose etc.
There is a change in the style of the modern writings from the old and the idea as well as the themes selected in writing has taken on a different angle.

                 

                           Modern Literature Novels 

Drama

Drama too has changed much clearly.The concepts are not the only changes in the drama sector.People now have teledramas,movies which are recorded previously using electronic media and screen viewed.although the olden way of stage acting still prevails the changes of the ways of acting,lighting,stage setting,characters,costume designing,makeup can be very clearly observed.



  

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