BLOG POST 5: MODERN TELESERYES

Many children and teenagers now a day are watching and patronizing teleserye like “bagito”. Yes watching teleserye is one of our ways to relax, but for the teenagers and children teleserye have a big impact for them because they are in the stage of curiosity, the stage where they want to know everything and they want to try everything.

The main target of the teleserye like “bagito” is the teenagers who are in the stage of curiosity, and because of their curiosity they tend to have misadventures in life. Not only “bagito” can influence the way of thinking of the children and teenagers. Here in the Philippines there are many teleserye that are same storyline with “bagito” like “katorse”, “angelito:ang batang ama” and “rubi”. This kind of teleserye has a big impact for the teenagers and children specially when the actor/actress was the idol of the teenager/ children.

I read an article entitled “How Films Affect Teens' Behavior” from the site globalpost.com with its writer Angeliki Coconi.

The writer discus how film affects the behavior of teenagers. She discus here that  teenagers can get many things in watching movies/ teleserye like “Sexy Decisions” she  discus here that teenagers are involved in the sex related decisions, she also discus that because of this the teenagers are involved in multiple lovers and engaged in infidelity and even the lost of their virginity in early age. ” Negative Messages” because of the movies/teleserye that he teenagers watched they get/absorbed the wrong /negative messages. “Smoking's Cool” because of the movies/teleserye that he teenagers watched they absorbed the thought that smoking is cool. “The Scare Factor” it was discus there that when a teenager/children watched a horror/scary film they can have short- and long-term damage in their mind and can be traumatize.

According to Angeliki “Films are a major part of teenage life and culture” I agree with her because now a days teenagers can watch any time they want and anywhere because of their technology and gadgets.

Because of the earlier article I was curious on what is the effects of a movie in a tenager.

Luckily I found this slide entitled “Movies and their Effects on Teens” from the site slideshare.net with its writer Cody Maymon.

In his slides he discus the definitions, the positive and the negative effects of movies for teenagers. In his definitions he stated that “popular culture refers to the believes and practices and he objects through which they are organize, that are widely shared among a population” and “a theatrical released nonfiction motion picture dealing with creatively with cultural, artistic, historical, social, scientific, economic or other subjects ”.

 The positive effects are movies can provide fun activity for weekend, watching movies can build child/teenagers imagination, watching movies can open the eyes of the teenager o see reality that shows real problems. The negative effects of watching movies are watching movies can cost a lot of time and lot of money for teenagers, watching movies can promote drug use, smoking, watching movies can cause violent behaviors and sometimes the way to solve a problem in movies are wrong.

According to Cody “As teens grow older movies become more special and being to have a positive and lasting impact on their lives” I agree with him because it is true that as time goes by more positive things that movies can give us, but there is also a negative things that we can get in watching movies.

With this blog post I conclude that watching movies can affect the teenager’s behavior in terms of Sexy Decisions, Negative Messages, Smoking's Cool, and The Scare Factor. I also learn that watching movies have negative and positive effects. Like in positive teenagers who watch movies can have extra ordinary imaginations, watching movies can open the eyes of the teenagers in what is happening in reality and they can see real problems. And watching movies have negative effect too. Like watching movies can cost a lot of money and time, and also some of the way of solving a problem in a movies are wrong that’s why some of the teenagers adopt that kind of wan in solving a problem