Chapter 13 Television

I began this week's watching earlier in the weekend by beginning season 2 of "Better Call Saul." 

I think this show related to theater in a sense that theatre is a root of acting and comedy such as vaudeville. Many modern shows include elements that will perpetually live on from or have origins in theater. I think this could apply or relate to almost any sow including voice-acted cartoons. Also, there is staging involved from the people we see in the background, the furniture, and the outfits the characters wear. While vaudeville was likely a lot of unscripted improv, I think Better Call Saul is certianly scripted. Much of theater is scripted too, so there is a similarity and a difference that can perpetually go back and forth like a brush-and-magnet motor.\

As far as Better Call Saul Relates to radio, there are obvious roots which relate to the audio aspect in the way in which there is a broadcast of audio from one or many people to one or many people.

While the picture on the screen is projected differently than an analog film or digital modern-theater motion-picture projection, through electron beams of light cast from behind, a lot of the same production techniques are used to create my tv show as are in motion pictures, radio and theater. I think my favorite modern television program takes the best elements from all of these root-artforms to create the best modern picture on my home television screen.

Better Call Saul relates relates to motion pictures in nearly the same form as a motion picture as far as production, filming, acting, and editing go. This filmed show is basically a hybrid medley of theater and radio combined to provide acting, staging, and recorded audio to produce a made-for-television motion picture. The show relates to modern motion pictures in the way that it is most likely digitally cut and organized. Whether analog or digital, I've always been fascinated to think about how the screen can just switch from one scene in one place, to the next like the flick of a switch, with somewhere or someone completely different. There are sections of the show in which one part leads to another and will sometimes go back and forth between several compounding scenarios. There's the dynamic story of Jimmy McGill (Saul Goodman) and his work with the new law firm Hamlin Hamlin Mcgill, and then it will revert back to Jonathan Banks' character and his dealings to protect his granddaughter and his surveillance of cartel drug activity.

THe show relates to comics in the way that it is meant to be viewed by an audience, there is dialogue, split sections or storyboarding and is meant to communicate something. I think it is different from a comic strip in that it is a long, more drawn out and continually moving visual story with audio. The show is much more closely related to a motion picture than a comic strip, even though there are some shared root elements.