AimzsterTaking a Reality Check
August 17th 2006 13:08
Hey everyone
After a bit of unintentional keyboard warrioring last night I realised that many readers may not know who I am and what I do (other than post blogs on the Orble network that is!). I just launched straight into writing about Reality TV 3 months ago!
So today I'll take a moment and let you get to know a bit about me!
You would all know by now my name is Yolanda. I'm 20 this year (eek) and currently study Marketing and Advertising at QUT in Brisbane. My current industry backgrounds are retail, real estate, bit of events management and hopefully law in the coming few days. Right now I'm concentrating on getting my foot in the door for any marketing or advertisingn firm (but the latter is quite tough), but happy doing admin to pay the bills at the moment.
The reason I chose to write about Reality TV is the fascinating (yet at times, strange) trend for us to watch regular people be involved in this 'social experiment'. These days, being on a reality show is a starting point for your career whether you leave the show and you've become famous (Guy Sebastian) or infamous (John and Ashley BB06). We are all intrigue at the concept but baulk at how mundane and repetitive it has gotten.
So my idea was to write about Reality TV shows whether I liked it or not. I'll love one show to bits but completely shred another (or more often than I should) in a somewhat humourous manner. Yes, I do take into account that some days I can be quite bitchy and awful to some shows. If you read other gossip blogs such as Culture Strain - which talks about Aussie pop culture - or the American blogs such as DListed or The Superficial, you'd find mine mildly harmless!
News.com.au also encourages discussion about the entertainment industry. I've merely read up on my daily routine gossip blogs and watch reality shows, and interpret what I think about them through here.
I'm not a journalist, nor will I become one in the future, but a little creative writing stimulates my mind and helped me discover a skill that I never thought I had (English is my second language). I poke fun at the concept of reality TV, but it's all in good fun and for a bit of a laugh. I do not wish for someone from Australian Idol to fall off a cliff and die just because they have an awful singing voice and got picked for the final round - that's taking it a bit too far. And besides, we, the public vote during these shows and I poke fun at all of you who do.
In a nutshell, if I wrote something that may have taken it a bit too far, it shouldn't be taken so literally. It's all for fun and for something different for people to read. And reading this - or any blog on the Orble network - sure beats paying $5 for a trashy magazine where the information isn't always correct and is written through recycled rumours.
And life is too short to worry about what other people think. I'm one in a million blogs in the world and if someone wrote something bad about me I'd laugh it off because at the end of the day it's only a blog - and not everyone likes me.
Hope that clears a few things up. Check back tomorrow for David Tench's TV show review!
After a bit of unintentional keyboard warrioring last night I realised that many readers may not know who I am and what I do (other than post blogs on the Orble network that is!). I just launched straight into writing about Reality TV 3 months ago!
So today I'll take a moment and let you get to know a bit about me!
You would all know by now my name is Yolanda. I'm 20 this year (eek) and currently study Marketing and Advertising at QUT in Brisbane. My current industry backgrounds are retail, real estate, bit of events management and hopefully law in the coming few days. Right now I'm concentrating on getting my foot in the door for any marketing or advertisingn firm (but the latter is quite tough), but happy doing admin to pay the bills at the moment.
The reason I chose to write about Reality TV is the fascinating (yet at times, strange) trend for us to watch regular people be involved in this 'social experiment'. These days, being on a reality show is a starting point for your career whether you leave the show and you've become famous (Guy Sebastian) or infamous (John and Ashley BB06). We are all intrigue at the concept but baulk at how mundane and repetitive it has gotten.
So my idea was to write about Reality TV shows whether I liked it or not. I'll love one show to bits but completely shred another (or more often than I should) in a somewhat humourous manner. Yes, I do take into account that some days I can be quite bitchy and awful to some shows. If you read other gossip blogs such as Culture Strain - which talks about Aussie pop culture - or the American blogs such as DListed or The Superficial, you'd find mine mildly harmless!
News.com.au also encourages discussion about the entertainment industry. I've merely read up on my daily routine gossip blogs and watch reality shows, and interpret what I think about them through here.
I'm not a journalist, nor will I become one in the future, but a little creative writing stimulates my mind and helped me discover a skill that I never thought I had (English is my second language). I poke fun at the concept of reality TV, but it's all in good fun and for a bit of a laugh. I do not wish for someone from Australian Idol to fall off a cliff and die just because they have an awful singing voice and got picked for the final round - that's taking it a bit too far. And besides, we, the public vote during these shows and I poke fun at all of you who do.
In a nutshell, if I wrote something that may have taken it a bit too far, it shouldn't be taken so literally. It's all for fun and for something different for people to read. And reading this - or any blog on the Orble network - sure beats paying $5 for a trashy magazine where the information isn't always correct and is written through recycled rumours.
And life is too short to worry about what other people think. I'm one in a million blogs in the world and if someone wrote something bad about me I'd laugh it off because at the end of the day it's only a blog - and not everyone likes me.
Hope that clears a few things up. Check back tomorrow for David Tench's TV show review!
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