As someone trying to get into the media industry: Film, Television, Music, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to find something new that has yet to be done. Some music is starting to sound the same, I can watch a movie or show and guess 90% of the time whats about to happen next. It's all becoming too formulated and is just redoing what was successful the first time.
An example just at the top of my head is the Hangover franchise, personally I love it, I think they're hilarious, but the reason I bring it up is because the second one was so similar to the first one, there were certain parts you could see coming before it even happened. A lot of people didn't like the second one because of that but I still thought it had some new stuff to offer which caught me off guard and still made it entertaining. How ever now that part 3 is coming out they decided to change it up just a bit, apparently no wedding or bachelor party but still need to find out for myself on how different or similar it is or if it's even good or not.
While on the subject of knowing whats coming next in film, I've learned about the 6 stages of plot for how a movie should go, after I learned about it I could see that formula in every single thing I've watched ever since. Act 1 includes stage 1 being the set up which is the Opportunity while stage 2 is the new situation where there is Change Of Plans. Act 2 has stage 3 which shows progress to the Point Of No Return, stage 4 begins to show complications and higher stakes which is the Major Setback. Act 3 then has stage 5 which is the final push which leads into the Climax, Stage 6 is the aftermath which then ends the story. Does this sound familiar to you? When I first learned about it we watched the first Hangover in class and you can point out the exact scenes in which those stages take place.
The same can go for music too, intro, pre verse, verse, pre chorus, chorus, breakdown, bridge, solo, outro. Not particularly in that order but those are the main ones in my mind that are in the majority of songs.
My question is who can we find something new that can still surprise us or just be different in our media? Every now and then some people come along and change the game in ways that shock us and that is something I want more of, just need to find out what it is and then go out and do it.
Hope you enjoyed my rant after almost a year of not using this blog.
