Month: November 2016

Ted Talk Outline

TED Outline Format

Oral Content

 

Topic: The influence of streaming services

 

Purpose: To analyze our evolution as an audience and what that reflects about our changing, modern society

 

Thesis Statement: While Netflix and other streaming platforms may seem to be just making watching shows and movies more convenient than ever, they are also simultaneously reconfiguring our culture to be both more individualized and individualistic.

 

Introduction

Attention Strategy/

Orienting Material:       How will you begin this presentation in a way that appropriately garners audience attention?

 

Anecdote- 2 options

  1. Personal account of buying a TV for school a never really using it

 

Body

  1. How we got here
  2. Entertainment has been an ever evolving industry
  3. Silentàsound, b&wàcolor, theateràhome, streaming services
  4. How can we improve it? Make it more accessible? Get best content?
    1. Streaming services answer all these questions
  5. Before, we had to go to theaters with friends and watched TV with family

 

  1. Main Idea – Complete Sentence

Where we are

  1. Whatever we want, whenever we want it
  2. Watching shows and movies by ourselves
  3. Up to three users at a time so no need to be together
  4. Consumer data characterizes our viewing experience
  5. Content is catered to us and our needs
  6. My Shows
  7. Suggested shows
  8. Libraries are unique to each country
    • Global reach
  • Main Idea – Complete Sentence

Where we’re going

  1. Death of TV and movies via Apple TV and Chrome Cast
    1. Future of news and sports can come online
      1. NBA.tv, NFL now, ABC News
    2. Movie premieres online
      1. The Interview, Netflix originals
    3. Never have to interact to entertain ourselves
  2. Magazine subscriptions
    1. Time Warner wants to adopt a business strategy to sell magazine subscriptions similar to how Netflix provides programs
  3. Netflixing education
    1. More individualized, caters to our needs better

 

 

Conclusion

Streaming services place more emphasis on the individual. Good for giving the power of choice and catering to individual experiences and wants. Bad for promoting non-social behavior.