Potter Note

[subplotkudzu]

Wizards don't have television. Or Movies. No mention of them anywhere. 

I guess Theater and Radio Plays are still big things in Wizard society. Must take this into account with Year 2's DADA professor.  

Comments on mass media in the Wizarding World welcome.

Comments

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Magic makes "moving pictures" a much earlier development.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

there's no hint of radio either, but most images seem to be animated or at least animatable; newspaper photos are short, silent loops,collectible trading cards share real time glimpses of the subjet, and portraits have animated and speaking, interactive subjects.

A wizarding form of television could be a portrait of a company of actors for fictional programs, a portrait of a crier for news, a lecture hall for educational programmes....

[adoxograph.livejournal.com]

The Foine Arts in general all seem skewed; we've mentioned the unique properties of painter art and photography, but HOW does it happen? A spell in the camera/brush? Is it just to much to try and use that spellwork for each frame of a film, does it not translate to video?

Or is it simply that the fantastical aspect of those media is lost on wizards who can turn brooms into a bucket brigade? Imagine the beginnings of TV when they were trying to work out early effects, and wizards of a certain caliber - the ones who could afford a set - just watching and saying "Oh really, that's just wingardium leviosa. I can do that." I imagine it as not a baffling technology, but more of a needless one. It probably had a hukla hoop fad phase and then...

It was a long drive yesterday. I thought about this. :)