Our topic covered by the media

Nowadays, there are several ways to spread information and to stay informed. In the case of books adaptations, I would like to mention a few that I find really interesting and reliable.

                     BOOKTUBERS

By doing videos about novels or poetry, these people have become a new kind of journalists. They talk about their favourite books and comics, and their followers can rely on their opinions since they have solid arguments and experience. With their reviews, they advertise the books that they believe are the best. Most of them are young people who know the interests of their generation, which is really useful in order to convince their followers to give literature a try. This new way of communication is changing advertisement as we know it. At the right, you can see Newyorkbookworm, a booktuber which talks about this phenomenom.

PODCASTS

An affordable option to learn about writers and the latest news regarding books is listening to specialised podcasts. This form of entertainment has become more famous over the past four years, and it's only growing. In their recordings, you can find interviews, stories and reviews. You can easily download them on iTunes, and listen to them whenever you want to. Some of the most popular are Selected Shorts -there is an example below-, New Yorker Fiction Podcast and Books and Authors

SOCIAL NETWORKS

Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram are only a few examples of where to find information about book adaptations. Since everyone can express themselves, news and rumours are spread faster than anywhere else. However, this comes with a flaw: The statements can be fake. But if you check the facts and don't trust uncertain accounts, you shouldn't have any problem. The main feature about social networks is the speed at which news are spread.

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BLOGS AND WEBSITES

One of the best ways to find information on the internet is through blogs. They provide news, trailers, reviews and even tests. With them, you can read longer posts about books or movies that you are interested in. In these websites you can even find links to others where you are able to download novels or films. There are many languages and topics that you can read about, besides of the multimedia content they post. One of the most important pages that are available on the internet is Sarah's Book Shelves.

Example of a literature website called Read.Breathe.Relax

Which sources do I use?

Normally I don't have a set of used sources to informed myself about a topic. Typically, it depends on what do I want to search, and if it is more related to movies or books.

For Instance, YouTube is a good source to look for Movie Trailers. Because, I tend to write about movies I saw, is easier to find what I want exactly.

I lean on three YouTube channels that talked about movies and books as well of YouTube trailers:

1. MOVIECLIPS

2. CHRIS STUCKMANN: Is a movie critique related channel. I watch his videos on a daily basis, because of his objective reviews and good sense of humour

3.WISECRACK. Thug Notes Section: A book related channel, that reviews, analyses and explains classics of literature in a comical note.

Thug Notes

Besides those three channels, the search is merely to get more background of the topic. 

Here are some of the pages I used:

1. Internet Movies Database: Used to find references and nice details

2. GOODREADS: The usage of this website depends on the book, if it's a classical I will rely on this web to get more information, otherwise I

will stick to YouTube

3. THE NEW YORK TIMES: the book section is often use to find good reviews of the books selected on the post

Five different sources to take into account

Sometimes, when we don`t know anything about a movie or a book, the only thing to do is search for that information, so we can do our job correctly. But what are those sources? And what we can find on them?

Here, there are some of my suggestions:

                                                               1. TV Guide

                                                                   

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TV Guide is a bi-weekly and american magazine that offers us a long list of things related to television shows, gossip news but also movies. It helps to know more about descriptions and detailed reviews of a certain entertaining product. For this project, it serves to display informations about the characters and when there is a book behind that film, it makes interesting comparisons. 

                                                     2. Entertainment Weekly

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Next we have Entertainment Weekly, another weekly magazine from United States. It talks about films, tv shows, music, Broadway productions, among other things. In order to help this work, EW provides a lot of information between news and reviews of  movies and series, raised by literary works.  It has also a special section of all the new literary successes, which probably will be adapted into movie.

                                                    3.  ComicBook

     

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ComicBook is an entertainment media and lifestyle site for a generation that is passionate about larger than life characters, celebrities and entertainment franchises. From celebrity and trending news to comics, anime, gaming, and franchises like The Walking Dead, Star Wars, Star Trek, Netflix and WWE. Besides that, it talks about different kinds of BD`s , normally adapted to television series or films. It is a reliable source and strongly recommended for the people who want to know more about super heroes stories.
                                                        4.  The Hollywood Reporter

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 The Hollywood Reporter is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine focused on the Hollywood film industry, television and entertainment industries. It is useful on giving important informations about all films, including the adaptations through by books and, in that way, it is very similar to TV Guide.                                 
                                                                   5. The Millions

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The Millions is an online literary magazine. It contains articles about literary topics and book reviews. An original aspect about this one is that he creates specific lists about the best books at the moment, which can be found in shops and libraries, and the best adaptations from books to movies and still a lot of old archives. It`s very complete and informative about the whole literature world.