For the Week 11 Lecture, Roman Lobato, a media and comms professional was a guest speaker, and came in to speak about many aspects related to the television world, but the thing that I noticed the most was that an aspect of it happened to tie in extremely well with our project brief, which was the part that focused on Netflix. We were at a point positioned to consider what our last watched television program was, and I think the vibe in the air was Master of None? Which of course was a Netflix show.

There is a lot to be said about the ease at which VOD services like Stan and Netflix can be consumed, at the discretion of only a few clicks, we can choose to watch such a large media library, if we want to, at any time. Which at a lot of times during a Broadcast Television’s schedule throughout the day is eons better than anything you could be watching, no more midday movie, so to speak.

The statistic that was pointed out in the lecture by Roman that the average Australian consumes 2.7 hours of television per day with a massive chunk of it, 2.2. hours of it being broadcast television baffled me, but then I realised the excessively high levels of reality television consumption I hear my friends consume, on top of say wanting to remain informed with the news. Couple this with the fact that people don’t really binge too much television in multiple goes throughout a week, like you could go through 6 episodes of Master of None in one week and 7 the next, and that would pretty accurately satisfy this statistic, giving you plenty of time to decide to watch some Next Top Bachelorette or Biggest Kitchen or My Block Rules throughout the week.