Old’s cool- Projections make connections
Prompt: Projections make connections
Over Christmas when I visited my family, I made a point of going out of my way to try and get them all to participate in a group movie viewing of The muppets Christmas carol (since that is the best adaptation of the Charles dickens classic to date). I had watched it a few weeks back over the holidays and thought it would be a nice thing to do as a family. Over the next week, I found out that my family Just wasn’t that interested in all sitting down together and w
atching something together and would much rather watch something in their rooms. This prompted me to think about the idea of social viewings, people gathering together for the express purpose of consuming media together and what happened to make these types of gatherings almost become nonexistent within modern households.
I began by looking at the viewing habits of my family and how they were consuming their media.Most nights the members of my family would retire to their rooms and all stream shows to their devices individually.They actively disengaged from the rest of the family in an un-intrusive and solitary way, finding themselves in a relationship where actively ignoring each other was how they operated now (Mint, 27 may 2016 ). All be it streaming services are extremely convenient they seem to have the adverse effect on how people engage with one another in their homes. Winn (2009) argues that “television consumption is becoming a more solitary experience with family members watching their favorite television shows individually, and that this situation does not promote family understanding or togetherness”
With this in mind, I decided that I wanted to make more of an effort to try different ways of screening television and films. This was what led me to try projecting films at home into my back yard and watching them with my friends. Now the whole process of interaction 
and negotiation between the friends that I had invited to this impromptu screening. The first part of it all was choosing what to watch and in its self, became a part of the experience (Winn, 2009). We ended up choosing the original scream film on the criteria that one of my friends hadn’t seen it and that we all agreed it would be a good film for projection. Throughout the screening we engaged in a lot of interpersonal interaction with each other, making observations and jokes about the film (Winn,2009). Afterward, we participated in a synchronized evaluation of the film and as a whole and overall gave us a more positive retrospective of the experience of both the film and the means we took to 
watch it (Zilch, 2014).
At the end of the day, I don’t think that streaming video is tearing families apart, I stream and watch things by myself all the time. The experience I had over Christmas made me want to take an active effort to create social viewings and try to capture those experiences that I fell we have lost with the advancement home media technologies.
References.
What happens when you turn into a Netflix addict 2016, Mint, May 2016.
Winn, J, Video time: Selection and structuring family social time with rented commercially prerecord electronic media, Journal of broadcasting & electronic media, volume 53, 2009, issue 2, p 227-24
Zilch, A, 2014, Watching television with others: the influence of interpersonal communication on entertainment, Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p169-192