What Media Are You?

Apparently in our first post we were supposed to write in response to some of the questions on the handouts we received on the first day of class--My Bad.
Well, I am exposed to the media everyday, obviously. I enjoy reading the San Jose Mercury News, especially the sports section. I listen to my Ipod on the way to school. I listen to the radio in my car and I turn on the TV when I'm at home just to have background noise. I used to work at a movie theatre, so I've seen a lot of movies and now I work at Best Buy where media is constantly around me.
As much as I use computers, and although I do have a Myspace, I hate the internet. Not because I do not understand, but because I cannot stand sitting in front of a computer screen staring at information. I would much rather read a newspaper or a book or even watch tv. However, there are two shows that I do try to watch because I am completely addicted to them. Prison Break, Monday nights on Fox and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation whenever it comes on are my favorite shows.
Media is all around me, everyday.

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Step it Up

So I couldn't think of something to write about for this blog and then I realized that I was able to write about movies or things I've read. Well a few weeks ago the movie STEP UP came out. Before its release there were commercials all over radio and tv claiming that it would be the movie to define the generation. What I was wondering, is what generation is the movie claiming to define? Throughout the movie it is never clear at to how old they are. The girl, Nora (played by Jenna Dawson), attends the Maryland School of the Arts, but her age is never clear. As for the male lead, Tyler (played by Channing Tatum), you see him exiting a school, which appears to be a high school, with a friend.

Now I would normally not have to much of a problem with a movie saying it defines a generation, however, I believe that in this day and age defining a generation in its entirety is impossible, or at least illogical. I also have a problem with this film saying that it defines a generation because I am completely stumped as to what generation it claims to be defining. Here is what I know. The Director, Anne Fletcher, and the writers, Melissa Rosenberg and Duane G. Adler, are far out of their high school years, therefore they are not apart of the current high school generation. The stars of the film, Channing Tatum (25) and Jenna Dawson (26), may not be that far removed from high school, but I would none-the-less consider them part of a separate generation or at least to old to be defined. So I ask again, with no one in the film (or at least with a significant role) under the age of 20, what generation is this film defining? Can anyone help me to understand this???