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From left : Azman, Husna, Azita and Liyana.

INTRODUCTION TO ENTERTAINMENT

Entertainment is something that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention. Although people's attention is held by different things, because individuals have different preferences in entertainment, most forms are recognisable and familiar.

Storytelling, music, drama, dance, and different kinds of performance exist in all cultures, were supported in royal courts, developed into sophisticated forms and over time became available to all citizens. The process has been accelerated in modern times by an entertainment industry which records and sells entertainment products. Entertainment evolves and can be adapted to suit any scale, ranging from an individual who chooses a private entertainment from a now enormous array of pre-recorded products; to a banquet adapted for two; to any size or type of party, with appropriate music and dance; to performances intended for thousands; and even for a global audience.

The experience of being entertained has come to be strongly associated with amusement, so that one common understanding of the idea is fun and laughter, although many entertainments have a serious purpose. This may be the case in the various forms of ceremony, celebration, religious festival, or satire for example. Hence, there is the possibility that what appears as entertainment may also be a means of achieving insight or intellectual growth.

An important aspect of entertainment is the audience, which turns a private recreation or leisure activity into entertainment. The audience may have a passive role, as in the case of persons watching a play, opera, television show, or film; or the audience role may be active, as in the case of games, where the participant/audience roles may be routinely reversed. 

Entertainment can be public or private, involving formal, scripted performance, as in the case of theater or concerts; or unscripted and spontaneous, as in the case of children's games. Most forms of entertainment have persisted over many centuries, evolving as a result of changes in culture, technology, and fashion. Films and video games, for example, although they use newer media, continue to tell stories, present drama, and play music. Festivals devoted to music, film, or dance allow audiences to be entertained over a number of consecutive days.The familiar forms of entertainment have the capacity to cross over different media and have demonstrated a seemingly unlimited potential for creative remix. This has ensured the continuity and longevity of many themes, images, and structures.

As we know,there are many types of entertainment such as sports,architecture and musics .But, in our section,we will choose and discuss just about two of them that are sports and musics.Before that,let we introduce the background of sports and musics

 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

• To give a brief exposure about entertainment to the readers
• To help readers understand the important of sport
• To identify the facilities that student want in the college
• To explain the benefits of sport to the student
• To identify the type of music that student always played
• To gather information about the time student spend for music
• To get comment about entertainment topic

SCOPE OF STUDY

In the proposed study we will only investigate the entertainment that performed by Perlis Matriculation students. We only investigate about the sport and music by doing survey toward them.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

(i)Research population/sample

• The population of study will be all the students of KMP session 2012/2013. There are Science and Accounting stream in the KMP.

• For Science stream, the students are divided into Modul 1, Modul 2 and Modul 3. We doing the survey towards all type of Modul in Science students.

(ii)Proposed data collection method/ instruments

• Students’ attitude towards entertainment will be measured using a questionnaire that being provided by us.The questionnaire included the closed and non-closed type of questions. This questionnaire are given after the P&P process.

(iv)Expected results of the study

• It is expected that the results will show an association about the entertainment. Below the entertainment, we choose to investigate about music and sport only.

(iii)Data Analysis

• Data will be analysed quantitatively using the appropriate descriptive and inferential statistical techniques.

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Reference:

• http://martiecoetser.hubpages.com/hub/A-music-instrument-suits-a-specific-personality-dont-choose-the-wrong-music-instrument-for-your-child
• http://andi9047.hubpages.com/hub/Music-For-Children
• http://lifehacker.com/5865032/how-music-affects-the-brain-and-how-you-can-use-it-to-your-advantage
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music