The Christmas season is characterized by decorations in public spaces
The etymological root of the term season is found in the Latin word tempus , which translates as “time.” The concept refers to a period that can be made up of years , months , weeks or days , which form a set .
A particular period
A season, therefore, is a temporal space with particular characteristics that allow it to be distinguished from the rest of the calendar . The notion is usually used to refer to the stage that contemplates the realization or appearance of something .
For example: “I am fascinated by the Christmas season as it reminds me of my childhood with my parents and grandparents” , “The most renowned designers agreed that blue will be the color that will set the trend in the next summer season” , “The Australian player announced that he will retire from professional sport at the end of this season” .
Series organization
It is common for series to be segmented into seasons. Each season has a certain number of chapters or episodes and constitutes a unit: generally, the end of the last chapter of the season marks a closure and in turn opens a conflict or question that will develop in the following season.
Take the case of Friends . This American series had ten seasons, totaling 236 episodes. Thanks to this organization, the episodes that make up each season of a series can be related for different reasons, both narrative and stylistic or even in tone, something that allows the scriptwriters to explore various facets of their creativity and the lives of the characters. in well-defined stages.
In a film it is impossible to condense the number of stories that can exist in a series, but this does not come without certain drawbacks. In the first case, the great challenge for the creators is to choose the most relevant and significant of the entire original text, so that the public receives something coherent, exciting, varied and complete. A film should never show the cuts that are made in the development stage.
On the other hand, the greater looseness of the series can result in the writers not concretizing their ideas but composing episodes that are not very impressive or repeating certain elements more than necessary. A first step to avoid this mistake is to think in seasons, to group future episodes into large chunks of the total story . In the case of Friends , this is achieved very well because the division allows us to explore the phases of maturation of the characters, both individually and in relation to others.
for sport
In the field of sport , a season covers the time necessary for a championship or tournament to take place, from its beginning to its conclusion. In the 1997-1998 NBA season , to mention one of these cycles, Michael Jordan won his sixth and last championship ring with the Chicago Bulls .
In coastal cities, the high season usually coincides with summer.
Low, medium or high season
At the tourist level, finally, a distinction is usually made between low season (the time with less activity or movement), mid season (normal activity) and high season (greater activity than usual).
This division has a direct impact on prices for consumers, being higher in the high season than in the other two . For businessmen the impact is the opposite: the low season is the time of least work, so much so that in some cities that depend almost exclusively on tourism it is advisable to close shops and hotels until activity returns. The high season usually coincides with the season of the year that allows you to appreciate the tourist destination the most: winter in a ski area , and summer in a coastal area, for example.