May 2008
6 posts
DVR='s no commercials
What is the point of having a commercial on a program when the people you are trying to reach can just fast forward through them. DVR is just one of the new obstacles being thrown in the way of advertisers. It should be interesting to say the least as to how they try and battle this one.
FINAL
My first media literacy skill I really appreciate is the ability to look more in depth into the media we see every day. From the beginning of class till the end, we were constantly taking apart pieces of media and looking at them from every angle of the spectrum rather than just glancing at them once and doing away with them. Now I can look at media and understand what exactly the piece of...
tv on your phone?
With cell phone companies trying to one up one anpther every chance they get, samsung has cme up with a cell phone that you can watch tv on as you go. You perscribe to the phone service as well as a cable service and you can watch you favorite show’s where ever you get cell phone reception. Pretty neat if you ask me.
April 2008
8 posts
Flordia girls and Video
Media is a very powerful thing. Sometimes I don’t think people realise how powerful it can be. I believe these girls abused there right of using media plain and simple. You can’t blame the creators of this website for these girls posting the beating of another girl on there. Sure there are going to be people using this stuff for a negative reason, but that is just a handful of...
Glamour
Glamour is seen as something you see and want. In other words it is something you have envy for. In the movie “How to Get Ahead in Advertising” He uses glamour to sell his pimple cream. He wants to make pimples and boils a new type fad so that everyone wants them, then after a few months when the fad wears off he introduces his new pimple cream and has a huge market.
Uses for a brick
Use to build a house Use as a hammer Use to hold something down Use as a weapon Use to bang togethor to get someone’s attention
March 2008
1 post
February 2008
9 posts
Hero in my life
When assigned to write about a television hero, instantly only one name popped into my head, Jack Bauer. In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks, it became fashionable to say that America had changed and that we’d never be the same. In the grossest sense, this idea manifests itself in the realization that we are at war and that this conflict is unlike any other in which America...
The Century of the Self really opened my eyes to a lot of thing I have never realised before. It really went deep into psycho analysis and basically finding out ways to make a product appeal to you in a sub conscience manner. They talk about the reality of how the innovation of telling someone they would feel good if they had a certain product, ultimatly they would feel better. It was a very...
January 2008
7 posts
