Media Laws

During the United States Opening, cute little kids were reciting the pledge of Allegiance and the phrase, "Under God" was censored out.  NBC did this to not anger people but it had the reverse effect.  The majority of America are very angry and the CEO of NBC had to come out and expressed their apologies.  Do they have the rights to do this?  Under God is a central part of the pledge and it seems as if it's an attack on Christianity.  If NBC was broadcasting a sport show in Islam, would their allegiance pledging loyalty to their god be censored out?  Most likely not.

Propaganda in Advertising/PR (20)

beautiful people

There is an old spice commercial that says you can be like this guy if you use old spice.  It is an advertisement technique called beautiful people

band wagon- join the crowd

This commercial use the technique called join the crowd.  They use the fact that the jets are winning and people's natural desire to be on the winning side to make this ad.

Facebook kills

I remember one time when I was surfing the web and I came across a particularly interesting news headline.  "Man kills wife because of facebook"  I clicked on the link and the story talk about how the man opens up hid facebook and sees his wife who has changed her relationship status to single.  The couple has been seperated for a while and upon seeing this, the man drives up to his wife's house and murders her.  I think it's stupid to let your emotion take hold of you like that.  Sometimes you have to accept reality and calmly approach it.  It's never right to kill someone.  That life doesn't belong to you.  Makes me mad whenever I see people doing dumb things like this.  


http://www.switched.com/2009/01/23/man-kills-wife-for-changing-facebook-status-to-single/

Publicity and Promotion

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· This is the promotional trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow Part 2. This video help build up hype for the movie and is an advertisement move to encourage viewers to go watch the movie after seeing the trailer. Posting it on youtube is a very smart move because no advertisement fee is charged.

· Chapter 6 Movies pg 171 "Publicity and Promotion"

· In what way does this encourage viewers to go watch the movie?

· It shows the best scene from the movies with stunning FX effects. It tries to bait the audience in hoping they would like to watch the movie after seeing a taste of what is to come.

movies

Write 2-3 sentences about your favorite movie of 2010-11 and why you liked it. Write 1-2 more sentences about your all-time favorite movie and why you like it. In which format(s) did you first see these movies? Add links to both inrottentomatoes.com or IMDB.com  Find and embed a trailer for one or both of the movies.      
My favorite movie of 2010-2011 is the movie "Inception"  
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inception/


It was mind blowing.  The storyline is suburb and the FX effect is off the hook.  Even till the end, I was still WTF IS HE IN A DREAM OR NOT?? ESJGHOIESGJOIESGJR  I saw this movie in theater and I do not regret it at all.




My all time favorite movie ever is My Sassy Girl
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/my_sassy_girl/  


This movie.... Is a romantic comedy but its so funny.  I cried laughing.  Then I just choked up on tears.  Never have I seen a movie at this level of comedy and still be super romantic too.  Every time I go on a second date, it is to watch this movie.  That being said, I've watched this many times and I still laugh every time I watch it.

Magazine

Name of magazine- The Men

·      Concept – how is your magazine different from existing magazines?   The concept of my magazine will be different from other magazine because it is aimed towards men and what they should do/know to be successful.

·         Readers – Readers will be all males.   No matter what age you are.  You must know this to be a man.  Mostly aimed towards young adults.

·         Other magazines serving this demographic (your competition) – your investors will want to know how your magazine is different or better? Cosmo Men. Men's Health. ect.  These magazine are so metro sexual.  It has an old 90s feel to it.  My magazine appeals to today's men.

·         Five advertisers who you think would like to reach your readers.  Video games, sports, cars, women, and more cars.

·         Five articles you might include in your premier issue How to make love, How to talk sports, How to be cool, How to be fashionable, Why you should work out, and handling your girl tips.

·         Describe the cover of your premier issue The cover shall be the Old Spice commercial Man.  The fonts will be regular time's new roman.  The colors will be regular dark manly color.  

        Draw (or create electronically) your proposed cover, including the name of the magazine and highlighting top articles, and post it on your blog and/or bring it to class. Stick figures are 

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Books

The three books that influenced me the greatest in my life are The Goosebump Series, Harry Potter series, and  The Things They Carried

The reason why The Goosebump Series is influential in my life is because of one reason, it got me started on reading.  It is the first time that I was afraid of my own imagination and it scared the crap out of me.  I own over 30 different goosebump books.

The Harry Potter series further fermented my love for books.  I used to be terrify of big books but after reading Harry Potter, I came to a realization that each page is another adventure and didn't want to stop reading at all.  Harry Potter removed the fear of big 1000 page books for me.

Harry Potter books
http://harrypotter.scholastic.com/

The Things They Carried is another great book that have changed my views of the world.  Before I read this book, I was lead to believe that war is glorious and every man should participate.  This book shows the hardship and pain of war.  It opened my eyes to a hidden truth; war is terrifying.

my high school English project that had some of the Things They Carried stuff

Those are the books that have influenced my life.  Sure its definitely not the only one but those three stands out.

Media Impact

Fans Blame Media.  Media Blames Fans

"Britney Spear collapses as she was walking down the street"

"Britney Spear caught buying Birth control pills"

"Britney Spear seen buying pregnancy test"

Headlines like these are very exploitive of privacy and can cause people some major headache.  Britney Spear for example, has too much exposure and is contemplating suicide.  Every second of her time, she has a picture taken by a paparazzi and it's driving her insane.  The fans blame the media for continuous exposure of Britney Spear and wants them to back off so that Britney can re-cooperate.  At the same time, the media states that they are providing a service that the fans want.  If the fans doesn't demand such a stream for Britney content, they wouldn't publish so much.  So in the end, who is to blame?  

daily update of Britney Spear's life

http://allcelebz.onsugar.com/tag/Britney+Spear?page=2

Article addressing how the media is affecting Britney Spear's life.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7177345.stm

week 1: autobiography

I grew up in an era where mass communication is as easy as picking up the phone.  There are 8 forms of communication that I have been familiarized with while growing up:


Books: What can I say about books?  They are amazing.  Books translate ideas of the author but through the medium of our imagination.  I love reading books.  Once a week I would go to Barnes and Noble and crack open a book while sipping on my hot chocolate.  Its a great well of information and I always love a good read.

Newspaper: Although I'm not a big fan of newspaper, I also don't dislike them.  I find them useful to find out whats going on in the world but it isn't the best form of mass communication.  When I was a child, I love reading the sport and comic sections.  Nowadays, as a poor college student, I'd probably would only read them for coupons for savings.  I also feel that they are extremely bias.

Magazine: I almost never buy magazines but when I do pick them up, I just skim through it.  Not my cup of tea.

Movies: I feel that movies plays a large role in mass communication.  An example such as The Matrix where Neo, the main character, would always wear a drench coat. During that time period, drench coat sales were going through the roof.  Nowadays, movies seem to be playing a lot of alien invasion movies and there have been a lot of sighting of U.F.O on the news.... Is this our government trying to ease us into something?

Recordings: Not big on recording.  Almost never listen to them.

Television:  I used to watch television all the time.  Nowadays, I don't find the time for t.v.  I think the last time I ever turned on the t.v. for watching television was about 3-4 years ago.

Internet:  Ah.. The internet.  This is my most preferable choice of communication.  Not only does it offer minute by minute news, it is instantly available at anytime we want.  I don't know if I can go a regular day without the internet.  My video games, my social network, my news, my homework, my work, everything is related to the internet.  The internet has been regarded as a class I communication and it won't be for another 200 years before we advance to class II.

My major is pharmaceutical sciences.  I'd like to transfer to U.O.P or U.S.F for graduate school. Mass communication isn't necessary important since most medications are prescribed by professionals in the medical field.  However, the ability to share research among other people and work on them collectively is something the internet can provide for us.  But living in a country where competition is encouraged, that isn't likely to happen.

A career in the media was something I've sometimes pondered about.  Like a movie actor :)