#mediatalks

Final Post

2012-01-24T05:36:00.000-08:00

Over all, I am happy with the quality of my video. I do wish my voice would have come out a little more energetic but at least I got my voice on the video. I had some trouble getting a microphone that worked with my computer. I finally got one that used a USB port to record. I think if I had the time to change something, I would change my voice. I would record it over again and make it a little less bland.
I think that I showed my thesis fairly well. At some point I think went off on a small rant but I think it didn't get my point across. I think that I proved that men and women interpret things differently and after digging into the details of the project a little bit more, I understood where the Dr.Pepper people were coming from. But I do think that they should at least take the commercial down because it is very offensive and sexist.

Dr.Pepper blog post 2

2012-01-20T05:00:00.000-08:00

Honestly at the moment all i'm doing is just typing this because i'm doing the project at home. But as i work on the project at home, I think about how well it will explain everything about the Dr.Pepper ad campaign and how amazing it will look. My next steps are to get a microphone that I can plug into my mac at home so I can record to the voiceovers. That is the biggest step.

The biggest challenge I will have is getting the microphone and writing the script for the video. As I work, I learn that Dr.Pepper does not see anything wrong with their ad and I can see why they think that. But they forgot how sensitive people are. Especially women and they should have thought through what the ad is to make it a little less blatantly sexist.

iMovie Dr.Pepper

2012-01-18T04:57:00.000-08:00

At the moment I just finished writing my proposal about the iMovie Dr.Pepper I am going to create. As I am going deeper and deeper into this project I am thinking about how I will get the clip on to iMovie and how the audience will take to it. The commercial is very controversial and it seems to be sexist. Many people both men and women are sickened by this ad that Dr.Pepper will not apologize for. The next step I am going to take is to get the clip into iMovie. Then I will debate whether to do a voice over or just out words on the screen that explain what I am thinking of.
The biggest challenge that I face is what to put on the screen if I do a voice over. As I work on brainstorming I'm finding it harder to think of cool effects for the video besides just the clip and voice overs. But while I'm working I'm learning more about iMovie and how some companies would rather have a good reputation than have happy customers. That is something that makes lots of people sick and outraged. I think making this project will be hard but I am willing to make it work and make it look great.

Jessica Lynch

2012-01-09T05:32:00.000-08:00

Out of the four clips that we watched i thought that the last one which was the movie Saving Private Jessica was the most interesting. I think this because movies have more drama and it was more heightened so therefore it was more interesting and appealing to me.

I think the clip that had the most credibility and was the most believable was the clip by the US forces because it has information straight from the rescue and they could have seen the whole clip so they know what happened, but they could not show the whole version.

I think that the movie was the least accurate because they put things in that didn't actually happen in reality to make it more interesting to the viewers.

I get my information from Fox News because that it the news channel that i agree with. Of course they have mostly conservative anchors but they also have shows that have liberals idealists and debates. But they say the truth and if they didnt they would get in big trouble.

Rio

2011-12-23T05:19:00.000-08:00

In my opinion the movie Rio was fantastic and after reading the articles for "pro Rio" and "con Rio" i was sort of enthralled. I only felt like this because I thought the movie great and most of all there were very little stereotypes to none. The con Rio article was looking to much into the movie. I did not notice almost any of the "stereotypes" that they said were in the movie. If I did not notice the stereotypes, I highly doubt that a ten year old child would be able to have noticed. The argument that was made by the author of the article was that the black child was saved by the white people. But really an african american population is a huge part of Brazil and that is what most likely a child race would be if they were native to the country. Also the article said that it depicted the city Rio as a dancing slum kind of place. But the director of Rio is from Brazil and he knows what happens there. So I would think that it's accurate. Especially during Carnival. So in conclusion I would have no problem showing this to my child because the movie shows only small stereotypes that are meant for humor. Things like people there love soccer and can't get enough of it. The first article about Rio, the pro Rio article, was right in was its contents were.

Honestly Rio does not have enough stereotyping to compare it to another animated film. But the film I've selected to do the comparison is Shrek. Shrek is considered one of the greatest kid movies ever made and I have no argument. But there are some minor things is Shrek. For example the villagers in the movie all think that ogres are terrible gross creatures. They stereotyped what ogres in the past were like to what Shrek was. Also Donkey and Puss in Boots have voices that fit their personalities according to the media. Donkey has a black voice because he is annoying and he is a donkey! If you know what I mean. And Puss in Boots has a suave voice which has an accent that could make anyone fall in love with him. Lastly, the royalty in the movie all are beautiful and not just average looking. But these minor things in Shrek barely stick out at all. But in comparison to Rio, I do think that Rio is just a little better with stereotypical content and not storyline or humor content only because of the minor things in Shrek.

Violence

2011-12-12T06:12:00.000-08:00

I think the other groups had different ratings set for different age groups because they want to include themselves in everything. They were not thinking about the young manipulative children but rather themselves by making what is currently now M ratings to 16 and up rather than 18. 16 year olds can barely drive let alone be capable of watching these types of brutal homicide and other disgraceful acts being portrayed.

There are good reason to be concerned about violence on tv and movies. Parents have the job of keeping their kids stable and a huge part of that job is limiting what is on the television. Kids see terrible things acted out but portray them as reality and get caught up in what is and what isn't happening. But seeing things on the news is different. The news is current events sometimes they are not the most beautiful sights but the news can not show dead bodies mutilated or anything like that but movies and tv can because it's "acting".

I dont think we need to go as far into restrictions as making laws against it. I think it is the parents job to limit and if they don't it's their price to pay. Television today has come so far but putting laws on it now will just cause uproar from the public. Even broadcasts like football games have violence. Some limiting just can go too far.

Picture Ads Over The Years

2011-12-06T05:47:00.000-08:00

Picture ads have changed alot over the years but they have kept the same basic format. The ads have lost lots of words to make them short and sweet. My ads show foods. The older ads are a lot less colorful but the newer ads are shiny and colorful. The two bottom ads focus on telling the reader about the product but the two top ads show the the picture and a couple words. The ads have remained the same by keeping pictures in them and the big titles. To get the point across. These types of ads are relevant to everyone still. I see these in magazines to fill empty space and to announce their product.

2011-12-06T05:26:00.000-08:00

Yes, different people experience the same media messages differently. Why? It's simple, people are different. Different meaning we have different social and cultural backgrounds, we are not the same gender, we are also different ages and have different interests. It's important to understand that we all see and interpret things differently. This is because if say creators of a commercial are aiming for a specific ago group they need to make sure it applies to that age group. We need to know how to make people's different views agree on the same thing. So we can tell that they are getting the message.
The movie we watched was somewhat infuriating to me. I understand that people have their reason why they hate America but what bothered me was the ignorant people who don't know what it is like here just spat out an opinion that was outrageous. I did see some extreme poverty and America was doing nothing about it except putting a highway through their land that no one told them it was coming. That kind of made me think that America was acting like the bad guy. I think the producers did do it right. They interviewed people in countries everywhere. Which included good perceptions and negative perceptions of America. I think all and all it was a well documented film.

Tricks of Pics

2011-11-21T06:10:00.000-08:00

It is important to understand the tricks photographers because it does not show the actual look of the item it is showing. Also the tricks they use are deceiving. For example the food that is in the picture can taste awful in reality. They even use things in the picture like motor oil, spray deodorant, and shoe polish, Appetizing? If you believe in the tricks they are using you could end up wasting your money.

Reflection

2011-11-17T05:46:00.000-08:00

The question "all media messages are created?" means that one person or people create a media message. Whether it's a text message or an email someone had to have created it. Media messages don't just appear they need a creator. I know this because i have never received an email or a text message that just sent it self. Of course companies send messages via email that are automatic. But someone needed to create that message and put it on a sending system. I also know that because each activity we did in class, we created by ourselves. Also people that do their jobs everyday work with creating media to release to the world. Whether by newspaper, magazine ect...
This question also is the key to thinking about media because it asks the true question that all media messages are created. It also involves everything we talked about in class. Which is who creates the messages to why they create the messages. This is important to everyone one who reads or watches media. It's all relevant.

What mood do I convey?

2011-11-16T06:01:00.000-08:00

Digital Nation

2011-11-14T06:10:00.000-08:00

The part that caught my attention in the film Digital Nation was the time the crew spent in the middle school. Mostly that the students attendance and academics increases by high percentages when they were given laptops. It just shows how immersed this generation if youths if on the online world and on just electronic devices for that matter. The other part that caught my attention was how the teachers could see what the students were doing on the computers. This seemed humorous but also sad in some ways. The students would rather take pictures or fix their hair then do well academically.
I think as a society we are going a little too far into a digital world. But then again its so hard to escape it. It is basically everywhere you look and theres nothing we can do about it. If the technology exists why not use it? I'm not saying we need to over-use it or get addicted, I'm just saying that it's a useful tool that is taken advantage of. This digital world were in also causes advances in different industries that are helpful to us, even the military uses technology like this. My stance on this issue is more in the middle but I think I'm more on the "pro" media side of the fence.

Gatekeepers

2011-11-11T05:45:00.000-08:00

According to the article the gatekeeper effect is the absence of other news and some of that news is actually relevant the primary cause of the gatekeeper effect is bias of the gatekeeper.

The primary reason the author gives for "economic interference" is the if the company is a large corporation it is hard to generate the most attention competing against others.

I think that the internet has no effect on media gatekeepers because most towns and large cities have still their newspapers online and printed. This means that the gatekeeper still has to do what they were assigned

Newspaper

2011-11-11T05:20:00.000-08:00

The assignment we received of creating a newspaper was interesting. We were told to create a newspaper from current news in our world but we but use the template that was provided. We first used google news to locate our articles for our paper. I then did my page of the paper and another student in the group did the next. That was all we had time for. Our group was mostly in agreement to what we wanted each other to do. We listened to each other and took criticism of our page well.

I think our process was completely different from what the "what fits" process is. We were not as organized or as fluster as they probably are. The choices that the actual editor make effect what the public reads the next morning. If it is done wrong there could be major problems like printing non proven facts, grammatical errors, or bias of the writer.

2011-11-09T06:10:00.000-08:00

I believe that I am media literate. I can and do access, evaluate, analyze, and create media in all its forms. For example this blog is a mear example of what I contribute to the media world we live in. On my favorite picture making and editing website (picnik.com), I edit pictures that I take or members of my family take. I also edit pictures I find on google or other websites that show potential if a great picture. Although I do wish I could be more media literate. I want the iphone to have the possibility to make more media and find more media. I'm looking forward to it and blogging more.
-Damaris