Friday, December 11, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Movie Review: Saw
Saw
11/13/09 Practice Movie Review
The Devil Wears Prada
Friday, November 6, 2009
11/6/09 Portfolio Comments
For this weeks blog, I decided to comment on Danny's portfolio. Upon viewing his site, I noticed it was very easy to navigate, for the links were on the left side of the page going down vertically. I liked the overall theme of the page. It wasn't too flashy or too bland. Was simple yet artistic. One thing that I liked most, was how he included a brief biography of himself on his website, something that I forgot to include. One thing that I might reccommend is keeping the font size the same throughout the writing. But overall good webpage.
Friday, October 30, 2009
10/30/09 My advertisement
For those of you who wish to view my ad.
My advertisement is basically marketing a deadly virus. While most of the ads you see on tv market products such as deodorant, make-up, beer, etc. This ad markets something that will destroy your life. In the ad is wonder woman, a superhero of great power, lying helpless and sickly on a hospital bed with a look of apathy on her face. She is in her trademark uniform, attached to an IV, and the words "AIDS makes us equal" as a caption on the bottom of the ad. I suppose the argument of this ad is saying that, while everyone is different, AIDS is the common thing that makes us equal. We are all vulnerable to it, and once diagnosed, its a fight you can't win that saps your strength and life. The intertextuality of this ad uses wonder woman as an AIDS victim because it projects the image of a mighty heroine with super powers and seemingly no weaknesses as a normal human being. If it had just an average joe in the ad, no one would think much of it. Having wonder woman there is more powerful just because of the reputation she has throughout popular culture.
Friday, October 23, 2009
10/23/09 Reading the Gaze
For this week's blog post, I will write about the reading on p220-226 Reading the Gaze: Gender Roles in Advertising. After reading and viewing the advertisements, I was most interested in learning how "the gaze" is primarily determined on how the position of the person in the ad is viewed by the reader. I was surprised by how much sex appeal is included in some of the advertisements, not just in the reading but everywhere in general. As for the article, I agreed with the author when he said that the way the person in the advertisement is looking at the reader, plays a big part in the social relationship that the viewer forms with the ad. ex.) a smile asks the reader to enter a a relation of social affinity with them. I didn't disagree with anything since the info was based on actual advertisements. This article was well developed in the sense that it proved how gender roles in advertising does in fact play a huge role in marketing.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
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