Blog 24

Out of the twenty wrong grammar mistakes, I had five of them. I forgot to Capitalize a proper name, missed a colon, typed the wrong word so the sentence didnt make any sense. I also had extra spaces and a couple of sentence fragments. The biggest problem I have is mixing up the their and there, also my brain goes faster than my fingers can type so alot of the time I type the wrong word because my brain is already passed the point of my fingers.

Blog 23

I believe that it is ok to engage in online games. It helps todays society to escape the reality of their lives and be able to go to their online world and live life there for awhile. I do believe; however, that some people take the online world alittle to far and start trying mixing the two together. That is where we get guys and girls that carry on multiple relationships and try to live double lives. So as I said online games are fine but people just need to learn to leave the real world and the online world in separate places.

Blog 22

People scream free speech so much that i think they forget what is actually means. I feel that to a point it should be censored but on the othere hand people have the right that if you dont like what someone is saying online that you do have the ability to close out of the site, or just ignore what the person is saying. Swearing and pornography should be restricted from the web because of the amount of under age user that are on the web. So i believe that if it has nothing to do with hate speech, swearing, and pornography then you should just excersice your right to leave the site or just ingore them.

Blog 22

Paper 4 Texting has changed the way society communicates because people nolonger know how to hold a face to face conversation.

Blog 15

I believe that TV can rot your brain because it you already have a sickness that it can push you into this that you might not do if it wasn't for TV. Today's society watches alot of TV and depend on the information that is given out. Between reality TV and scripted TV people watch probably between 40 to 50 hours of TV a week. That is alot of TV waves entering your brain. Today more people have electronics in their hands then a book. With DVR and Netflixs people have the TV at there beck n call. They can record or just click a button and their favorite shows are there in an instint. Between Ipads and Kindles books are at peoples finger tips in an instint too. So between the TV and the electronics are brains are toast.

Blog 14

My paper was about why are society needs to have remakes. I feel that is was about the article of Movie Fantasy vs. Classroom Reality. I dont remember if we actually read this article but I feel that the movie Footloose, which is the movie that i wrote about, has to deal with school problems. It also has to deal with political problems. In the movie it has to deal with bullying and peer pressure with is what high school is all about.

Blog 13

I see the difference between cinematic heros and superheros means the defination of the word Glamerous. Glamerous can mean getting into the right party or wearing the same dress that an actress wore on the red carpet to an important event or it can mean the guy that saves the city from the meteor or saves the city from the villian. Glamerous can make you feel that you are invinsible. In the superman movies you actually believe that you can fly. So the line between cinematic heros, which means physical and superheros can be blurred.

Blog 12

I chose Voldamere from Harry Potter. He lies, steals, and will stop at nothing to kill Harry. He appeals to contemporary audiences because todays society has to deal with lies and dicete everywhere they go. They also have to think on their feet and decide what step to take next with out getting caught. I dont know if this is what you are looking for but it is the only out law that i could think of that would be even close to semiotic analysis.

Blog 11

I love the movie "She's the Man." It starts with a girl named Violet, who love's to play soccer but learns that the school has cancelled the girls soccer team. She goes to the boy's team but they laugh at her and tell her that girls are not as good as boy's. So bummed and returning home she learns that her brother Sebastian is running away to London to perform with his band at a music festival. Sebastian is suppose to start a new school, beings he has been kicked out of three schools for skipping. Violet comes up with the idea to be her brother and attend his school being him. She has a plan to make the boys soccer team and play against her school and beat them to prove that she is good enough.

Blog 10

In the reading it talked about the typical high school girl and how much they are hated. What they look like and even how they acted. How they have the typical boyfriend, usually a dumb jock. How there are different types of teen movies. You have the one were the girl gets the guy, where the popular girl figures something out (like in the movie clueless), and the girl gets revenge. Most of the girls portayed in teen movies are motherless. Either the mother has died or has ran away. But in the movie Easy A it is not like your typical teen movies. It is narrated and it has nothing to do with a girl trying to attract the attention of the most popular guy. It is mainly about how one lie can go like a wild fire and that sooner or later you with either start acting like the lie or face the humilation and tell the truth.

Blog 9

Easy A starts off as a typical teen movie. It starts with a girl who nobody really nows of  and her friend that is only referred to as a body part. In most typical teen movies the outcast girls does everything possible to get noticed but in Easy A she was ok with not being the center of attention. She only got noticed after a conversation with her friend was over heard by someone else. Easy A differs from the normal teen movies because it doesn't follow the same genre. It is narrated by the main character and the movie doesn' have a football start that the girl is after. The whole movie is about peoples actions not whether or not the girl gets the guy.

Thesis Statement

Children's commercials are out their to get there products into the hands of children. In order to accomplish that you need to have their complete attention. That task in not an easy one to take on. The commmercial needs to be bright, colorful and full of energy. By the end of that commercial you want that child to have an overwhelming sensation to either consume the product or purchase the product.

Product Analysis

I took the pepsi can and how the logo has changed over the years. The first pepsi can came out in the 1898. There has been eleven different logo's from pepsi ranging from 1898 to now days. The logo started of pretty plain with a white can and had red lettering. Over the next century the can has stayed the same but the lettering has gotten bolder and more clearer. In the fifties is when they went from plain red to adding blue and white. They also went from putting pepsi cola to just pepsi. From the sixties to current they only started changing the logo slightly.

Commercials

From the seventies to the ninties commercials were shown during certain times of the day. If you wanted to get women who stay at home you played their commercials during daytime TV. If you wanted the working women they were shown during the evening TV. Men commercials were ran during sporting events. If you viewed commercials back then they were portrayed very different then they are today. Commercials have changed alot since the last era. Now days daytime commercials are geared toward the elderly. Very few women are at home during the day, there are more working families then their are stay at home moms. Commercials have also started combining men at women in there advertising. They still have certain products that are only for women or only for men but they almost make fun of the way commercials were back then.

Kid Kustomers

When it comes to advertising that is geared to children the product should be age appropriate. Toy, cerel, movie, ect. that are kid friendly should have major advertising. How else are they suppose to get their products purchased. Advertising has come along way since the ninties  because children back then related more to Joe Camel and Budweiser when asked. So children advertising should be regulated to a point, they need to keep adult products separate from childrens products.

Harry Potter

When Harry Potter first came out I had no interest in it at all. It wasn't something that I had any interest in. My mom and neice were reading every book that came out and went and saw every movie. When you went to a store, wether it was Walmart, Kmart, Shopko, ect. you saw Harry Potter mechandise every where. It wasn't until my daughter came home from a night with Nana that I saw my first Harry Potter movie. A couple of weekends later, there was a Harry Potter movie marathon on ABC Family. I was then hooked. I have seen all the movies but have not read one of the books. I didn't get sucked into any of the toy merchandise because my daughter saw those as toys for boys. All she wanted to enjoy was the movies.

Buying

How do large retail stores design to encourage and specific behaviors? When a store opens for the first time they bring in exsperts to observe the behaviors of the shoppers in the store. They then give the store advise about where thing need to be arranged in the store. They usually put the most popular thing up front so it catches peoples eyes and draws them into the store. Lets take a popular department store, the thing that catches my eye first is the displays in the windows. That is the deal breaker to get me in the store or if I keep walking. Every store is different and will display what they are interested in selling a particular item. Take Deb's, most of there window displays are total outfits. Shirts, pants and shoes, usually bright colors. RCC western store, there window displays consist of jeans and boots. Now if we shift gears, take walmart they have it to where depending on what door you walk in, that is where you are most interested in shopping. If you need groceries you will walking in the most northern doors. If you need jewelrey you will come in the middle doors, and if you need to close to the automotive area then you will choose the southern doors. Its all about what the consumer wants and is willing to endure to get it.

I am what I buy

I believe people are what they buy. Take for instince TV's, you cant walk into most people's houses now days and not find a big flat screeen TV. It says something about that person, and the bigger the TV the bolder the statement. It is all about what you own and what kind of toys you can show off today. Everybody has to have the next big and greatest thing.

1940's

I chose Casablanca because it was way out of my era and really didn't know anything about it. The film was set during World War II, time when there really was'nt very much to be excited about. It was shot in a town called Casablanca that was located in South Africa. People came there to escape Europe and the German invasion. Casablanca was a place that you had to be at in order to get to America. In order to leave Casablanca you had to have a Letter of Transit. The movie was focused on a man torn between love and virtue. He had to choose between his love for a woman or helping her and her husband get to America. The movie was set in December of 1941 and the song "As Time Goes By" became popular. The movie was not suppose to be released  until spring of 1943 but was released November 26, 1942 so it could coincide with the invasion of North Africa and the capture of Casablanca. I believe the reason this film made a lasting impact it grew in popularity so fast that the film was called "true yesterday", "true today", "true tomorrow". They say that it is the third most successful wartime movie ever made. In Cambridge, MA they show this film every year as part of a old movie series. Casablanca became so popular that the University of Harvard began playing it during final week and they still do it as of today. By 1977 Casablanca was the most played film on American TV.