Ads and College Students

A lot of Ads are directed at a younger audience, more specifically, college students.  A couple of examples that come to mind are 5 hour energy and Axe body sprays.  They have two different ways of attracting the younger demographic to their product. 5 hour energy uses the fact that there is not enough hours in the day and that college students are constantly bombarded with school and work. They make it seem like no college student can make it through the day unless they have the wonderful product known as 5 hour energy. Axe uses the more popular method. Sex. Every single Ad that they I have seen about them is geared toward gettin me some. (pardon my French) My favorite slogan that they have is “how dirty boys get clean”. A lot of products do similar things, one that comes to mind is red bull. Not all, but several of their advertisements are very sexually suggestive in nature. These are just a few of the several products put in our face every day. Ads are necessary for us to know what is available to us, we just have to remember not to let ourselves believe everything we see on these commercials, We need to make sure to research things and not use things blindly.

Music Makers

Music is a wonderful thing and can be used as a powerful tool. I love music so much that I plan to immerse myself in it as a career as a radio personality. According to this assignment, I have to pick one genre of music and one band/musician as my favorite…the truth is…I can’t. Every genre of music is awesome in its own way (except country, country sucks :-P), and I love WAY too many bands too be able to pick just one. I am not very picky when it comes to music; it really depends on my mood, or the situation. My Pandora’s variety is so expansive it’s ridiculous. I have everything from Skrillex radio, to Michael Jackson radio, to Queen radio, to Ludacris radio, to Steven Lynch radio, the list goes on and on. I listen to it almost constantly. When I’m in a car, it’s time for Skrillex radio. When I’m cleaning my dorm, I like to have a little 80’s montage music. When I’m training in my studio, I put on some Ludacris or Eminem. Even right now as I write this paper, I’m jamming to some The Lonely Island (their hilarious). So I hope this blog is acceptable for my teacher, cause I honestly can’t pick a single genre or artist. And if you’ve never experienced music, you should try it…it’s pretty awesome.

The Film that Shaped my World part II

I accidently made another post of the same assignment...:-/ but here it is:
     

          It’s a tough choice, but the film that effected who I am in life most, and this might seem a little silly, is Mortal Kombat. The reason I picked this particular film is how it has stayed with me from childhood till now. I used to watch this movie all the time with my dad. He always wanted to take some sort of martial art with me, but he couldn’t because of the injuries to his back. We would watch this movie and go out in the yard and play fight and what-not. It isn’t the best martial arts movie out there but it is what got me started on it. It also started me on being the gamer that I am now. The first Mortal Kombat game came out in 1992, the same year I was born, and I grew up playing them and getting my butt kicked on them. :-P Within the last year, they released a new a new Mortal Kombat that redid the whole series…and trust me, I had it the day it came out. Mortal Kombat started my love of martial arts and started my love of video games, it is a big reason I am the laid back nerd that I am now. This is why I picked this film to be the film that shaped my world.

The film that shaped my world

It is hard to look at all of the films that I have ever watched and pick just one that has shaped my world more than any other. It took a long time of contemplation before I realized that I couldn't pick just one, that's why I decided to go with the entire Star Wars saga. I truly believe that this movie series has effected my life and many lives like mine. It might not have the strongest message and it may be meant to mainly entertain us, but who really cares? It did it's job. I believe this movie is important to me because I grew up a Jehovah's Witness and was not able to watch very many T.V. shows or movies. My mom even threw away the Wizard of Oz when I was a kid, because it had magic in it. :-P but for some reason, my family loved Star Wars...I know right? but I wasn't  about to argue. The point that I am trying to make is that these movies were kinda my outlet to normality when I was younger and they are partially responsible for making me the nerdy, force loving guy that I am today.