My page. Nothing more to it.
I’m am no doubt seeing an end to my story. I should be able to finish before my set goal. On page 86, it’s starting to get easier with pressure and all becasue I’m sure of exactly what I’m writing, with a few exceptions. Now the small problem is editing, which isn’t such a small problem, because I have friends and teachers helping me with that. I’d say I’ll finish in about twent pages or so, give or take a few.
Of all the things that we learned about this week, I found the “stealth advertising” the most interesting . . . and amusing. What the advertisers do is they get someone to go out, find the “coolest” kid in a community, and get them to use their product like clothes or shampoo, thus creating a “buzz.” They pressure others into buying the item and it spreads on and on. The amusing thing is that there are some “bad apples”, like kids that aren’t pressured into buying clothes that the “cool people” wear. Those kids are the thing that probably drives the companies insane. So have a little fun and don’t be pressured into buying clothes that are “in”, just for the fun of companies pulling their hair out, trying to figure out what they’re doing wrong.
The main idea of the article was to point out what advertising to children as young as 6 months old does. First of all, companies are using Shrek to advertise their items, but at the same time, telling kids to exercise an hour a day, so being entirely hypocritical. Then all these ads are also giving kids the wrong message; “It’s not about who you are but what you have.” Though, what I found interesting was that there’s more power in the hands of the Federal Trade Commission to regulate advertising to an adult rather than a child– something rather insensible.
It’s a few weeks into the project, and I know exactly where my story is headed. I’ve already written the final page(s), thus leaving it open for me to continue into a sequel, which I will glady continue. I’ve finally reached page 63, and aiming for 65 by the end of the week. By Thanksgiving break ends, I plan to have completed a few more, making 75 to 80 pages. By the end of winter break, which continues to sneak up on us, I plan to be completely done, with the small exception of editing. That’s fifty pages in six weeks, but I think I could pull it off. I have 42 days to pull off 50 pages, give or take a few.
Yikes, that’s a lot. Better get crackin’. Like, now. ASAP.
Advertisers for products for a certain age group want to know how to get their targeted age group to buy the product. So they hire the one and only psychologists whose job is to find these persuasive motives, to get their product flying off the shelves. They build “brand name loyalty” by placing logos of their company and place them around youngsters. Like Care Bear worksheets for instance, or even toy trucks with a Chevy logo on it. This is so that they build familiarity with those brands and buy them because they’re so familiar.
Buzz marketing, also known as Stealth Marketing or Street Marketing, is when advertisers seek out the coolest kids in a community and get them to wear their product, or so creating a buzz about it.
Movies that are rated “Restricted” have commercials. The commercial makers purposely target viewers under 17 and put the commercials on TV stations or channels at times when they know those programs are viewed.
Immersive advertising is when a company’s name integrates with products directly into the entertainment content on the site. Neopets uses this in so many ways.
First off, you have a neopet. You can dress it in clothes that you buy at a mall, with names much like real stores out there. There are games that are literally named things like, “McDonald Marathon” and such. You can get a free breakfast of Lucky Charms or Cocopuffs to feed your neopet. There are ads left and right, influencing the small minds of youngsters.
You can feed your neopet, dress it up, it can become ill, it can earn money and so on. Neopets is basically a whole other community, with the access at your fingertips. There’s even a movie theater where you can view a trailer for the latest Disney movie. Though, a speaker for Neopets claimed that less than one percent of the site has advertisment and that the users have a choice to click on them or not.
My opinion on immersive advertising: It’s poisoning the minds of children to go to certain stores or eat at ceratin restraunts. It may not be as affective on teenagers because they’re not so easily manipulated by silly internet advertisments. But for younger children, it can be so easy because they haven’t exactly formed their opinions on anything yet.
There are many things wrong in North Korea when it comes to communism. We shall now take a look at those problems through English vocabulary.
There were many examples of propaganda in the short film that we watched in class on North Korea. Some examples included the fact that fairytales and fables were made up and presented as raw fact to the public. Ideas such as the fact that when Kim Jung Il died, many cranes flew into the sky to retrieve his soul. And that swallows flew to the monument. When someone asked where the birds were once he arrived there, they’d said that they’d just flown away. They asked farmers about swallows, but there were none at all. Furthermore, Kim Il Sung claims that when he was born nearby scouts felt a “wonderful presence” of a god of some sort. One carved an oath about this Korean “Jesus”. This was fifty years ago. Later, Japanese scientists were viewing the site, and one was a botanist. He said that it was not possible because the tree wasn’t fifty years old–the tour guide was speechless. Soon after, the tree was torn down and the site roped off for good.
Some censorship in the video was also the fact that a chaperon of foreigners advises that they stay away from civilians. Also, people aren’t allowed to look at each other and that thousands of civilains have to be checked before entering the “Friendship House”, children carry torches for their gymnastics, westerners are and were under strict surveillance, and only a selected one can talk to foreigners.
Just when you need more information, your elected leader cuts all of it from you. That’s what took place in Pakistan on Sunday morning.
Elected leader of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, had bragged for years about freedom of the press and media, but then he felt that he was losing power. So he went and cut all of the news channel, radio stations, the news papers, and even internet. It’s like he just went and said, “I think my power is in danger of decreasing. Let’s cut all means of news or communication!”
Now, there is a law that if any editor violates the order can wind up in jail or pay a 5 million rupee fine ($83,000).
For a while after the power cut, everything went haywire. Armed police showed up on the doorstep of Talat Hussein, demanding that they come quietly and hand over their broadcasting equipment. In midday Sunday, telephone lines and Blackberries were jammed in some parts of the capital while internet service flicked on and off. With out satellite phones and unlisted numbers, Zaffar Abbass said, we would not have been able to function.
Though, many Pakistani journalists vowed to keep broadcasting to 160 million people of the nation. Hussein said, “We will stay on the air. This won’t stop us.”
The Great Firewall of China is rather interesting. China is blocking what may be “inapropiate” for the public eye to veiw. When, really, they block everything from wikipeida.org to their own main site. Yes, the countries main website is even blocked from their own public veiwing, which is completely off and senseless.
I find this all wrong. They even blocked some of the most harmless sites like neopets.com and amazon.com. Who does that?! So if I was in China and I wanted to purchase something and get it within a few days, I wouldn’t be able to acess the site because of that huge and unreasonable firewall. And the little police that come on the screen every 30 minutes that remind you not to go to any “inapropiate sites”. That would drive me insane. In fact, that would drive anyone insane.
This is the final product of our movie. The book turned out pretty good, I guess. I hadn’t envisioned anything great, so I guess it did turn out better than expected.
We added in suspense with the stalling of Joe’s (freakishly quick) growth spurt, i.e. him standing on the bucket and in the tree, but still not taller than his brother. Once we watched the final product, I felt that the mood was fit for elementary schoolers– friendly and not overwhelming. The personification was the (obviously) inanimate object, a pumpkin, taking life as our main character.
It was worthwhile making these into digital books, because like I said already, it turned out well. Personally, no, this assignment didn’t help me better understand the concepts from the Word Wall.
What we could do to make the book better next time is give us a little more time. I was the main illustraitor, and a few others were helping. Frankly, I got tired of drawing the pictures, and the rushing around and such– even if we did finish before other groups. Also, you can’t get the full effect of a picture if it’s a photograph. I’ve learned that the hard way, so I suggest that we scan the pictures next time instead. Otherwise, there’s light and shadows in weird spots, and you just can’t get the direct effect that it should be.
