Brandon

Brandon is gay, he hates on my blogs and my hockey skills. Just because you get player of the week and played in the WHL doesn't mean it doesn't make me sad when u act like ur cooler than me. And my previous blog was long because I had a lot of thoughts on my mind yesterday. I can see how Brandon wouldn't have a problem with thoughts because he has a small brain. Anyway I just thought I would express my thoughts on this plug that plays for us. He is probably the most skilled player in the league and if the information I have provided isn't enough, I'm sure you will be able to read about him on this website- http://nahl.com/potw.cfm

Face TIme

This being my second year of junior hockey I have become found myself to transform my daily schedule. I focus on things that are most important to myself. One of the main areas that I need to focus on is face time, or time that my face is shown to the outside world. The more of this "Face Time" that I can give myself, the more likely I will be successful. While I feel that I have gotten pretty good at achieving maximum face time, it is only my second year in the league. Taking this into account, I spent time following and studying Tyler Briola. Tyler has been playing in the league for five years now and he has come as close to mastering this face time than anyone else who has ever played at this level. Tyler maximizes his face time in the following ways. 1. He makes sure to do as much community service as possible. (He's not out there to help the community, or bulk up his college resume', he is out there to give himself face time) Tyler is known by almost the entire community. 2. It doesn't matter how many people know you unless they also know how big your abs are. (While showing your abs to everyone does take their focus off your face, Tyler is not discouraged by this. He takes every advantage to show off his gigantic core to anyone.) 3. Facebook. (Tyler uses facebook to meet new ugly girls. Why might Tyler want to meet ugly girls? It doesn't matter, face time is face time, even if the girl he meets is 300lbs.) 4. Staying on the ice late after practice to work on skating. (Tyler stays on the ice after every practice and pretends to practice his turns. The only reason he does this is because he knows that there are kids practices after our practices and that means parents. If the parents see him working on his game after practice they know he is dedicated and they will look at his face. This is just another way Tyler gets his face time.) 5. Getting kicked out of games for jumping kids. (Tyler uses this one on rare occasion, but it is probably his best way of attaining face time. He will pretend to jump a kid but then not even hit him, this is partly because Tyler is a pussy, but mostly because he doesn't want to mess up his face. Tyler will then tell the ref to kick him out of the game. At this point Tyler flips up his helmet and looks into the crowd, pretending to be a bad ass! This is when he runs to the locker room and changes into his suit as fast as he can. He then runs up to the crowd to sit with the fans. He draws attention because everyone knows he just got kicked out of the game. This is the highest level of face time.) Bottom line this kid has it all figured out, fece time baby!

Blog #8

One thing that could very well happen in the future is the elimination of commercial breaks. With so many channels now availiable for easy access from a remote, commercia;l breaks very often lose the viewer for possibly the entire show. I forsee commercials being abandoned and advertisements within the shows. Either by puting the comercial on half the screen while the show is still on on the left, or some sort of variation of this. The use of telling the viewer how long the commercial break is, has become a very regular thing on television. But it doesn't work for me. I hear that and I think, "Well I know when it is going to come back on, so I might as well find something else to watch in the meantime." But what will happen is that I will find something else and get hooked on that. I feel that the next step will be non-commercial break shows. I feel that the first network to do this could have a humoungouse boost in ratings, and then the entire network television concept would change. It could be revolutionary, and totally awesome. This would almost guarantee that the consumer would be exposed to the advertisements. Maybe they wo'n be fully concentrated on them, but they are not going to change the channel because then they would miss part of their show. This would be totally cool, and an awesome change to television.

Blog #7

The coolest concept that we have explored so far this year in our class is deffinately the argument of media affecting the culture, or culture affecting media. There are so many arguments for both ways that both have seemed to be true at different times. Media deffinately affects culture. We see the new things on commercials and we go out and buy them. The advertisers appeal to what we value in America and make us go one step further and buy their product. On the same note, media bases a lot of its advertisements off of our core values. We see many things involved in advertisements. Whether it be a a youthful star used to advertise sports, or a rich successful buisness man driving a car. There are so many ways that both media affects culture and culture affects media. At the begginning of the year I was almost convinced that media was only affected by culture. I simply didn't understand the knowledge that was behind the media. Almost everything is carefully planned out to get us, the consumer to buy our product. Sure we do have an impact on what is being shown in media, but also we are basically owned by media. We are told what to buy, we are told how to act, and some times we are even told what to think. This argument is very interesting, its answer is not set in stone, and that is what makes it an interesting topic.

Blog #6

I totally think that product plaecement is important. Just from withching that clip, I remember Snapple. I actually almost wan to go buy some. The idea of advertising is getting information about the product out there. They want the consumer to recognize that it exists, and that it is good. If we are constantly seeing a certain product in a movie or show that we watch, our attitude towards the show could be translated over to our attitude about the product. It is a great idea to use product placement in areas like this. This is especially affective to teenagers. Teenagers get really involved in certain shows. They grow to love the charachters. If they see these characters using a certain product, they may very possibly go out and buy this product for just that reason. Teenagers are stupid, these somewhat subliminal messages can affect them and coerse them into making decisions. Overall, the idea of this kind of product placement is a great idea, it may not always catch the viewer's attention, but it is deffinately worht a try.

Blog 5

I see many ads on a daily basis. Just the other day I saw a billboard for a Chicago women's soccer team. It had a professional athlete on the billboard and said the team's name. Then it gave a number to call for tickets. This ad was appealing to the American core value of success. It showed the succesful star and hoped that people would transfer that to buying tickets. The ad was very simple and I remember it so it did work. It showed the team to be very well known. I don't know if they were, but thats what I got from it. So this was a bandwagon technique. The ad was most likely adressed to girls from the age of 14-18, but it caught my attention.
I also heard a radio commercial for McDonald's filet-o-fish. It was the same as the commercial on TV, but it only had sound. It is cool, because I have seen the TV commercial so many times, the radio commercial was much more effective. I was able to visualize what was happening, they did not have to put a picture in my head through the radio, because it had already been done on TV. Repitition was used in this ad. Filet-o-fish is said a lot, the song gets it stuck in the potential consumer's head. This commercial was funny, and I enjoyed it. It really did make me want to go eat a filet-o-fish. It was most likely directed at males 30-40, because the men in the TV commercial look about that age, and the radio commercial is a part of the same campaign. This is a cool commercial.
Ads like this are very effective, but it would be hard to create. You don't have much time to catch the potential consumer's eye.On a billboard, the driver may only have 5 seconds to look. On a radio commercial, it has to catch the attention of the listener, or they will just change the channel. Contexual ads also have to be quick. They really have to fucus on getting the products name stuck in the person's head in a very short amount of time. I think that most of the examples that I have seen do a good job at doing this. The people who's job it is to catch my eye are good at what they do.

Blog 4

How do the media images & stereotpyes of men & women impact how we view each other professionally (at school, at work, in politics, etc.)?

Media messages are a hugr contribution towards how men and women view eachother. The media displays men as tough strong guys. The media encourages men to put on a "tough guise." This is a front that makes men act like they feel that they should act. Because of this, women look at guys differently. They are shown that tough strong guys get girls, and are successful. The media shows them the kind of man that they should be looking for, and sometimes the guys that are actually being themselves are left out.
The same goes for media's stereotyping of women. The media shows women to be sex objects. The media favors skinnier, pretty girls. It doesn't care about personality. Looks sell products, and the media takes advantage of this. However, this stereotype of women can have a negative influence in life. Men may only think that these skinny pretty girls are the only ones worth any value. It also may provoke violence towards women. In many movies, it shows men abusing women. This may be carried over to the real world. Men may look at women as objects of beauty instead of real people. Only the girls that dress pretty will get the looks from guys because that is what the media encourages.
Overall, the media impacts many parts of our lives. This is just another example of media worping our lives.