Big Ideas of Media

Media is a very big part of my life. Recently, I have learned that there is more to media than just watching it or starring in it; there is this whole other industry that many people don't regularly think about. Television uses Photoshop to make models look even more beautiful on the outside. Advertisements on television or on paper often times use certain colors to stimulate your feelings into feeling happy. Advertisements use certain things or people in advertisements to touch people "soft spots" in their hearts, to make them want to feel sorry for the things/ people in the ads, therefore making them want to buy more products. I was very intrigued by the fact that they use color to stimulate people's feeling, I hadn't know that they did that before. It is very interesting to think that our actions could be made off of just a color that our eyes see that makes us "happy". Also, certain advertisements are geared at certain groups of people. I know that I connect more with the advertisements that have catchy musical jingles in them because I'm a musician. I also connect more with the advertisements that have little kids or babies in them, because I love kids and instantly am drawn to them.

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We see advertisements every day,every where we look . Street signs,signs on cars, billboards; everywhere. We see advertisements advertising food, clothes, household products, skin/hair products, and the list could go on and on. Usually these ads make the item look better for you than it actually is. Sometimes these advertisements are not something you see, but hear as well. On the radio, there is an advertisement about 20 minutes out of every our. On television shows, there is an advertisement break about every 7 minutes.

These ads affect my life in every possible way. In my mind, advertisements just make me want more materialistic things that I don't. Especially, if the product says "New" on it.  But you don't have to feed into what the advertisements are telling you; you don't have to buy them. It all depends on your priorities. If you have the time, money, energy, and think its the right decision for you.

Technology, What Would I Do Without It?

         Technology, What Would I Do Without It? 

      All around the world people are influenced by television, movies, the internet, etc. to make certain decisions, just because the media says that it will make your life better. You think that it will make your life better. You think to yourself, "Wy do I make these choices and do they reallymake my life better or could I have made a better choice?" The thing is that you really have better choices to make for yourslef; anytime you make a choice, there is always a better choice.
        Imagine a world without these things. I would be spending my time doing so many other things that I wouldn't normally do. I am typically an outdoorsy kind of gil so I would do many more things outside. I would go hiking, biking, canoeing, kayaking, and be more active. I would do more reading, scrapbooking, and take up other hobbies in my spare time. I would also continue my passion violin playing and dancing, since I do not necessarily need media and technology for those activities.
        I would have grown up differently without these technological things but not that differently. When I was young, I watched only a few little kid shows and movies; I didn't watch a lot of television though. As I got older, I learned to depend on internet more and more, so that would be harder for me to cope with not having internet.