Advertising Gone Wrong…

For my digital project, I decided to dub over some recent toy commercials to expose the world of advertising. I portrayed both of the toys featured as being plan and boring and unnecessary in life. Both of the toys, Test Tube Aliens and the revamped Furby have no point to their creation and do not benefit children in any way. Their advertisements persuade people to go and buy them by showing the excitement children have while playing with them and the fun tricks they can do but in a digital age, nobody wants to watch some weird alien thing grow or play with a creepy Furby.

Advertising Gone Wrong

 

 

Round 2…

Here it is! Paper two; and with it, sleepless nights, brain farts, and panic. Already, I’m having trouble choosing a topic. I try to go with a topic I can write the most on but right now, I don’t have a solid idea on what I could write.I’m stuck between choice one and three, leaning more towards choice one but I just feel stuck. True, I really don’t feel like writing a paper, I doubt that anyone does, but we have to suck it up. We’re in college now and we have to do what we’re told, or not, it’s our decision but this time we’re literally paying for our mistakes. I think it’s just that this time of year that’s etting to me. We use to have a break every week and now it’s just straight classes everyday until Thanksgiving. Then, the holiday season starts and the semester is ending.

We’re in the part of the year that if there was a movie about kids in school, they would skip over this part. For example, The movie based on the terrific book, Speak the beginning of it is the end of summer, beginning of school, then Thanksgiving jumps right in there. No mention of October. I think I feel this way because of Halloween. I used to look forward to Halloween but now we’re deemed too old for all the tricks and treats. This gif proves my pont –> –> Halloween is for Kids <– <– Before I get in trouble for writing off topic, let’s get back to paper 2. I guess I just need guidance. I need someone to go over my outline and say,”Yea,  you can write about that.” Or even give me ideas to add to my paper before handing in the first draft like in high school. I don’t want to waste my time and energy writing a 5-7 page paper that is going to be shot down because it’s idea isn’t strong. But there’s nothing wrong with trying. I think I just need to think harder or do what Prof. Kaufman says to do, don’t stop writing.

Forgiveness for the 1st Draft…

What did I just read??? I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone the entire time. Forgiveness by Rebecca Brown is a really interesting short story and I’m glad I had the chance to read it. I must admit, it was a very painful to make a case study out of it. Creativity is not my forte. As a journalist, I’m more of a facts and information type person. All throughout high school in my English classes, we wrote persuasive and informative essays, never creatively. I like to say that high school killed our creativity.

I had a lot of trouble creating a thesis for my essay about Forgiveness. Even when I had an idea of where I wanted to go with the essay, I lost it from over thinking. I’m not excited about this essay but I’m content with it for now. I just wish I had a stronger thesis and point of view on the idea. I’m hoping after several edits I can perfect the paper and make it stronger. Who’s Gonna Save My Soul by Gnarls Barkley is a video that reminded me of Forgiveness by Rebecca Brown. It has a similar theme to the short story and I wanted to share it so check out the link  and let me know what you think. (Even if you didn’t read Forgiveness)