Unit 2: Advertising

During this unit we learned how advertising companies have to make advertisements oriented to people living in different places and cultures in order to reach the largest amount of consumers they could. Here, we had to post a 3-part paragraph about a TV commercial of our choice, composed of a topic sentence, supporting sentences and concluding sentences.

Mine was about the Nintendo Wii:



I liked this commercial, because it focuses only in showing the
feeling of playing videogames with Nintendo's newest console and
putting a bit of a Japanese touch to it. During the commercial, you
see two Japanese men driving to places inhabited by different kinds of
people from the US, giving their respects and saying "Wii (we) would
like to play", and no matter the age race or life style, the people
they visit do always enjoy playing the games available for the
Nintendo Wii. There's also the touch of Japanese culture in the
background music, the act of bowing by the Japanese men who offer
people to play Wii, and the bowing both i's of "Wii" do at the end of
the commercial. To put it simply, it is a commercial meant to make
people of all groups comfortable about playing videogames.

As an extra activity, we also wrote our comments on a Korean music video and come up with a different ending, here's what I wrote on it:

A Sad Love story...

It's a story about love at first sight, which had a lot of happy moments, along with some sad ones that occurred in their jobs. After the girl gets blinded by a mistake, the sorrow starts for both, the girl feels abandoned by the guy, without knowing where did her new eyes come from nor why did he leave her, and the man feels guilt for what happened, to the point he gives up his sight, job and love in order to make things up to her.

For the final, I would make the girl run to the guy, hug him from behind, and then have them both walking to the sunset, trying to walk on the same path of life once again.

Then, just for crack humor I also showed a "commercial" of the Jesus Christ action figure, enjoy! :-D



-Christian