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

Unit 1: Journalism

During this unit, we discussed about how in Journalism the right of privacy conflicts with the right of information. Through those discussions, we learned how to work with topic sentences, main and controlling ideas. The topic I chose to write about is tobacco and alcohol advertising on TV, my writing for that unit is below in this post:

Nowadays, when we are supposed to be in a culture that has already assimilated the presence of TV in our lives, we see that worldwide there are groups of people who try to turn TV into some kind of nanny and use it to forfeit their responsibilities as parents and keep their children into some kind of bubble, isolated from the real world.


While I think that some controls are necessary, I think that banning advertising campaigns of tobacco and alcohol on TV is downright moronic. How do those bans actually protect children if there are adults around them (most of times, their parents) who go smoking and drinking in front of them? And the worst part is that the same adults who should take their time and responsibilities to raise them and teach them about the vices reserved for adults, prefer wasting hours in action groups demanding TV networks and politicians to take decisions that relieve them from those responsibilities.


Tobacco and alcohol have been a human reality for centuries, pretending that they don't exist while children are growing is not the solution, allowing children to know about it and also telling them about the damage they cause is the actual solution, both on part of the parents and TV networks.

Well, that's all for this unit.

-Christian