Love this movie. I thought it was informative as well as being entertaining. It is crazy to think that everything we see on TV, in the streets, on highway billboards; everything we hear on the radio..is all to get us to buy something or to do something. Thinking about the concept of advertising, could you picture not having any type of advertisements anywhere?? I could not picture walking in Time Square with no crazy neon lights scream at me, no taxi drivers displaying the next big play on Broadway, or half naked people advertising underwear!
I found that this movie not only demonstrated the long man hours put aside to come up with a measly slogan for white bread, or a way to emotionally connect to viewers to buy cheerios. Although I have always known that millions of dollars a year are spent to show consumers why their products are the best, but I never knew that some company's actually treat it as a science!!
I would have to say that at certain points in the movie I found myself more pissed off then anything. The way the companies treat their consumers makes me think that they really do not have the best interested in the people that buy them, all they are really concerned with is whether or not they will beat out their competitors. I can just see a bunch of suites sitting around an office from different company's bragging about the new commercials that are coming out and how many billions of dollars they spend on trying to appeal to the public.
Further more, I would just like to add that just because they have babies in cheerios commercials does not mean I'm going to buy cheerios. Just because an air line appeals to females on a independent and emotional level, doesn't mean i am going to take it. (Besides me who thought that there advertising in no way explained that it was an airline??)
With that i will end my discussion.....See you in class
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