Dr.Leech comes for a visit!

On Thursday Febuary 11th, our media class had a great pleasure of welcoming Dr.Leech to our classroom. For a living Dr.Leech is in the marketing of the media everyday. He came into our class to show us different commercials and show us how easy it is for the media to get our attention and make us believe what they want us to believe. We were shown a wide variety of commercials which had different sub texts, texts and many different target audiences. For example, on commercial that was shown was a commercial for Dixie cups, it showed cute children talking about how gross germs are and the reaction in the class as a whole was "awwwwww" which is exactly the reaction that was planned to happen. This commercial was not necissarily supposed to catch the eye of 17 and 18 year old students but its the reaction that was had.

Another commercial was for the beautiful (and my future car) the Audi R8. In this commercial it was set up just like the Godfather to relate it all back to the movie. Now whenever someone sees the commercial or even now the movie the Godfather, it will relate back to the car, and the car is now related to an old classic movie. This is a beautiful car , and I have never seen the god father so that part did not mean anything to me. It is a gorgeous car and I plan on driving it one day! hehe :)

The commercials that were desgined for my age group would deffinatly be the make up commercials. As Dr.Leech said, they are basically saying that everyday girls should look like they were air brushed and have no pores. But that is not physically possible! Everyone has pores in order to live and its not like guys judge girls by the size of their pores! This commercial deffinatly annoyed me the most. It takes unrealistic standards and makes teenage girls believe that they need to look like that in order to be attractive or "sexy" the medias deffinition of that anyway. By Dr.Leech coming in and showing us the sub text it really opened my eyes and showed me that there is always something behind what the media is trying to say and its like they are trying to mold people into something that they aren't and it is not right. Now don't get me wrong not every commercial is in the wrong, but im just saying that sometimes what we see in the commercials isn't always what they are trying to tell us.

Media Comsumption

In class we did a project that measured the amount of time that we spent on different types of media. There was print media comsumption such as hours reading fiction/non fiction novels, newspapers, magazines and so on, and electronic media such as the radio, internet, web games, instant messaging and so much more.

Within the class all around most students had a higher time consumption of electronic media consumption over Print media. This shows that more students are spending alot of time on the computer on programs such as msn , television, youtube and facebook and not reading books or the newspaper. By being on the internet people are now able to find out things that are happening in society just as easily as they would be able to if people were reading the newspaper.

My total consumption of both print and electronic media was 120 hours a week. With 27 on print and 93 on electronic media. When actually dong the survey to see how much time i spend on the internet and all those differnt media uses, it was kind of an eye opener. I realized that instead of spending so much time on the computer or television I could have been outside more or out with friends. I am a pretty active person so before I never realized how much more free time I could have had. By being on the computer I like to be able to know what is going on in society and it is an easy way to stay in touch with the world because everyone is on it. But i would have to say that my guilty pleasure would be my cell pone. With me my cell phone is never too far away. The only place where i dont have my cell phone on me is when I am at the barn. I send way too many texts dailey but I had my cell phone taken away from me for 9 months so I know that I am able to live without it. So when my teacher told us to go an hour without using an electronic device it was easy for me to put my computer and cell phone away for two hours when I went to the gym, I still used my ipod but that was so I am able to be distracted from the real world and just work on me!

Multiple Intellegences!

So online, I took a few quizes to find out what my multiple intellegences were.
I was pretty certain that I would come to find that my top choice would be visual, because for me to really understand something I have to be able to see it and write it out, but I was very suprised on some of my results.
The top two results that I recieved from more than one quiz, were Interpersonal, and Music/Rhythmical.

I was really not suprised by either of these results.

For Interpersonal, I was not suprised because, well for those who know me, I am always with people, I love being in with a crowd of people, and I know how to interact with others very well. I also have very good conflict resolution and communication skills that work well within a large group of people. I have always been taught to be a leader and I love being one. I know how to follow behind someone when nessicary, but I love taking charge.

I believe that this benefits me in life because I am able to work with others, as well as by myself. In life there are going to be times to work in those situations and I believe I am well rounded enough to handle them. For example, I am the captian of the York Mills Senior Girls volleyball team, I am there whenever they have issues or need someone to talk to, this proving that I am a leader and have good skills with others. But also , My main sport in life is horseback riding, within this sport although it may seem all individual, it is also a realtionship with the horse, and your trainer, and I am very talented at horseback riding.

The second multiple Intellegence that I got was Music/ Rhythmic. I was not suprised to see this, because I am a huge fan of music. I believe that music has benefitted me because it gives me an esacpe, its always nice to listen to the radio, and many people say that I know every word to EVERY song of all differnt types of genres. this benefits me because I am able to enjoy different types of music with my friends, who all have somewhat different tastes, and I am also able to introduce them to differnt music groups. Another benefit is that by playing my flute, I have learned a new skill and have improved so much over the 7 years I have been playing. I have also been able to memorize things now by listening to them because I memorize so many differnt songs it becomes easy for me!

So these are just two of the things that makes me, ME! :)