All you need is Tron

A movie was released, a remake of the movie Tron. The original movie never got this much attention, however, the movie is not doing so well even now. The movie although very futuristic was called a "sci-fi failure." Disney was surprised when this movie didn't do as successful as they wanted  seeing as it was full of new movie technology. The movie was only able to pull in 4.8 million on its opening weekend.

the new renovo R4

Renovo has created a new bike called the R4 and its anything but ordinary. It has two tires, handle bars and brakes as usual. However this creation is made of bamboo and hardwood. The owner of this bike is satisfied with the feel and reduced vibration and bumps but this comes at a price. $2,950 to be exact. He gets a lot of questions and strange looks riding it because it is definately something very different.

I WORK WITH THIS DUDE!

Successful logos

For a logo to be successful it must be simple, attractive and recognizable so that someone is able to look at it and relate it to the item or company it represents because this will encourage more comsumption

Magazine Advertisements

1)Who is responsible for the ad, what is being advertised
advertisement 1- A baby wrapped in a blanket
Earth justice is responsible and it is advertising a company to hire lawyers.
coercive element- cute baby (needs protection)

2)advertisement 2- a little girl holding a kitten
Purina is responsible and it is advertising kitten chow
coercive element-cute kitten making little girl happy

3)advertisement 3- little boy wrapped in a towel
Canopy is responsible and it is advertising home furnishings
coercive element-cute little boy, nicely colored, warm looking towel

4)advertisement 4- cute adult dog
Blue is responsible and it advertising healthy adult dog food
coercive element- healthy looking adult dog/ for children the discount on a movie

Bowling for Columbine Essay

“Keep people in fear… and they will consume   – Marilyn Manson”

Thesis: Michael Moore showed how the news broadcasters only show the stories that are scary or may bring fear to people or ones that may make viewers paranoid.

On the evening news they showed an African American man robbing a store, or beating up a woman, or shooting or stabbing someone, which is great that they are making the people aware, however it’s making them aware of the wrong things. News reports like these do not make the viewers afraid of violence or make them want to take safety precautions. These new reports make the viewers afraid of African American people. News reporters in a way are much too racist and selfish about “what makes good tv” rather than what really matters or what really should be presented that everyone, white people included, are violent and commit the same crimes.

Another example of how the evening news frightened its viewers was by showing the footage of the shooting in Columbine high school. This was a great story that made the people aware; however, it caused schools to make unnecessary precautions. Schools later started suspending students and even expelling them for wearing certain clothes, bringing nail clippers to school, making fake guns out of food or paper or dying their hair. It is okay to be safe in your school but the news caused many schools to take this too far and it seems very unfair to the students of these other schools.

Michael Moore also shows how TV shows put fear into the thoughts of the people who watches them. TV shows like Cops that TV companies put on the air are very stupid to put on in a way. Making people aware of all the crime that goes on in the world is a good idea. However, there seems to be some sort of other message in these shows. They seem to choose many African American people or Hispanic people but in reality white people make just as much crime in the world as any other race. In Bowling for Columbine the producer of Cops says that these types of people make for better TV, they may not realize how they are making other races look but now that they know they should really make a change. The makers of Cops should be more concerned about the reputation of others over what makes “good TV.”

Another example he used was South Park. South Park is used to sort of poke fun at children or teenagers who have guns, drink alcohol, do drugs, use coarse language and misbehave in general. It’s basically showing people how silly our society is being with everything we do. However, most parents won’t let their children watch this show because of the coarse language and alcohol and drug use. Are they trying to shelter their children from this behaviour or from the truth? Odds are their children will end up being like that because most children do, at least by watching this show they can see what to be afraid of and what it can do to you and stuff like that but not in such a scary manner. South Park shows you what you need to be aware of while making it funny.

Michael Moore shows how people are blaming the wrong things or people for the Massacre in Columbine. Some people thought that because the killers listened to Marilyn Manson, that made them aggressive and caused them to act out aggressively. To any one this should seem like a stupid suggestion because many teenagers all over the world and probably in Columbine school listen to Marilyn Manson and it does not result in a killing or aggressive behaviour to most people its just music. It’s quite ridiculous to blame a singer for the behaviour of teenagers, this would have happened with, or without Marilyn Manson in the picture.

The second thing the people blamed this behaviour on was bowling which perhaps is just as ridiculous if not more. Bowling is not a violent or aggressive sport so in no way should it influence teenagers to do something stupid and just because it was the last thing the killers did before the shooting does NOT have anything to do with what made them act out in this way. People are just so shocked and confused about why this would happen to their city that they need something to blame it on to make an excuse for any residents of their city having a behaviour like this.

So in this twisted world we live in the media seems to be manipulating people to make them scared of things they really  shouldn’t be afraid of in an attempt to make them watch their tv shows, news reports and to buy things they think will “protect them.”

We should be afraid of things like Government Military who decide to bomb other countries and pollution in the air because in reality these things have a higher chance of hurting you than what the media has conditioned us to be fear.

Bowling for Columbine

a)Michael Moore's thesis: The goverment's actions of violence affects the behavior of young people
b)He supports his thesis by showing the government creating bombs and missles and showing the actions of violence they do and then they show the actions of violence of teenagers today and adults as well. Like in the video they show a couple of teenagers that invaded Columbine high school and threatened everyone and killed many students and a few teachers as well with really no reason other than the thrill and adrenaline. They had no reason to do what they did but because they had the weapons to do it with, they thought they would take advantage of that. Some of the ways he displays these actions are through montage, archival footage, talking heads, voice over 911 calls, animation and subtitles.