can anyone throw some words of wisdom at me...to trigger the audience into thought...things along the lines of subliminal messages....dealing with the effect of advertising...technologies subliminal yet extremely prominent presence in our lives...
if else... i will be pulling these "words of wisdom" from my fried brain...likely at the wee hours of the morn as i compile the video and audio together
just leave your ideas as comments! thanks ya'll!
well as far as subliminal messages in advertising they are usually trying to convince someone to "buy" "purchase" "use" or
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control
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seduce or seductive... id say this is pretty relative to a lot of apple products.. people buying just for the brand name
ReplyDeletethanks kristy...i would appreciate alot more!!! pleaase!
ReplyDeleteWere we going to do this in the style of words and phrases appearing in succession? It'll work. I think the concept can be more comprehensive of media culture than highlighting what appears to be the negative side of it- I mean, don't we use media to impart other kinds of messages too? We can choose words that say more about what's happening. Words of contrast and rhythm, or groups of words would work much better.
ReplyDelete***I imagine the 1st idea like so***
·Mound, echo, thump, howl, gasp, breeze, thump, grab, gasp, cough, spark, sigh, murmur.
Shadows, elder, fool, clan, beast, tool, feast.
·Barter, supply, trade, map, journeyman, scholar, decorum, covet, empire. (use with earthen sounds like drums and tides)
Package, joy, demand, efficient, workload, industry, wage, economy, consumer, campaign, union, media, image... (use with unmistakable sounds either of the Nazi party marching, rallying and hooraying- or the simple tune of swing music recorded in the '30s. Words: "The age of the consumer had begun."
·More words and they speed up
mobility, message, medium, channel, source, machine, mass, acceleration, mass x acceleration = force, fork, dinette, charm, layaway, market, influence, consumer checking, security, coverage, tourist, "Hey, mom, I'm on TV!," for sale, star power, it-girl, cover-girl, seduce, shopaholic, shopping network.
·Then at last
zip, plink, tick-tock, chirp-chirp, ding!, whirr, buzz, "all the bells and whistles," hoot, click, click, "For a limited time!", click-click-click..., tik-tikky-tak-tak, tweet, "the feel-good car of the year", televangelist, "for just two dollars a week, you can save this child's life," world trend, resource, liquid assets, rig, "a diamond in the rough," conflict zone, disparate, desperate, humanize, unify, labor code, unicode, millenium bug, credit thieves, bubble bust, hippy, yuppy, yippee, Buffy, "Nerds finally rule the world," peon, "buy this car to drive to work/drive to work to pay for this car," telecommuter, stay-at-home dad, "your mama's so old she uses Pentium II," "your mama's so old she scoots on a Razor," "Yodawg, we herd ur mama's so old u live in a basement with a basement in it for ur son's LAN partay," "The Cheat is grounded."
Maybe? How's it sound? The last three or four phrases belong to the age group and attitudes of the 21st century. It reflects the fastest changing media culture that has yet to plague mankind, and its absurdity only affirms that our world exists in all kinds of different mental states at once, thanks to media culture and the availability everything through the internet. Internets. What do you think? I vote for the above and it would encourage our group and our classmates to find a-hecka-lot of meaning and paragraphs for to make midterm paper. Yes? Good? (I second my vote.)
Probably it's easier than the 2nd idea (below) as well as it explores the way media works on real people. It's a story and anybody might relate to it. I just hope we don't take a path that is the Barbara Kreuger knock-off, especially in our media class. "The media is trying to control you and you are helpless- blah blah blah." I appreciate not falling into that tired and done and dead horse.
***2nd idea***
ReplyDelete·Imagine the following sounds put together in succession with words that appear slowly and then change faster as the sounds change. You know how a symphony is composed? Something like this. First is the drone of wood being dragged in the dirt (the starting sound), paired with the words that name sounds such as:
·cave, echo, thump, howl, gasp, breeze, thump, grab, gasp, cough, spark, sigh, murmur.
·The sound of dirt is replaced with sparks and flames. Words for this: thump, sigh, thunk, hiss, thump, ting, thump, (increase speed of words), thump, thump...
·The sound becomes a wheel moving over stone. Words: tink, thump, pink, thunk, kang! The next sound is a yelp, grunt, and grarr, replaced by the chug-chug-whistle of a steam engine. (Catch my drift?) Words: package, joy, demand, efficient, workload, industry, wage, economy, consumer, campaign, union, media, image...
·Sounds: Chug-chug-chuggug-ug-ug-ug- and then the kick-crash on a set of drums, hailed by the funky fanfare of a trumpet, as in James Brown's "Sex Machine/Get Up." The Afro-funk sound of bass drums (any version of "Babalu") and then slow it down to an awkward pace.
Words: zip, plink, tick-tock, chirp-chirp, ding!, whirr, buzz, hoot, click, click, click-click-click...
·Sound changes to the tympani part of the Space Odyssey song, and then the pink-pink of the old 8-bit game PONG, and a whistling breeze.