Animal Farm blog #3

Well in the movie Transformers there is a lot of product placement trying to exploit the insecurities. For example the main character Bumblebee is a bright yellow Camaro; this is playing off of the insecurity that shy people have. They may feel invisible, so they connect having a Camaro to being more popular and more visible. Another example is Ironhide who is a big GMC truck. This is exploiting people who feel weak. Because he is big and strong, they think having a GMC truck will make them big and strong. In Animal Farm the pigs use the other animals’ insecurities of feeling stupid. They tell them that their memories are incorrect and the others, not wanting to feel stupid, don’t disagree.

Animal Farm blog #2

   In Animal Farm the pigs try to control all the news that the other animals get, that’s just like the media now. They try to be the only ones to give us the news, so they can control us easier. They sit there and tell us what they say is going on. Same thing with the pigs from animal farm’ Napoleon tells all the other animals everything in the meetings they have. That way if there is something he doesn’t want the other animals to know, they can’t find out. The media gives news from their point of view, and don’t give another. Same with Napoleon the pig.

Advertisement strategies

In America basically everyone watches television, so we are all very influenced by the commercials on TV. Have you ever watched a show and actually paid attention to the commercials? Well they are almost always related to the shows that they came before or after. For example I was watching a show called Fringe on the channel FOX, and every time there was commercials there was always a commercial for Fringe or another popular show on that channel. The media is trying to keep you watching the same thing because they want to keep you censored. Now the commercials on other channels are the same and different simultaneously. They use the same techniques on other channels, but it’s for shows that are only on that particular channel. And commercials use rhetorical strategies a lot, for example weight loss commercials ask questions like “You don’t want to look like this, do you?” while showing a picture of a fat person. Or when an anti-smoking commercial shows pictures of the bad effects of smoking and says “Do you want this to be you?” They use these techniques to influence you to use their weight loss program or quit smoking or whatever their purpose/product is. That goes for every single type of commercial. Thanks for reading!