MP1 Update

I am still making final adjustments to my video. I am not sure how i want the video to end though so still trying to find a good way to end that I think fits the video. I am pretty confident that I am done with my paper, will make some final edits tonight. I did my video on the rivalry between Ohio State & Michigan so I decided to write my paper as a script for a college football show. The two people that are in the paper with me are Brent Musberger, who is a college football broadcaster, and Erik Kesten, who is a sports film writer and director. He created an hour long documentary on Ohio State and Michigan documenting this rivalry.

Pine Point & Test Tube

After exploring these two links I thought that the test tube link would be hanging out and welcome to pine point would be messing around, I think. Neither of these were very interactive and honestly confused me. The test tube guy talked fast and he I didn't really understand what he was saying. That could have been more interactive had we been told to answer more questions or participate more. Not sure how they could have included us more in that experiment though. In welcome to pine point it just made feel like I should be more involved in my life, again, I think? I mean it was about a town that does not exist anymore and made me wonder what it would be like to have my hometown just disappear. That is where I think welcome to pine point became messing around rather than just hanging out, when they make you think about life without your hometown. Again, like the test tube experiment, I'm not really sure how we could step up a level. I think the easiest way for us to be geeking out would be to discuss the possibility of removing our hometown with someone else. I think that doing that would move us up to geeking out. After I looked over both, I definitely enjoyed pine point more. The fact that I was lost in the test tube didn't help it but i just wasn't sure it was even about in the first place. No clear point was made to me as to what that was about. Also, in pine point it made me think about a possibility I never honestly really thought of. It was really interesting to think about, so I definitely enjoyed pine point more.

Truman Show

I really enjoyed watching the Truman show. This movie makes you think about your everyday life and if you are truly being watched. I think there is some truth to this movie. I do not believe people are watching my life or your life as much as they watched Truman's butt i believe we are all being watched some point throughout our day. With all the cameras watching us out there today, I believe we are almost always on camera; this is a scary thought to know we are never in privacy. We are not necessarily being "watched" (viewed by someone else at a particular time) but there are always cameras looking at our every move. That is was is the most creepy. It is sort of like the panopticon idea. You put people in an environment with evidence that someone could or could not be watching you and it molds their behavior. A scene from the movie that emphasizes this panopticon idea is when Truman's wife is trying to advertise the products. If no one was watching that show, she would not have made such an emphasis on the product. However, since she knows people are watching, she takes the time to point out the product and make sure people think about that product.

3 voices for assemblage

For my three characters I want to use myself, a sportscenter anchor, and Eric Kesten. My mashup is about how Ohio State and Michigan is the greatest rivalary in sports. Eric Kesten wrote "Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry." I want the sportscenter guy to critique my work, sort of being against me and the idea that Ohio State and Michigan is the greatest rivalry in sports. Since Kesten did a whole documentary on this rivalry, the sportscenter anchor will ask for his take on my mashup and ask if it proves or disproves my point about this rivalry.

Spurlock's Documentary

I loved watching "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold". In the documentary, Morgan Spurlock showed us how advertising really works. I think after watching it, what fascinated me the most was the control the advertising agencies have. For example, when Spurlock was talking to that guy who knows how to place products well and he was discussing the placement of the alka-seltzer pill with the movie director. He basically put the director on the spot by saying if the pill was used in the way he intended, he would take back all the cars they were lending him too. That amazed me. Also, I loved how no huge companies were willing to be in the movie. I think it just goes to show that theses businesses are strictly profit; they do not care about the consumers. I believe businesses should be about profits, but it seems like from this movie that very few top companies care about consumers. People need to be made aware of how much they are actually marketed each day. I think Ralph Nader said it best when he said the best place to be, away from all this advertising, is asleep. That is really the only realistic place you can be to not see advertising. In the movie, Morgan visits a very large city in Brazil, Sao Paolo. This is a city that has almost 19 million people in it, 7th largest city in the world, and yet they have no outdoor advertising. I found this to be simply amazing. How could this get passed into law? Don't get me wrong, this idea is brilliant. Yet, I don't believe anyone in the political system here in the U.S would ever suggest this. I couldn't imagine all the ways this person could be criticized. With all the ads for political positions today, if someone brought this up people would begin to blame him for wanting to destroy businesses and all sorts of things. That doesn't mean it shouldn't happen. In Sao Paolo, 70% of the people reported that removing the advertisements was beneficial to them. I think it would have the same effect here. After seeing that city with no advertising outdoors, I think it just goes to show how overwhelmed our country is with advertisement.

Assemblage

For my assemblage I want to do a mashup of the Ohio State Michigan Rivalry. I believe this is the best rivalry in all of sports and I want to make a mashup of these two playing eachother. I plan on using plenty of highlights from these games including big hits, big plays and even fights. I want to use the song by Linking Park called "Figure 09".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-icIi6xuJ3w

There are thousands of videos on youtube about this rivalry. There will be plenty for me to use when assembling this video! My intended audience for this video will be Ohio State & Michigan fans and even college football fans in general.

Here are just a few links to the videos I plan on using:

I will use the entrances for both teams, the david boston & charles woodson fight here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCgHiFXY2e4&feature=related

This woody hayes speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ps_7MFIWSQ

Summary of what I watched

With the iPhone 5 getting a lot of hype, I had to watch a video about it! I wanted to see what was new about it and if it would be worth getting one! Definitely was cool to see the new features.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aURcUhYstEw

I imagine someone who got the phone early made this video. Another possibility could have been apple gave their phone to someone in exchange for them to make a video like this to help promote the product and get it hyped up more! The purpose seemed clear to me; to promote the iPhone 5.
The target audience is probably iPhone users or cell phone users. I imagine this audience was intended for people interested in purchasing the iPhone 5. I believe they wanted prospective buyers to see the phone and what it has to offer, in hopes to persuade them to purchase it.
The use a simple video, with different shots of the phone, and they add words on the screen and some music. The music choice seems a bit disturbing for the iPhone. Not really sure why that song was chosen. They persuade people by telling them what they want to hear. They want to hear that this phone is much better than the old one and its worth spending hundreds of dollars more to upgrade a few things. Seems a bit ridiculous in the grand scheme of things but I definitely think it will work. They did a great job of showing new things and comparing them to old ones. Definitely can see this item getting a lot more popularity, as if it didn't already have enough.
I think that the message being implied to the audience is to purchase the iPhone 5. I think this video was designed to show us that this new phone is much better and "cooler" than the new one and sort of bash on the old one. Basically that the new one is much better and the old one is not worth having anymore.
The information used is specifics of the phone. They use information from the phones attributes such as thickness, processor, features, weight, etc. to sort of explain or persuade us to buy the new phone. I think the information is definitely credible. I don't see any reason why the information would not be credible. There were actual pictures and video of the phone that seemed to line up with facts that they gave us.
Stuff that was left out was probably stuff that might stop potential customers from buying this phone. A big one was price. If this phone is released at carriers across the U.S. and people wait around to get it and then find out after waiting in line that it costs $600 or something ridiculous, I think that will hurt potential customers decision to buy it. Also, I think there were probably some features of the phone that were left out that people might not like. They may have removed something on the phone that people would not like, so of course they left that out. They only want the customer to see that this phone is amazing and nothing less. They wouldn't tell you anything bad about their product, especially if they know if could potentially cost them a lot of money!