Dear John

This movie is based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks. This movie is produced by Lasse Hallstrom. The purpose of the text is that love can still be there know matter where you are. The intended target audience would be women because its a love story. The ways that the text tells a story is none because there is no text. Yes this movie does connect with a larger story because love can find anyone and sometimes your relationship may have its ups and its downs, an example would be in the movie John is in the special forces and later on in their relationship he has to go back. The characters in this movie are realistic because every girl finds her true love in life and everything is going good but then he has to leave and she is heartbroken now.

PSA

The overall appeal that the video had for me was that it caught your attention because it uses characters and I thought that this PSA was quite funny. The things that I specifically liked about this PSA was that it uses the Ninja Turtles to demonstrate to kids that drugs are bad for you. I think that the target audience for this PSA is children because in the video they use kids and the Ninja Turtles are telling them not to do drugs. This video is informative by basically saying that children should no how to say no to drugs and not to give into peer pressure. This video is persuasive because it uses cartoon to characters to get the point across and it is a good way to get children to listen to what the message is.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYXZ0qZZEA

Blog Critique!

The first blog that I chose was Mom Spark. My opinion on this blog was that it was interesting to read the artciles that were posted. I also found the choice of titles for the articles interesting. I also thought that this blog had much thought put into it also. My second choice was The Housewife Diaries. My opinion on this blog was that it was interesting for the "author" to tell her stories about herself and her lifestyles. I also thought that this persons blog was creative and it seems to me that much thought was put into this.

Media Literacy!

Media Literacy basically means how do we critically learn to read the media( such as a book), and also how do we produce it, it is also about creating and accessing it. Basically what I got from the first video is that media(media literacy)plays an important role in our lives and our lifestyles. Jobs such as journalists, parents, teachers, independent media makers and public health advocates maximize the effects of the second trend; towards independence, localism, diversity and challenge the first trend which is the trend towards corprite power, centralization, consalidation and profit seeking.
There is 5 basic questions about media literacy:
1. Who sent the message?
2. What techniques are used to attract my attention?
3.How might other people understand this message?
4.What values are represented in or omitted from this message?
5.Why was this message sent?

First Blog!

My interests are as follows:

Books:
Mystery by Ann M. Martin

Magazines:
Womans World

Television:
-The Bacholor\ The Bacholorette
-Degrassi: The Next Generation
-Vampire Diaries

Internet:
-facebook; to chat

Music:
-Christian Rock\Rap; Kirk Franklin
-Country; Brad Paisley and Allan Jackson

Some things that I would like to look at are:
To look at the development of Christian Rap and Rock.