Advertisements are everywhere, whether you are driving down the road, looking through a magazine, watching television, shopping, etc. People are always trying to sell their products and are trying to get everyone to buy them. I think some people are better than others at trying to sell someone their product. Products like Proactive use celebrities as there examples to show how the product works so well. Then there are other advertisements that use models, to help sell their product. We all know that sex sells but being realistic we all know that no matter what size we are those pair of jeans will never look like that on us as they do on the model who is wearing them in the ad.
As much as we all do not want to admit it, we all buy the things we see in advertisements, whether we like the ad or not. I think though that the companies that are selling these things are pretty smart. They make sure the ads are placed and exposed in the correct areas. MTV has commercials about makeup and perfume or cologne, they base it to the age level that is watching it. Just like Food Network and channels like that have commercials for the more adult age. I think that some people who create advertisements and commercials can sometimes put no creativity or sometimes thought into their ads. The one ads we looked at in class that was just black on white is an example of in my opinion of no creativity. It is not hard at all to just type words out on to a page. Although I think it has no creativity, it is one of the ads I would notice if I was flipping through a magazine.
In the movie I think they show a great example of how to sell and get the product out there. Nick knew his product was killing people just like everyone else in the MOD Squad but it never stopped any of them from doing their job. Like Nick said he had to pay the mortgage and if that meant selling something that was killing people then that is what he had to do. It just shows that advertisers are willing to go to any length to sell their products and make a profit.
S.L.
I think everything you talked about is very true. Plus it is really sad that that movie showed us what levels advertisers go to just to sell their products.
-LK
Alright, SL. We’ll talk about some of this in class for sure.
I think it is really sad that people will go to extremes that will kill other people just to get what they want when there are clearly other alternatives. But I agree with everything that you were saying as far as what commercials come on what channels. Good Job.
L. Moss