Product Placement

http://youtu.be/la4HAl4W1ZQ After reading a part of the reading for Wednesday, I got the idea to write about product placement ( is what the people use to get their products seen in the media). This seems to be a good investment because both the movie people and the maker of the product are mutually gaining fame. The movie makers are making money for putting products in their movies and the product makers products are being seen. The link above is link that show you how this stuff work. I thought it was interesting and hopefully you will too.

Minding the Media

Mass Media can play many different roles in our everyday lives. The role that media plays in my life most of the time is influential. Songs tend to be the most influential thing in mass media that inspires me to not worry about what others say but to be my self and love me for me.Artists like Selena Gomez, Rhianna, Chirs Brown, have their own way of doing things different from other artist.For example Chirs Brown dying his hair,his way of dressing, and in his new CD mixing up his style of beats so that it can appeal to all types of people is admirable to me. Also Selena Gomez song "Who Says",in the video shows all type of people who are the opposite of each other (rich /poor,smart/dumb).Her point of the song is to say who says you can't be  who ever you set out to be.These artist make me feel happy that everyone doesn't think alike and let me know some people have a difference in opinion about things that are a BIG topic in today's society.Beauty in media sets different standards to be consider beautiful that different girls try to meet every day.For example when you wear make up you look "beautiful"and  if you don't your encourage to find the make up to make you look it . But what if you don't wear make up, are you ugly because you preferr  natural beauty to artifical beauty?I'm a consumer because I listen to these Artists and consume most of the good things they say in there music about being your self and loving your self for you. In this class I hope to learn how media changes the way society thinks through subliminal messages.I think by learning this I will be able to learn more about my self and the television, news papers and computers that I am around every day  little knowledge about how much they affect me with the information they give. I want to learn about media and evaluate myself to see how much I am affected.

Do you beleive most things the media put out?
Do you live by whatever the media says is good you listen and whatever is bad you listen?
How do you know from what is truth and what is opinion?