Media Blog Reflection

Some of this video may not make sense to you if you do not follow John and Hank Green on Youtube (vlogbrothers) but in a nutshell, they are a community. And I being apart of that community, came across this video that they posted about three weeks ago. It basically wraps up some of the ideas that we have been learning in class. John (the guy above) discusses how in reality, ads are worth more than they cost. We normally don't look at the advertisements that are around us, especially ones in this video if you are viewing it from Youtube. We tend to think that commercials don't effect, maybe we thought that before we took this course, but there are advertisers out there that try to buy you for less than you are worth because they know of the effects they have on you. Before doing media blogs or knowing about different techniques and ways that advertisers try to catch our attention, we thought that we were not affected by the ways of the media. But now we, or maybe just me, understand the impact it has. Though this assignment didn't make me consume more or less media, it made me open my eyes to media consumption in general. There isn't a time when you are not exposed to it. Currently, I am writing this reflection at a coffee shop, Old Soul. They are advertised on their cups when you order a drink. There is a bulletin near on of the doors where people can some and put fliers of things that are happening in Sacramento. You may not notice it but it is everywhere. You can't escape it, sadly. We are especially aware of media when we are watching TV. When given this assignment, I would start to watch TV and see commercials and say out loud to my parts, "Media blog." Not only did it annoy them, but it also made me think of the different techniques and needs that the advertisers were using. And I'm not saying that as, "Oh yeah I expanded my learning horizon from the classroom to the outside world." But once I learned about the different ways of media, you can't help but to notice them. What I really noticed when doing this assignment was how we are portrayed as the product. They are more interested in making sure that the consumers are attracted to their product rather than the product itself. The question that left me after this assignment (and brought up by John Green), should we be okay in being the product?