the two adverts for the group task

Okay i have edited the one photo that we downloaded off the internet and put the caption that we thought of together on it. The other picture is one that I took and I changed the caption that we thought of , instead of saying childhood I said entertainment. Is that ok? What do you think?

:D

Today, we will all gather together and finally put our research into one presentation!
I am very excited!

We still need to make 2 advertisements of our own and analyze one advertisement from any media.
I hope we will do some serious work today!

YEJI

multimedia for our presentation

hello
I have done quite a lot of research and have found some very interesting multimedia clips that we can put into our power point presentation. The firts is a video clip (here's the link)
http://illegaladvertising.blogspot.com/2006/12/preview-children.html

This is about how children see what their perents do and they do the same. It has inspired me to focus one of my advertisments on this theme. It fascinates me how our older genertation has grown up as consumers and have passed a consumerist mindset on to us and the fact that we will do the same to our children.

Adverting is more serious and far-reaching than we actually realise. It dose not only affect us now but the true symptoms are clearly evident in our yonger generation, in fact this mindset becomes more entrenched as it is past down through genertaions with the constant reinforcement of this advertising.

The second meltimedia item we can put into our presentation is the Cat Steven song - 'Where do the children play?' It comments on how we have been affected by consumerism and makes us question how it is going to affect the generations to come.

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/c/cat_stevens/where_do_the_children_play_crd.htm here's the link to the words of the song. We should play it to the class in our presentaion. Yeji, maybe you can play it on the electric piano and I on the giutar ( just an idea...the chords are on the website with the words of the song)

I will see you tomorrow!

Goodbye!

ADVERTISMENTS!

Here are some photos which I thought we can put in our powerpoint presentation :)

The more research I do, the more excitement yeji gets!
I got so many ideas in my head right now.

Don't forget, Nanzi and Jessica, that you are coming to my house on tuesday!
Please be prepared so that we can put our research together and start working on our advertisements.

Yeji

:)

Just to clarify everything, I have asked Ms Orpen few questions today.

Somebody mentioned that our advertisements don't have to be done by first day of next term, however, Ms Orpen said that they actually are due for the first day of next term and they have to be saved in the CD with our powerpoint presentation.

After spending many hours researching about children and advertisements, I have finalized what I am going to do my oral on. I am going to compare the advertisements in the past with current advertisements (Nanzi has some old magazines at home.) I found the contrast between advertisements from two different time period very interesting. On the other hand, it made me feel sad to see how children are portrayed as sexual icons nowadays.

The second topic I will focus on is Bratz dolls. I will link this topic from my previous topic (how children are being sexualized in the advertisements) and talk about how small toys, such as Bratz dolls and Barbies, can influence children. After this topic, Nanzi will carry on with her topic which is closely related to mine.

I must say that I am really looking forward to this oral and I hope that our research will be worthwhile.

YEJI

Thank you to the Technology "Nerds" for PVR!

Yesterday after school I hurried to Meadowridge Library to find books on Children in Adverting or psychological effects on children via media. I even looked through old magazines. I left with nothing.

Tonight I had a sudden wave of brilliance!

I remembered following this amazing documentary called Child of Our Time on BBC Knowledge last year. The documentary is hosted by the brilliant Professor Robert Winston. On days I couldn't watch, I'd record it with DSTV PVR. 

Basically the show followed the lives of 25 different children that are born in the year 2000 in Britain; from the time they are born until they reach 20 years of age.

The show focuses on the question of "Are we born or are we made?"

Over the years the show covers different topics ranging from: personality developments, different parenting strategies, effects of absence or presence of a mom or dad on children, effects of technology, how children communicate etc.

Unfortunately I deleted all the series last year as my PVR memory was becoming full.

Then, as I was browsing the list of things I'd recorded and hadn't had time to watch; I came across an episode of Child of Our Time. This one was different to previous ones, as it was an episode with Child experts along with Professor Winston, discussing their findings on the show. Their main topic was "Is Childhood Under Threat?"

You cannot imagine the relief and victory I felt when I came across this recording! Phew!

I haven't gone through the whole recording yet as my mother ordered me to bed half way into the show. [Insert sad face]

Though what I did watch was extremely helpful. They discussed how the meaning of "play" has evolved as well as the advantages and many disadvantages of this evolution. for example children don't play outside as much as they used to a few years ago due to the advancement of technology. They also said that things like computers are an advantage for disabled children who can't participate in many outdoor activities and are housebound.

I'm looking forward to a date with my couch, television and notebook tomorrow. [Insert happy face]

Nanzi Bika

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Tonight, I'am going to research psychological aspect of children to relate how easily children can be influeced by common advertisements in media. Also, I am going to look for some advertisements of children to put on our powerpoint presentation.

Yeji