(RE) Media Mid-Term

Media Mid-Term
Spring 2010,
Thesis+4; Tecnology can save us if we use it in the right ways, the trouble is we tend to use it for our fun web 2.0 applications, like facebook, twitter and, youtube
5 Facts+8; I spend hundreds of dollars on textbooks I never read. Over one billion people make less then one dollar a day. I will read 8 books this year. I have to be a multitasked. Laptops cost more then most people make in a year.
Triune Brain+8; Neocortex-the text in the beginning of the film. Limbic-the music makes you feel unsure. Limbic- the music change makes you fell a faster pace. Neocortex- though out the entire video we use the neocortex to read the signs.
Shifts+2; Analog-Digital, Individual-Mass Media, Word-Image
Trends+0; convergence, Images,
Persuasive Techniques +8; Fear- with all the hardship that the students go though. Big Lie- this video was made at a big university. Race Card- there were only white people in this film. Nostalgia, seeing all the writing on the desks made me think of high school. Straw Man- saying that technology can save us and then showing all the ways we miss treat it.
If I could take my mid-term over I would redo the fallowing sections: Thesis, Shift, Trends. And this is how I would do it
Thesis; “Some here suggested that technology can save us… Some have suggested technology alone can save us.”
Shifts; Word-Image the film uses images of words. Mass-Personal this felt personal the first time I watched it, buy the more I watch it the more I realize it is also mass
Trends; production techniques, the way they filmed this made you feel like you are in the class room like you are one of the students. Individual meaning, depending on the school you go to your experience may be different. Value message, this clip is full of valued messages about how technology helps and distracts us.