Media is all around us. From T.V. and commercials to books and newspapers, we consume them everyday. The intent of this blog is to analyze this media and inform people on how this affects our daily lives.
This post is about the sad inaccuracy of of some of the reports about the Boston bombing. This picture shows just how far the inaccuracy went. The New York Post is a newspaper for one of the largest cities in the United States and they put the wrong people as suspects on their front page. They were so interested in getting the top headline out first that they gave us wrong information. This clearly shows that some people are not interested in giving us the proper facts. They are more interested in getting better reviews then other companies. Well sadly this did not work out for them to much. Now very few people hold a high opinion of them. The saddest part about this is that these two people could have been seriously injured or even killed. We as a country should step back and take a look at how media is affecting us and how the faster we want media to be at our fingertips the more likely it will be inaccurate and just plain guess work. It is also up to the editors of newspapers and television stations to make sure their information is accurate and will not cause harm to any individual.
The background theme for my blog is Game of Thrones and so I thought as my first post I will analyze a trailer for the show.
This trailer, like any other, is meant to get you to watch the show it is advertising for. It wants to get you interested and pull you in so that you look up what it is all about and continue watching. The most important part of any trailer is to appeal to as many audiences as possible or at least a few large target audiences. I think this trailer does a pretty good job of that. This trailer evokes feelings of bravery, fear, lust, love, and power. When evoking the sense of bravery it makes people want to watch because they want to see a hero fearlessly face any challenge and rise to the occasion. Fear provides the sense of intrigue and mystery that make people continue to watch because they want to find out what is coming next. The idea of lust gets people to watch something because people have desires such as lust that can be filled through watching the show. Love is a powerful force that will get many people to watch because they want to experience love and see what it can be like. Power also causes people to stop and watch because power, like lust, is a desire that some people wish to fulfill in such ways as watching a television show such as this. All of these feelings are some of the basic wants and needs of most people. This trailer gets people to watch the show because it allows for all these feelings to be evoked. It gives someone the sense of being there and actually experiencing what the character is. People like to watch things that they can connect to or that gives them a sense of actually being there. The more emotion the characters show, the more people will connect to it. If people connect to it then they will watch it. I believe this is the main goal of trailers; to get people to watch the television show or movie by giving them a sense of what they will be feeling and relating to if they do watch it. Personally I believe this is a great television show and you should check it out some time if you have not already. This trailer does a good job of portraying what the show is all about. Watch and you will like it.
