Write about media experiences that affect you emotionally or physically. For example, include experiences that invoke anger, tears, laughter or nausea

Carlie Kappl


Mass Communications


Research: Write about media experiences that affect you emotionally or physically. For example, include experiences that invoke anger, tears, laughter, or nausea.




I'm a Cosmo girl, and I can't help it. I need my monthly dose of the dirtiest tips to fire up your relationship, and I need to be in on the latest fashions and the gossip. Page after page of basically any magazine displays gorgeous, tan, thin models that I know are ridiculously retouched, but that's not what I think about while I'm shopping and trying on clothes in a fitting room tossing each one to the side because if I just lost "those last five pounds" it would look much better on me.


I have been weight-conscious my entire life. I remember joining cross country (I hate running) in six grade in an attempt to lose weight. I've never considered myself to have an eating disorder, but I do count calories and think about my food and drink consumption 24/7. I find myself always watching those silly reality shows that everyone hates like America's Next Top Model and other ridiculous MTV shows. I remember a girl being kicked off ANTM because she was 135 pounds and about 5'8". Although I know my 5'3" frame is much too short to be a "top model" it still makes me think about my physique even more.


I don't blame the media for showcasing beautiful girls, because honestly, if you flipped through magazines or TV channels and saw all not-traditionally-attractive people, you probably would cancel your subscription ASAP.


There is an excellent ad on YouTube for a Dove commercial that shows just how much retouching models go through to look as flawless as they do on glossy magazine pages. To view, visit:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=dove+commercial

Media's Experences

Reserch Topic--Media's Experences

Allison Potts

Into to Mass Communications

I am one of those girls who like to keep on the celebrity gossip or issues around the world that are affecting me today. So there are a number of media experiences that have affected my emotionally and physically. There might be some experiences which you might laugh at me for being so attached and there could be others you might to relate to and feel how I’m feeling. One thing is for certain though; media can affect different people in different ways in which others can’t understand.

It all started when I was in middle school. I was completely obsessed and addicted to the Princess of Pop, Britney Spears. Some of you might be laughing at me while right now and asking yourself, “Why would she like someone like that?” I don’t know, I can’t help it, but I have never gotten over my obsession. It wasn’t until the 2007 VMA’S that Britney Spears was supposed to make her famous comeback, and trust me, I counted down the hours to watch it. As we all know, the performance (if that’s what you call it) was terrible! It wasn’t until after I watched her parade around the stage like a drunken fool that I completely lost it. I was sick to my stomach and I was full of so much anger towards her and I actually started tearing up. I couldn’t understand why she didn’t even try to look good. She disappointed her fans, her family and everyone that was routing for her. This media experienced affected me so much, that it still bothers me today. When I see her on the news now, I just shake my head in disappointment. Since the Britney Spears comeback performance in 2007, I will never fully recover as a die hard fan.

On a more serious note, another media experience that affected me was 9/11. I remember I was sitting in my English class and suddenly somebody turned on the news as I watched the second plane crash into the second tower. I remember looking around the room and some students were crying and others were in complete shock. I was one of the girls in the room that was crying. My aunt was just in New York 3 days prior to the attack and took a picture of herself on top of one of the towers. I actually went on an emotional rollercoaster: first—shock, second—sadness, third—denial, forth—hate and anger and five—sadness once again. It was like nothing I have ever experienced. Thinking about all the people killed, wounded and affected by this made me really upset. This affected me physically because both my brother and I had nightmares about this event many months after it happened. I don’t know if people experienced the same emotions as I did on September 11th, but I know one thing for sure, no one was emotionless.

I think that no matter who you are, media’s experiences affect you in one way or another. Sometimes you can’t control how you feel about what you see or hear and that could either open up your eyes in a different direction or make you severely hurt or damaged.

If you want to watch Britney Spears flop at the VMA’S:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xqzfkigN0B4

If you want to watch 9/11:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PWgSaBT9hNU

Research Activity

Crystal VandenAvond

Intro to Mass Comm

Research Activity

"Write about media experiences that affect you emotionally or physically. For example, include experiences that invoke anger, tears, laughter, or nausea."

You may call me your typical girl. I like chick-flicks, movies that make me ball my eyes out, like Titanic, and the idea of this perfect world. I blame the media for having this idea.

In my head, I have this ideal image of the perfect man. This man, I have so far, found not to exist. He is taller than me, physically fit, has shaggy hair, and dresses extremely nice. (Also none as a "metro-sexual") He leaves me love notes on my car, sends me "just thinking of you" text messages, and tells me I'm beautiful when I wake up, and clearly am not. He buys, or picks, me flowers weekly, and of course, we never ever fight! I tried to find a picture of this man on the internet, but he was no where to be found!

Anyways, I got this ideal, unrealistic, high-standard man em-brained in my head from watching sappy love movies.

I never realized the power of the media until I had to sit and do this project of writing blogs. For the last couple months, I have been watching on how the media influences me, and makes me feel. I will give you a couple of examples.

I cannot watch "scary" movies. If there is suspense or murders I'm out! They make me scared out of my wits! Even the movies that make fun of scary movies, like "Scary Movie," I cannot watch, because I will have nightmares for months to come.

Most people watch scary movies to experience a rush. Well, I get enough of a rush in my everyday life, it does not need to increase!

When I was younger, I used to love watching scary movies. I enjoyed that rush. But from me watching so many scary movies, at such a young age, I am scared to anymore.

I have seen movies where people drawn in a tub while taking a bath. I was about 14 years old when I watched a movie that had that in it. Now, seven years later, I cannot take a tub alone in my house for fear that some spirit is going to drown me. Is that even a realistic thought? Absolutely not! But whenever I am alone in a bathtub, that is all I can think about!

Plus, watching a scary movie is going to project my mood. I have a healthy, positive-thinking mind. When I watch I scary movie, or even a sad movie, my mood is no longer happy. I'm upset and unhappy. I would much rather watch a comedy, something that will make me happy, then watching something that is going to scare the life out of me.

Even after watching a scary movie, I have nightmares for weeks to follow! I wake up with pictures of these bad guys in the movie standing next to me! Ahhh! I would much rather be waking up and thinking of my ideal man sitting on my bed!

Well, to conclude things up here; I love happy movies! I love the ideas that happy movies give me, not scary movies. So, if my ideal man is reading this, when you take me to a dinner and a movie date, please, let's watch "When Harry Met Sally!"

If you are my dream man, and decide that you want to take me on a date, please check out this website which has fabulous romantic movies, and romantic love ideas. Thank you! :) http://www.theromantic.com/romanticmovies.htm

Media Experiences

Lauren Gregory

Media Experiences - Research Activity

Intro to Mass Communications

Throughout my lifetime, I have been exposed to media that invokes quite a bit of emotions. Ranging from the final episode of Friends, to 9/11, to South Park, to Facebook. It seems as though you can go through a lot emotionally just by watching a TV or reading the newspaper.

I have to say though, what never fails to get me pretty angry are television shows. The more we keep watching, it seems the worse it keeps getting. I am affected emotionally every time I turn the television on. The constant flow of drugs, sex, lying, and violence seems to be never ending. More specifically on the murder investigation shows that seem to be on every channel right before I go to bed these days.

I’ve had countless horrific nightmares throughout my life due to those and somehow I can’t seem to say no to watching them. Maybe our TV’s are apart of some strange phenomenon. OR these television shows appeal to us in an uncontrollable way.

However, one show on TV that can make me feel all of the above emotions and more is Extreme Home Makeover. I honestly can say it’s one of the best and most influential shows out there. There have many several occasions where my entire family will go through laughter, tears, and more all in in a one hour time frame.

In conclusion, the media today has the capability to make you feel many things. It has the controversial ability to warp our young minds if we don’t allow ourselves to distinguish the bad from the good, which is much harder than it sounds.

For an interesting look at television, watch this video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cDgd3jLU6Us

Visit the Neville Museum

Carlie Kappl


Mass Communications


Location: Neville Public Museum




Okay, I have not been to a museum since I was probably in elementary school, and the only reason I went to these museums was for academic purposes. I'm just not a fan of museums. In fact, they kind of creep me out. Maybe it's all the wax statues and the real-life settings that seem a little too real. At any rate, this was my first visit to the Neville Public Museum. We walked around through the exhibits for awhile occasionally freaking out when the wooly mammoth roared. This didn't help my so-called museum phobia one bit.





It was interesting to see advertisements in a place like a museum, but there were plenty around. Some of the old style ads for war were hanging up near other war-related exhibits. Other ads hanging nearby were for the U.S. Marines. A mini ad exhibit for today that was located just outside one of the galleries was for the Packers--of course. It consisted of a Wheaties cereal box with the Packers logo, an action shot of a game, and other various memorabilia contained in a plastic box.


You definitely know you are in Green Bay when you see Packer stuff everywhere. It is interesting that even in a place like a museum, where it is supposed to hold priceless works and random setting displays from a specific time period, there are still ads pointing you to the Packers stadium.

To check out more exhibits, visit:
http://www.nevillepublicmuseum.org/

Location Activity—Neville Public Museum

Allison Potts

Intro to Mass Communications


On one location activity, my group and I chose to go to the Neville Public Museum. As a child, my mother would take me there all the time but I never really understood how much an advertisement actually goes into the exhibits.

One thing that I thought was fascinating and that also related to Mass Communications were the area that dealt with the war in a corner of the exhibit. I noticed it on the wall right away. One reason is that one of my best friends from High School just joined and I am very scared and proud of him at the same time. The poster has a male US Marine soldier on it, with a quote above saying, “Let’s Go!” Not only was it a male solider, making it seem like women could not join, but what I found interesting was the quote above the Marine. “Let’s Go!” hopes to be interpreted as a positive thing. It doesn’t have other sayings such as, “Die for Your Country!” or “Bring your social security card, pack 20 dollars, get on a plane and leave your life behind!” No. It wants a positive message towards strong, brave, 20 some year old men. What this quote is advertising is that if you join the Marines you can actually “get started” with your life and do something with it. The poster doesn’t show the Marine in brutal combat or lying there dead, but it almost makes it look like the Marine has free time. Another thing about the poster that I noticed is that the Marine had a gun in his hand. To the target audience (adolescent, young men), this could mean that if you join you could “play” with guns. This ad is a great market strategy because it makes this poster look positive and happy and tries to hide all the negative aspects behind. I do understand that however, this is an old poster and that times have changed. Compared with commercials today about the Marines, you see men AND women experiencing difficult tasks and activities to reach a certain goal. Their slogan is, “The Few. The Proud. The Marines”. The slogan is completely different than the poster in the museum. It makes you feel that the few people that actually join the Marines are rewarded in the end with great accomplishment. The pictures are usually with individuals and not a single person that makes it look as if it is a group challenge.

The poster actually made me open up my eyes about how I look at different advertising techniques. I thought that going to the Neville Public Museum was a great idea to interact with Mass Communications.

To visit the Neville Public Museum:
http://www.nevillepublicmuseum.org/


To visit the US Marine Corps website:
http://www.marines.com/page/usmc.jsp?flashRedirect=true

Location Activity-Neville Museum

Crystal VandenAvond

Intro to Mass Comm

Location Activity- The Neville Museum

"Describe what you saw and take a picture to support it; reflect on at least two things that struck you as odd/unusual/interesting related to mass communication; and lastly describe how the activity related to the history of that field and to at least one more medium."

I've been born and raised in the Green Bay area. I know the things that Green Bay has to offer as a city, but what I didn't know is how much they had changed!

Recently, my group decided to visit the Neville Museum. Now, when I was younger, I used to go to this museum with my dad. It was my absolutely favorite place to go. It has changed drastically since I have been there, over 12 years ago.

Back in the day, the museum was composed of dinosaur bones. Nothing is close to that anymore! For the most part, the museum was composed of history.

One thing that I saw at the museum, is the unique picture of this car (on the left). Yes, that is right, a car! Nowadays cars are so much more high tech than this. I mean, look at the mechanics in order to make this bad boy go. It just strikes me as so interesting to see how much things have evolved from back in the day. Things are so much more different now than before. That can be a good thing or a bad thing. Way back when, things were so easy and simple. Now, everything is high tech and complicated. You either have the ability to work with technology, or you don't. That's what makes this car unique. I just can't imagine the mechanics to make this go. And to look at the size and the shape of the vechicle! It is so different now, then ever before. Things won't stop changing and evolving either.

The thing that I loved most about the Neville Museum, was that I was wrong; there still were dinosaurs there! In the picture on the right, you can see Carlie and I sitting by a giant Mammoth! I loved seeing the dinosaurs, and the childhood memories of bonding with my dad!

Okay, another interesting thing about the museum is the targeted audience. It isn't just one age group. The museum is composed of so many different things for different age groups. For instance, senior citizens can relate to the older cars, for may their parents used to drive one. And children always think that dinosaurs are neat, so seeing them in real life-real sized portions has to be totally amazing to a child! For me it was seeing these olden day photos.

Again, seeing the way that technology has changed in not even 60 years! The things that we have come across is absolutely amazing!! These photos are all black and white, and the people had very little facial expressions. If they did have a facial, it was just a simple smile. But I know when I take pictures today, that I'm being completely goofy; and I'm using my high-tech (piece of junk) digital camera. We went from huge cameras, where most middle-class people didn't own; to high tech, small digital cameras that everyone owns!

To wrap things up, seeing history in the museum really opened my eyes for me. Things change so much; cars, cameras, facial expressions. And the evolution of technology is still evolving! Keep your eyes open for change; for it's happening every waking minute!

Almost forgot, for more info and tour times on the Neville Museum, check out http://www.nevillepublicmuseum.org