Advertisements: target audience?

 




































Heineken commercials are obviously targeted to men (age 16 - 70). Although I don't agree because beer is not a drink only men drink.

McDonalds advertisements are targeted to children but also for grown-ups who like fastfood I think. I also think this ad is a little more targeted to grown up people and teenagers than little kids. There's nothing in the ad little kids would like except the colours and the big M.

I really like this ad personally. It's very obvious what it's about: a very sharp knife. Probably targeted to housewives/men and people who cook.

This advertisement is about snickers, a type of candy. There's 50 % more in a snicker bar now. Target audience: teenagers, grown-ups. There's a young guy with a really funny head and he's very happy with the 50% extra.

This guy has been trying to fix a rubix cube for a very long time now. The ad is very funny. For all sorts of people except very small kids because they won't understand it but everyone knows a rubix cube so they'll find it funny.

Source: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/70-creative-advertisements-that-makes-you-look-twice/2/

Is the role of socal media overestimated?

Social media is everywhere. Look around you and see it for yourself. Everybody is influenced by social media. All those ads on TV, in a newspaper and even posters about all sorts of things in school, it's not possible anymore to avoid social media. Nowadays parents talk to their children to twitter/facebook etc. It's easier to make friends with people because of these social networks. You can find people who have the same hobbies as you and talk to them. It's easier to stay in contact with your friends because if you haven't seen someone in a while you just post a message on their profile and there you are! It's possible to share pictures, videos or messages with each other so everyone knows what your up to. Besides exchanging things with friends the social media is also useful for other things. For example: some time ago there was an earthquake in China and the world knew this first because people tweeted it. China blocked twitter.com eventually but still people are very up-to-date nowadays because of these websites. Social media is global, cheap and  accesable for everyone.

What's more important: the past or the future?

I personally think that the past is more important because it influences your future. Without a past you can’t possibly have a future. You need to have something in life before you can build on that anyfurther. For example if you don’t have a job you can’t get promotion, and if   you don’t have a boyfriend you won’t get married. However, your future will also become the past later on so that’s important as well. You can’t change the past and you never know what will happen in the future. Some people might say it’s better to focus on the future and make the best out of it and try to achieve your goals but you can’t do that without a past. I think people should learn from good and bad things in the past. 

Why are we taught history in primary/high school? We need to know our past to maybe prevent or know what lies ahead of us. We are taught about world wars, monarchies, democracies and much more. If we wouldn’t know about this there might start another war soon because we haven’t learned from mistakes in the past, or we still wouldn’t have learned from different types of kingdoms. In one sentence: if we don’t learn about our past our future is doomed.

Response to Phileas Fogg

I really liked it, I had to play a soldier and I had to shoot people and it was really fun. I think I liked this one better than two years ago, but just because I liked my role better. In the second year the only thing I had to do was playing a wheel or something. The funniest part was in the end when we all had to lay dead and Ben was the last man standing. Everyone was laying on the ground and smoke was everywhere and he stood in the center with his gun and I had to laugh because it was so funny seeing him and the rest of the class laying dead. I also liked the part where I had to shoot Venny because the gun was kinda real, except for the bullet then, but there was a shooting sound. I learned a lot about World War one, it would be awesome If we get to see the people from Phileas Fogg again in 6th year or something.

Crucifixion in miguel street

PORT OF SPAIN - Yesterday morning many people were shocked by seeing a man crucifying himself. A guy by the name of ‘Man-man’ was carrying a cross on his back from ‘Miguel Street’ to ‘Blue Basin’, the waterfall in the mountains.  The authorities are not sure yet why he was doing this, rumors said he thought he was the new messiah.

It is said that the crucifixion was already announced by Man-man himself a couple of days earlier. Little hand-written notices had appeared in shops and cafés announcing his crucifixion.  Yesterday morning the police received an anonymous call from someone saying ‘a crucifixion was going to happen.’ 

Yesterday morning people who were having breakfast, who were watching tv or who were just about to wake up looked out of their window and saw this man walking naked with a cross on his back. Of course this drew a lot of attention and people started following him. When the Blue Basin was nearby a big crowd had already assembled behind Man-man. Lots of men were dressed in black and women in white and they were singing hymns. 

Also, about twenty policemen followed the whole crowd but they did not sing. When the guy arrived at Blue Basin some men put up the cross and tied him to it. It all started when he began to shout ‘Stone me, brethren.’ People started throwing pebbles and stones at him while the man continued to cry ‘Stone, stone me brethren! I forgive you.’ While people continued throwing things at him he biggest surprise came when the man suddenly shouted ‘what the hell are you think you are doing’. He screamed he wanted to get down from the cross and threatened the people who’d thrown stones at him. The police took him away to the police office and kept him there for good. 

When we spoke to people in Miguel Street (the street where he lived) it became clear this wasn’t the first crazy thing he had done. Most people called him mad or insane. A guy called ‘Hat’ told us he would do weird things like writing on the pavements for hours. For example he would ask you where you were going and if you answered you were going to school he would write scho- and continued writing o’s until you came back. Also he would do strange things like barking and growling at people in cafés like he was a dog.

Most people in Miguel Street were afraid of Man-man and were glad he would never come back to the street. ‘He was weird and scary’ thus the people from Miguel Street.