help me

mrs lambiase please get into contact with me; i cannot find one of the handouts that you gave us. the one about camera angles and about that man that did a study on camera angles and lighting on heros/ines and villans.

more about final

i am almost finished, when i started numbering down the videos it started getting better. i haven't been blogging for awhile; been too busy with my other classes and writing and looking at disgusting videos. i just need to write one more page and also i need to write my intro and about my refrences and type it and i am done. hallelujiah.

Harder than I thought...

Man this project is harder than I ever thought it would be. It is no way in hell that just looking at two videos can even put a dent in the things I want to say. So far I have looked at probably eight videos and I still have to look at more. I look at one video and I have to go back over it again again and again and frankly I am tired of looking at ass. I have looked at Outkast, Lil Kim, 36 Mafia, Trick Daddy, Missy Elliot, and I know I got to look at a few more. I believe that my project will be good, but I am really tired of looking at women's bodies; if I want to look at a body I can look at mines. I'm tired of looking how women are allowing themselves to be disrespected and are only in the videos for their bodies. Doesn't take much talent there. Anyone want to give me any advice on a good demeaning video??? Need it for my project; the more vulgar and disrespecting the better!!

napeoleon dynamite rocks!!!

I wish we could have watched more of Napoleon Dynamite, I don't know why I love that stupid movie. I don't think the main character was an example of a nerd though, I think he was portraying either an idiot or a disabled person. I really don't what else to say about the class but it was fun like always, and it's gotten me to focus a little too closely on movies; songs I always focused on but not the movies. I'm kind of scared to go to the movies because instead of sitting back and enjoying the movie, I'll be criticing it. Wow

about the week before last

I meant to blog the week before last but I couldn't seem to get to it in time. I am commenting about the video documentary on videos and how they depict women. It's very sad to say that what the man said is true but it is; and it is even sadder to know that these women allow themselves to be shown in this kind of manner. Although it's only a handful of these women, some people think they represent women as a whole; especially minority women. I know and see men looking at me as a sex object because they can't decern the real world from fantasy lifestyle that is portrayed on videos. I don't know any woman that just spends her time clubbing shaking her ass, dressing skimpy or nude around the clock, and so sex starved. I'm not saying that I don't know any ho's but damn the real world is not like that at all, and I pray that one day these artists will stop using flashy girls as their way of saying I'm a success and no one can say no to me.

New commercial

This weekend I saw this new commercial advertising perfume and cologne. It was an ad for this new cologne called Fuel by Desire by Diesel and Macy's is selling it so far. The first three commericals I saw advertising it had a different woman. The sentence that everyone kept saying, which I guess is there cliché was "Are you alive?". All women were walking in a seductive way towards someone the viewer couldn't see on camera, and all were scantily dressed. One woman was walking to a darkened room and while she was walking she was slowly disrobing; before stepping all the way in the room she totally disrobed and the viewer plainly saw the back of her which means her butt. This truly disturbs me because my four year old daughter watches television and she's been banned from watching a lot of things that I thought were safe until some vulgar words or sex scenes came into view. Now I have to worry about commercials, (Now let me get back to the other commericals there is yet more to it). The second commercial had a different woman repeating the same slogan, after that she slowly walked up the stairs staring "hungrily" at someone off camera, and then she blows out the camera and its pitch black(the viewer's mind can only imagine what happens). The third lady commercial pitched the same logan and after that showed her going into a room smiling playfully at her partner(s) in a very very sheer short dress shirt. Now the men commercials are much different then the ladies: the men were fully clothed and they were running away not coming towards someone. The first man commercial that I saw had a stunningly beautiful man repeating the same slogan as the women, "Are you alive" and after that the picture changed where he was running as if someone was chasing him and while he was running he was pulling up his pants and trying to button them as if he was caught doing something he shouldn't have; his shirt was slightly agape and he was trying to catch his breath. The second man commercial repeated the same slogan and then the viewer saw him running away from something at a rapid pace. He was fully clothed and he was desperately trying to get his breath. Now I'm not sure if the women commercial was trying to get to women and I don't know if they will get to any women with the type of commercial running; if they were trying to get to men then I can see them positioning the women in that type of way. I also see a big difference of how they did the women commercials and the men; the women were in a sexual situation and the men were I guess on an adventurist situation. The men could have been running from the law or enraged husband or something else. The viewer would have no problem knowing what the women were up to. The men were fully clothed and the women were scantily dressed or not dressed at all. The women were going towards someone or a group of people, and the men were franticly running away from someone or a group of people. Its a very big difference , I encourage all to watch it and the one with the stripping girl, please don't watch it with your children.

Sleeping With the Enemy

I couldn't believe that the corporation that shows Dove as "the" product for women and all of these commercials about campaigning for real beauty are the same people that promotes Axe and the bomchikawawa women. Its like sleeping with the enemy; on one side their message says you are beautiful and not to fall into the the media's claws, and on the other side it's saying you need to be a skinny bombshell with no brain. I can't believe the site has a freakin music video and ringtones about absoultely nothing. It was stupid, degrading, and an insult on women's intelligence. They basically put us as low as animals. It was also funny stupid like Napeoleon Dynamite; I don't know if I should be offended or laughing my butt off. Basically I know the company is in the advertisement buisness to make money. Dove is for women and they know how to make a woman feel good, and on Axe, they are playing into almost every mans' fantasy. So I guess...

The lawsuit against mcdonalds

I read on CNN that this woman was suing McDonalds for a hoax gone wrong. Someone pretending to be a cop came in the restaurant and stripped searched her and while he was doing that he was touching her in a sexual way. McDonalds said that they knew about the hoaxs but said that it was irrielavent to tell contact all of their franchises and tell them about it, and that the woman should have said no. I believe that McDonalds was very sexist in saying that; she had no idea what was going on, and if someone dressed as a cop came to you telling you to do something good law abiding citizens would try to do what they are ordered to do. I will be reading further into this lawsuit; I hope she wins, because all of that could have not have happened if McDonalds would have alerted their workers.

The Disadvantage and the Advantage

I believe that there is a both a disadvantage and advantage when Maxim came on the scene and started placing women on the cover of their magazine. Advantage, women started being wanted more for front covers and it gave more women more jobs and business opportunities in the advertising business. Disadvantage, it made women be shown as skimpy females; that their only good enough if they have a nice looking bodies and we may not have a brain. I applaud yet frown at the industry, but women are smart as always, and they turned it into a dynamic business by selling their bodies but not, and a lot make a killing off of it. I don't know if I would do the same if someone offered, depends on how much money I'm getting out of it, and if it is tasteful enough for me. But like I said, I applaud yet frown on the industry.

Racism is even in the words we say...

From the last time I was in class we were talking about how journalists choose words so as not to offend people. This Danish lady, made a great point about what she saw in America that was different in her country. She said that didn't call anyone white or black because that didn't identify their race; that we're all part of the human race and they simply refer to them based on their nationality or ethnic group. Here we identify people by the color of their skin, and I can honestly say that I've fallen into the American trap myself. I've identified myself as a black girl and try to identify others based on their color; I've been wrong several times by identifying people based on color. It was one girl I remember that looked just like a white girl, but she was actually from Guatemala. I think we as Americans do need to get out of the color scene and base identity on nationality like everyone else or ethnic group. How many people can really say that we are pure breeded africans or caucasions? Everyone is mixed up with more than one ethnic group. Mrs. Lambiase also asked us a question on what is the difference between race and ethnic group. I believe race has to do with how one is categorized by their color of their skin and what one's parents look like, but an ethnic group is like one's place of birth or origin and your bloodline. I believe thats it.