Eng 101

Films have been commercialized and it’s much more than you would ever believe. Like the very famous film series James Bond. New films are always being added to the series each year. Each film contains lots of advertisement. James Bond never uses a product that doesn’t have an etiquette his car is alfa romeo his cellphone is Sony Ericsson his glasses RayBan. The whole film is a long commercial. or another Disney film called “blank check” that was my favorite film when I was kid and that is the same film that I learned the Macintosh from. In the film the kid uses the Macintosh computer which can do everything and even he calls himself Macintosh. Think about it through out the whole film Macintosh is repeated a million times and the viewers of this film is small children.

The films stated to tell the audience that they should by this and that and they shouldn’t by that. Just by directing them the films are contradicting the peoples freedom of choice. While a person thinks that he is doing, buying a thing by his own will actually his subconscious mind tells him what to buy and what not, and his subconscious mind is directly under control of these media sources. Now a days the hit films are always the comercial films then how on earth can we say that people have their own free will while these films are nearly watched by 1/6 of the world. If 1/6 of the world doesn’t have free will who has it. Maybe the people living in poor parts of Africa who doesn’t have a TV in their homes is not effected this mesecar of free will maybe we should go and live there because we are being standardized while doing our daily jobs.

I have been involved with the media since I have known my self. When I was just a kid I used to consume lots of cartoons. I nearly new all the episodes of Nickelodeon’s cartoons. I really liked the channel because it had nearly no commercials which I found really boring those days. but as I grew my media expectations changed. I started to like movies and news and my hate against the commercials increased. Now a days I watch minimum amount of TV because of the commercials. İnstead I prefer consuming my media from the internet but the truth is I couldn’t get away from the commercials because every site has an advertisement in it or every film promotes a product. The only better thing about internet advertisements is that it doesn’t consume my time by airing for 10-20 minutes like advertisements. Another reason that I consume my media from the internet is that when media is consumed over the internet I can filter the media that I want to receive. So the media over internet enables me to consume what ever I want.

Probably rhe most media source that is effecting is the hidden messeges on films. Because I consume lots of films. I watch 1 or 2 films each day (unless there is final exam ) and each film contains little small amount of adcertisment. I could detect most of them but there sure is some that I couldn’t which would effect me indrictly and I hate being influenced badly while doing one of my favorite hoby.