1st Blog of Blogging Choice Assignment

March 1st, 2011, is the first day for me to ever start a blog. So far I would say that this is extremely interesting. Not quite sure what I should say other than the fact that I feel legit, being a new blog owner.

Now let's get down to business...

Finally, with Fayetteville's weather warming up for one of the first times since who knows when, I was able to enjoy walking around on campus without it either freezing or my getting soaked. It was a nice change. With this change, also came the opportunity for a freshly plucked journalism student, like myself, to go out and put some of her knowledge to the test. 

As I was walking out of my Media and Society class I happened to notice a college peer passing out green flyers. I immediately knew what they were for, having seen them a few days before on my dorm room door, but was unfortunately bypassed when two people closer to him attracted his attention. It is so funny how little things like that green flyer you have seen before are almost instantly recognized when you hardly took notice of them first time around. Advertisements have a funny way of doing this to us all the time. Whether it is on the Internet, television, or radio, there is usually some kind of way that one song, or character, will get enough of your unconscious attention, and when seeing it again with your full attention, you will instantly recognize it.

Amazingly enough, people who make these advertisements in the real world start out by going to college for four years to learn all about how to gather this amazing unconscious (unconscious meaning that I hardly saw the green flyer on my door the first time) attention of ours. Of course once they acquire a job after college they will have to continue taking these drills, as well as classes on how people observe things or how to get a person's attention. What is their way of getting the least bit of attention from us? Well, first is understanding what every person wants. They research children, women, men, teens, elderly, college students, Caucasians, African Americans, Orientals, Native Americans, Indians, and Europeans. If you name it, they have probably done some sort of research on it.

Remember that the one goal that they have is that no matter what it is you (the viewer) want to see, they will find out how to please you in order to make the big bucks. That is usually the ultimate goal, and I really couldn't see any other goal to have than that one right there, because money does make the world go around, sadly. The most important thing for them to do is to get the viewers' attention to get the viewers to buy the product. Without the viewers' attention or approval of the advertisement, there will be no sale for the company trying to sell their beloved product. 

Now the green flyer that I had happened to come across was not trying to sell any product, except for maybe non-student people that wanted to attend an event. People who may have had to possibly buy a ticket. It was an advertisement to get students to attend a Christian movie that is being held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the union theater. I would love to go and see this movie, because later today I ended up once again bumping into one of the "flyer people" and talking to them about the movie. However, I have to attend the basketball game tomorrow night, also at 8 o'clock, to receive recognition for an above 3.0 GPA for student athletes. Otherwise I would enjoy continuing my journey with the green flyers and see their movie, and initially what they had been advertising about.