Psychoanalysis....Alien

When watching the Alien movies as a kid I never noticed all of the sexual subtexts. Now watching it again recently and reading this article, it made me think. It really has a lot of sexual undertone.

Ripley has many scenes where she is barely clothed, and I noticed a lot of pornographic posters in rooms of the ship. Also the craziest of them all when Ash could have killed Ripley in many, many other ways. He decied to roll up a magazine and stuff it down her throat.......Yeah. No words need to be said, you know what I'm talking about. Lastly when Lambert is trapped up agaist a wall, the Alien seems to being playing with her, its tail moving around between her legs before finally killing her.

Now if knowing stuff like this is making people money and helping them get through life. Maybe more people should take up Media Studies and learn the way!

Social Subjectivity

I have never really thought about this whole topic of why computer voices are mostly female until read this actricle. And once I began to think about it, I wonder how I have never noticed this before? I can't even think of one piece of technology that has a male voice, but I don't have to use or hear thee technologies often.
The only piece of technology that I own that has a voice is a GPS and it is a female. Now hearning this female voice all the time, It's really starting to get annoying. I kind of wish I had  male voice to switch things up a bit. It might be that the female voice in technology is more high pitched and stands out more. (referenced in te article)
It's not the fact that I'm just annoyed at the female voice in general, It's just that we all need a little variety sometime. And hearing the same robotic female voice every day has to get old. And these being designed to have a higher pitched voice to get attention is probably one of the factors of annoyance.

Harry Potter Series

I decided to try something a little different and look for the three acts in the whole Harry Potter movie series.

Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone is the first act. Is's the first movie in the story and you, along with Harry Potter are being introduced into this magical world. The conflict is not only trying to find out who is trying to steal the Sorcerer's Stone, but the existence of Harry himself, Lord Voldemort. This introduces the main villain.

The second act comes into play with the fourth Harry Potter movie. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. In this movie internet conflicts between characters are introduced. But the reason why I think that this movie is the second act is because Lord Voldemort is resurrected in this movie. He is reestablished as the most powerful wizard alive and takes control. Everything goes to shit and the heroes must struggle to live from this point on. This is the rising action. 

The third act, is of course, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2. In this movie everything is resolved, things are revealed to answer questions one may have about the series as a whole. A perfect ending, Lord Voldemort is destroyed and the world is once again at rest with peace and harmony.

Photo 1: http://missglayiii.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/to-once-again-begin-%E2%80%93-before-it-all-ends-harry-potter-and-the-sorcerer%E2%80%99s-stone/

Photo 2: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Goblet_of_Fire_(film)

Photo 3: http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/14325037/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows---part-2/images/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-2-20110701015046953.html?page=mediaFull

Framing (Comm 403)

Framing is when a word is spoken or read and it puts a picture of something in someones mind. It's basically a sterotype, and when a person hears someone say a word or phrase, they associate that word or phrase with the stereotype.
    For example, in a criminal court case, they defendant says, "I did not kill my wife." Keep in mind that he says this after loads of evidence has already been compiled on to him. The jury already knows that he is guilty, and this just puts the image of him killing his wife into the jury's heads.
     The defendant should never use the same language that the other side uses to describe or associate with him. That's just a very easy way to create framing.

Denotation, Connotation, Mythological/Ideological significance Verizon advertisement (Comm 403)

   Ideological/Mythology

• The ideology in this advertisement is the depiction of how much for 3G coverage Verizon Wireless has over AT&T. The advertisers are using a simple graphic image to explain to the customer who is better, and It's obvious who has more 3G coverage. So who will the customer go to? The Mythology is "bigger is better." Which is represented through the picture comparing Verizon Wireless and AT&T.

   Denotation

• Two maps of the United States. One representing Verizon Wireless' 3G coverage. The other representing AT&T's 3G coverage. And "5X More 3G Coverage" is written at the bottom to remind the customer that Verizon Wireless is bigger and better than AT&T.

   Connotation

• The connotation is that the map on the left, representing Verizon Wireless is far more superior than the map on the right, which is AT&T. The map has far more areas supporting 3G connectivity. 

     Photo credit: http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2009/11/4/saupload_att_sues_verizon_over__there_s_a_map_for_that__ads.jpg

     

To Hell and Back

   The music video that I am going to analyze is entitled, "To Hell and Back" by Blessthefall.
The story of the video is that of a suffering woman and this video has some similarities of the mainstream music video portrayal of women.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LRrV_GQ62w


   To start this off her life sucks and she is very helpless and relies on drugs to get her away from her painful life. She is also anorexic and in result, she is constantly worried about her appearance which leads her into a deeper, darker hole.
   One other similarity she has is her helpless and very dependent on her man. When her man isn't there with her she is hysterical and in constant need of him. But when he IS there he beats her. It's obvious that he is in total control of her and this hopelessness is driving her over the edge.
   She injects herself with a syringe which I'm assuming its heroin. One thing that I would like to point out is that she injects the heroin into one of her wounds caused by her man. This is a sign that she could be doing heroin because of her man. The wounds she has are caused by him, another reason why she is not in control.
   At the beginning and end of the video a butterfly is show. At the end of the video the butterfly is dead, she once was a butterfly but now that butterfly is dead and gone.
 
                                                                                                                                                               

Snickers Ad (Comm 403)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkT_d2OTgv0&NR=1&feature=fvwp

There are signs in this advertisement, the first is when Mr. T. busts through the house to go after the speed walker and the second is when Mr. T. starts firing Snickers at the speed walker to get him to run. It's showing that Snickers is not to be taken lightly and you better be serious if you want a Snickers.

The Signifier  in this commercial is Mr. T. He sees that the guy speed walking and it angers him. To correct the speed walker with firing Snickers at him. Mr. T. is "correcting" the speed walker with a Snickers. This could be interpreted as the speed walker needs the Snickers to become more manly.

The Signified is Mr. T. Showing the speed walker how to be more of a man, and that is through the path of Snickers.