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Trailer Techniques

After watching the Friday Night Lights trailer again, I realized that there are many effects incorporated throughout the video. I noticed that the trailer cut from one picture to another very fast. I think they did that because of the violence and speed within the game of football. That really adds to the effect of how intense the football is that is portrayed in the video. Another technique they use is the zoom in/out effect. On one particular cut, I noticed that they zoomed in on an opposing player to make him look more daunting and bigger. On another particular cut, I noticed that they zoomed out on one of the scoreboards to show the viewer all of the state championship Permian (the high school) has won. This shows the viewer that this will be an intense football movie. The last technique I saw was the scan feature. This is where the screen goes from right to left or left to right. I think they used the scan technique to show all of the main characters involved in the movie.

Friday Night Lights Movie Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzyp4qOW0F0

Seconds 20-50

Mid Range- Running back running on the road with kids
Close Range-Two high school football players walking into school
Mid Range-Five players looking the past state championship billboard
Close Range- Coach talking to his team
Close Range- Player getting tackled x's 2
Mid Range- Billboard that says "At the game" x's 3
Close Range-Player getting tackled
Mid Range- Fans cheering at the game
Long Range- Overview of the football field
Mid Range- Player being tackled
Long Range- Coach talking to team
Close Range- Close up on the running back
Close Range- Close up on the quarterback
Close Range- Opposing team player walking
Mid range- Opposing team
Close Range- Opposing team player
Close Range- Player being tackled hard
Close Range- Coach talking to his players
Md Range- Player making a block
Close Range- Running back spinning
Mid Range- Running back in the open
Close Range- Coach cheering his team on
Close Range- Running back juking
Mid Range- Running back scoring a touchdown
Close Range- Cheerleaders cheering
Close Range- Running back is getting interviewed
Close Range- Running back is walking through school halls

3 Annotated Bibliographies

·      http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1907493,00.html

Szczesny, Joseph R. "Coming Soon: A Breathalyzer in Every Car?" Time. Time, 01 July 2009. Web. 26 Feb. 2012.

This article in Time magazine says that breathalyzers in cars might be implemented in the future. The article explains how it works and how many states already use it for past DUI offenders. It also talks about car companies manufacturing new ways to detect if a person is drunk driving. Finally, it explains how Mothers Against Drunk Driving are pushing hard to get this achieved.

·      http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2006-04-24-breathalyzer-usat_x.htm

O'Donnell, Jayne. "Will All Autos Some Day Have Breathalyzers?" USA Today. 28 Apr. 2006. Web. 26 Feb. 2012.

This article explains that breathalyzers may not even be necessary. It says that new technology is surfacing that could detect alcohol on the skin surface. Some people compare breathalyzers in all cars to the banning of using cell phones in cars or having to wear a seat belt. The article then goes on to give people’s personal experiences with interlock systems and how they saved their lives. Lastly, the article offers an idea which would make having breathalyzers in cars optional to the buyer.

·      http://www.drinkinganddriving.org/Articles/personal-tech.html

"Personal Tech." Drinking And Driving .org. 15 Feb. 2012. Web. 27 Feb. 2012.

This article explains how to use the interlock system in depth. It explains how people try to cheat the system too. Luckily the interlock system has a way to check to see if the driver is cheating or not. The article then goes on to explain that 15 states already require a past DUI offender to have an interlock system in his or her car.

Breathalyzers Becoming Stock in All Cars

         I’m a very big proponent of eliminating drunk driving, and I think there is a solution that will save many lives. So, I believe there should be breathalyzers in every car that is driven on U.S. roads. This idea has been implemented to past DUI offenders, but not to the whole American public. While I believe this is a start, we can still do better to eliminate drunken driving fatalities.

The concept is easy: you blow a 0.00, then your car will start. Anything above a 0.00 would result in the car not starting. Now people will start telling me that the legal drinking limit is 0.08, so really the car should start if the person blows anything less than a 0.08. But I think the car should start only if the person blows a 0.00. It has been proven that even though the legal drinking limit is 0.08 that even one or two beers can impair someone’s driving. If people want to stop drunk driving then this is the best idea we have right now.

The reports have been good from past DUI offenders because we know that once you are a DUI offender, then the odds of that person doing it again is likely. The reports from the past DUI offenders are that the breathalyzers in cars have worked. The odd of an offender committing the crime is significantly less than it was before the implementation of breathalyzers in cars. Obviously there would have to be a change in the states definition of the legal drinking age for this to happen. I think this implementation would be beneficial for teens that are just getting accustomed to driving too. Maybe not for the people that have been driving for a long time. For the people that want to get serious about drinking and driving…this is your solution.

Research Topics

Advertising Content

• What content should be deemed "appropriate?"
• Should there be censorship?
• Are surgeon general warnings necessary?

Breathalyzers in All Cars

• Will it decrease fatalities on the road?
• How will society react?
• How will they affect the prices of cars?
• Will car companies accept putting breathalyzers in their cars?

SAT vs. GPA

• Which one is a better indicator of how the student will fare in the future?
• Does coming from a public/private play a factor?
• How do you measure different students with different grading scales?

Final Ad and Thesis

In this Absolute Vodka advertisement, Absolute is mainly using the strategy pathos to evoke the emotions one would get when they are drunk, in this case very drunk because they are implying it would be the same as being attacked by a shark.

Ad Thesis Statements

1. In this Denver Water Company ad, the strategy is to convince the reader to conserve water while by comparing the company to an everyday bench, which a person would obviously share with the public.

2. In this Nike advertisement, the object is to use a well-known face like Tiger Woods and make his smile look like the Nike logo to show how much he loves their products.

3. In this Pepsi ad, the goal is to make the consumers laugh by superimposing a lime urinating into pepsi to show that their new product is infused with a hint of lime.

Rhetorical Impact

I am lucky to start off with the Understanding Rhetorical Appeals chapter of the book because I took a media literacy class in high school. While I was enrolled in the course, I learned that all rhetorical objects try to persuade certain types of people. For example, the Dr. Pepper 10 commercial is aimed directly at men. They designed the commercial to be full of action, which the stereotypical girl would not be interested in. You can clearly see this notion in the commercial:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vBMH5DcPts. Gender in the media is one of the things we learned about in the class. Men are typically portrayed as aggressive, womanizers, and dominant. Women are usually depicted as sexy and inferior to men. Just today I received about five emails from various Clemson organizations asking me to be apart some organization or group. The emails all tried to entice me to be apart of their group by including some catchy phrase or some pictures to show how much “fun” the people in the organization were having. In this media-filled society I would suspect I come across hundreds of rhetorical objects a day! Twenty years ago I would guess those numbers were substantially less.

         Since I basically grew up in this culture, I have become used to being bombarded by rhetorical objects. They have a less of an impact on me than they would my grandmother. She constantly asks me about some rhetorical thing she saw in her daily life. In order for a rhetorical object to REALLY have an impact on me, I have to be really interested in the topic that the seller is trying to sell me. They also have to have a lot of rhetorical objects within the flyer to show me how “cool” the object really is. Oh well, I guess that means things will be even MORE rhetorical in the future in order for people to be even remotely interested in the things sellers are willing to sell…