Hansel and Gretel

Today in class we all watched the AT&T commercial which was based around Hansel and Gretel. I personally liked this commercial a lot because it appealed to two different things which I like very much. The first is NYC which is the city they were portrayed to be in, and also christmas. This commercial reminded me very much of christmas because in the beginning it seemed as though you might hear that opening music in a christmas commercial. Also because people in the commercial seemed to be wearing heavy/warm clothes from the few glimpses that we got of them. To me it seems as though I completely missed the point of the commercial, which was to switch to AT&T, but since I already have that service, I think its alright. However once we observed and made inferences off the commercial in class, then I realized the deeper meaning behind it all. It truly was an in depth commercial if all of the things that we mentioned in class were meant to be in the commercial. For example by having the store closing behind them in the background, it shows how it was getting late and the children were all alone and probably did not have any other options besides using the phone. We also however saw the flaws of this commercial, which were how the children took the subway and at the end, instead of going back the way they came from, they continued to walk forward and take another way home. Since this commercial is about Hansel and Gretel then the director should have had them walk back the same way they came from since the story about Hansel and Gretel is to retrace your steps and find your way home. The other flaw with this commercial is that the children are getting off the subway platform in the beginning, which raises the question of how did they navigate on the subway? Did they leave bread crumbs, use a map or the phone or anything to help them get around? Or did these children somehow have an intuitive knowledge of the Manhattan subway system? All in all I think it was a good commercial since like I said about how it appealed to me. I think that for a cell phone commercial it was fine and does not need to be thought into or criticized too much.

Welcome to online writing

So here I am at Hofstra, and I am blogging. Writing online makes me feel.....like I'm asking people to listen to my ideas. By putting out all of my thoughts onto the internet, its just a way for people to get their ideas across to you. When people blog its usually because they feel strongly about a point, where as I am blogging as an assignment for my class. I wonder if I'll get any comments on here, I kind of hope I don't unless their in support of whatever I'm writing. I really don't want to have opposition on my blog because then it just looks kind of dumb that people have wasted their time to find my ideas and to actually oppose what I am thinking. I feel like with this post I might get some negative response. Then again it will probably be from those people that I am writing about now the ones who are actually using their free time for this, unless of course it is from people in my class or my professor, where we are doing this as a project. It's kind of odd for me to think about how people actually use their time to go online and to see what other people are talking about and to use their own time as well to have discussions with people. What annoys me the most is how people will start arguments on blogs or other types of postings on the internet. To me its just a waste of time to post negative comments or comments at all for that matter. What exactly is the point of posting negative things? If you overhear someone on the street talking about something that you might disagree with, are you going to walk over to them and start an argument? Or are you simply going to be the bigger person and move on? I feel these same circumstances apply to the internet, what is the point of starting an argument on a blog? Anyway this whole blog now has become about people being negative, I think that blogging in the first place is kind of pointless, but who knows, maybe from this I'll start to like blogging more. Let's see how this all works out.