Tanners+Process+Paper

During the process of secraticly and more or less successfully took on the challenge that is advertising for change. Change in the sense of not really changing, but the portrayal of stereotypes and in the light that their true traits trail. The seat that I have been taking most of this project is less in print ad production but as problem solver and a appointed score director, even though the commercial is still in the story board. In general to the complications of working in a large class group, I have been a writer and a self entertainer…I don’t feel any reason to go into depth about the last part besides I don’t know how to work photo shop unfortunately at this time, but during the editing down time I can find self fulfillment that positively adds to the group brain storming; the weathering of the storm. I learned a great deal about working in a mass group, with an initiative that is pre/ post in the making. As the process goes the frayed fibers twine together as a piece of product to be made into a digestible form of media. Another point that I thought about is that I figured and was figuring at for a while during the process, media is gross and making it’s a strange position to jump to. Crossing the fence from hating the media, and not understanding the points and angles that are created to span my attention out enough to cause a memory in my mind to cause me to buy a point, opinion or product to being the media. If this was a contemporary music genre I would deem it “media punk”. Things that I would critique about this assignment, only on the basis of the pre stereotype idea, would be more or less the collaborative aspect should be played closer attention to. In large groups it’s almost too easy to find yourself with nothing to do off task. This is probably the dream come true of someone who wants to fly under the radar, but there should be a bit more of a push. Although this is not saying that I found myself trying to fly under the radar, but I just found myself a little lost in the work process. A good working aspect about collaboration on this project was the skills that everyone had that we used to great extent, this is true for all members of the class. Editors to champions, every student has a skill that was well utilized to some extent at some point in this project that built every small part of the goal to what it is now. I figured out time and again that it pays off to have some kind of computer editing skills. This was a great utility in the class that made this happen; if no one knew how to use photo shop needless to say we wouldn’t have gotten our foot in the print ad universe. I learned fully that Im sick and directly affected by the advertising media more negatively then beneficially. It’s mostly, not entirely, but mostly a consumer driven grain bag that my whole life from power rangers to adolescence has been in face first. Miss media is a hard girl, and I don’t know how to read her. You think you do, but it’s always getting fed back to you perpetually. In the last ten minutes I can think of twenty or more advertisements that I have seen that were directly addressing my social class, ethnic background, and gender. Its inescapable.