1"What impact is this having us" Neuromarketing
The mass media that fill our cities, homes, and minds with thoughts of what to buy can be both over whelming and confusing. There are hundreds of attempts to sell us products and a lot of those attempts work. If you sell a blue car and say it's safer than the red, people will buy the red. However if you say that red saves more gas, then people give some thought. While pondering these two cars - Now a green car comes that does both of those things but it's ugly and isn't very fast. Now people have to think whats the the best for them. While thinking what car they want.
There are thousands even millions of different adds for different products with different options. All of this mind numbing madness is put on top of the rest of our daily life. I choose to believe that all of this media can cause our minds to get ambushed by thoughts and eventually we start asking ourselves whats wrong with us, what we don't have over what we do have and what will happen if I don't get that.
The fact is that there is so much all at once it's hard for our brain to process and we start to wander, or get sucked in by media. Eventually we will be like those fat floaty people from Wally where their entire life is based of Products and things to buy.
To visualize our world in another way, pretend that our world is like the Internet and our minds being giant computers. Millions inhabit it and millions use it to sell. Our streets have become cluttered and covered by pop ups that make it hard for our computer work correctly. The more pop ups that are piled into our computer the less our computers work efficiently. Eventually these pop ups make our computer slow, glitchy, have errors and sometimes cause them to crash...
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The Visual Media
The 3 videos show that visual media shows mans idea of perfection. This perfection causes us to bilieve we aren't what we should be. Having watched the 3 videos, I do agree on what they are saying. The visual messages that advertisements send us do make us believe that we are imperfect to a point and makes a lot of us strive to become "Mans Perfect Model".
I am aware that visual media is edited most of the time causing most models to look 30-60% better that really do. Because of this we try to look like those fake models and sometimes it backfires on us. I do agree that visual media fills our minds with fake images of what we should look like. And a lot of times we Go to far or continue to think that we are still "imperfect". I have noticed this before, before having this assignment and from what I see and saw back then I agree on what these videos are trying to portray.
Only a few visual medias do not edit there pictures and create a false beauty. However due to the fact that over 60% of all visual media being cartoon or real uses "their" idea of perfection we all assume we are all not as good looking as we should be when a lot of times were fine the way we are.
There is possibility that if one business were to stop editing their models so that they aren't as man made, their product would not sell as much. However I believe that if every company stopped editing their models, over time the products they sell would shift a bit and return to normal and maybe cause some of the potential viewer's to not stress about their looks.
I am aware that visual media is edited most of the time causing most models to look 30-60% better that really do. Because of this we try to look like those fake models and sometimes it backfires on us. I do agree that visual media fills our minds with fake images of what we should look like. And a lot of times we Go to far or continue to think that we are still "imperfect". I have noticed this before, before having this assignment and from what I see and saw back then I agree on what these videos are trying to portray.
Only a few visual medias do not edit there pictures and create a false beauty. However due to the fact that over 60% of all visual media being cartoon or real uses "their" idea of perfection we all assume we are all not as good looking as we should be when a lot of times were fine the way we are.
There is possibility that if one business were to stop editing their models so that they aren't as man made, their product would not sell as much. However I believe that if every company stopped editing their models, over time the products they sell would shift a bit and return to normal and maybe cause some of the potential viewer's to not stress about their looks.
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