Group Discussion

For my group discussion, I chose to talk how advertisements affect our point of views and the tricks they do to capture the audience attention. To begin with, I explained to them that we do not realize that companies choose specific images and text to make their products appear better. For instance, a drug poster might choose a man in a bar surrounded by beautiful women because he is smoking a cigarette. Now, the tricky part is that the poster might not actually say it’s because he is smoking a cigeratee, but in our head we capture that image. The poster is not lying, but plays tricks to make people believe this product is desirable and cool. My friend did notice this first, but we took a look at our daily newspaper and talked about some of the advertisements we saw. It was pretty impress to see how companies have hidden text by making the fonts smaller. Or that they would choose certain images to make it appear like a really good product.