The Blog Project

See, English 110 exists outside of the classroom. We'll be sharpening our analytical minds in this heated arena: blog-dom.

The point of the blog is for you to practice making 1) observations and 2) analyses on the material you come across in your day-to-day virtual lives, and then to share your analytical experiments with your classmates. Take this opportunity to explore the course theme and broaden your understanding of your chosen sources. Social media, YouTube, and online articles are rife with opportunities for interesting analysis. So impress us with your brilliance, hipness, and pop-cultural savoir faire. This is all about practice (and nerd/cool points, of course) so really go for it.

Let's say to post (roughly) once every other week, which makes a minimum of 5 posts total. There's no limit to how much you can post. But I'll remind you: if you start honing your analytical skills here, your grade and your chances for success over the next few years will markedly improve. Try stuff out--this is graded simply on doing it. If you're truly exploring, you'll probably make some analytical trips that you look back on and are slightly embarrassed about--and that's a good thing.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Kia Soul Commercial

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zJWA3Vo6TU
In the commercial for the Kia Soul we are first shown a scene of a futuristic war with warrior robots and flying warships. Death and destruction is imminent and everything is generally grey. then a bright green Kia Soul arrives and brightly dressed dancing hamsters get out of the car. music begins to play and dancing ensues. The warriors also begin to partake in the dance, and everyone seems to be having a good time. The creaotors of the add were trying to get the point acrpps to us that if we buy the Kia Soul it will bring new life to a depressing world, and you can escape the tragedies of your life when you ride around and bump music in your brand new Kia Soul.

Love,
Connor Clay, Emily McGuire, Taylor Craver, Chris Myers, and last but not least Melissa Clement
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3 comments:

  1. Connor GeraghtyOctober 9, 2011 at 4:15 PM

    The hamsters can be seen as just an average thing. They are the most generic pet (besides fish) and as said in the post the Soul will bring life and enjoyment to even the most average person. It tries to reach out to all people in all walks of life and show them that happiness is through this odd car. There is also a huge contrast in the ordinary hamster and the outgoing adventurous design of the Soul.

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  2. Larry RossNovember 17, 2011 at 11:44 PM

    This was a very interesting commercial, which I had never seen before. My first thought was "what does this have to do with the car?" which can't be a good thing. I do not like the way this commercial advertises the car at all. The purpose was to make the car seem like a cool car to drive, but it did not focus enough on the car itself. That being said, it was one of the most entertaining commercials I've ever seen, so I believe that alone could gain some interest in the car. Overall, bad job advertising the car, but a great commercial!

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  3. Morgan HiseyDecember 1, 2011 at 4:03 PM

    I like how they showed the contrast between the usually small, simple hamsters and the giant robots. Hamsters and robots are completely opposite but are still friends to humans in different ways. Robots help to do our manual labor while hamsters are our friendly household pets. The fact that they are merging together in this commercial shows how both pets and animals are in our lives. Also with the hamsters showing off to the robots this shows how machines aren't everything in life and the simple things can outdo them.

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