Are TV advertisements considered to be for the sake of entertainment or is it educational? “Have a break, have a Kit Kat chunky”, this itself is considered teasing, and it would also be enough to answer the above question, as it suggests having a break with a Kit Kat chocolate while being entertained by the upcoming commercials. TV ads does not show the real image about what are the products essential for, it may deceive society due to how advertisement fantasies their products. Besides, entertaining the viewers to make them interested in a particular product is an effective manner. There are not much information shown in the advertisement as it rely on the image of adventure as well as the thrill which is the result of using their products, the only purpose behind them is entertainment rather than education.
Advertisement producers and celebrities nowadays are considered the life savers for fashion brands and automobile manufacturers, as they promote their products in a very talented and cinematic way in order to manipulate the viewers. TV advertisements focus mainly on how to entertain the viewers, once they achieve success in entertaining people, the customers begin to flow. According to a research by Avid and Ovum based on online survey of over 3000 viewers across UK, US, Germany and Brazil, respondents were more likely to say that they watch ads because they find the advertisements to be entertaining. Furthermore, different TV shows have different viewers’ percentages such as movies, TV shows and kid’s shows. For example, according to Avid and Ovum research, viewers who find advertisements entertaining in kid’s program have the percentage of 8.9%, which is the highest among other TV programs, while movie advertisements have t...
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...ompanies and TV advertisers have to contribute on educating people rather than focusing on entertaining them, because their contribution is more effective and can raise the fallen societies.
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In the end, I find that Robert Scholes is correct in his conclusion that commercials hold a certain power, with which they can alter our decisions whether or not to buy a product. Through visual fascination, we are offered images we could never have on our own; through narrativity, we are told what to think and how to think it; and finally through cultural relativity we connect with the rest of the world. When these three forces are combined by advertising, our brains cannot help themselves, we allow ourselves to become brainwashed by corporate America. This is why Robert Scholes feels that Reading a Video Text should be taught in school.
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having advertisements aired to a certain consensus at the right time. All in all the television plays a pivotal role in shaping the life of people in this culture.
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Across America in homes, schools, and businesses, sits advertisers' mass marketing tool, the television, usurping freedoms from children and their parents and changing American culture. Virtually an entire nation has surrendered itself wholesale to a medium for selling. Advertisers, within the constraints of the law, use their thirty-second commercials to target America's youth to be the decision-makers, convincing their parents to buy the advertised toys, foods, drinks, clothes, and other products. Inherent in this targeting, especially of the very young, are the advertisers; fostering the youth's loyalty to brands, creating among the children a loss of individuality and self-sufficiency, denying them the ability to explore and create but instead often encouraging poor health habits. The children demanding advertiser's products are influencing economic hardships in many families today. These children, targeted by advertisers, are so vulnerable to trickery, are so mentally and emotionally unable to understand reality because they lack the cognitive reasoning skills needed to be skeptical of advertisements. Children spend thousands of hours captivated by various advertising tactics and do not understand their subtleties.
Advertising is an essential part of our society, as is the role of the media.
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Commercials works through the human emotions and vanity and it appeals toward the psychologically domain turning into a temptation for weak mind people. For instance, if a person is at home watching T.V., very comfortable and suddenly, a commercial promoting any kind of food and drink comes up, that person will be hungry and thirsty in a couple of minutes. The advertising influenced his mind, provoking an involuntary reaction to do what the commercial induced him to do.