Imagine yourself walking around the street in a large city like New York City or Chicago and see millions of advertisements everywhere in the city’s streets. Once, you see something that are disturb or afflict advertisement like show a picture of a baby take a drugs in horrible place that make you shock when you see it. In our currently society, the shocking content in advertisement is very hard to shock us now. Author Bruce Grierson argues that modern advertisement does not shock us anymore, because of too many companies have done much different kind of advertisement methods to attract the people’s attention to ads. Shock content ads is one of other method to attract people, but the companies have gone cross the line or overuse it that make us think it’s seem so normal, not shock to us anymore.
Shock advertisements are ads that have a sudden and violent blows or impact on people when they see something on the ads. If you read a magazine, it have more than fifty ads inside the magazine, when you went through the magazine and you will see many different kind of ads and what product they ads. When you see something that is not very common in the ads, disturb pictures or words, or ads that you never see anything like that before in United States. For instance, famous Italian clothes company named Benetton posted ads of real death-row inmates, real AIDS patent on his deathbed, and black woman breast-feeds a white child. It’s real picture of people who are on way to their death and we do not see any image like that in our normal daily life. The shocking content of ads has three different levels of shock in adversity like visceral shock, intellectual shock, and soul shock. Visceral shock is “getting harder to deliver in a culture wallp...
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...t they are weak unless you buy this product then you wont feel like weak or person in the picture.
Shocking content is one of technique that currently companies using it in marketing advertisements to attract customers to buy their product. Unfortunately, the shocking technique is not working anymore on people anymore just like Dr. Cameron’s brainwashing experiment. The shocking ads is trying to “brainwashing” us that we are feeble if we do not buy their product that are on the advertisement. People would not remember what the gruesome image is or quotes are on the ads instead of remembered the brand or the company that are on the advertisements. Author Bruce Grierson’s argument was that the shocking content is not shock to us anymore and it is not shock to us anymore, because the companies have gone cross the line with the shocking content and ceaseless use them.
According to Robert Scholes, author of On Reading a Video Text, commercials aired on television hold a dynamic power over human beings on a subconscious level. He believes that through the use of specific tools, commercials can hold the minds of an audience captive, and can control their abilities to think rationally. Visual fascination, one of the tools Scholes believes captures the minds of viewers, can take a simple video, and through the use of editing and special effects, turn it into a powerful scene which one simply cannot take his or her eyes from. Narrativity is yet another way Scholes feels commercials can take control of the thoughts of a person sitting in front of the television. Through the use of specific words, sounds, accompanying statements and or music, a television commercial can hold a viewer’s mind within its grasp, just long enough to confuse someone into buying a product for the wrong reason. The most significant power over the population held by television commercials is that of cultural reinforcement, as Scholes calls it. By offering a human relation throughout itself, a commercial can link with the masses as though it’s speaking to the individual viewer on an equal level. A commercial In his essay, Scholes analyzes a Budweiser commercial in an effort to prove his statements about the aforementioned tools.
Jean Kilbourne’s “Two Way a Woman Can Get Hurt: Advertising and Violence” is a section of a book titled: “Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising” that was originally published in 1999. It is about the images of women that advertisements illustrate. The central claim or thesis of the document is that: “advertising helps to create a climate in which certain attitudes and values flourish and it plays a role in shaping people’s ideas” (paraphrase). The author wants people by all genders and young children to acknowledge a right attitude towards what is shown in the advertisements so that the standards of behavior will not be influenced. As a result, it enables the negative contribution from the advertisements to be limited or eliminated.
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...arouse an emotion or just piss them off enough so they won’t ever forget about the ad or the company who had the nerve to post it? Advertisers aims to win sales, but some advertisements seek primarily to gain the reader’s attention or stimulate interest in hopes that purchases will follow in the near or far in the future. Repetitive ads for familiar products often aim to shorten the cycle of the purchase decisions. They try to stimulate the consumer to pick up the soft drink, the toothpaste, or the detergent as she moves down the shopping aisles. It is this repetition that has over the years brought the significance of violent and sexual images in the public mind and as an advertising tool in the print media. A half-naked woman is no big deal today in magazines, scenes of violence against a woman, or even rape is just an ordinary ad in the new era of advertising.
Advertisers and corporations are liable for using modern and sophisticated forms of mind control to the extent level of brainwashing consumers, in order to manipulate their choices and their spending habits. Our society is being negatively impacted, by becoming a consumer driven society constantly distracted by overwhelming persuasive advertisements, as opposed to ideal informative advertisements. The most vulnerable and negatively impacted targets of persuasive advertising are the younger, less mature, and/or less knowledgeable and self-directed consumers. Ironically, it was once said “An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15% commission” (Allen). It is quite clear that social benefits are not part of this equation. The harm and severe social related costs far outweigh any economic growth and benefits deemed necessary for advertising and marketing companies.
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