Looking deeper in Disney, I found that Walt Disney Motion Picture Group, obviously owned by Disney, owns Disney Animation, Pixar Studios, Lucasfilm, The Muppets, and more.
I'm may be the only one who didn't know, but that means almost all of our kid movies are owned by Disney. I always thought that Pixar was in competition, but now I see they're just another group with a slightly different style. I even googled Newest Kid Movies and the first page to pop up was Disney Movie Club. I also googled Kid Movies not Disney and stumbled upon a blog with a list of kid movies, all that I've seen multiple times, and none of them were animated. Such movies included Annie, Willy Wonka, The Secret Garden, etc. The last thing I googled was Animated Kid Movies Not Disney. The results were impressive, I impressed myself by knowing all of them by heart. The unimpressive thing was that some of the movies were still distributed from Disney and the latest one is from 1999, The King and I. It seems that no one wants to compete with animation as much and if they do, Disney will just buy them up like Lucasfilm.
Friday, October 17, 2014
Rain or Shine
My mom didn't necessarily grow up with a TV in her home. The newspaper was a big part in her life because her farther read aloud the articles every morning during breakfast whether anyone was listening or not. Once a TV became more accessible, she would occasionally watch the news with her family.
Her farther is a statistics kind of man and he watched it regularly to know simple things like the weather, not just for his hometown but for everywhere that they would talk about. Watching news on a television gave him insight about places that he was passionately curious about.
His curiosity for the world still exists today. He will turn the news on and find the weather for the United States and call my mom to tell her what weather is coming our way. Without the news being broadcasting in this medium, curiosity of millions wouldn't be satisfied.
Through news and regular TV shows, my mom also started to learn English so she could have a small understanding once she moved to America. She examined how people spoke and how they order things and what to say when asked certain questions. Since news channels normally have a lot of pictures, it was easy to learn what simple words like sun or rain meant.
News channels also let my mom know whether to take us to school or not in the winter, as most parents did. In elementary school, we all remember waiting for our parents to watch the news to tell us if was a snow day or not and I think that is one of the greatest means of the news :)
Her farther is a statistics kind of man and he watched it regularly to know simple things like the weather, not just for his hometown but for everywhere that they would talk about. Watching news on a television gave him insight about places that he was passionately curious about.
His curiosity for the world still exists today. He will turn the news on and find the weather for the United States and call my mom to tell her what weather is coming our way. Without the news being broadcasting in this medium, curiosity of millions wouldn't be satisfied.
Through news and regular TV shows, my mom also started to learn English so she could have a small understanding once she moved to America. She examined how people spoke and how they order things and what to say when asked certain questions. Since news channels normally have a lot of pictures, it was easy to learn what simple words like sun or rain meant.
News channels also let my mom know whether to take us to school or not in the winter, as most parents did. In elementary school, we all remember waiting for our parents to watch the news to tell us if was a snow day or not and I think that is one of the greatest means of the news :)
Fashion Magz Karate Chop Ads
Two magazines I am familiar with are Teen Vogue and Seventeen. Both are intended for age groups around 10-20 (in my opinion). The advertisement in both of the magazines are surprisingly different.
In Teen Vogue, you see more of fashion advertisements through the pictures of the editorial, if you could call it that. There are few "real" advertisements and the ones that are there are for makeup such as mascara and only depicted on one or two pages.
Seventeen has the same advertisements, but also has "real" advertisements. Every other page has a side portion dedicated to nail polish or books to read that teens will most likely enjoy such as vampire love stories. Seventeen is a larger magazine and has actual editorials. For example, they will pinpoint one recent and up coming artist and tell their background story to getting famous and how they feel about the new publicity. These sections won't have an advertisement, but flip to the net page and it'll be a full cover of 20 must haves under $20.
Since Teen Vogue focuses extremely on fashion and mainly just have pictures of photo shoots, I am guessing the artists behind the pictures may pay more money to get the photo in and not have an ad distracting the audience. Whereas Seventeen doesn't have an actual focus, besides entertainment for that age group, and need to put in more advertisements to help pay for the upkeep of the magazine.
Another take on this is that Seventeen is just a magazine of ads. The pages dedicated to trending music could be counted as advertisement. The list of places to go for spring break could also be counted as advertisement. Looking at it this way, a magazine is just pages of advertisements whether it be direct or indirect.
In Teen Vogue, you see more of fashion advertisements through the pictures of the editorial, if you could call it that. There are few "real" advertisements and the ones that are there are for makeup such as mascara and only depicted on one or two pages.
Seventeen has the same advertisements, but also has "real" advertisements. Every other page has a side portion dedicated to nail polish or books to read that teens will most likely enjoy such as vampire love stories. Seventeen is a larger magazine and has actual editorials. For example, they will pinpoint one recent and up coming artist and tell their background story to getting famous and how they feel about the new publicity. These sections won't have an advertisement, but flip to the net page and it'll be a full cover of 20 must haves under $20.
Since Teen Vogue focuses extremely on fashion and mainly just have pictures of photo shoots, I am guessing the artists behind the pictures may pay more money to get the photo in and not have an ad distracting the audience. Whereas Seventeen doesn't have an actual focus, besides entertainment for that age group, and need to put in more advertisements to help pay for the upkeep of the magazine.
Another take on this is that Seventeen is just a magazine of ads. The pages dedicated to trending music could be counted as advertisement. The list of places to go for spring break could also be counted as advertisement. Looking at it this way, a magazine is just pages of advertisements whether it be direct or indirect.
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