First Media Review - Pantene TV ad

Completely forgot that I was supposed to write my First Media Review for class. Better late than never, right? ... Right?

If you're not in my class and have stumbled across my blog, just treat this like a review of a commercial. Or just scroll down and hit the shiny play button on the Youtube video. Whatever works.



I stumbled across an TV ad that I'd never seen before yesterday. Honestly, I think it is the best commercial I've ever seen.

At first when I watched it, I couldn't figure out for the life of me what it had to do with Pantene Pro-V, which is what it is trying to sell. But then at the end of it, it really brought it home and sealed it.

The way it is filmed is stunning and the story itself could potentially be a full length movie. You can almost feel the emotion of the girl yourself. The flashbacks during the end scene flow beautifully and serve to show how far the girl had come to obtain her goal.

This is what an ad should try to accomplish. To make you feel something and to influence you.


But in the words of LeVar Burton, "you don't have to take my word for it".

Check it out:

~Twethereal

Tour of the Post

So I got to take a tour of the Frederick News Post on Monday night for my Computer Graphics II class. That was really cool. Our first stop on the tour was to see the girl who designs the Food section of the paper among other things. She gave us a little insight into what it's like to work there and the design process. I don't know if any of you saw the article on Andy Griffith that was in the paper on Sunday, but she designed that. We also met the lady that works on the advertisments in the paper. She probably gets more design freedom than most people there.

But as neat as it was to meet the people there, the coolest part was of course the printing press. Unfortunately it wasn't running at the time (they told us they weren't running it until midnight that day) but it was still amazing. It looked like an action movie set. There were rails and pipes and conveyer belts everywhere. I really wanted to walk up the stairs into the main part of the press, but I think that would have been out of the question. Oh well.

Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures. I don't know if I would have been allowed to, but either way I was too busy staring at everything to bother.


~Twethereal

Simply Delicious

So, I've finally joined the masses and created a Delicious account. Just by looking down the list of websites I've put on there so far you can see just how much of a kid I still am.

If I had to pick just one site as my favorite, it'd probably be deviantART. If you are an artist, or just like art, and you haven't joined yet, DO IT NOW. You'll thank me later.

I know this kind of sucks as a post after not really posting anything for about two weeks, but hopefully you'll find at least one website that you find interesting in my list. Believe it or not, some of them are actually normal.

~Twethereal