Reflection:
This project was pretty fun and informative! Advertisements can appear harmless but they really are capitalistic and manipulative forms of propaganda. Makeup ads in particular teach people certain standards of beauty and what products to use in order to be beautiful, and with the help of a popular celebrity, the advertisers got exactly what they wanted, I mean, even I own this product, it must've worked on a few other mindless consumers.
Images are the greatest form of persuasion, because humans focus on everything visual for the most part. Looks are important. So, it's easy to sway a human to make themselves believe what they need to buy in order to get that certain look, or follow a specific trend.
In a way, I kind of want advertisements to be regulated by the government, but then that just gives the government another form of control and take away creativity from hard advertising workers. I don't know exactly how I stand, but I'd rather have some corporation tell me how to look beautiful rather than the government.
01/28/15
01/28/15
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