I continue to struggle - badly - with my copywriting class. It's not morals or ethics or disgust at this point. It's sheer inability to actually DO the assignments as written. Literally. Because they're all "go watch/listen/research THIS form of media advertising and write X about it" which would be simplicity itself IF I HAD ACCESS TO ANY OF IT.
[tears at hair] I have not owned a television plugged into an exterior channel since I moved away from my ex's family 7 years ago. I haven't listened to the radio... possibly since I bought my first CD player back in the 90's? Not counting brief clips where I was switching out the CDs in the car stereo and the radio came on inbetween? I have never owned a popular magazine subscription (and having to buy one now reminds me WHY, as omg the perfume bits that fall out of those things are gross and even without that the paper itself just has that funky musty smell) and I'd say my last newspaper subscription was also 7 years ago (and was mostly used for the purpose of a, lighting fires in the fireplace, or b, packing stuff).
Why YES, I *DO* live in a pop culture VACUUM. I'm pretty damned happy that way. I get my media culture from the internet, and I've got AdBlock installed on EVERYTHING. v___v
This is making this class really severely unnecessarily HARD.
On the other hand, it lead me to finding
this commercial. Which is PRICELESS. I hearts it. Alot.
(Call of Duty: Black Ops. Fake violence, no blood, lots of really awesome people.)...and now I go back to searching for commercials that suck, instead of ones that are awesome. ARGH.
EDIT: oh yeah. THIS is why I stopped listening to radio. It's not even the advertising - it's how incredibly
stupid and jeuvenile and crude most of the radio DJs are. x____x
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