In the movie I Love You, Man, the actor Lonnie had a very high pitched voice. They use his high pitch in a funny way, because usually a man does not have such a high voice. Throughout the entire movie, he has this very sqeaky high voice that keeps it interesting to watch him. The scene I used here is when he is at a game and is trying to lead the crowd to do a chant.
According to Chaika, "Pitch, is how high or low your voice is, and physiological correlate of age, or culture" (pg.71). In this movie Lonnie had a very high pitched voice and it was not because of his age. In the SPEAKING acronym the SETTING was at a game. This makes the whole scene funnier because with Lonnies high voice he tries to lead a large group of people when he can barely be taken serious with his voice. Because of his voice, iot sets his identity, which makes him stand out from others because she has such a unique pitched voice, that if anyone was to ever hear his voice they would know it was him because that is part of his identity.
A question that I have is why does society categorize people in certain ways, which having this high pitched voice for Lonnie will cause him to be categorized in a feminine or childish way, when its just part of who he is?
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
doritos commercial
doritos' commercial
In this video clip from "The Wall Street Journal", from the super bowl commercials where Doritos is selling their product nacho cheese doritos. In the commercial there are three different men. One is a African American, and the other two are white men. During the commercial one guy is finishing up his bag of chips while the other guy is off to the side asking for some of the chips. He states he missed the best part and sucked the chips off his finger. Then this guy runs into another man eating his chips and the guy wipes the crumbs onto his pants so the begging guys rips his pants off and start sniffing the mans pants. The guy who asks for the chips is the one who is always searching for some. He states how great they are and that people are leaving the best part which is the crumbs because that how "good" the chips are. There are different messages that are being put out which is first doritos are being sold. That is the main purpose of the commercial so that the product will get sold, and secondly in my opinion they are showing some homosexuality. That in here is the non verbal message through the commercial because we see the actions that are taking place and most people would categorize that as "homosexual acts".
That was a way for them to try to get viewers attention so that their product could be sold. I feel like they did a good job with selling their product in the commercial because it did grab your attention, there was just other messages that was within the commercial that was not just the product itself.
In this video clip from "The Wall Street Journal", from the super bowl commercials where Doritos is selling their product nacho cheese doritos. In the commercial there are three different men. One is a African American, and the other two are white men. During the commercial one guy is finishing up his bag of chips while the other guy is off to the side asking for some of the chips. He states he missed the best part and sucked the chips off his finger. Then this guy runs into another man eating his chips and the guy wipes the crumbs onto his pants so the begging guys rips his pants off and start sniffing the mans pants. The guy who asks for the chips is the one who is always searching for some. He states how great they are and that people are leaving the best part which is the crumbs because that how "good" the chips are. There are different messages that are being put out which is first doritos are being sold. That is the main purpose of the commercial so that the product will get sold, and secondly in my opinion they are showing some homosexuality. That in here is the non verbal message through the commercial because we see the actions that are taking place and most people would categorize that as "homosexual acts".
That was a way for them to try to get viewers attention so that their product could be sold. I feel like they did a good job with selling their product in the commercial because it did grab your attention, there was just other messages that was within the commercial that was not just the product itself.
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