Deconstruction Assignment a.

1.) Victoria's Secret underwear commercial
- viewed on tv, and first thought was how skinny those women are, adn that the underwear they're sporting is very tiny! Never influenced me to actually want to go out and buy.

2.) Willy Wonka sweet tarts squeeze tube
- colorful commercial attempting to sell new kind of candy – squeeze tube sweet-sour candy that out like (edible) gel. It got me interested in it, thinking how its texture might feel against my tongue.

3.) TGI Fridays ad – Boston Market ad
- Made me want food at the time I saw them, and I hadn’t eaten in a few hours. It made me want the dishes they were displaying.

4.) E-harmony ad
- made me wonder just how successful the site is, and how many people use it. It didn’t make me want to use it.

5.) Samstown Tunica
- made Tunica seem so lively and extraveagant, so great, the best place in the world. I don’t gamble, so it had no effect on me to go to it or anywhere near it.

6.)Mom
- telling me not to walk to school at night, to be careful walking to and school during the day – everyday, like usual.

7.) Friend
- tried to get me to taste a sports drink that I had never tasted before. After some silly protesting, I finally gave in and tasted it. It wasn’t good.

8.) Car commercials
- would be effective if I had a car and drove.

9.) Aruba – vacation commercial
- fun in the sun, traditional shows, and food and dancing, fishing, scuba diving, boat rides, scampering on the beach – fun. Influenced me to want to take a vacation for absolutely no reason. Very effective. Hah.


10.) Monkey comer (adbuilders.com)
- “It’s tough working with monkeys, and we’ve had enough” – slogan.
- Showed cute monkey in a pink dress picking its nose – reference to lazy, slackers who goof off or are good for nothing.

11.) Barbie girl commercial
- makes me think of how America’s youth are being corrupted at such early ages, plaqued with ads everywhere internalizing the “ideal” body, and how young girls readily try to imitate these things. What’s even worse now than Barbie are Bratz dolls and all their accessories and fashions and glamour, and all the hype, and how girls imitate the dress/looks of those dolls by actively seeking out clothing combinations – they’re spoiled rotten.