10/5/09

DOTCOM Phase #3, Module 2 - Exploring REEL BAD ARABS

Hello Dotcom! I miss you all so much, now each of us is busy with something but I am sure we all remember about every minute that we spend together....
Thousands of apologizes for being late, but it is because of the absence of internet...
So when I first saw the word arab, I immediately remeber the history about arabs, how in 7-th century arab tribes joined each other and create a great country with conquering a lot of countries.

1.At first when I heard the arabian music, and so images about them and then the nice part from ''Aladin'' this all influenced my limbic brain, especially the speech of talking man, it made me think..

The dying people, voices of guns, killers, and there was a minute that everything turned to fire this all were fearing, and it influenced my reptilian brain.

And of course these video made me think and think, at first I was askinh myself are arabs really so?are they cruel, killers? No this is all just stereotyping, a thing which cover the reality, and shows things that aren't real or true..Here is my neo-cortex brain.

2.. PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES. HERE are some techniques- HYPERBALL- by using this they want to show us the bad sides of arabs..WARM FUZZIES- this video wants to have an influence on us by the different people in video, to make us fear or thing the way they want. Big lie- here is used big lie because we can't thing the same for the whole nation, every nation has its bad and good sides. TIMING- this video is 5 minutes 20 seconds long, but we see persuasive techniques...

3.PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES- I thing that this video is very powerful, the voice the images and especially the music are attracting..The parts from different films and the sceneries made me curious and I didn't want to stop.. I think this is the most important, when the movie attracts the audience..

4. SUGGESTIONS. The movie was great, but I think that it would be better if they had a lot of thoughts, they should interviewed common people, about what they think of arabs, do they understand that this all is sterotyping..
5. I will recommend this video not only for my friends but for the grown-ups, too, because this video will make them understand not only sterotyping about arabs, but stereotyping about everything that is next to us, I thing the great part of people has his own stereotyping about something, otherwise all this wars, argues will not happen...And we can fight against this if we ourselves realize how the stereotyping spoils our life, then we can proove it to everybody else...