... strong, healthy body. The commercial begins with Raoul Bova in a clean white sheeted bed waking up wearing a pair of "broken-in jeans," while the catchy song "Tempted," performed by Squeeze, plays softly in the background. This song is an important feature of the commercial because it helps create a calm and relaxing mood. Without listening to the words, the audience is caught up ... with the "easy-listening" style of the music. Within the song, the audience hears phrases such as "Let's get out of this place," and "Tempted by the fruit of another, tempted but the truth is discovered." G...

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... is proud of his job. We then get a view of the road with a 50's car drive past introducing diegetic sound into the present quiet scene and then the non diegetic song "Stand by me- starts playing. The camera (still moving) then stops on a close-up of a smooth, tall man with a half rebellious smile on his face. A railway crossing sign in the ... .The whole Guys and Dolls theme is present in most of the 50's set adverts and is used with effect. The music also ties in well with the song, when some lines of the song are sung they are acted out among the actors for example; "No I wont- and the...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to captivate the audience for a brief moment in hopes of the viewer developing an interest in purchasing the artists" latest album. Videos are simply selling the singer along with the song as well as an image, which could be interpreted as the ideal image considering these people are famous, or at the very least, on television. Considering music videos to basically ... of watching videos ranked third among reasons for watching music videos. Viewers felt that the videos help interpret the songs and that some videos show how the musician interpreted the song. (p.121). While many viewers w...

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... they do have sex written all over them. A new television ad, the Coors light commercials, a guy sings a short catchy song with the guys in the video with hot girls all around him. In the video there are female twins. Since the song the commercial guy sang was catching on with the youth everyone likes twins and wants to hang out with them ... ...

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... the nation greatly. They have remained strong in seeking and sharing truth by adapting to change and utilizing all areas of media available to them. Smokey Bear has his own song, was on the cover of Newsweek magazine and, in 1984, Rudolph Wendelin designed a stamp with a bear cub clinging to a tree with the Smokey Bear emblem as a background. Today, Smokey Bear ... ...

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... swap- is made in the very well known ads for Herbal Essences Shampoo. These commercials show the women having the dominance over the men. The men are singing the theme song in the background, the women is seated, and the men are standing around with their shirts off her shampooing her hair. It basically portrays the men as being the women ... ...

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... engendered toys, the G.I. Joe and the Barbie doll. Few American children never had these toys, or at least were never exposed to commercials for these toys. Explosions and the staccato song of gunfire shatter the silence of a Saturday morning when a G.I. Joe commercial rages from the airwaves. Manly men with assault rifles drive vehicles with strangely phallic armaments across barren wastelands to ... ...

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... the audience into remembering their products without reprogramming the brain. If I sung "Our new number's really, really nifty- between 80-95% of the average population in NZ would finish that song off without even thinking. It is, of course, the pizza haven ad and most people have heard it so many times, they don't need a phone book to ring them for ... ...

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