Chantel

Hiding Behind the Truth

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Mar 222019
 

1. Movies to Warnings

There are tons of movies that allude to the downfall of countries, the apocalypse, and government conspiracies, and even future innovations. These movies are supposed to be for entertainment purposes. However, they’re actually warning signs to the audience, foreshadowing the events that are to come. Movies like the Purge, Dawn if the Dead, What Happened to Monday, and even Back to the Future are all movies that are warning us about the future of humanity. Instead of keeping these in a movie genre, I want to translate these types of movies into warning commercials.

2. College Tours to College Nightmares 

While going my orientations nd college visit/tour at FAU, I was as immediately reeled in by the beautiful campus, beach-ish location, fun events, and the cafeteria. But, as soon as the first week of freshman year started, I was hit with the reality of my dream school: the beach is NOT walking distance from the school, the cafeteria has the same selections everyday with the exception of the ethnic food section, I hardly have time to go to events because I’m drowning in my own stress, and the beautiful campus is full of disrespectful raccoons and squirrels, terrorizing ducks, and iguanas. All of the things I loved about the campus became a nightmare. So, instead of having college tours that highlight the positives of the campus, I want to translate this to yours that focus on the negatives.

Manipulative Mansions

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Mar 012019
 

Youtube is a platform used by millions of creators around the world who post videos for their viewers based on their niche. From ASMR to clothing hauls to makeup tutorials, Youtube allows their content creator to reach an audience that would be otherwise unattainable, and inspire, educate, and entertain their viewers. However, no one would expect to be manipulated and deceived by these “content creators”. In expensive home tours, viewers are conned into thinking that the pricey homes are luxurious and out-of-reach for anyone who is considered wealthy. Expensive home tour videos over exaggerates the actual value and aesthetic appeal of the homes being toured, which tricks the audience into believing that there’s actual value to the house.

To analyze and interpret the intentions of the creators of expensive home tours, there will be a focus on the tour guide, hostess, the Youtube/cameraman, and the additional accessories added to the house. This paper will examine 4-5 different expensive home tour videos. Each home will cost more than $1 million, just to specify what’s considered expensive. Each video will be dissected, zoning in on the sultriness of the tour guide, the dramatized reactions of the cameraman, the types and prices of the luxury accessories added to the house, and the wealth of the tourist and hostess. To be more aligned with the delivery of the content, this information will be presented in the form of a video that warns viewers about the deceit of expensive home tour videos.

All in all, this is an important topic because we live in a time of greed and chauvinism, where people take pride in spending money based on the appeal instead of the quality or necessity of the item. These videos play on that notion of gluttony by presenting a house that has little to no value, as a home that’s fit for a king. Not only does this apply to these specific viewers, it’s applicable to anyone who spends money on expensive items; clothes, shoes, food, cars. These things are all inexpensive and are marketed as some luxury product that only the elite can afford, furthering the socioeconomic divide between us.

 

Expensive Home Tours POS (Updated)

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Feb 212019
 
Subjects Points of Significance
Touring in vlogs by Youtubers Adds relatability and shock-effect in price reveals by someone who seemingly can’t afford the house themselves.
Led by a bimbo tour guide Whose Sex appeal and “ditzy”-woman persona attracts male audiences
Includes expensive accessories that don’t come with the home Adds face value to the house, but possess no actual value after purchase
Rich hostess/tourist are just as wealthy and can afford the house, which makes the “unattainability” appeal decrease

Major Focus: Over-exaggerates the actual value and aesthetic appeal of the homes being toured.

How are expensive home tour videos manipulates their audience?

Expensive Home Tours POS

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Feb 202019
 
Subjects Points of Significance
Touring in vlogs by Youtubers Adds relatability and shock-effect in price reveals
Led by a bimbo tour guide Sex appeal and “ditzy” woman attracts male audience
Includes expensive accessories that don’t come with the home Adds face value to the house, but no actual value after purchase
Rich hostess/tourist Hostess is just as wealthy and can afford the house, which makes the “unattainability” appeal decrease

Expensive Home Tours (Technical Definition)

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Feb 132019
 

Seen on Youtube, expensive home tours are videos that follow real estate agents around mansions costing over $5 million dollars, while they comment on the intricacy of the house’s design and its luxury details. Expensive homes are usually located in the mos well-known areas, such as Hollywood Hills, California, Miami, Florida, Dallas, Texas, and even international places such as Dubai, Milan, and Athens. These homes are not expensive because of their size, but their type (modern, Polynesian, Mediterranean), and the amount of rare items and pricey materials used to build the house. Expensive home tours are guided by real estate agents who know every inch of the home, and the names of every piece added to it, such as the counter tops, tile, stair case, and even the toilet. 

Expensive Home Tours Heuristic #1

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Feb 052019
 

Chantel Jean

ENC3310

Prof. Mason

 

Introduce Your Genre

  1. Identify your tentative “underappreciated” genre (or subgenre)
  • Expensive Home Tours
  1. What is interesting to you about this genre? Or, why might it be significant or otherwise worth paying attention to?
  • Expensive home tours allow people who can’t afford to tour or live in the pricey mansions to look in awe at the luxurious houses.
  1. Tentatively, define/describe your corpus (collection of texts/examples)
  • My collection of samples are videos of home tours that are price at $1,000,000 and more. They’re usually at least 10 minutes long, and capture are a good range of different style homes.
  1. Provide links (and/or titles) of five samples. (Try to gather samples from more than one “place” [or type] in order to obtain a diverse and accurate representation of the genre. For now, choose samples without significant deviations).
  2. $11MILLION PALACE IN THE MOUNTAINS! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SP093Ybwk

 

  1. Touring A Massive $188 Million California Mega Mansion | Ryan Serhant Vlog #038 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4HmbEbCT2c

 

 

  1. $4.5M MANSION HOUSE TOUR (Luxury Mountain Home) –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4wEfNf1T7U&t=189s

 

  1. $4,795,000 SMART HOME with FLOATING STAIRCASE & OCEAN VIEWS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K1DkRY8Ugg

 

  1. Dubai Billionaire $17 Million House Tour !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuRKcAkCsHE

 

 

Describe the Context

  1. Setting: Where (in what context or medium) does the genre appear? How and when is it used? With what other genres does this genre interact? How?
    • Youtube
    • “Tour” genre
    • “Vlogs”
    • Most people go on a home tour as part of a vlog, or a video blog, causing the two genres to interact.
  2. Subject: What topics, issues, ideas, etc. are common to this genre? When people use this genre, what are they communicating about?

Wealth and uniqueness are common topics in the home tours. Viewers are constantly given the price of imported furniture and flooring, art pieces, famous designers who have added their custom pieces to the house, and how elite the location is. It’s more of a show to less wealthy people, a way to brag about what they can afford and sometimes it’s an actual attempt to sell the house. There’s also the topic of how they house is home to “the only piece in the world” in terms of art or furniture and accessories.

 

  1. Writers: Who writes the texts in this genre? Are multiple writers possible? What roles do they perform? What characteristics must writers of this genre possess? Under what circumstances do writers write the genre (e.g., in teams, on a computer, in a rush, for their profession? for fun?)?

The producers and filmmakers/Youtubers who post these expensive home tours are very wealthy themselves. They are responsible for reacting to the price of each art piece and detail in the home and showing their viewers how amazing the home looks by adding dramatic commentary that acknowledges what the viewers are already seeing. For example, if the tour guide says, “this chair is worth $10,000”, the Youtuber will say “guys this chair is worth $10,000? Do you guys see this? That’s insane!” The filmmakers create these videos to profit from their platform on Youtube. Most times, the Youtubers are paid according to their views, so they film these videos in an attempt to make decent money from the views of the people who watch it.

  1. Readers: Who reads the texts in this genre? Is there more than one type of reader for this genre? What roles do they perform? What characteristics must readers of this genre possess? Under what circumstances do readers read the genre (e.g., at their leisure, on the run, in waiting rooms)?

People who watch expensive home tours are usually bored, middle-class people who have some time on their hands. Expensive home tours are lengthy and include lots of talking, camera pivots, and “WOW” moments where the camera guy and tourist are shocked (but not really) at how expensive a feature of the house is. In order to tolerate the fake, exaggerated, uppity personas in the tours, the viewer would have to have down time.

  1. Exigency/Purpose(s): Why do writers write this genre, and why do readers read it? What purposes does the genre fulfill for the people who use it?

The “writers” would be the producers and Youtubers who film the videos. The purpose of the home tours is to give people who can’t afford these homes a look into the expensive homes that exist. People watch these videos to satisfy their own materialistic desires, without necessarily going out and buying the homes themselves. There’s also an underlying motivation, which is to brag about the money they have, and to sell the house to potential buyers by showing off the luxuriousness and uniqueness of the home on the Youtube platform.