Designer Clothing (Anthony Padilla)

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Feb 032019
 

Anthony Padilla

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Prof. Mason

30 January 2019

Unappreciated Genre

           There are many topics and genres that are not focused on in our time, in which they deserve to be. One very important genre, that tends to be overlooked, is designer fashion! This topic tends to be overlooked all the time simply for reasons such as not being introduced, the looks of many of the items, and most likely the price tag. I believe it is an important topic because many times designer or high end clothing is looked at as “hype”, rather than a lifestyle. Majority of those will say they saw their favorite celebrity, recording artist, or their “rich uncle”, with the finest clothing, and will automatically classify themselves apart. [...]

Southern Colloquial Sayings and Words

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Feb 022019
 

Being born and raised in the south comes with its own vocabulary and accent or as we southerners say when people visit “you’ll wake up with the south in your mouth”. There are just some things that can’t be said other than with how you heard it explained growing up. These country sayings are used to describe someone, something, or a situation that would take too long to explain or that paints an image in your head to show emotion better than people can sometimes. I find it is most often used around family, friends, neighbors, or other southerners at events like church, festivals, or within the home. It is more commonly spoken than written but some people love the sayings so much you can find them as signs to hang in the home or even in letters written to others, or lyrics in a country song. [...]

Inspirational quotes on Instagram

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Feb 022019
 

Introduce Your Genre

  1. Identify your tentative “underappreciated” genre (or subgenre)

My tentative genre is inspirational quotes on Instagram. These quotes are everywhere, but I want to analyze the quotes that are posted on Instagram accounts that devoted solely to posting these quotes. What draws people in? What makes them follow these accounts? What types of quotes are they posting? What audience do they have? These are questions that I hope to answer.

 

  1. What is interesting to you about this genre? Or, why might it be significant or otherwise worth paying attention to?

This genre is interesting to me because it is something that is trending nowadays. The internet/social media are flooded with these kinds of quotes. [...]

Spaghetti Western Idea

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Feb 022019
 

SPAGHETTI WESTERN

I love this sub genre because, not a lot of people really like this sub genre. I had an unappreciated sense of what happened in western times, and usual has a very interesting story. The rural, survivalist, nature of a cowboy that chases down a villain somehow, is fascinating to me. The irony that follows in most spaghetti western shows gives a really good story. In most spaghetti westerns the protagonist tries and become friends with the villain of the town, before he saves the entire town.

Some examples could be seen as the dollars trilogy, which was a series of three movies that starred Clint Eastwood.

https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Essential_Top_20_Films

http://most-wanted-western-movies.com/spaghetti-western-movies/ [...]

Trying to understand fragrance commercials! [Genre Heuristic #1]

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Feb 022019
 
Introduce Your Genre
  1. Identify your tentative “underappreciated” genre (or subgenre)

Fragrance commercials and their respective print ads, including perfume and cologne towards all different demographics (men, women, younger audiences).

  1. What is interesting to you about this genre? Or, why might it be significant or otherwise worth paying attention to?

They’re interesting, at least originally, because I don’t fully understand them! They’ve always been confusing, and almost funny, and I have no idea whether people are supposed to understand them conceptually or not. Is it all subliminal messaging? Why do so many of them have shots of oceans in them? What do these scripts look like? And as ridiculous as they can be, all fragrance commercials so clearly follow the same tropes and are obviously part of the same genre. [...]

Product/packaging labels genre Heuristic #1

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Feb 022019
 

Introduce Your Genre

  1. Identify your tentative “underappreciated” genre (or subgenre)

… The labeling on packaging (only food/drink at the moment), not totally set.

  1. What is interesting to you about this genre? Or, why might it be significant or otherwise worth paying attention to?

… -I realize that many times I have found myself standing in the grocery store trying to decide on one brand of food or the other.

-Much of the time, without realizing it, I am choosing food based on which one has the more appealing packaging, or describes its contest better than the competitor

-Does the packaging help guide us in the right direction or is it actually misleading? [...]

Equine Journalism as Genre

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Feb 022019
 

As a hopeful future journalist for the equestrian world I have chosen equine journalism as my genre for the upcoming paper. Being a part of the horse community I don’t necessarily think that this genre is underappreciated, perhaps it is when compared to more acknowledged journalism genre like sports or pop culture. My interest in this genre not only stems from my 10+ years of experience I have from being involved in the community but also from my hope to become a successful equine journalist one day possibly working for Noelle Floyd and interviewing top riders as well as getting to travel to different competitions. A valuable reason to pay attention to this genre is that it can provide more knowledge and awareness to individuals who have no experience about the sport and the audience can also gain an insight to what goes on inside the “wealthy” high-society community. [...]

Comment Sections as a Genre

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Feb 022019
 

Introduce Your Genre

  1. Identify your tentative “underappreciated” genre (or subgenre)

… An underappreciated genre that I find interesting to explore is Comment Sections. (YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, ect;)

  1. What is interesting to you about this genre? Or, why might it be significant or otherwise worth paying attention to?

… I find this genre to be fascinating because of the wide variety of responses everyday people post in reply to a viral video or tweet. From the many internet “trolls” that comment something vile that I might wince at to a person commenting something extremely clever and funny that can so often get me to laugh. One never knows what a comment section may hold when going into it, but that unpredictability can capture my attention for several minutes at a time. [...]

EDM music-my underappreciated genre

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Feb 012019
 

Introduce Your Genre

  1. Identify your tentative “underappreciated” genre (or subgenre)
  • EDM music is a genre with a ton of subgenres: dubstep, moombahton, house, trance, etc.
  • There aren’t many lyrics, it is mostly a combination of sounds with different drops and depending on the sounds and drops used would classify under each subgenre
  1. What is interesting to you about this genre? Or, why might it be significant or otherwise worth paying attention to?
  • Most people use EDM to describe all the subgenres when they are referring to them— “I like EDM”.
    • That statement has zero context and the very simple fact that someone said that proves that they really don’t understand the variety of choice under the EDM umbrella
  • People like certain artists, but don’t like other ones.
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