Funny Television Ads

I found these pictures on the internet; they are either ads from CNN and they are pretty funny. They are pictures of home owners being distracted of what’s going on outside of the television. In the ads everyone’s eyes are glued to the television as if they are being hypnotized by what they see. In the first picture a man has been standing outside looking at a TV in the display glass for so long that he has frozen. The next picture is of a man whose eyes are so glued to the TV that his dog has chewed up his whole couch. The third picture is of couple lying in the bed watching TV. The couple is so in to the TV that they don’t even notice that a man is breaking into their house and even he ends up forgetting what he is doing and starts watching it too. The fourth picture is of a lifeguard who fails to realize that a man is drowning because he is into the television. I think that these are good design ads because in reality people get so in to what they watch on television, that they sometimes don’t pay attention to what is going on outside of it. This reminds me of how people especially men are during the super bowl because they are so into the TV they block out everything else. These ads also gives off the message of what people insinuate with people and television which is it makes them less intelligent, immovable, zombie-like creatures. Sometimes mediated objects can have that effect on viewers and this ad illustrates it well.

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