Work up early this morning and met in the lobby, took a walk
IN THE RAIN, looks like we escaped last night, but today we weren't so lucky! Today we head down to Paley Centre for Media (this place is like a media museum, and actually used to be that. It is a permanent media collection of over 150, 000 tv and radio programs and advertisements that are available in NY and LA) Now they have classes for students to learn about advertising. We had a pretty cool
teacher speak to us about advertising, I didn't get much out of the talk. I
felt like I knew most of her points about advertisements. We discussed the
visual ads seen on things such as candy bars, cookie boxes and laundry
detergent. Talk about how we recognize the fonts/colours/shapes. Then we looked
at a few commercial ads on television and how they capture our attention, make
us think, but keep it simple!
This was a quiz we started with to see who could recognize the letters that are seen everyday for specific products. For example the first letter "a" is the style used for alphabets cereal. The list went on... and most of us could name almost all of them, can you tell we are a consumer generation?
Next we sat down with Chris Anderson at the Heartland Pub a few blocks from Paley Center.The food was simply amazing. I had vegetarian chili that was in a tortilla bowl and side
salad. Chris had the burger and fries (very American). We all had a
great talk with him and learned so much about himself being a journalist. As we
proceeded to talk he stopped, looked at me and said “you want to go into PR
don’t you?” I replied with a yes and he said “I can tell” that moment made me
feel so good! It was interesting, but made me feel like I was special, or at least that he saw I was interested in PR and knew a bit about it! Chris was quite fascinating to listen to and he is now a professor so you could tell he was able to talk to students like us at our level.
Last thing on our agenda was a tour of NBS studios which was
quick, with a short film intro to start the tour we then saw the SNL set. Gained
some interesting facts like how quick these shows are put together. The writers start the scripts on Monday to create the skits. Then they have the celebrities come in on Thursday and get a head molding so they can build different wigs and crazy head gear for the show. Saturday the celebrities are back and go on the air live with the funniest television I have personally watched. Ultimately the tour didn't wow me, but was still fun.
The Rockefeller
Centre was beautiful, which many shopping and dining places but I wasn't
interested in that aspect of NYC. The gift shop for NBC was cool but very
expensive and I didn't want to spend $35.00 on a Friends T-shirt…
The NBC logo,and as expressed in the tour video NBC is about Peace, Love, and Peacocks. These are also the expensive t-shirts.
Rockefeller Center
Getting back to the hotel Mel, Steph and I chilled in our
small POD Hotel room in our bunk beds and made a fort. Steph and I are both 21
and decided we should take advantage of that and go get a drink in NYC. We
ended up in the Lower West end. The first bar we walked into was basically a
hallway, and didn't look welcoming to us: Max Fish was what the sign said on
the door. Moving on we went to another more comfortable bar/restaurant. We sat
at the bar and ate some delicious cheese puffs with bacon on them. After chatting with
the bar back who bought us a drink after our first one we left! Deciding we had an
early morning we took a taxi back to the hotel and slept into the morning.
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