Mass Communications Day 1

I thoroughly enjoyed my first day of mass communications here at Boston University's Summer Challenge. I can tell right off the bat that I will find the class very interesting and insightful. Already on just the first day I learned about the "tricks" and "lies" of the media/entertainment; tricks and lies that I never knew existed. It is very common for advertisements, movies, sketches, etc. to have some kind of angle that the viewers do not necessarily pick up on until the big reveal at the end. For example, in a couple of the clips that were shown in class today, it became clear just how deceiving directors and producers can get. In one of the short films we were tricked into following the classic "stereotype" of a homeless person and coming up with negative assumptions towards them. However, when the clip came to an end it was shown that the homeless person who we thought was a salad-stealing-bloomies-thief ended up being a kind and thoughtful person. Whereas the woman who we all thought was just an out-of-her-comfort-zone-victim was nothing more than a stuck up woman who does not learn from her past experiences and mistakes. I look forward to the remaining two weeks and am excited to learn and understand the media even more!