The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

Over reading week I watched “Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.” I first heard about this moving in advertising class. There’s a trailer below but the just of it is that it’s a documentary about the world of product placement in movies. Some of you may not know this but many movies are reliant on getting advertisers interested in having their product shown in their movie, because advertisers pay a hefty amount for this type of publicity.   

The movie is directed by Morgan Spurlock, the same guy who directed “Supersize Me.” His mission throughout the movie is to fund it strictly through advertising. Pom Wonderful paid the most amount of money to be a part of this movie, and you can post their logo or drink in almost every scene. To me this was very effective because ever since I watched the movie, I’ve wanted to buy some Pom Wonderful because I’ve never tried it before. I had one in my hand at Wal-Mart the other day and almost bought a bottle, until I realised it was $4. Sorry Pom Wonderful, I’m a poor student.

Sandbox Farewell Party

I have a strong tendency to blog about things that are looooooong over....but just because something is overdue, don’t make it less worthy of a Charmaine-friendly blog post. 

A few weeks ago my friends Kimiya, Lindsay, Maria, and I went to the final Sandbox magazine party. For those of you who don’t know, Sandbox in a local magazine about fashion and culture, and was started as a Creative Communications project at Red River College. They carried their magazine for two really successful years and have recently decided to call it quits. I’ve always wanted to go to one of their parties but it never seemed to be good timing for me, so I made sure I put time aside to go to their very last one at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Let me tell you, it was a ton of fun. The room was packed with people who all shared a love of the magazine and its creators. There were drinks, dancing, live bands, singer/songwriter Flo, and so much excitement. Here are some pictures I took from the shindig. 

Super Plate? Super Mug? No no, Super BOWL

I didn’t watch the Super Bowl. I find it mildly offensive that the Super Bowl has been around for years, but they have yet to make a Super Plate, or a Super Mug. Why discriminate against those dishes, why is the “bowl” so special?

I considered watching at least part of it, so I can watch the commercials. In advertising class we spent a couple of days talking about the commercials that air during the Super Bowl, how much people pay for them, and how people found it odd that this year they released some of these commercials early. I learned that aside from the hockey game? Baseball game? Oh wait, the football game! I learned that aside from watching to FOOTBALL game, a lot of viewers watch the Super Bowl just for the commercials.

This didn’t quite make sense for me, but after watching a few of the commercials in class, I realized I too would have enjoyed watching them during the game. I tried to watch, I really did. But my attention span for sports isn’t very long, and the commercials I did manage to catch, were mostly for CTV. I initiated a Glee marathon instead. But I did take the effort to YouTube some of the ones people are talking about. Here are three of my favourites...

 You can't go wrong with the combination of M&Ms and LMFAO

Now I know what you're thinking. The whole vampire thing has been done to death, (like that punn?) but I still like this commercial. At least the people at creative team at Audi knows what's trendy. So what do you say? Does this commercial make you want to join team Audi? 

Does it make sense? No. Is it funny because there's kids in it? Yes.

Wonderful Wedding Show, 2012

I know it’s long overdue, but I wanted to share the time I spent at this year’s Wonderful Wedding Show that I went to on January 22^nd. No, I’m not engaged. No, I don’t have a boyfriend. And yes, I’m as single as they come. Shall we move on? 

At first I was going to write an article about the event, but someone snatched that story up before I could. But I was excited to go so I grabbed my friends Kayla, and Michal and we all had a great time. The fashion show was really enjoyable to watch, even though we didn’t get there early enough I grab a seat. And all of the display tables were absolutely gorgeous. Here are some of my favourites...

This is what you will see at Charmaine's wedding!

Not only will I be sporting the hot pink and bling at my wedding with Zac Efron, my fiance and I will be making our grand entrance in-->

As for my cake?

So the bulk of my wedding is pretty much planned out. Now, for Zac to propose to find me a fella.

The wedding show was a blast and I'll definitely be going back next year, engaged or not. In the mean time, I leave you with this fun photo!

Batman

The bulk of this semester seems to be surfacing around a ton of group work. Right now I’m a part of four different groups for different classes. I have a group for producing a radio intro, a group for our magazine project, a group for creating a radio drama, and a group that has to shoot our very own infomercial. As soon as one group project ends, another begins. 

One of the strengths I claim to have on my resume and during interviews, is that I work well with others and that I have a strong ability to problem solve, which I hold to be true…most of the time.

I feel that when a group I’m apart of is faced with a problem or some sort of roadblock, that I can usually find a way to get us out of the jam, or at least contribute a list of ideas to help along the problem solving process. However, with all of the group work we’ve been doing this month, this doesn’t appear to be the case, at least not as often as I’d like it to be. 

Why?

It’s easy to come up with solutions to a problem that’s prevalent in a group, but what do you do when you’re the only person who recognizes something as problematic?  I don’t want to be rude and push a “solution” to a problem no one believes to be there, but at the same time, I want to I don’t to be penalized for an issue that could have been avoided early on.

In public relations we learn the importance of detecting potential problems before they turn into real issues down the road. So I’m not sure if I’m using my PR brain, if I’m over analyzing things, or if I just want to jump at the chance to be a hero. Batman, not Superman….blue, yellow, and red don’t mix but damn, I look good in black.