Class report

On 18 sept, 2010 we had the opportunity to have Prof. Vashini Sharma in our class. The topic of the class was infomercials. Infomercials are made of two words, “Information” and “Commercials”.

They refer to the long format television commercials that long for almost 3-4 minutes. They are quite similar to the talk shows that we see on televisions. She showed us few videos of the infomercials and explained us how the language differs with the product being marketed and audience targeted. Like an infomercial of rudraksh used Hindi and Sanskrit as the language for communication whereas the language for a hair oil infomercial was a mixture of English and Hindi.

An interesting activity was also held in the class wherein the videos of the infomercials were muted and students were asked to talk about the product themselves by just watching the video. It was a fun activity and the whole class enjoyed it.

Our next class was held by Dr Smitha Mishra. The topic of this class was NEWS. She told us about the different types of news classified on the basis of place, class and subject. She also explained us the various sections of the newspaper like mass head, centre spread and bottom spread. The class was interesting and very informative.